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Montesano, Washington, United States (1983 – present)

Melvins are a band that formed in Montesano, Washington, United States in 1983. The band currently consists of Buzz Osborne (vocals, guitar), Jared Warren (bass), Dale Crover (drums) and Coady Willis (drums). Osborne is the only remaining original member, although Crover has been a member since early in the band’s career.

In the early days of their career their dark, heavy, oppressively slow sound made them innovators of genres like , , and . Melvins’ music is influenced by Flipper, Black Flag’s My War-era and Black Sabbath-style , but their idiosyncratic approach, bizarre sense of humor, and experimentation make neat categorization difficult. Singer/guitarist Buzz Osborne (aka “King Buzzo”) and drummer Dale Crover are constant members while several bass guitarists have cycled through the group. Melvins usually performed as a trio until 2006 when two members of Big Business became permanent members of the band.

The band was named after a grocery clerk at the Thriftway in Montesano, Washington where Osborne was employed. Melvin was the most-hated fellow employee and the band felt it to be an appropriate name. Like SF noisenik predecessors Flipper, their love of slow tempos and sludgy sound were a strong influence on music, especially Nirvana and many other bands from Seattle. Their protegés, however, tended to use more conventional musical structures with this sound.
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  • andover

    YOYOWOWOWOWOYOWYOWYOOWOWWW

    yesterday evening

  • sglangdon

    The Scion EP is coming out real soon... 13th March. The Bulls and the Bees. Free download and first track streaming via Pitchfork on Friday... It will certainly ease the wait for Freak Puke!

    yesterday evening

  • Samurai-Zombie_

    Assholes? Yeah right. Dale Crover is one of the nicest guys in the world.

    yesterday afternoon

  • giveconnorhugs

    I make-shifted a random "Melvins" party this past Saturday... All it involved was beer, things to destroy (card board boxes, balloons, dollar store toys, ext.), and the Melvins played very load over a powerful sound system. I believe sed party will be a new tradition of sorts that will have to be incorporated into my life that's left to be spent.

    yesterday morning

  • andover

    Existenzangst fails

    Wednesday evening

  • sglangdon

    So you got on stage while the Melvins were performing and that makes Buzz an asshole...? Oookay...

    Wednesday evening

  • Existenzangst

    @funeralsummer & funeral_opolis: they played a gig here couple of months ago and I was one out of 20 people who were headbaning or moshing, so I felt like going on stage and bang with the melvis BUT Buzz O felt like: "gtfo mofo" and pushed me to the side where a security guy was standing. ^^

    Wednesday afternoon

  • andover

    "Melvins Lite are doing a 50 states (plus Washington DC) in 51 or 52 days in June and July. Apparently they are going for a World Record with it and will make a video document of the tour."

    Tuesday evening

  • andover

    new material, yay

    Tuesday evening

  • AprilPhantom

    @shootmeadeer, funnily enough, bricklebit would make my top 5. even though it isn't technically a melvins song (no buzz or dale), it's still pretty great.

    Tuesday morning

  • andover

    Is Freak Puke new material? It's on Ipecac, which is cool.

    Tuesday morning

  • Funeral_Opolis

    I met Jared, Dale and Coady, very nice guys.

    Monday afternoon

  • andukaru

    mel vins

    Monday afternoon

  • funeralsummer

    assholes? not sure if I follow

    Monday morning

  • Existenzangst

    great sound, but assholes

    Friday afternoon

  • sglangdon

    So Melvins Lite with Trevor Dunn is going ahead and releasing an album called Freak Puke... It's like they read my mind. Can't fuckin' wait.

    Friday afternoon

  • NaturePrevails

    i cant believe i didnt know about them for so long.. HOLY FUCK OZMA FTW

    last week

  • HardRokas

    damn, I wanna see them live so bad.

    last week

  • GotGrunge

    You bastards! Don't skip ARIZONA!!!!!!!!!

    last week

  • Funeral_Opolis

    It's too bad Melvins hate moshing, because Amazon is waaaay too thrash worthy. They would stop playing to tell people to chill "or we'll leave"

    last week
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New Box Set

12 May 2010 | from blog.myspace.com/themelvins

The long awaited, limited edition Melvin's box set is about to be released, just in time for their upcoming US tour. It has been in the works for over three years and now it will FINALLY be …

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