JB Hi-Fi Hails Tarantula Heart As (The) Melvins’ “Most Audacious” LP

(The) Melvins have had a long and illustrious career up to this point, so it means something when JB Hi-Fi calls their new album their “most audacious record to date.” The site says, “Tarantula Heart is exactly what you’d expect of a Melvins record: raw, uncompromising, and utterly exhilarating. The fact that it was essentially composed from scratch in the studio, its songs built by King Buzzo off of demo drum tracks, makes this an entirely unique offering from the band – aided by contributions from Roy Mayorga on drums (Ministry and Stone Sour), and former labelmate Gary Chester on guitar. What’s for certain is that these Kiss-worshipping lunatics are still at the top of their game all these years later, and that’s a scary or a wonderful proposition, depending what side of the fence you sit on.”

Read the full review here. Out now from Ipecac Recordings, Tarantula Heart aims for NACC and NACC Heavy chart debuts next week.