
Hostile Ambient Takeover is the fourteenth studio album by the Melvins, released in April 16, 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).

Tracklist:
- Black Stooges
- Untitled
- Dr. Geek
- Little Judas Chongo
- The Fool, the Meddling Idiot
- The Brain Center at Whipples
- Foaming
- The Anti-Vermin Seed



The Melvins
Dale Crover: drums, vocals, keyboards
Kevin (Rutmanis): bass, slide bass
King Buzzo: vocals, guitar
Additional personnel
Sir David Scott Stone: thunder sheet, electric wire
Adam Jones: virus
Toshi Kasai: engineer, mixing, keyboards
John Golden: mastering
Mackie Osborne: art direction & design
Kevin Willis: photography