Hostile Ambient Takeover

by Melvins

Hostile Ambient Takeover cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 15 April 2002
  • Label: Ipecac
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 46:26
  • Community rating: 3.59/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: King Buzzo, Kevin Rutmanis, Toshi Kasai, Dale Crover

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Maintaining their notoriously bizarre and prolific pace, the Washington sludge pioneers delivered an exceptionally diverse set of heavy experimentation. The record wildly bounces between punishing, doom-laden riffs and bizarre synthesizer soundscapes, concluding with an absurdly long, 16-minute anti-climactic drone.

Genres

Descriptors: noisy, avant-garde, distorted, droning, experimental, minimal

Tracklist

  1. Black Stooges (0:31)
  2. (Untitled) (5:58)
  3. Dr. Geek (2:35)
  4. Little Judas Chongo (2:03)
  5. The Fool, the Meddling Idiot (7:49)
  6. The Brain Center at Whipples (3:50)
  7. Foaming (7:46)
  8. The Anti-Vermin Seed (15:51)

Credits

  • Melvins - primary artist
  • Kevin Rutmanis - band, bass, bass [slide bass], music by, lyrics by
  • Dale Crover - band, drums, vocals, keyboards, music by, lyrics by
  • King Buzzo - band, vocals, guitar, music by, lyrics by
  • David Scott Stone - percussion [thunder sheet], strings [electric wire]
  • Adam Jones - synthesizer [virus]

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