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  • Summary: The latest release from the Melvins features original members Buzz Osborne and Mike Dillard with Ni Maîtres and Void Manes.
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  1. 90
    For all the low lumbering and slithering and menace, the album has power-energy all the way through.
  2. Record Collector
    May 16, 2025
    80
    The abstract industrial textures complement tastefully and spookily rather than overwhelm in confrontational fashion. [Jun 2025, p.103]
  3. The Wire
    Jun 4, 2025
    80
    Founding Melvins members Buzz Osborne and Mike Dillard join forces with electronic musicians Void Maines and Ni Maîtres (aka Gareth Turner) for a lively and experimental session. Both guests are let loose on “Vomit Of Clarity” where, by way of introduction, they squeeze out an involved synthesized sound collage – an effectively intriguing interval to herald in the main event. [Jul 2025, p.61]
  4. Apr 18, 2025
    70
    Thunderball would greatly benefit from another 10 or 20 minutes worth of mid-to-low tempo grooves to grant their now-besotted audience a chance to sway like sluggish Evangelicals in a primal stupor.
  5. Apr 18, 2025
    70
    After over four decades, the Melvins still sound utterly uncompromised and full of swampy vigor, and Thunderball confirms they haven't finished challenging themselves or their audience, not by a long shot.
  6. Classic Rock Magazine
    Apr 25, 2025
    70
    Buzz is in full-on demented rock-god mode (Victory Of The Pyramids), a full-throttle sludge trash that out-Hawkwinds even the mighty Hawkwind themselves. [Jun 2025, p.71]
  7. Uncut
    Apr 18, 2025
    70
    The results is both familiar and strange. [May 2025, p.33]

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