<P> On December 19, 2016, the Melvins announced on their Facebook page that they were in the studio recording new material . </P> <P> On July 7, 2017, the band released the double album A Walk with Love & Death . One of the discs, Love, is a 14 song soundtrack to a short film of the same name, by Jesse Nieminen . The other disc, Death, is made up of standard Melvins songs . </P> <P> Generally considered as a sludge metal, grunge, experimental rock, alternative metal and doom metal band, Melvins explored a variety of different styles throughout its career, including noise rock, dark ambient, noise, jazz - rock, avant - garde music, electroacoustic music and punk country . Initially starting out as a hardcore punk act, their sound eventually started to absorb influences by Black Flag's mix of punk and metal on their My War and Slip It In albums, the Butthole Surfers, slow punk acts like Flipper and the Wipers, and also by hard rock and metal bands such as Kiss and Alice Cooper . Buzzo has stated that his guitar playing is more influenced by Black Flag than Black Sabbath, with whom they are often compared . </P> <P> Melvins' sludgy sound was a strong influence on grunge music, especially Nirvana, Soundgarden, Green River, and many other bands from Seattle . These bands, however, tended to use more conventional musical structures with this sound . The Melvins have also influenced many artists outside the grunge scene, including Tool and Mike Patton of Faith No More (both of whom are friends with the band), Boris (who took their name from the title of a Melvins song), Pig Destroyer, Helmet, Full of Hell, Corey Taylor of Slipknot, Earth, Sunn O))), Mastodon, Neurosis, Eyehategod and Isis . AllMusic wrote "their ability to combine punk with a strong Black Sabbath influence had a major impact on everything from grunge to alternative metal to doom metal and stoner rock ." In 2017, Metal Injection ranked The Melvins at number 2 on their list of "10 Heaviest Grunge Bands". </P>

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