Album Reviews7.3/10
Jello Biafra Teams With The Melvins for Never Breathe What You Can’t See
Jello Biafra and The Melvins deliver a sharp, noisy punk-metal hybrid that rewards repeated listens.
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Album Reviews7/10
Nine Years On, Melvins Still Bury You Under Noise on A Walk with Love & Death
A heavy, slow crawl of noise and weight, buried beneath 23 tracks of love and death.
Album Reviews8/10
Guitarists Switch to Synthesizers for an Electronic Tribute Album
A grim, throbbing electronic record from Melvins and Void Manes, trading guitars for synths in tribute to Throbbing Gristle.
Album Reviews8/10
Lysol at 34: Melvins Slow Down Grunge and Refuse to Bend
A grim tale of a slow, ponderous record wherein a band eschews haste and melody, preferring instead weight and patience.
Album Reviews7/10
‘Pigs of the Roman Empire’: A Bold Collaboration That Mostly Pays Off
A review of the Melvins and Lustmord collaboration 'Pigs of the Roman Empire,' a slow, noisy slab of sludge and drone.
Album Reviews2/10
Melvins Push Sludge Into Noise on Honky — and the Result Is a 2/10
A look back at Melvins' 1997 album Honky, a strange, sprawling record that rewards patience and punishes it in equal measure.
Movie Reviews3/10
A Portrait of Fito Páez That Refuses to Resolve Into One Whole Picture
A portrait of a musical life, scattered between concert scenes, interviews and old footage, never quite cohering into a whole.
Album Reviews7.1/10
Melvins Let Six Bassists Sprawl Across Basses Loaded — Mostly Without Losing Focus
Melvins' Basses Loaded pairs doom metal with punk and covers across twelve tracks, a sprawling record that mostly coheres.
Album Reviews6/10
Melvins’ Bullhead Remains the Band’s Most Brutal Record
A crawl through the Melvins' 1991 record Bullhead, where slow weight and grind rule over frantic energy.
Album Reviews8/10
Melvins Repeat Their Own Songs on ‘The Devil You Knew, the Devil You Know’ — It Mostly Works
A record of two devils, one known and one unknown, wherein each song is doubled and repeated, testing patience and resolve.