Melvins tireless: two new albums announced

Tireless and always very prolific, almost a year after the previous study work “Tarantula Heart”, i Melvins They announced two new albums in a few days, “Thunderball” And “Savage Imperial Death March“, Together with the Tour 2025 calendar.

“Savage Imperial Death March“Includes six songs in collaboration With the Napalm DeathMelvins tourmates in 2025. The disc will be available in vinyl during concerts and in 5 dollar cheap CD format via Amrep on an unspecified date. A limited edition vinyl version sold online went out of the time last Sunday. The Melvins had already shared the stage with the Grindcore legends in 2016. The presentation page of the album does not specify, however, which members of the Melvins have participated in the “sessions”Savage Imperial Death March“. The guitarist and singer Buzz” King Buzzo “Osbourne founded the band in 1983, the drummer Dale Crover joined in 1984 and the bassist Steven McDonald has been in training since 2015.

Crun – who skipped the Melvins tour of 2023 after an intervention on the spine, but recovered quickly, so much so as to release and promote his solo album “Glossolalia” in 2024 – He will return to play with Osbourne and McDonald on the band Tour 2025which includes a short tour of California in March and two months of concerts with the Napalm Deaths from April 4th in San Diego to June 7 in Berkeley. During these dates, the Melvins will be joined by big business and the drummer of High on Fire, Coady Willis, who together with the bandmate Jared Warren was part of the four with double battery of the Melvins from 2006 to 2015.

“Thunderball“, third album of the christened training”Melvins 1983” – which includes the founder, guitarist and singer Buzz” King Buzzo “Osbourne and the founder Mike Dillard founder – the April 19th For Ipecac Recordings. For the new album, which will include five tracks for a total duration of 37 minutes, the band has expanded in quartet with Ni maîtres And Void Manes. As anticipation, the single “Victory of the pyramids” was made available::

“I wanted this record to be explosive. I think it is,” said Osbourne in the press release of “Thunderball”: “I wanted to collaborate with Void Manes and Ni Maîtres for a long time. Both have an exceptional talent and it was a pleasure to work with They.

Here is the Melvins 1983 “Thunderball” tracklists:
1. “King of Rome”
2. “Vomit of Clarity”
3. “Short hair with a wig”
4. “Victory of the pyramids”
5. “Venus Blood”

Here is the tracklist of “Savage Imperial Death March” by Melvins with the Napalm Death:
1. “Tossing Coins Into the Fountain of Fuck”
2. “Some Kind of Antichrist”
3. “Nine Days of Rain”
4. “Rip the god”
5. “Stealing Horses”
6. “Death Hour”