Melvins - Bride Screamed Murder reviews
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| Nme |
 Not content with inventing sludge metal and then grunge (via young fan Kurt Cobain) Pacific Coasters the Melvins remain as restlessly inventive as ever. With each passing album their wall of sound grows ever more fierce. This album is an onslaught of brutal drumming and bowel-loosening riffs (‘Evil New War God’), occasionally leavened by surprisingly delicate vocal interplay (‘Hospital Up’). It’s only likely to increase the influence of a band to whom everyone from Mike Patton to High On Fire owe a debt. As with all Melvins albums, this is the product of awesome power – in the right hands, for once...full text |
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| Avclub |
| If, God forbid, Stripes ever gets remade, there’s a song ready to replace Bill Murray’s madcap cadence calls: “The Water Glass,” the opening track of the Melvins’ The Bride Screamed Murder. The only problem is, the extended call-and-response drum-line jam is a fun joke that doesn’t know when to quit—a criticism, of course, that detractors could easily level at the band itself. But with Bride, the Melvins have once again shored up their blown-out sound and demented sense of humor. After its so-so start, the disc settles into a grinding yet angular groove that feels as fresh and energized as anything the group released during its ’90s heyday, including the disc’s highlight, “I’ll Finish You Off,” a quasi-melodic epic dictated by its own off-kilter riff-logic. Later, the band’s guttural cover of The Who’s “My Generation” is pasted to a bassline that sounds like a demonic possession of the Sesame Street theme—which might be some kind of profound statement, even though the band itself probably doesn’t know it. The annoying, meandering noise probe that closes the album, “P.G. x3,” is as long-winded and inessential as “The Water Glass.” But in spite of those flimsy brackets, The Bride Screamed Murder is one hell of a marching order....full text |
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| Prefixmag |
The Melvins have been making punishing, delightfully twisted loud-heavy since the early 1980s. And though one might have expected the band to have fully indulged their more irrverent side after joining Mike Patton's Ipecac label in 1999 (and indeed they did release their share of questionably nutty stuff), in fact Buzz "King Buzzo" Osborne and Dale Crover have in that time generated some of the most brawny, direct-hit jams of their lengthy partnership. This is due in no small part to the addition of the Big Business boys Coady Willis and Jared Warren in 2006. The drum/bass duo returned for their third album as members of the Melvins in 2010, keeping the hot streak going with The Bride Screamed Murder.
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