{"id":1161,"date":"2010-08-24T11:00:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=1161"},"modified":"2010-08-24T11:00:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-24T17:00:58","slug":"review-melvins-the-bride-screamed-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/08\/24\/review-melvins-the-bride-screamed-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Melvins &#8211; The Bride Screamed Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/melvins-the-bride-screamed-murder-album-cover1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1162 alignleft\" title=\"melvins-the-bride-screamed-murder-album-cover1\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/melvins-the-bride-screamed-murder-album-cover1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Overlords of all things heavy and riffy return with their proper follow-up to 2008\u2019s excellent <em>Nude With Boots<\/em>. In case you haven\u2019t been paying attention, this is the third record that wizard-haired front man Buzz Osbourne and god of thunder Dale Crover have churned out with the heavy-hitting rhythm section of Big Business. The two-drummers-on-one-massive-drumset formula has been perfected here, with Crover and Willis no longer merely trading fills but somehow sounding like one superhuman drummer: syncopated, complex and unstoppable. But something just isn\u2019t sitting right with me on this record. The Melvins have been around forever and have rarely missed the mark                 \u2013 unless they\u2019ve missed it on purpose. (<em>Prick<\/em> anyone?) While <em>The Bride Screamed Murder<\/em> has it\u2019s share of bangers, Buzz and the boys let their bizarre sense of humour loose a bit too often here. The military march, call-and-response of \u201cThe Water Glass\u201d is interesting, once, while the 8-minute version of \u201cMy Generation\u201d is just awful. But, if you\u2019re a Melvins fan, you know that every once and a while they mix in some self-indulgent silliness amidst some of the greatest riff-rock ever written. It\u2019s a price that must be paid. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipecac.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ipecac Recordings<\/a>) Curran Faris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overlords of all things heavy and riffy return with their proper follow-up to 2008\u2019s excellent Nude With Boots. In case you haven\u2019t been paying attention, this is the third record that wizard-haired front man Buzz Osbourne and god of thunder Dale Crover have churned out with the heavy-hitting rhythm section of Big Business. The two-drummers-on-one-massive-drumset [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[601],"class_list":["post-1161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-melvins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}