Melvins "Working The Ditch"
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- Опубликовано: 21 окт 2024
- "Working The Ditch", from the April 19th release, Tarantula Heart. Pre-order now at themelvins.lnk...
Directed by Jesse Nieminen
Tarantula Heart is available on a trio of vinyl variants (black, indie exclusive Silver Streak and Ipecac Recordings’ 25th Anniversary Puke Green), featuring a 12-page booklet, as well as on CD and digitally.
“An album so magical, I helped create it without knowing it was happening. It’s definitely the weirdest album I’ve ever been a part of.” - Steven McDonald
The Melvins latest opus, Tarantula Heart , is quite possibly the band’s most unconventional and imaginative work yet, but also some of their catchiest, continuing a legacy celebrated for its eccentric and extraordinary output.
“The way we approached Tarantula Heart was different than any other Melvins’ album,” explains Buzz Osborne. “I had Dale and Roy Mayorga come in and play along with Steven and I to some riffs, then I took those sessions and figured out what parts would work and wrote new music to fit. This isn’t a studio approach we’ve ever taken. Usually we have the songs written BEFORE we start recording!”
“The majority of Tarantula Heart has dual drum parts,” adds long-time Melvins drummer Dale Crover. “Roy is an amazing drummer. We would discuss what we would do pattern wise, then we’d just go for it. Improvising riffs and trading off on drum fills.”
In actuality nothing appeared out of thin air. Buzz spent hours and hours with the drum tracks by himself writing songs to what he was hearing drum wise. “When the rest of the band heard these songs I’d created from the sessions, they were blown away,” Buzz shares. “These were fully developed new songs that they’d never heard before that had seemingly appeared out of thin air. Presto!”
Recorded, mixed and co-produced by longtime Melvins’ collaborator Toshi Kasai, the album also features We Are The Asteroid guitar player Gary Chester. Gary and the Melvins’ history goes back to their days on Boner Records, with the guitar player formerly having been a part of the legendary band, Ed Hall.
Next month sees the Melvins head overseas, playing in Japan for the first time since 2019 following a stint where they join current labelmates, Mr. Bungle, for a trek across Australia and New Zealand. Buzz and Bungle bass player Trevor Dunn team up later this year for the “King Dunn Tour,” a 45-date excursion that sees the pair play songs from the King Buzzo releases: This Machine Kills Artists and Gift of Sacrifice. The full list of dates can be found via Ipecac.com/tours.
Tarantula Heart cover, artwork by Mackie Osborne
Tarantula Heart track list:
1. Pain Equals Funny
2. Working the Ditch
3. She’s Got Weird Arms
4. Allergic to Food
5. Smiler
The Melvins are one of modern music’s most influential bands. Having formed in 1983 Montesano, Washington, the group founded by singer/guitar player Buzz Osborne (with stalwart drummer Dale Crover joining the following year), has been credited with merging the worlds of punk rock and heavy music, forming a new subgenre all its own. Over the band’s 40-plus-year history, they’ve released over 30 original albums, numerous live full-lengths and far too many to count singles and rarities. Recent releases include 2021’s 36-track acoustic collection Five Legged Dog, featuring reinterpretations of some of the band’s heaviest songs as well as covers from their favorite artists. In the course of their discography, they've partnered with Jello Biafra, Mudhoney, and Fantômas for individual releases and toured the world many times over. In fact, the band had the misfortune to be in both Christchurch and Tokyo for their 2011 earthquakes. In 2012, the Melvins completed the “51 States in 51 Days” (50 states +DC) tour, which was chronicled in the film “Across The USA in 51 Days.” The current incarnation of the band is Osborne, Crover, and Steven McDonald (Redd Kross). Previous line-ups include a pairing of Osborne and Crover with Big Business band members Jared Warren and Coady Willis, a four-piece featuring the current trio plus Butthole Surfers’ Jeff Pinkus, as well as Melvins Lite, which partners Osborne and Crover with Mr. Bungle’s Trevor Dunn. Sometimes, if you’re extra lucky, one version of the Melvins will open for the Melvins.
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I lay sewer line for a living and when I found this song it instantly became our crews theme song. Live and die by the ditch.
All hail the ditch.
@@salaniminen8700 Yeah Man !!
Respect, ✊
That's a good story!
Yeah, respect dude
imagine to live in a time where the Melvins do not record new music. what a horrible idea. we are so lucky. so very lucky. long live the melvins!
Amen
Prog in the 70s was good. But I'm glad the Melvins came along, one of my favorite bands since first hearing "Grinding Process."
