Melvins + Lustmord - Pigs of the Roman Empire due out August 24th 2004

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Created: 20 July 2004

from southern.com: PIGS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, the Melvins umpteenth and newest release. Remember, anything worth having is worth suffering for, so why risk it?! DANG! Not since their legendary LYSOL record have the Melvins created something this listener friendly. Severely modern...

For PIGS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE the Melvins joined forces with creative electronic genius, LUST MORD ,who is known to the world for collaborating with Throbbing Gristle and as a member of monstrous noise pioneers, SPK.

Shockingly, even the Melvins and Lustmord were blown away by the dizzying array of overabundant originality this dynamic pairing created!

Remember, anything worth doing, is worth overdoing!

As if that wasn't enough, the Melvins stunned the literary and intellectually stunted art world, with the release of their 300 page coffee table art book, "Neither Here nor There" earlier this year.

The book also includes a 19 song Melvins retrospective cd. "Neither Here Nor There" is a monstrous Melvins milestone. No other band in the history of music has ever done anything this amazing!

Starting in late August the Melvins, along with Trevor Dunns Trio Convulsant will head out on a cross country promotional tour. This will be professionally top notch and not some bullshit pussy tour set up by a bunch of one armed foreign midget retards. Don't miss out on what will be "the greatest shows ever gave". Get your tickets now now now!

As if all of that weren't enough the long awaited Jello Biafra with the Melvins record "Never breath what you can't see" is planned for an October release. This is an amazing accomplishment considering the incredible load of legal shit that's been handed to Jello by his ex-band mates. The Melvins feel it is an honor and a privilege to work with Jello and stand behind him in his personal and professional battles.

A lot of things haven't changed.
The masses and the media still don't know shit.
When some son of a bitch sells you something you still expect the goddamn thing to work.
The Melvins and Ipecac still know what they are doing despite wishy washy idiots who insist on trying to do the driving.
After more than twenty fucking years the core-band of King Buzzo and Dale Crover remains intact and they still have Kevin Rutmanis playing bass!

It would be criminally and morally irresponsible not to get behind, promote and endorse The Melvins with every tool (legal and illegal) possible.

Get busy, Don't fight it, just do it!PIGS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE, the Melvins umpteenth and newest release. Remember, anything worth having is worth suffering for, so why risk it?! DANG! Not since their legendary LYSOL record have the Melvins created something this listener friendly. Severely modern... For PIGS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE the Melvins joined forces with creative electronic genius, LUST MORD ,who is known to the world for collaborating with Throbbing Gristle and as a member of monstrous noise pioneers, SPK. Shockingly, even the Melvins and Lustmord were blown away by the dizzying array of overabundant originality this dynamic pairing created! Remember, anything worth doing, is worth overdoing! As if that wasn't enough, the Melvins stunned the literary and intellectually stunted art world, with the release of their 300 page coffee table art book, "Neither Here nor There" earlier this year. The book also includes a 19 song Melvins retrospective cd. "Neither Here Nor There" is a monstrous Melvins milestone. No other band in the history of music has ever done anything this amazing! Starting in late August the Melvins, along with Trevor Dunns Trio Convulsant will head out on a cross country promotional tour. This will be professionally top notch and not some bullshit pussy tour set up by a bunch of one armed foreign midget retards. Don't miss out on what will be "the greatest shows ever gave". Get your tickets now now now! As if all of that weren't enough the long awaited Jello Biafra with the Melvins record "Never breath what you can't see" is planned for an October release. This is an amazing accomplishment considering the incredible load of legal shit that's been handed to Jello by his ex-band mates. The Melvins feel it is an honor and a privilege to work with Jello and stand behind him in his personal and professional battles. A lot of things haven't changed. The masses and the media still don't know shit. When some son of a bitch sells you something you still expect the goddamn thing to work. The Melvins and Ipecac still know what they are doing despite wishy washy idiots who insist on trying to do the driving. After more than twenty fucking years the core-band of King Buzzo and Dale Crover remains intact and they still have Kevin Rutmanis playing bass! It would be criminally and morally irresponsible not to get behind, promote and endorse The Melvins with every tool (legal and illegal) possible. Get busy, Don't fight it, just do it!

Here's the tracklisting:
#1 III
#2 The Bloated Pope
#3 Toadi Acceleratio
#4 Pigs of the Roman Empire
#5 Pink Bat
#6 Zzzz Best
#7 Safety Third
#8 Idolatrous Apostate
#9 Untitled + hidden track 

