Melvins

Where to see Melvins in 2026

• Aftershock 2026 lineup →

  October 1–4, 2026 · Discovery Park, Sacramento, CA

  Undercard · Saturday

• Sick New World Texas 2026 lineup →

  October 24, 2026 · Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, TX

  Main stages · Saturday

Who Melvins is

Forty years of deliberately difficult, punishingly slow riffs — and the band Nirvana learned from, still outweirding everyone downstream.

sludge metalnoise rocksludge-metalnoise-rock

Sounds like Melvins

Helmet

Also compared to Boris, Neurosis, Mudhoney, Big Business, Butthole Surfers.

Artists who sound like Melvins

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