All hail
Melvins are what self indulgence at its best feels / sounds like. Full respect, full immersion 🙏 fuck yes... Snivlem
40+ years... and the old magic is still there! Good job, godfathers of the Golden Seattle Sound
What the fuck is the Seattle sound fucker?
indeed...
We just got Melvined!
MELVINS invented the skrateboard
Dude. We just melvined Death. (Frantic air guitar impressions)
My favorite part was when Buzz yelled "It's Melvinning time!" and he Melvinned all over everyone.
For your health!
And it felt SO DAMN GOOD!!!👍😀
Hello Buzz 👋👩🎤🎸
Hello Dale 👋👨🎤🥁
Hello Steven 👋🧑🎤🎸
Hello Ray 👋👩🎤🥁
Hello yall
Not forgetting Ray Mayorga too. Dale and Ray are both on drum duties on the album.
Ooohhh just hearing those drums and then that riff kick in it's like greeting an old friend. F**cking love Melvins!!
They were instrumental in the creation of two genre's and inspired countless more. Not many bands can say that. Legends.
God damn it, the boys keep doing it. Over and over and over and over again. The Melvins are, pound-for-pound, the best band. They never let us down. Not once. They're like a 500-year-old olympic pole vaulter, white beard wisping in the wind, inching closer and closer to the moon with every leap.
Damn, this is poetry brother. Well said.
This comment right here! I fuck with you bro!
@@NolMega We are all brothers in befucklement.
My day just got infinitely better…
The Melvins are back! Oh, wait They never left. They've always been, and They will forever be.
I'm happy they're exploring their sound with 2 drummers again. The era with Big Business has been my favorite.
Melvins have always been the best driving music band. This is just confirmation for the rest of us.
Melvins recording a song with words making sentences is always a treat.
Tikka toe rest tho
@@alajononon you sinka my swan
Close to selling out
@@alajononon I can ford a red eed!
You are right, tho. Curiously straightforward lyrics.
This will shake yer bowels! It’s so thick and heavy. I love the Melvins for never compromising and completely being themselves for all these years.
First time I saw melvins was spring of 86 .haven't heard much in the past 20 plus years.. this is nice
a force of nature!
with 2 riffs only,melvins do more than most in their careers.
respect,keep it up!
The most under appreciated tool of all time, all hail the shovel
That comment hit on so many levels
Still making music and it's still fresh. Thank you Melvins and thank you Mike Patton for keeping them signed onto Ipecac so their music can continue to be available to those who have an ear for real talent!❤
Two drummers and they still don't overplay. Cheers on another banger. 🔥
Solid track. Duel drums. Buzzo and the boys always come through. Can't wait for the full album.
Pleasant surprise, had no idea this was coming :) :) :)
Love this God damn song!!
I needed this, Thanks fellas.
Well it’s got that Melvin’s Sludge!!🍻🤘🏻⛏️
Melvins are still kicking with founding members 🎉
Someone bring Melvins to South America. 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽
Come to Chiautla
@@CatIsBack25 can't believe they are actually coming to australia with mr bungle. couple of weeks away, lets go!
Sudamérica espera a melvins!!!
Yesss! Come to Brazil! A big fan since 1994!
it will be better than that new kerry king record
lol
I completely agree.... KK sounds just like Slayer... same old thing... nothing new.... sad, flat and only one sided... Look Guys, Fast Tempo, Ugly Lyrics, every riff in 4/4 ... that sound is so ... 35 years ago.... Like eating the same food each and every day...
Master piece from the Masters!
thanks for the inspiration, GODFLESH!
Good call on the GODFLESH-ish thing !! Only listened to 'Ditch' 1 time, but it felt Familiar.. I ❤ MELVINS & GODFLESH, so: Win/Win.
This video reminds me of the video for Momma Sed by Puscifer.
This song is cool.
Go Melvins!
Melvins Forever!!!-Forever Melvins!!!
Melvins, thank you for enhancing my life!! 😨🖤 My drives and morning routine just got a whole lot better, can’t wait for the rest of this album!!
The Melvin’s are the fuvking best . Never miss a chance to witness them live . It’s always different, always great .
Favourite Band.
New Melvins on my birthday? Yes, please, and thank you!
Happy bday
Happy birthday. It's also my wife's and sons birthday today
Happy birthday, thank you for sharing your birthday present with all of us.
@@bowlstainer happy birthday to you wife and son!!!
