'Hostile Ambient Takeover' is the fourteenth LP by US sludge/avant-rock/metal legends Melvins. It was originally released in 2002. On this occasion the band was made up of core pair Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover with Kevin Rutmanis (Cows, Hepa-Titus) on bass duties. Sir David Scott Stone provides some additional noise with his Thunder Sheet and Electric Wire. Features the near-sixteen-minute epic closing track 'The Anti-Vermin Seed'. Limited edition pink vinyl