Melvins
A dose of in-your-face
Oh, for joy to learn that new Melvins material is on the way! It’s good to hear Buzz Osborne bellow his way through another set of grinding material with all the same raw forcefulness as he did years ago. It kind of blew my mind when it was brought to my attention that the band (amidst its numerous iterations) is about to hit the 25-year mark. And by “blow my mind” I mean “make me feel old.”
How old? This old: I recall one incident when I was much younger when I was wearing a Melvins T-shirt to school and got accosted by one of the endless barrage of metalheads which skulked around from class to class, and began mocking me over the band’s name. I forget the exact specifics, but I distinctly remember him saying, pointing to his own T-shirt, “Anthrax is a horrible disease; Melvin is a nerd’s name.” Can’t argue with that logic. Especially since it has no logic, so there’s no point in arguing with it.
Anyway, the song we’re being treated to is called Nude With Boots, and it’s from the same-name album due out in July. It’s a grungy guitar, drum abusing sonic trip; dry, straight to the point and sharply executed, which echoes back to some of the harder stuff they did, though definitely not as sludgy as some may recall. In fact, amidst the double-drums occupying most the sonic real estate, the guitar grunts with such harmonic heavyness, it turns the tune into one of the more pop-flavoured bits they’ve pulled off, and they do so while remaining honest to their core sound, even if there’s tambourine jangling somewhere in there. It’s muscular, it’s blistering, it’s fun; it’s, simply put, a Melvins track.
MP3: Melvins - Nude With Boots
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