Buzz Osborne

Buzz Osborne, also known as King Buzzo, is the guitarist/vocalist/songwriter and last remaining founding member for The Melvins. He is also a founding member/guitarist for both Fantômas and V

Buzz Osborne, also known as King Buzzo, is the guitarist/vocalist/songwriter and last remaining founding member for The Melvins. He is also a founding member/guitarist for both Fantômas and Venomous Concept.

In the early 1980s Osborne founded The Melvins with Matt Lukin and Mike Dillard who all went to Montesano high-school where he graduated in 1982. In the beginning The Melvins played The Who and Jimi Hendrix covers and began playing fast hardcore punk. When Dillard left the band in 1984 Dale Crover joined and the band's rehearsals moved to a back room of Crover's parents house in Aberdeen, Washington. It was soon that they also started to play slower and "heavier" songs than nearly anybody else did at the time.