melvins videos on new amrep dvd comp

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Written by brian

Created: 18 May 2004

Amphetaine Reptile Records did something really awesome this year, sorry it's taken me so long to mention it, better late than never i s'pose. So they put out three video comps called Dope, Guns, and Fucking Up Your Video Deck, well actually the third one didn't fuck it up it destroyed it but you get the idea. The great thing about these was that they put music videos together of bands that you'd certainly never see on the likes of MTV. They made it even more fun by having this guy they found on public access tv in minneapolis do these strange narrations between them, the first one was stylized as a sort of corporate video used to encourage investors. Anyways fast forward many years, amrep is no longer actually a fully functioning label although they do put out the occassional item. In this case they put out all three of those vhs comps plus a bunch of bonus videos on a DVD, Dope, Gun's, and Fucking Up Your Video Deck Vol. 1-3 1990-94. This DVD features the "Honey Bucket" and "Mombius Hibachi" videos along with 4 videos from Kevin's old band the Cows, plus obviously a ton more. Granted a lot of these videos seem pretty low budget when comparing them to major label bands' videos, but you have to keep in mind what type of budget these people were running on. The DVD is definitely a piece of history as it chronicles a lot of great bands going against the proverbial grain, for example Lubricated Goat's video "In The Raw" in which they are truly playing in the raw. Amrep has this for sale on their website for $25, you can order it from them here, or I'm sure you can find it at many other places online or at your local record store. They have tons of other stuff from their back catalogue available from their webstore as well, and it probably costs less than anywhere else.

Over THREE hours of digital AmRep action! All 3 original VHS comps plus 12 videos never released. The press kit says “From the mid 80-s through the mid 90's, Amphetamine Reptile Records defined the term "Underground." For blistering genre creating sounds, graphics and attitude, AmRep had no equal. Being far too raw for MTV, the label began what was then a first - the cheap self-published Video Compilation. Enlisting the insane "Dr. Sphincter", the "Dope, Guns..." video series documents a seminal movement in music history.”

Volume One: HELMET Bad Mood/ HELIOS CREED The Rant/ COWS Cartoon Corral/ VERTIGO Tonic Thing/ KING SNAKE ROOST Top End Killer/ GOD BULLIES Cemetary/TAR Les Paul Worries/ LUBRICATED GOAT In The Raw/ SURGERY Maliblues/ HALO OF FLIES No Time.

Volume Two: COWS Hitting The Wall/ HELIOS CREED I'm Your Spaceman/ SURGERY Little Debbie/ VERTIGO Smoked/BOSS HOG Commercial #1/TAR Goethe/ GOD BULLIES War On Everybody/ COSMIC PSYCHOS /Dead Roo/ BOSS HOG Commercial #2/ CROWS Crisper/ HELMET Black Top.

Volume Three: GUZZARD Last/ COWS Sugar Torch/ JANITOR JOE Boys In Blue/ BOSS HOG Hustler/ CHOKEBORE Coat/ HAMMERHEAD Double Negative/ COSMIC PSYCHOS Rain Gauge/ TODAY IS THE DAY 6 Dementia Satyr/ HELMET Unsung/ MELVINS Honey Bucket/ COWS Mine.

BONUS VIDS 1994 and later: UNSANE Scrape/ LOLLIPOP Slow Drip/ SERVOTRON People Mover/ COSMIC PSYCHOS Whip Me/ MELVINS Mobius Hiabatchi/ SUPERNOVA Math/ FREEDOM FIGHTERS Bad Back/ FEEDTIME Melody Line/ TODAY IS THE DAY Realization/ GNOMES OF ZURICH Bathe In Me/ CHOKEBORE "A Taste For Bitters/ UNSANE Alleged.

New melvins album in august

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Written by brian

Created: 03 May 2004

Melvins are putting out a new album in august on ipecac, that's the one worked on with lustmord, the Cd will be called "pigs of the roman empire". It's supposed to be around an hour long and have 9 tracks. they are doing a full US tour this fall with Trevor Dunn's Trio Convulsant, whose cd is coming out in late July on ipecac as well.

Jello Biafra w/ The Melvins - Never Breathe What You Can't See

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Written by brian

Created: 22 March 2004

Matthew Wilkening sent this in to Gene's site and I stole it, it's a promo poster that was all over South x Southwest music industry festival thing. So now we know what the album will be called, "Never Breathe What You Can't See" don't ask me what inspired that prophetic statement, we as melvins fans are now able to confirm the fall release plan for the album thanks to this image. I figured as long as i was stating the obvious i may as well go all the way.

Neither Here Nor There comes out today

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Written by brian

Created: 21 March 2004

The melvins have updated their website with images of the new book in flash format, check out their website at melvins.com also from ipecac.com: HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MELVINS!!!!! March 9 1984-March 9 2004
The Melvins are on their mini tour tearing it up! The long anticipated, beautiful book, NEITHER HERE,NOR THERE is out tomorrow. Look for or ask for the paperback version at cool record or bookstores. Or order the super suave hardcover autographed version from our website for $65 starting tomorrow. The book is jammed with stories, photos and award winning artwork. Both versions include a Cd retrospective available nowhere else. A coffee table book unlike any other, documenting the self proclaimed greatest band in the history of music.
You can get to their store to buy that autographed book and also a new melvins shirt celebrating 20 years by going here all you have to do is choose melvins from the category menu.
Here is a review of the book that gives you a good idea of just what is in it.

Also the melvins next full length they're putting out later this year is also a collaboration of sorts with Lustmord, not much info on that as of yet.