After taking their name from a Melvins song, Japanese experimentalists Boris emulated the no-fucks-given attitude of their heroes by writing one crushing, feedback-ridden, hour-long drone and packaging it as their full-length debut. Released in 1996, Absolutego is the missing link between Earth’s power-drone pillar Earth 2: Low Frequency Version and Sleep’s legendary weed epic Dopesmoker — not to mention the first deafening shot of weirdness from a band that would go on to specialize in all kinds of deafening weirdness. J. Bennett