melvins

Metallic, experimental sludge pioneers the Melvins just launched a month-long tour of the western U.S. in Minneapolis. Dates run through Oct. 12 in Costa Mesa, Calif. They will be touring to support their latest album, 'The Bride Screamed Murder,' which came out June 1...

There are no rules for the Melvins. OK, it has to be loud. It's been an ear defining 26 years of down tuning for the legendary act, but who would have predicted a military drum cadence would open the band's forthcoming album, 'The Bride Screamed Murder'...

In 1998 it began with 'The Mosquito Control' EP, embossed with a metallic insect that became the seal of the quintet and containing what for most became the first listens of a spacious yet destructive sound -- which became the pin pointed definition of post-metal...

If you're talking noise rock (and you should be), Amphetamine Reptile Records is going to be at the forefront of the conversation. Tom Hazelmyer, marine at at the time, founded the legendary label in 1986 to put out records for his band Halo of Flies...

After hearing the debut album from Conan, 'Horseback Battle Hammer,' we can't help but wonder if the recent spate of earthquakes plaguing the globe might have been caused by the reverberations emanating from Conan's U.K.-based practice space...

'The Bride Screamed Murder' will get added to the unruly canon of the Melvins in under a month. The legendary frontman Buzz Osborne described it to Noisecreep as one of the better albums the 26-year-old band has put out. "Surprisingly enough," Osborne (who also goes by King Buzzo) giggled through the phone...

"I've moved ahead musically. We've covered a hell of a lot of ground in the 26 years -- or whatever it is -- and I don't have much of a problem with that," Melvins head Honcho Buzz Osborne tells Noisecreep. The ever-changing band has confounded some...

A lot of people don't get the Melvins, which is fine. The ever-changing, but always loud, 26-year-old band is fine with that. But a lot of the critics behind the veil want to know why the legendary band does what they do. Why make a remix album where every song is a full album's re-tooling...

Lava-spewing volcanoes look pretty damn cool on album covers, but the past week has taught us that volcanoes and metal don't always mix so well. As anyone who doesn't live in a torch-lit cave knows by now, an Icelandic volcano erupted April 15, spreading clouds of ash across much of Europe and grounding hundreds of planes...

I will never doubt the vivacity of a gray-haired punk again. Not after March 25, when Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine left Brooklyn's Europa in emotional ruins. The intimate Polish nightclub is tucked away in Greenpoint, so it's not like iconic '80s hardcore musicians play there all the time...