Hostile Ambient Takeover
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{{Infobox album
| name = Hostile Ambient Takeover
| type = studio
| artist = Melvins
| cover = Melvins-hat.jpg
| alt =
| released = April 16, 2002
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Sludge metal, noise rock, electronic
| length = 46:23
| label = Ipecac
| producer = Toshi Kasai
| prev_title = Millennium Monsterwork 2000
| prev_year = 2002
| next_title = Melvinmania: Best of the Atlantic Years 1993–1996
| next_year = 2003
}}
{{Album ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r583251|pure_url=yes}}|title=Hostile Ambient Takeover - Melvins|publisher=AllMusic}}
| rev2 = Blender
| rev2score = {{Rating|3|5}}http://www.blender.com/guide/new/50480/hostile-ambient-takeovermillennium-monsterwork.html{{Dead link|date=September 2011}}
| rev3 = Pitchfork
| rev5 = Rolling Stone
| rev5score = (mixed){{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/melvins/albums/album/136421/review/5941073/hostile_ambient_takeover |access-date=September 5, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070602161034/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/melvins/albums/album/136421/review/5941073/hostile_ambient_takeover |archive-date=June 2, 2007 |magazine=Rolling Stone |title=Hostile Ambient Takeover }}
}}
Hostile Ambient Takeover is the fourteenth studio album by the Melvins, released in 2002 through Ipecac Recordings.
Each song was released as a limited 7" vinyl single (limited to 2,500 copies each) that included exclusive B-sides, which are mostly covers (except for "The Anti-Vermin Seed" which was split up onto both sides of its single).
Track listing
All songs written by Buzz Osborne except where noted.
{{tracklist
| title1 = Black Stooges{{cite web|url=https://img.discogs.com/eLPcqMAMylCjJ-B4HFenbHwy5jE=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-373071-1455971347-6868.jpeg.jpg|title=Discogs: Melvins - Hostile Ambient Takeover}}{{cite web|url=https://melvinsofficial.bandcamp.com/album/hostile-ambient-takeover|title=Hostile Ambient Takeover}}
| writer1 = Crover, Osborne
| length1 = 0:31
| title2 =
| writer2 =
| length2 = 5:58
| title3 = Dr. Geek
| length3 = 2:35
| title4 = Little Judas Chongo
| length4 = 2:03
| title5 = The Fool, the Meddling Idiot
| length5 = 7:49
| title6 = The Brain Center at Whipples
| length6 = 3:50
| title7 = Foaming
| writer7 = Rutmanis, Osborne
| length7 = 7:47
| title8 = The Anti-Vermin Seed
| length8 = 15:51
}}
Singles
=Vol. 1=
{{tracklist
| title1 = Black Stooges
| length1 = 6:05
| title2 = Foaming (Fast Version)
| length2 = 1:55
}}
=Vol. 2=
{{tracklist
| title1 = Dr. Geek
| length1 = 2:41
| title2 = Return of the Spiders (Alice Cooper cover)
| length2 = 3:07
}}
=Vol. 3=
{{tracklist
| title1 = Little Judas Chongo
| length1 = 2:02
| title2 = Jerkin' Krokus (Mott the Hoople cover)
| length2 = 2:56
}}
=Vol. 4=
{{tracklist
| title1 = The Fool, The Meddling Idiot
| length1 = 7:24
| title2 = Promise Me (The Gun Club cover)
| length2 = 3:14
}}
=Vol. 5=
{{tracklist
| title1 = The Brain Center at Whipples
| length1 = 3:44
| title2 = Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World (Ramones cover)
| length2 = 3:17
}}
=Vol. 6=
{{tracklist
| title1 = Foaming
| length1 = 7:54
| title2 = Arny (Warlock Pinchers cover) / White Punks on Dope (The Tubes cover)
| length2 = 3:12
}}
=Vol. 7=
{{tracklist
| title1 = The Anti-Vermin Seed
| length1 = 6:35
| title2 = The Anti-Vermin Seed
| length2 = 6:36
}}
Personnel
- Dale Crover – drums, vocals, keyboards
- Kevin "Rutmanis" – bass, slide bass
- King Buzzo – vocals, guitar
;with
- Sir David Scott Stone – thunder sheet, electric wire
- Adam Jones – virus
=Additional personnel=
- Toshi Kasai – engineer, mixing, keyboards
- John Golden – mastering
- Mackie Osborne – art direction & design
- Kevin Willis – photography