The true treasure of former MELVINS bass player MARK DEUTROM's artistic expression lies in his wide-ranging and genre transcending solo recordings. His sophomore full-length, 'The Value of Decay' (2011) underlines the multi-instrumentalist's broad musical scope; for example by successfully fusing blues rock and super-heavy sludge on the epic track "Making a Killing" or with the striking contrast between the ten-ton Southern fried guitar fuzz of "Buried in the Jewel" and the psychedelic zero-G ambient of the final part of closing song "Empire Sands".