The Melvins - The Bride Screamed Murder

Review by Noel Gardner

The Melvins' reputation for following up albums made of commonly understandable song structures and catchy riffs with ones that feature little or none of such fripperies is pretty much deserved. It isn't precisely what they've done on The Bride Screamed Murder, their fifteenth studio album (disclaimer for the nitpick posse: not counting mini-albums, collaborations or comps here), but this album is palpably stepping away from the slow, near-anthemic rumblers that made up the bulk of (A) Senile Animal and Nude With Boots, their previous pair. »