Hostile Ambient Takeover

Infobox Album | Name = Hostile Ambient Takeover
Type = studio
Artist = Melvins

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Released = April 15, 2002
Recorded = 2002
Genre = Sludge metal
Length = 46:28
Label = Ipecac
Producer = Toshi Kasai
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:7z831v03zz9a link]
*Pitchfork Media rating-10|5.6 [http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/19827/Melvins_Hostile_Ambient_Takeover link]
*Piero Scaruffi rating-10|5 [http://www.scaruffi.com/vol5/melvins.html link]
*"Rolling Stone" (mixed) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/melvins/albums/album/136421/review/5941073/hostile_ambient_takeover link] |

Last album = "Millennium Monsterwork 2000"
(2002)
This album = "Hostile Ambient Takeover"
(2002)
Next album = ""
(2003)

"Hostile Ambient Takeover" is an album by Melvins, which was released in 2002 through Ipecac Recordings. "Black Stooges" is credited as track 1 but the song that appeared on "Millennium Monsterwork 2000" (then called "Ol' Black Stooges") is actually on track 2.

Track listing

#Untitled (Crover) – 0:31
#"Black Stooges" (Osborne/Crover) – 5:58
#"Dr. Geek" (Osborne) – 2:35
#"Little Judas Chongo" (Osborne) – 2:03
#"The Fool, the Meddling Idiot" (Osborne) – 7:49
#"The Brain Center at Whipples" (Osborne) – 3:50
#"Foaming" (Osborne/Rutmanis) – 7:47
#"The Anti-Vermin Seed" (Osborne) – 15:51

Personnel

*The Melvins:
**Dale Crover - drums, vocals, keyboards
**Kevin Rutmanis - bass, slide bass
**King Buzzo - vocals, guitar
*Sir David Scott Stone - thunder sheet, electric wire
*Toshi Kasai - keyboards, recording, mixing
*Adam Jones - virus
*John Golden - mastering
*Mackie Osborne - art direction & design
*Kevin Willis - photography