Meltdown is a 2001 live album by avant-rock, experimental power trio Massacre, featuring guitarist Fred Frith, bassist Bill Laswell and drummer Charles Hayward.

[1] In a review of Meltdown in AllMusic, Rick Anderson said the album comprises "typical group improv" made up largely of "patterns and alternating solos".

[1] He described Frith's guitar on "For Good and Scatter" as "gorgeous", and liked how "Figure Out" switches from "complex improvisatory interplay to an eerily beautiful ambient coda.

"[1] Overall, Anderson found Meltdown "slightly disappointing" by virtue of the high standard the group have set themselves, which would "constitute no wave genius on the part of any other band.

"[2] He called "Figure Out" "a great pleasure", adding that it "carves up chunks of raw noise, sounding simultaneously like crushed metal boxes and yowling birds, later drifting into a gentle bedtime dreamland.