Me too today (of all things I kinda forgot)....1961
One He'll Of A Song... Long Live The Mighty MELVINS....
Massive sound as always. Thank you, gentlemen. We needed this. 🤘🏾💀🤘🏾
That special Melvins sort of heavy🤘
Great song, trippy video.
Ughhh that classic Melvins riff that just hits on another level
April 19th… Goin’ head to head with Taylor Swift? Bold. I love it. 😏 I can’t wait for the album to arrive.
@@sheateeley1 Buzz doesn't drink or do drugs so I doubt he even considered that
@@heyhonpuds ^^
@@sheateeley1 Like Zappa, Buzz doesn't mind allusions to drugs.
Digging those riffs.
What a neat band
sounds like the early low & slow stuff, love it
Why can't other bands find that sound they started with I know a few but it's going away
Yes! Like Ozma!
Kinda funny how they made super heavy stuff while not really tuning down super low. Lowest tuning they’ve used over the years was that weird CGDGBE thing. Proves the heaviness is in the riff not the pitch.
Thunderous.
Got mine preordered as soon as the notification from bandcamp hit my inbox. Sounds great, cant wait.
This is a seriously strong song. Love Melvins with two drummers - reminds me of the Big Business era, which was one of their best periods. Looking forward to the album - eyeing the Ipecac release.
Yes so good
there's two drummers?
@@Hejirah yes.
Epic grinder...love it. Sounds like melvins.
Melvins always deliver. I can count on it to kick ass every damn time
This is great. Worried they were going to dad rock for a few years but this is the Melvin's we know and love
simply traditionally melvins at its best in style and production !
OMG... The Best of all time..
Melvins are the real GOATs
OK that was pure awesome
Been a fan since I saw them in 91. Amazing band doing it their way, still having fun. A lot like Mudhoney
Trippin', I get it but I cannot share it. No one would understand. 🤘🤘
Silence is golden 😊🎉
Thank god for the Melvins, releasing bangers like it's 1998
The extra guitar adds a nice bit of texture to the sound.
Can't tell if that opening note is feedback or synth and I love it. Melvin Rule!
Good stuff.
One of the last above ground bands I can tolerate. Good shit.
Hell yes! Luv this track! Wow!
Wow. True to form. Love it.
i know I have a keeper, when my spouse says he's already pre-ordered when I pulled this up to play. Hope to see the double drums in the DMV area.
I get “Night Goat” vibes, yet it’s its own thing. Love these guys.
Very impressive video, but the song is FREAKING AMAZING like the whole album! 🔥
Come back to Greenville SC
Great song. Looking forward to seeing them with Mr Bungle Fortitude music hall ,Valley Brisbane Australia March 10.
That drum/feedback intro sounds like it could be on Ozma. Fucking riff grinds so good!!
This goes hard. Melvins rule.
Hard and heavy, love the ditch and the video!
My record store just got the new album. I asked them to hold it while I checked it out. After listening, I'll be going back to pick it up today.
Huge memories... Victoria BC... buddy gave me a ticket. Half way through smoked a gagger.... second set... I was perfectly shattered. ❤❤❤❤
Dark, brutal, Melvin's!
Most prolific band ever?! MELVINS just rule, not only for all their albums, but for being the main underground influence on all bands since the 80s.
À 15 ans c’est le temps des découvertes , à 30 c’est déjà plus précis , à 40 , les albums remplissent 10 mètres carrés de murs , à 55 on est fier d’écouter de la bonne musique
great as always
Make music forever
Just fkn excellent! I cannot wait for this album!
ain’t lost their touch. not even a little bit. holy fuck, i’m so psyched
Tbh I totally needed this ❤🎉
Love the music ❤❤❤.
Melvins/Ministry vibe this track
The power of the riff!!
Getting stoned listening to the Melvins bruz 👁
Woooo! Thanks Melvins
Thank you thank you thank you!!! 🤠
Wow. This slaps. Speechless.
Feeling this
Brutal
Incredible song! Cant wait for the album:)!
I hear Melvins since i was 12 and i feel very happy for this 🤘💀
Perfection!
MELVINS LIKE A MUFFHUGGER!
MELVINS ARE THE REASON WE STARTED OUR BAND
Heavy AF. Love it!
Love it. Has a cool Godflesh vibe to it 🤘❤️🤘
“Working the ditch” is actually a very apt description of their career.
Long live the fucking M E L V I N S
Fuckin fantastic! I cannot wait to hear the rest
I love the Melvins can't geugh can't genoggggggg
I hope this means it's tour time.