Buzz Osborne holds nothing back – not musically or anywhere else in his life. He never has, and probably never will. One listen to Melvins’ latest record Tarantula Heart will tell you as much. This time – as per usual – Osborne and company are out for blood via music. That said, don’t dare try and box them in. And even if you tried, Osborne would sidestep you, spin around, come up grinning, and bludgeon you with his aluminium guitar. That’s just how it is in the land of Buzz. “I walk out there, and I feel I’ve got the best rig in the whole world,” he says. “Nobody has this, just me. I love it.”
It was way back in 1983 that Melvins formed as a trio in Montesano, a tiny city in Washington state, 100 miles from Seattle. Their debut album Gluey Porch Treatments arrived in 1986, a full five years before the big bang of grunge, and although Melvins eventually signed to major label Atlantic
