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Melvins meet godheadSilo, and of course it’s COMPLETELY BADASS: A Dangerous Minds premiere
02.25.2016
09:41 am
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Not so terribly long ago, we at DM noted that over their 30+ year career, sludge-metal and grunge forefathers Melvins had experienced a perpetual revolving-door phenomenon with regard to their bass players, and I compiled what I thought was an exhaustive list of the musicians who’d filled that slot. But at the time, I had no idea this had happened: in 1999, during Kevin Rutmanis’ (ex-Cows) tenure as bassist, a two-bass Melvins lineup briefly existed, the second bassist being Mike Kunka of the equally bludgeoning Northwestern bass/drum duo godheadSilo. That band made itself underground-famous in the ‘90s with a literal wall-of-sound approach—Kunka would line the back walls of the small venues they played with enough amplification for a massive arena show, while drummer Dan Haugh battered a set of compensatorily humongous drums. As their gear utterly dwarfed them, the effect was as amusing as it was deafening. Under the moniker “Mike & the Melvins,” they recorded the album Three Men and a Baby, an album which for unclear reasons went unfinished for over 15 years.

But last year, for equally unclear but entirely welcome reasons, Melvins core duo Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover reconvened with Rutmanis and Kunka to finish the album and deliver it to Sub-Pop records over a decade and a half behind schedule. If you’re in for this sort of thing (and since you’re still reading, I think it’s fair to assume that skillet-meets-face sludge rock is more or less your zone), the album was worth the wait. The release date is April 1, but the track “Chicken ‘n’ Dump” is available for download now, and it’s DM’s pleasure today to premiere the song “Limited Teeth.”
 

 
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Posted by Ron Kretsch
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02.25.2016
09:41 am
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