Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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Los Angeles' acclaimed avant-garde metal band MELTED BODIES has released their long-awaited, second studio album, The Inevitable Fork. Years of anticipation and lauded singles and EP releases have lead to this moment. With their follow up to 2020's Enjoy Yourself, the trailblazing five-piece have created an inimitable sound that defies traditional conventions, exploring a sound beyond the safe boundaries of contemporary music.
Over the course of 20 songs, The Inevitable Fork weaves a viscous web of musical styles from metal and industrial to post-hardcore and indie-folk. Colossal walls of heavy metal riffs, frantic unhinged vocals and industrial madness segue seamlessly into melodic soundscapes, acoustic balladry and haunting interludes that keep listeners on edge with tense anticipation.
About MELTED BODIES:
It’s 2015, Andy Hamm is staring at two of his favorite albums sitting above his record player - Cannibal Corpse’s The Bleeding, and Talking Heads’ More Songs about Buildings and Food. For the past decade, Andy toured the world as a founding member of indie band Local Natives, but was unexpectedly pushed out of the group by his former bandmates. Sitting alone, with unsatisfied ideas, he stared at those two albums and saw a template for a new project grounded in the music that inspired him in the first place. So he started writing.
A few months later, Andy met Scott McDonald at a screening of the Japanese cult film Why Don’t You Play in Hell? The two realized their shared love of horror and anime extends to music too. With Scott’s drumming background for Portland’s early 2000s Upon Beauty Rests, the two decided to meet up and explore Andy’s new ideas.
It quickly became clear that they needed to fill out the band, starting with bassist Houda Zakeri, a part of the LA punk scene for years with Holy Hydraulics, then ending with Ben Majoy, aka Diamondstein, electronic music producer and host of NTS Radio’s popular dark music show Night Shift. And with this, MELTED BODIES was formed.
Over the next few years, MELTED BODIES developed a reputation around SoCal for chaotic and unpredictable shows. Their difficult-to-pindown intensity led to as many mismatched billings as sold-out shows, supporting bands like Red Fang, Kikagaku Moyo, Horse the Band, Machine Girl, and Sleepy Time Gorilla Museum. Then as the world closed, 2020 became an ironically perfect year for Melted Bodies to release their breakthrough debut album, Enjoy Yourself.
Self-recorded in their depraved Inglewood rehearsal space, this album introduced their fresh contradiction to a global audience of like-minded multi-hyphenate metalheads, and quickly became one of Bandcamp’s top metal albums for the year, and a mainstay on many year-end lists, including a #1 from MetalSucks. Acclaimed for its new ideas in heavy music, Enjoy Yourself was labeled “the Most 2020 album we could have hoped for'' by journalists, due to its cheeky themes of consumerism, isolation, and police cannibalism.
A step removed from the sardonic nature of Enjoy Yourself, and now firmly established as a referential part of the metal music landscape, MELTED BODIES is releasing the final piece of their existentially and sonically heavy 3 EP series, The Inevitable Fork. Finally heard in its totality, these three volumes tell a different story from their breakthrough Enjoy Yourself.
#meltedbodies #usa #losangeles #avantgardemetal
Los Angeles' acclaimed avant-garde metal band MELTED BODIES has released their long-awaited, second studio album, The Inevitable Fork. Years of anticipation and lauded singles and EP releases have lead to this moment. With their follow up to 2020's Enjoy Yourself, the trailblazing five-piece have created an inimitable sound that defies traditional conventions, exploring a sound beyond the safe boundaries of contemporary music.
Over the course of 20 songs, The Inevitable Fork weaves a viscous web of musical styles from metal and industrial to post-hardcore and indie-folk. Colossal walls of heavy metal riffs, frantic unhinged vocals and industrial madness segue seamlessly into melodic soundscapes, acoustic balladry and haunting interludes that keep listeners on edge with tense anticipation.
About MELTED BODIES:
It’s 2015, Andy Hamm is staring at two of his favorite albums sitting above his record player - Cannibal Corpse’s The Bleeding, and Talking Heads’ More Songs about Buildings and Food. For the past decade, Andy toured the world as a founding member of indie band Local Natives, but was unexpectedly pushed out of the group by his former bandmates. Sitting alone, with unsatisfied ideas, he stared at those two albums and saw a template for a new project grounded in the music that inspired him in the first place. So he started writing.
A few months later, Andy met Scott McDonald at a screening of the Japanese cult film Why Don’t You Play in Hell? The two realized their shared love of horror and anime extends to music too. With Scott’s drumming background for Portland’s early 2000s Upon Beauty Rests, the two decided to meet up and explore Andy’s new ideas.
It quickly became clear that they needed to fill out the band, starting with bassist Houda Zakeri, a part of the LA punk scene for years with Holy Hydraulics, then ending with Ben Majoy, aka Diamondstein, electronic music producer and host of NTS Radio’s popular dark music show Night Shift. And with this, MELTED BODIES was formed.
Over the next few years, MELTED BODIES developed a reputation around SoCal for chaotic and unpredictable shows. Their difficult-to-pindown intensity led to as many mismatched billings as sold-out shows, supporting bands like Red Fang, Kikagaku Moyo, Horse the Band, Machine Girl, and Sleepy Time Gorilla Museum. Then as the world closed, 2020 became an ironically perfect year for Melted Bodies to release their breakthrough debut album, Enjoy Yourself.
Self-recorded in their depraved Inglewood rehearsal space, this album introduced their fresh contradiction to a global audience of like-minded multi-hyphenate metalheads, and quickly became one of Bandcamp’s top metal albums for the year, and a mainstay on many year-end lists, including a #1 from MetalSucks. Acclaimed for its new ideas in heavy music, Enjoy Yourself was labeled “the Most 2020 album we could have hoped for'' by journalists, due to its cheeky themes of consumerism, isolation, and police cannibalism.
A step removed from the sardonic nature of Enjoy Yourself, and now firmly established as a referential part of the metal music landscape, MELTED BODIES is releasing the final piece of their existentially and sonically heavy 3 EP series, The Inevitable Fork. Finally heard in its totality, these three volumes tell a different story from their breakthrough Enjoy Yourself.
