The Melvins
Created | Updated Apr 12, 2002
The Melvins. What can possibly be said about this San Francisco based band other than that they are only slightly less famous than Disaster Area. They have certainly written some of the more stranger music of the last two decades, but then again, we've all been living in one of the more stranger worlds for the last two decades (most of us anyway). The Melvins, what sounds like someone has left their instruments leaning against their amps turned up all the way and went out for a quick bite to eat, is actually three people doing some pretty neat de-composing. Some people have come up with the term "Meta-Metal" to describethe music. It's slow, the songs are up to 20 minutes long and there are no show-off guitar-solos (a fact for which they may be rated amongst the altogether more cool bands on this planet). The melvins have rewritten songwriting up to a degree where tempo, beat and structure of a song are no longer recognizable - neither are the lyrics. Of course there is a change and progression in style and music on their countless records. Not all of them have the same bone-grinding, ultra-slow metal contents as the early records. The most recent ones have a very definite amount of "pop" in them, but they have a Melvins signature written all over them all the same. Some records, or at least songs, could even be considered "avant-garde". If you're looking for something different,the Melvins are definitely worth a try.
The Melvins are: Buzz Osbourne, Guitar, Dale Crover, Drums, currently no bass player (they went through quite a large number of bass players since the founding of the band). Originaly based in Seattle they were friends of the late Curt Kobain ( who played guitar on one song on the "Houdini" album), also Dale played drums on some songs of Nirvana's less well known "Bleach" album.
A rather incomplete discography: 1986 Gluey Porch Treatments, 1989 Ozma, 1991 Bullhead, 1992 Lysol, 1993 Houdini, 1994 Prick (very strange indeed), 1994 Stoner Witch, 1996 Stag, 1997 Honky
The Melvins are: Buzz Osbourne, Guitar, Dale Crover, Drums, currently no bass player (they went through quite a large number of bass players since the founding of the band). Originaly based in Seattle they were friends of the late Curt Kobain ( who played guitar on one song on the "Houdini" album), also Dale played drums on some songs of Nirvana's less well known "Bleach" album.
A rather incomplete discography: 1986 Gluey Porch Treatments, 1989 Ozma, 1991 Bullhead, 1992 Lysol, 1993 Houdini, 1994 Prick (very strange indeed), 1994 Stoner Witch, 1996 Stag, 1997 Honky
