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The result is an album filled with dynamics, differing tempos, thick bass, loud drums, Buzz's yells and snarls that are full of awesome, and chunky, heavy, dirty (yet also catchy) riffs.Įach of the album's seventeen tracks (and now comes with twelve added demos on the reissue) are made of high quality sludge. Melvins took the energy, sound, and attitude of hardcore punk bands like Black Flag (particularly influenced by the last three songs on My War) and mixed it with the chunky and slow guitar riffs of Black Sabbath and doom bands like Saint Vitus. Most of the tracks following average about two minutes and feature the same sound albeit more condensed and generally faster. The closest music to it before was the kind of amplifier experimentation that Jimi Hendrix would do in between songs but with Sabbath riffs added to it. Now imagine having heard this when it was first released in 1987. Finally, the distinct sound of Buzz Osborne's vocals come in for the last minute before the crawling song ends with more feedback. The band continues to play with and evolve the noise until it turns into a seismic wave of sludgy guitar riffs and pounding drums at the end. "Eye Flys" begins with a creeping bass line and banging drums before feedback from the guitar enters, creating a sound quite similar to the drone metal that would arrive years later.
Released in 1987, it still retained the basic sound that the band would keep for its twenty-five-plus year history. Gluey Porch Treatments of course was the Melvins' debut album.
Yes, that is three music genres (many more if you count genre spin-offs) that each trace back to this single band and it all began with this album. Drone metal essentially began when Dylan Carlson took what Melvins were doing and slowed it down to extreme levels. Everyone from the NOLA scene to post-metal have cited Melvins as an inspiration to their sound. In the metal world, Melvins are most often given credit as the first true sludge metal band. They were stated several times as one of Kurt Cobain's favorite bands and he never stopped praising them after Nirvana hit it big. Let's start with the most famous and mainstream documents of this: Melvins were one of the most important bands that gave rise to what was later deemed grunge in Seattle. One could call the Melvins one of the most influential rock/metal bands of the last quarter century. Review Summary: Melvins' debut and the birth of everything slow and heavy to come after it.
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