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"I would go, I'll take Nirvana and Soundgarden and you can have Limp Bizkit and Korn." Melvins frontman Buzz Osborne loves annoying Mike Patton by blaming Faith No More's vocalist for inspiring the birth of nu metal

Want to wind up Mike Patton? Here's one way guaranteed to get his goat

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"I'm not sure why these nu metal bands say Faith No More influenced them. I don't want to be held responsible for the swill they're putting out." Mike Patton on his work ethic, stealing records and what happened when INXS asked him to be their singer

In this 2001 interview, we found that musical maverick Mike Patton relished his artistic freedom following Faith No More's split

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How a disintegrating relationship and a Beatles obsession inspired Kurt Cobain to write his first love song, and to plot Nirvana's escape from punk rock prison

Nirvana's first love song offered the world the first real glimpse of Kurt Cobain's songwriting genius

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"There was so much interest in Nirvana. I couldn’t believe it." What Dave Grohl thought of the much-loved grunge exhibition in Seattle which has closed after 14 years

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"When we worked with Kurt, I thought, 'What does a producer do?'": Melvins’ Buzz Osborne reckons Kurt Cobain was sacked rather than quit

The grunge/sludge hero just delivered his take on how producer Kurt Cobain came to part ways with the band

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Why are parts of the Melvins’ old touring van being sold for up to $40,000?

They’re part of Julien’s latest Music Icons auction

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Arctangent 2025 announces headliners Wardruna and Tesseract, adds over 50 bands to the lineup

Arctangent Festival 2025 is stacking up their bill with over 50 names, including Clown Core, Leprous, Mew, Slift, Green Lung and many more

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Arctangent announces first bands for 2025, including Between The Buried And Me (playing Colors in full) and headliners Karnivool

The Melvins, Rolo Tomassi, Kylesa, Dvne and more will also play the Bristol festival from August 13 to 16

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“Buzz Osborne said to me, ‘You’re both great bass players – but you’re just really weird, and I gotta go with normal.’ I said, ‘I get that’”: Butthole Surfers bassist Jeff Pinkus was too out there for the Melvins – now he’s switched to banjo

The veteran reflects on his lifelong pursuit of a Grand Funk Railroad tone, the gear he’s taking on his solo tour, and why you’re out of luck if you want the career he’s had

Guitar World

“It’s in a tuning that I call ‘Lazy Keith Richards’”: Melvins’ Dale Crover invents a new guitar tuning – and lands a Kim Thayil guest solo – for his new single

Thayil has consistently expressed his admiration for the Melvins, even crediting the band for introducing drop-D tuning to hard rock

Guitar World

“I wish guitar players were more adventurous, but they’re just not. They seem like the most conservative people on the face of the planet”: Buzz Osborne has a piece of playing advice that every guitarist should listen to

Words of wisdom from Gene Simmons and author Flannery O'Connor have helped the Melvins maestro maintain his maverick sensibilities

Guitar World

“There’s not a guitar teacher in the world that would ever teach anyone to play a guitar like that”: Buzz Osborne thinks Jimi Hendrix is one of the greatest guitarists ever – but says his technique was “wrong”

“Hendrix played weird!” says the Melvins maestro

Guitar World

"Tarantula Heart is the best Melvins album since the 90s": They shaped sludge metal and inspired Nirvana, but Melvins are still punk metal weirdos on new album Tarantula Heart

Grunge forerunners and sludge metal pioneers Melvins are pushing the envelope again with their new - and 27th! - album Tarantula Heart

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“He had two Twins, and he smoked both by the end of the night… the guy was on another planet”: Buzz Osborne of the Melvins reveals the loudest guitarist he has ever seen live

King Buzzo has shared the stage with Sunn O))) and Napalm Death, but the loudest player? It’s Robin Trower, a man you might not want to lend your modded Fender Twin to

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“Robin Trower’s guitar sound was the loudest I’ve ever heard. He had two Fender Twins, and he smoked both by the end of the night”: Buzz Osborne names the 11 guitarists who shaped his sound

The Melvins main man picks the jazz, funk and metal players who made him who he is today, recalls the time he heard Jeff Beck’s warm-up routine, and names the unsung ’70s hero who deserves more recognition: “Why aren’t more people talking about him? It makes no sense”

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Kerry King, My Dying Bride and The Ghost Inside are among the best new metal songs this week. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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Sunn Amplification is bringing back the Buzz Osborne-approved PL-20 Beta rack-mounted preamp

The PL-20 is the holy grail for Melvins live guitar tone and is the latest product to be added to the resurrected amp brand's lineup, while work continues on the iconic Model T tube head

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