The Melvins have been around forever. I mean, Kurt Cobain tried out to be their bassist and supposedly got so nervous he forgot all the songs. Heavily influenced (no pun intended) by Black Flag and Black Sabbath, the Melvins’ experimentally-tinged amalgam of early hardcore and stoner sludge has in turn inspired some of the most successful and revered bands on the heavier end of the spectrum—Nirvana, Tool, Boris, to name just a few.
After 20 years building an unequalled discography and a fanatical cult following, the Melvins teamed up with members of Northwest drone upstarts Big Business for 2006’s release (A) Senile Animal. A terse, rugged, muscular effort, (A) Senile Animal moves from Paranoid-esque riff-heavy jams to crushing fuzzed-out stoner dirges. Some critics dismiss bands of this ilk, but (A) Senile Animal is everything I could want in a record—completely intense but incredibly sophisticated.
So why are we so stoked on a […]
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