Scion A/V Set to Release New Melvins EP, Scion A/V Presents: The Bulls & The Bees, on Mar. 13

Scion A/V has partnered with the Melvins for an EP titled Scion A/V Presents: The Bulls & The Bees, a five-song collection that marks the band's first original material since their 2010 album The Bride Screamed Murder. The release will be available as a free download on Mar. 13 via Scionav.com, with "The War On Wisdom" streaming this Friday on Pitchfork.com.

The Melvins formed in 1983, kicking off what would be a seismic shift in heavy music and focusing the epicenter of modern music firmly on the Pacific Northwest for the next decade plus. The band blended punk, metal, hard rock to create a new subgenre that has been tagged with a variety of labels including sludge, grunge and doom and won a cult of fans that have yet to waiver some twenty-nine years into the band's career. Buzz Osborne and Dale Crover have been the band's constants (Crover joined in 1984) with Big Business' Jared Warren and Coady Willis joining the band in 2006 for (A) Senile Animal. 

"The Melvins have remained such a consistent presence in heavy music," says Jeri Yoshizu, manager of sales promotions for Scion. "It's an honor to have them create an original release for Scion A/V."

Osborne described Scion A/V Presents: The Bulls & The Bees as "amazing in its noisy calm intensity."

Scion A/V Presents: The Bulls & The Bees Track Listing:

1. The War on Wisdom

2. We Are Doomed

3. Friends Before Larry

4. A Really Long Wait

5. National Hamster

The EP release will be followed by a 21-date U.S. trek that kicks off on Apr. 11 at The Blank Club in San Jose, Calif. and wraps up exactly a month later on May 11 at The Galaxy Concert Theatre in Santa Ana, Calif. Dates are:

Tour Schedule:

April 11 San Jose, CA The Blank Club

April 12 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall

April 13 Los Angeles, CA The Troubadour

April 14 San Diego, CA The Casbah

April 17 El Paso, TX House of Rock

April 19 Austin, TX Mohawk

April 20 Houston, TX Warehouse Live

April 21 New Orleans, LA One Eyed Jack's

April 23 Orlando, FL The Social

April 24 Gainesville, FL Double Down Live

April 25 Atlanta, GA The Loft at Center Stage

April 26 Charlotte, NC Amos Southend

April 28 West Chester, PA The Note

April 29 New York, NY Webster Hall

May 1 Milwaukee, WI Turner Hall Ballroom

May 2 DeKalb, IL Otto's Nightclub

May 3 St. Louis, MO The Firebird

May 4 Nashville, TN Exit Inn

May 7 Dallas, TX Trees

May 9 Santa Fe, NM Santa Fe Brewing Company

May 11 Santa Ana, CA Galaxy Concert Theatre