Coady Willis
American drummer

Coady Willis

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American drummer
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Coady Willis is a drummer and a member of Big Business,White Shit, and the Melvins.

Willis previously played in the bands Dead Low Tide, Broadcast Oblivion and The Murder City Devils beforeBig Business.

Willis and Big Business bandmate Jared Warren both appear on the Melvins' albums (A) Senile Animal, Nude with Boots and The Bride Screamed Murder and have officially been members of the band since moving to Los Angeles in January 2006.

He also sometimes plays drums in the live incarnation of Dale Crover's side project Altamont (also his bandmate and fellow drummer in The Melvins).

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The Murder City Devils

  • 1997 – The Murder City Devils
  • 1998 – Empty Bottles, Broken Hearts
  • 2000 – In Name and Blood
  • 2001 – Thelema (EP)
  • 2014 – The White Ghost Has Blood on Its Hands Again

Big Business

  • 2005 – Head for the Shallow
  • 2007 – Here Come the Waterworks
  • 2009 – Mind the Drift
  • 2011 – Quadruple Single (EP)
  • 2013 – Battlefields Forever
  • 2016 – Command Your Weather
  • 2019 – The Beast You Are

Melvins

  • 2006 – (A) Senile Animal
  • 2008 – Nude with Boots
  • 2010 – The Bride Screamed Murder
  • 2011 – Sugar Daddy Live (live album)
  • 2012 – The Bulls & the Bees (EP)
  • 2013 – Everybody Loves Sausages (select songs)
  • 2016 – Basses Loaded (on the song "Choco Plumbing")