Hostile Ambient Takeover

Hostile Ambient Takeover is the fourteenth studio album by the Melvins, released in 2002 through Ipecac Recordings.

Hostile Ambient Takeover
Studio album by Melvins
Released	April 16, 2002
Genre	Sludge metal, noise rock, electronic
Length	46:23
Label	Ipecac
Producer	Toshi Kasai
Melvins chronology
Millennium Monsterwork 2000 (2002) Hostile Ambient Takeover (2002) Melvinmania: Best of the Atlantic Years 1993–1996 (2003)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Blender	[2]
Pitchfork	(5.6/10)[3]
Rolling Stone	(mixed)[4]

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.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Black Stooges[5][6]"	Crover, Osborne	0:31
2.	Untitled		5:58
3.	"Dr. Geek"		2:35
4.	"Little Judas Chongo"		2:03
5.	"The Fool, the Meddling Idiot"		7:49
6.	"The Brain Center at Whipples"		3:50
7.	"Foaming"	Rutmanis, Osborne	7:47
8.	"The Anti-Vermin Seed"		15:51

Singles

Vol. 1

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Black Stooges"	6:05
2.	"Foaming (Fast Version)"	1:55

Vol. 2

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Dr. Geek"	2:41
2.	"Return of the Spiders (Alice Cooper cover)"	3:07

Vol. 3

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Little Judas Chongo"	2:02
2.	"Jerkin' Krokus (Mott the Hoople cover)"	2:56

Vol. 4

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Fool, The Meddling Idiot"	7:24
2.	"Promise Me (The Gun Club cover)"	3:14

Vol. 5

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Brain Center at Whipples"	3:44
2.	"Today Your Love, Tomorrow the World (Ramones cover)"	3:17

Vol. 6

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Foaming"	7:54
2.	"Arny (Warlock Pinchers cover) / White Punks on Dope (The Tubes cover)"	3:12

Vol. 7

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Anti-Vermin Seed"	6:35
2.	"The Anti-Vermin Seed"	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