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Marking their latest collaboration in a decades-long partnership, the Japanese experimental giants merge Boris's sprawling, sludgy post-metal 'Love & Evol' sessions with Merzbow's excruciating harsh noise. Masami Akita's searing walls of static act as a volatile, unpredictable lead instrument, fighting against the band's massive, atmospheric doom riffs. The project was explicitly framed as a chaotic requiem for the year 2020.