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From Lustmord's facebook a few weeks back:

"A week of making deals on a couple of interesting and very promising projects.
Some details in a month or two."

Perhaps one of them is another Melvins collab?

I couldn't make a case for what their best produced album is, seeing as Melvins have so much recorded output, each with interesting production techniques being put into use, but I'll say this:

The Atlantic records have the best drum sound of any of their albums. Stoner Witch far and away has the best drums of the bunch. The recordings have such a clean yet aggressive quality to them. The snare alone on Roadbull proves this, IMO. It's got such a crisp and punchy sound that it hits like a fucking gunshot. The kicks throughout the album are pretty beastly as well. Lots of low-end attack on that album, and they're balanced well with the bass. You can really tell they had access to a quality studio on that album.

I've felt with each  Big Business album the drum sound has gotten progressively better and that all the problems of recording and mixing with a double drum-set in the picture were totally resolved with The Bulls and the Bees EP.

I really fell in love with the Melvins Lite drum sound just recently, which could largely be attributed to the kit Dale is using for those recordings.

In terms of guitar it's a little harder to pick the best sounding album, but I've always been partial to Gluey Porch Treatment's guitar tone. The guitar is thicker and heavier on that album than almost any of their other recordings. It's pretty obvious that the album was recorded on much cheaper equipment than their more recent work, but I think it definitely adds to the guitar's absolutely vicious (and viscous) tone. Lysol and The Maggot are logical extensions of that tone.

I feel like Buzz's guitar tone has become a little metallic and slightly tinny in recent years, maybe due to the aluminum guitars he started using. I'm not a huge fan his current sound.

The best sounding bass is a tie between The Bootlicker (which almost seems like it was made to show off Kevin's playing) and the Melvins Lite material. It's hard to compete with the sound of a standup bass.

When it comes to additional production techniques, or "sound design" for lack of a better term, it's dead even between H.A.T., Stag, and POTRE. POTRE is obviously the most design-heavy album as a result of Lustmord's contributions and is all the more amazing for it (Safety Third, the title track, and Pink Bat to my ear, are the most seamless combinations of the two artists' aesthetics.) Stag is a little more freewheeling than H.A.T. when it comes to weird audio interludes, often dedicating entire tracks to studio-created noise experiments. H.A.T. instead uses studio techniques to add "flavor" to the songs. Moments of Foaming, Little Judas Chongo, and The Fool, The Meddling Idiot are good examples. However, the best example of using studio trickery to great effect is The Anti-Vermin Seed.

Also, I'd say Stag and H.A.T. make equally good use of vocal doubling.

the wicker man ost-festival/mirie it is/sumer is a-cumen in


I can imagine the Big Business lineup doing justice to this, especially when the vocals come in.

This is going to be awesome, especially Thirlwell doing Bowie. I wonder if the Throbbing Gristle track is the same one from the In Formation tribute album that they did or if it's something different.

george thorogood - I drink alone and Bad to the Bone. Release it as a 7" with a song on each side.

November 16, 2005 Los Angeles, CA - Henry Fonda Theatre w/ Altamont, Jello Biafra
July 27, 2007 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour playing Lysol and Eggnog in their entirety
August 4, 2007 Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex benefit for 400 blows drummer w/ The Bronx, The Locust, Qui and Circle Jerks
July 15, 2008 Los Angeles, CA - Amoeba In-Store
November 28, 2008 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour w/ Big Business
November 29, 2008 Los Angeles, CA - Troubadour w/ Big Business
August 15, 2009 - Los Angeles, CA - Wiltern Theater w/ Down
October 17, 2009 - San Diego, CA - Cane's w/Butthole Surfers
June 1, 2010 - San Diego, CA - The Casbah w/ Totimoshi
October 12, 2010 - Costa Mesa, CA - Detroit Bar w/ Totimoshi
January 21, 2011 - Los Angeles, CA - Spaceland(Melvins Lite (Buzz & Dale only); Melvins set (current line-up performing normal set) and Bullhead in its entirety)
July 12, 2011 - Costa mesa, CA - Detroit Bar - Melvins Lite w/Trevor Dunn
May 11, 2012 - Santa Ana, CA - Galaxy Concert Theatre

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Jesus loves me, this I know

http://www.decibelmagazine.com/featured/justify-your-shitty-taste-melvins-the-colossus-of-destiny/

Allow me to quote myself.

It says it was recorded at, "The Busta-Guts Club" in Downey, CA even though they didn't play Downey and I'm not even sure that the Busta-Guts Club exists, sort of like the Fucker Club.  I'm beginning to think there is more to this than meets the eye.

Are you trying to say something?

Considering that a search for the Busta-Guts club only brings up results for Sugar Daddy, I think it's safe to say that the club is fictional. I'm guessing This'll either be a compilation of live recordings they've done over the past few years, or it'll be an album that was recorded in the same way Houdini Live was.

FUCK! I should've never agreed to night classes on Fridays.

some of what they played, in no particular order

Sacrifice
Amazon
Skin Horse
Black Bock
Let it All Be
Revolve
Bacon Industry (Karp cover)
Lovely Butterflies
Talking Horse
My Generation
The Water Glass
Pig House
Evil New War God
Billy Fish
Civilized Worm
Roman Dog Bird
Part of Day Tripper (beatles)

they played two sets. There were so many songs I honestly can't remember them all. I remember them also playing something off H.A.T. I can't completely remember but I think it was Black Stooges. I could be wrong though.

AV Club review

http://www.avclub.com/articles/melvins-the-bride-screamed-murder,41646/

The Water Glass is the closest the Melvins have ever come to sounding like a marching band.

Like a mixture of the maggot and a senile animal.

That's a pretty accurate description. I had a feeling that this would be much heavier than ASA or NWB.

Side note - I think the drums are going to sound a lot better on this album. These are only 30 second MP3 quality samples but I can already tell that the drums sound a bit punchier than they did on the last two albums.

yeah I'm pretty sure that's a harmonica