MELVINS: HOSTILE AMBIENT BESIDES LP *Nutty Splat Edition*

Flashback to 2002, when Ipecac Recordings released a Melvins studio album called Hostile Ambient Takeover. The following year, they issued a series of 7" singles with the A-side from that record, but the B-side was an exclusive track of the Melvins take on various cover songs. Since then, people have wondered, "Yo Goober, is there gonna be a follow up LP with the B-'s?"  It only took 17 years to answer that question, but yes, yes there is & it's called Hostile Ambient Besides. The cover is designed by our very own HAZE XXL keeping up with the cheapo plastic mask theme of the singles with his take on the whole Nutty Mad/Weird-Ohs genre. This is the Nutty Splat Edition with a blue & green silkscreen ink on the front cover, exclusive to this edition. Here's where things get even more interesting. There's 3 colorways of the art on the back of the sleeve & are random. That means, all the editions will have the same color mask on the front, but the backs could be either