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on their 1991 album, '' Bullhead''. The song is a fan favorite and appears on the Melvins retrospective album/book '' Neither Here nor There'' and the live album '' Alive at the Fucker Club''. The

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ese

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band Boris named themselves after this song. The Boris song "Vomitself" from their album '' Amplifier Worship'' has a similar but slower riff at the start of the song. The song was

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Isis Isis (; ''Ēse''; ; Meroitic: ''Wos'' 'a''or ''Wusa''; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤎, romanized: ʾs) was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kin ...

and

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on the 2005

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'' We Reach: The Music of the Melvins'', and by Boris and Japanese noise musician

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on their 2020 collaborative album '' 2R0I2P0''.

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