King Buzzo

King Buzzo is the stage name used by Buzz Osborne (born Roger Osborne), best known as the lead guitarist with the Melvins, long-running proponents of the louder side of the alternative rock scene whose embrace of heavy guitars, big riffs, and slower tempos made them one of the key precursors of grunge. While Osborne's work with the Melvins (best heard on 1993's Houdini and 1996's Stag) was devoted to uncompromising hard rock, his albums released as King Buzzo -- 2014's This Machine Kills Artists and 2020's Gift of Sacrifice -- were detours into acoustic music, through the song...