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Originally Posted by Genteel Death
Purely on a musical level, I find the heaviness and slowness of their sound to fall flat on its own arse without any sense of dynamics that their playing suggests at first listen.
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Exactly. There seems to be a lot of people claiming that the Melvins are 'good at what they do', when I'd say that what they do, in principle, is brilliant, they just do it really boringly. For all their supposed 'heaviness', I just don't hear it. As you say, their lack of dynamics only ends up thining their sound out. They have a heavy 'tone' but I never hear any real power in it. A completely different band, I know, but I've just been listening to Live Skull's 'Fort Belvedere' which, while it has what might objectively be described as a pretty weedy tone, has far more real cathartic power than anything I've heard by The Melvins.