The Making of Tarantula Heart

Fly on the wall mini-doc from the Tarantula Heart recording sessions with Toshi Kasai at Sound of Sirens in Los Angeles. The first session took place in May of 2022 with drummer / synthesist Roy Mayorga, and the second happened in January 2023 with guitarist Gary Chester.
Tarantula Heart is out NOW on Ipecac Recordings.

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Great that they are still around, long live Melvins long live king buzzo

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Dale and Buzz are a force. They did 50 states in 50 days, and the only time they canceled a show (to my knowledge) was the Great East Japan Earthquake in March 2011. It takes a natural disaster to stop these guys.

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Not a word was spoken. The great dragon wizards have awoken. ⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️

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As long as there are Melvins, i know my world is safe👍😃

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Melvins remain as vital as they were when they first started. Really looking forward to this one

[@testriot]

Great to see Dale in excellent form again! It's going to be a banger!

[@gorf1342]

Still producing heavy sludgy records, and releasing the behind the scenes the day of release, nothing beats Melvin’s. Can’t wait to see you again in August!

[@orion10x]

Kevin’s slide bass would be cool to hear again

[@juanpablodelaserna]

New album’s great 👌🏻

[@AL_KING777]

the contact mics on the baking sheet captures some cool natural verb

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This my favorite band in the world

[@skippyhandleman1625]

I listened to available tracks on youtube for the first time today. I'm always a latecomer to new Melvins releases. Still, better late than never. I enjoy it and will be ordering the record and a couple shirts at some point over the next month. I see music like I see a painting. Some paintings interest me, and some don't. some paintings have unique facets (like light in an edward hopper ) that one may see independently in other painters at the same time or creep up later in time with other artists. Dimensions of influence. I'm not sure how I would classify this record. While thoughts of sonic youth and early butthole surfers popped into my head on my first listen, i don't think it was really pervasive through the songs. We probably just compare what it new with what we've experienced or maybe we have aural pattern recognition. my brain enjoyed what I was hearing. that's what matters. it was more than enjoyment too. I sat there wondering where it was going to go. sudden changes by instruments came in and took it the music somewhere. almost like in a jazz band where an instrument will sort of take over the song or maybe guide the momentum of the song for a bit. sort of like riding your bikes with your buddies when you were a kid and everyone taking a turn at being the leader, jumping off curbs etc. I will probably give it a good daily listen for a while. It's arguable that the jam concept of recording isn't new. I'm pretty sure we can all accept that. My understanding is that the record was a jam, a deconstruction of a jam to mine the gems and the rewriting of guitar parts. I'm not sure how much that has happened in recording history in the way the album was made. appears pretty pioneering in my opinion. I listen to the melvins here and there. I'm in the pacific northwest and in my fifth decade. I've been aware of them for a long time and have seen them live a few times. Additionally i have seen the dale crover band open for redd kross. Usually, it's billy fish that gets me happenin in terms of a melvins binge that lasts a month every year. It's worth spending a bit of money to support this band. I also recommend to anyone out there to explore this band alone and with headphones on. it will be weird and awkward and dissonant and tension filled at times. It will also be melodic with beauty and slay in a rocking way. I'm not even sure I get the Melvins. They are a band that I pay attention to. They are a band that I continue to "get around to checking out". I'm not sure what i even expect from the melvins. I had a fantasy of wanting to contact them and see if I could pay them for 2 jam sessions and they could help take my bedroom simple guitar rock to another place. sort of like if i painted a rothko and they had brushes to paint onto the same canvas and take it somewhere. Melvins could probably even do a "backing band" EP for musicians out there if anything good came out of such a thing.

[@MrBobzane]

Great album. Renewed my faith

[@miloogorman2310]

Thanks guys... Love seeing behind the scene music docs... 😎

[@waskerbasket9601]

Never stop.

[@bvaughan3862]

This is kind of a masterclass in drum miking & subsequent mixing. BRAVO Toshi!!!

[@deluge71]

Ray Mayorga seems like a great choice for second drummer.

[@juancarlo888]

I love that they have a whole lineup of players. All killers

[@HillbillyHellrazor]

This is a really good album. I've enjoyed it thoroughly.Cheers boys .\m/

[@sadetpotes]

So Great !

[@j.d.thompson3505]

Very good record. Heavy and focused.

[@jarjaxle09]

OMG.. I spent the whole time just trying to check out those pedals LOL

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Same here!

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Mostly Hillbish

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All hail King buzzo!

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This is real science...

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oh my god, gear heaven

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I met them in Montasano... late 80s...

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Peas n Doves from a little cafe in Rickmansworth

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Fuck yes 💛 PLEASE sir may I have some more 🙏Meanstoanend

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🔥🔥🔥

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Fun!

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🤘

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I also have a tarantula heart

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✨🔝✨

[@redline2115]

Aluminum guitars and guitars with aluminum parts rule, veleno, Kramer, Travis Bean, it all rules.

[@DMelon1]

geniuses

[@bvaughan3862]

Toshi has 5 shelves of pedals & I only have 2.5? UNACCEPTABLE! More pedals, STAT!

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❤🕷

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Sic

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2 legit to quit 🤘🤘

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Where is your "Big Muff" pedal?

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Smog skrom domps

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Is that Louis C.K on Buzz's shirt at 11:16?

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Dennis Hopper

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@@melvinsdotcom Ah yes, thanks! Really cool video, by the way

[@kurb1980]

It’s from blue velvet frank booth played by Dennis Hopper greatest performance of all time for a villain!

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Keep the Trve Twerk alive and get Mayorga fired somehow ( even though he´s twerked good with Stig & Rob in Amebix, that he has ) \m/

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Melvins is for the children…

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I have a few of those pedals.

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Come back to Greenville SC