How does POTRE rank?

[Joe Deutrom]

On par with Honky and HAT, So I rank it pretty high.

Pigs of the Roman Empire is arguably the Melvins most daring and cohesive release to date. It's an album that forges all of the elements that made the Melvins our favorite group with all of the experimental excursions they have been flirting with recently, that you find on albums like Prick, COD, Electroretard and Honky. The album flows brilliantly and each song belongs in such a way that you have to hear it in its entirety to fully appreciate this. I think this album is fantastic.

Pink Bat/ZZZZ Best is the Melvins' most furious track since The Maggot was newly released. Safety Third is a headtrip.
Toadi Acceleratio is unlike anything the Melvins ever attempted and the result is a success. The song Pigs of the Roman Empire, is a plain epic right up there with their other long and crawling masterpieces from their other albums. Bloated Pope rocks and it translates well live. III is an appropriate intro to this monumental release and Idolatrous Apostate is a weird and slow rumble in a subterranean environment. If you haven't listen to this album in a while, you ought to. Maybe those here who wasn't all that impressed with it should give it a second chance. I think this album can and will grow on you.

[Uncle Fester]

Well said.
Do you know if they play Toadi Acceleratio live?

[fearless1000]

Its easily worth it for title track.

[norecess]

Well said.

Well said.

I like POTRE, a lot. Just don't love it yet.

[Joe Deutrom]

Well said.
Do you know if they play Toadi Acceleratio live?

Yeah they have.

[skizm_bts]

POTRE is fukin awesome! Pink Bat played through good headphones at mindcrushing volume is a must!
this album doesnt get played as much as the others for me because i'll only listen to the whole album start to finish
and rarely have enough time   

[rimb]

POTRE is fukin awesome! Pink Bat played through good headphones at mindcrushing volume is a must!
this album doesnt get played as much as the others for me because i'll only listen to the whole album start to finish
and rarely have enough time   

Agreed.  I really need to listen to this album more often.

[anaconda]

this may condemn me to the dungeon
but its like they found motorhead on safety and pink, and
again on pigskin, they have that fast eddie guitar stutter

p.s. skzm is one cool motherfukka

[skizm_bts]

yo cheerz condski. hold down the fort foo!
You gotta love this album. it's totally what i expected which is totally what i didn't expect. which is always expected hehe if that makes sense? i hadnt really heard of lustmord before this album which added a lot of confusion and suprise to the songs. non predictable

[FartLips]

i like their noisy stuff but lustmord to me just doesnt bring enough to the recording.  live, these songs punch you in the mouth.

[CaptainPungent]

I really actually love this album.
I'm not in any way being a close minded fan, like some people on here , by which I mean
people who think everything the Melvins do is genius.
I disliked most of the album when I got it, in fact I had only heard about 3 or 4 albums by
them then, all the atlantic stuff.
Now that I like noisy music, I actually like most of what the album has to bring.
I wouldn't have kept on listening to the album if it wasn't for 'Pink Bat'
That terribly underrated track combines every theme of the album in a metal song.
It has the noise, the rock and the oddness.
Toadi Acceleratio is a great track as well, you have to kind of wake up to it and understand
that it is the melvins.
that's my 2 cents.

[Andy]

Toadi Acceleratio is the weakest track on it I reckon. Sounds too much like Tool!

[TosT]

i love it all.

but i have to be in a situation where i can really listen in order to appreciate it.
and as was mentioned earlier, it's one where i prefer to hear the whole album in a single shot.

i do enjoy the production too, even on the super unbalanced pink bat. it doesn't sound GOOD exactly, but it sounds really interesting.

[blacksanta]

It took awhile, but it grew on me to the point that I haven't listened to it in 9 months..........i find it to be a good headphone record, or a 'in the background while gettin' spliffed' record........not a very groovy record.........highlights for me are pope, toadi and especially the great Idolatrous Apostate..........

This very well could be the most satanic record ever made however.......it is a golden calf. Still waitin' on that follow-up to HAT

[FartLips]

It took awhile, but it grew on me to the point that I haven't listened to it in 9 months..........i find it to be a good headphone record, or a 'in the background while gettin' spliffed' record........not a very groovy record.........highlights for me are pope, toadi and especially the great Idolatrous Apostate..........

This very well could be the most satanic record ever made however.......it is a golden calf. Still waitin' on that follow-up to HAT

i need to listen to it again while i'm at work, cutting up dead flesh.