Melvins Basses Loaded

Indefatigable sludge-metal pioneers Melvins are storming through 2016 by releasing their 23rd and 24th studio albums and blaring through a 39-date tour with Napalm Death and Melt Banana. April 1st will see the release of Three Men and a Baby, their long-lost low-end collaboration with Mike Kunka of Godheadsilo. Originally intended for release in 1999, it is now seeing daylight as the Melvins' first recordings for Sub Pop in their 33-year history.

In June the band will drop Basses Loaded, an album featuring a whopping six different bass players: four tracks with Redd Kross bassist Steve McDonald, a track with Butthole Surfers bassist Jeff Pinkus, one with upright bass from Fantômas' Trevor Dunn, four tracks as Melvins 1983 with drummer Dale Crover holding down the low end, one with the current Melvins lineup assisted by the two members of Big Business and, most notably, a collaboration with their old friend Krist Novoselic of Nirvana. You can hear the McDonald-assisted "Hideous Woman" below.