Seattle sludge masters Melvins are gearing up for the release of their TWENTIETH album, The Bride Screamed Murder, this June, and yesterday the band premiered the massive first track from it on AOL Noisecreep. Like all Melvins album openers, “The Water Glass” doesn’t hold anything back, hitting like a sucker punch with serious riffage and heavy drums that rock your face. The surprise comes close to the 2-minute mark, with a military marching cadence that is so utterly Melvins that you wonder why they’ve never done this kind of thing before. Check it out below.
Stream Melvins’ “The Water Glass” from The Bride Screamed Murder [Ipecac Recordings] on AOL Noisecreep:
http://www.noisecreep.com/2010/05/24/melvins-the-water-glass-song-premiere/
MP3 download:
http://dailyrindblog.com/audio/melvins_thewaterglass.mp3
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Track 1: Melvins “Queen (Electroclash Remix By Panacea)” from Chicken Switch [Ipecac Recordings]
Track 2: Au “Ida Walked Away” from Versions [Aagoo Records]
Track 3: Num9 “El Baile” from El Baile [Acuarela]
Track 4: Girls In Trouble “Secrets/You’re Always Watching” from Girls In Trouble [JDub Records]
Track 5: Zion Train “Live As One” from Live As One [Universal Egg]
Bump music: Reut Regev “Hula Hula” from This Is R Time [Ropeadope Digital]
The Melvins
Nude With Boots / Ipecac / BUY
Know who needs no intro? A band that’s been in biz for about 25 years, with just shy of 20(!) records under their belt. So, no, we won’t go into detail about how King Buzzo and his mighty Melvins all but created Grunge. Or how they distilled the ever-loving piss out of sludge and made it cool to sound down, dirty, and slower than slow. Or how they influenced anyandeverything you might call “heavy” nowadays. Instead, we’ll just breathlessly praise the knock-down, drag-out intensity of the band’s latest full-length, Nude With Boots. Picking up where 2006′s (A) Senile Animal left off, Boots throws its weight around with the best of them, whipping back and forth from raucous riff rock on the album-opening “Kicking Machine” to Spaghetti Western voodoo on “Dies Iraea” to beefy bluesman metal on “A Suicide In Progress.”
Once again featuring the rhythm section of Seattle sludgemiesters Big Business — Jared Warren and Coady Willis, for those keeping score at home — the album builds on the template guitarist Buzz Osbourne and drummer Dale Crover set forth back when Reagan was in the White House: interstate-wide grooves, impossibly-proportioned riffs, and eye-bugging, from-the-gut vocals. But what sets Boots apart is its ability to sound 100% menacing while swinging for the fences with its “pop hooks.” Check the hyperblast Thin Lizzy, or hulked up Cheap Trick vibe on the title track below. But don’t fret if “Nude” is too cheery for your taste, there’s plenty of hellfire and squealing Melvmetal on the album-closing “It Tastes Better Than The Truth.”
Long live the Melvins!
What’s that ridiculous racket rising over your Wednesday morning? Well, we’re betting it’s the sound of the world turning up their shitty computer speakers and pumping the first track from the forthcoming Melvins record, Nude With Boots. This morning, the folks over at Pitchfork wrote up the title-gem, patting it on the bottom and offering it up to the world. Here’s what they had to say:
“The newest record’s title track is a prime example: Streamlined and strengthened, the Melvins sound a little like Cheap Trick with bigger forearms and taller stacks. Double drums lead in, gradually accelerating, like a car winding up to speed down the open road. Guitars jangle (no joke) around a tambourine-augmented (no joke) beat. Half of the track is instrumental, but– by the time its not-quite-four minutes expire– it sticks like a pure pop anthem. Again, no joke.”
We agree!
Good news is in the air! For lucky Brits, and stateside grunge devotees willing to drop serious plane fare, that is. Indeed, All Tomorrow’s Parties recently announced this year’s Nightmare Before Christmas festival will be curated by Ipecac impresario Mike Patton and the one and only Melvins on December 5-7. Butlins Holiday Resort in Minehead will play host to the event, which is sure to deliver with sets from “America’s Funnyman” Neil Hamburger, post-metal titans Isis, boss dudes and Melvins conspirators Big Business, and the bug-garbed gunksters The Locust. Say it with us, folks: EARPLUGS !
In other Melvins news, the Godfathers of Grunge will release Nude With Boots, their five billionth album [ed: not true; it's either their 19th or 23rd], this July. Once again, King Buzzo has enlisted the help of Big Businessmen Jared and Coady to make those stegosaurus riffs as gargantuan and cosmically wicked as ever. Featuring eleven slabs of hot shit awesomeness, you’ll probably need earplugs for this one too!
