CONFESSIONS OF A STEREOMUD FAN
Friday, March 13th, 2009 at 10:50am by Vince Neilstein
So. I love Stereomud. I’ve written about them several times on this here webernet site. For those with short memories: Stereomud was an early-2000s supergroup of sorts, featuring members of Life of Agony, Stuck Mojo, and Pro-Pain. I know, I know, they were bottom of the barrel, C-rate post-nu-metal… but I can’t help it! “Pain” and “Steppin’ Away” were just so good! No, I’m not being ironic. And their second record Any Given Moment, which resulted in the band being dropped from Columbia, was a damn fine effort too.
With that in mind, question not why I’ve been following the drama that recently unfolded when Stereomud vocalist Erik Rogers attempted to form what amounts to a new band under the “Stereomud’ moniker. When actual members of Stereomud put up a stink, he was forced to change the name of the new band to Dangerous New Machine and issued a protracted public apology.
But no matter; as the video below shows — filmed this past weekend at a Dangerous New Machine show in Florida — this band looks, feels and sounds like Stereomud and plays Stereomud songs. Even their new song “Burn,” a damn fine specimen if you ask me, sounds like it could’ve been on a third Stereomud album. Which makes me wonder whether all that time Rogers was the creative force behind the band, not Life of Agony’s Joey Z as I always assumed. “Burn” is a great track, but unfortunately I can’t say the same about recently posted new song “Skeletons.” That was always exactly the thing about Stereomud; a couple of great songs per record and then a bunch of duds. But hey, for all intents and purposes it seems like we’ll pretty much be getting a new Stereomud record in 2009.
Sammy and Revrant, congratulations, today is your field day. Make sure you hold your chaperone’s hand at all times.
-VN
You hate Disturbed, but you like Shinedown and Stereomud.
Can we like, annex Metalsucks, or something?
Stereomud are for what they are
err Stereomud are good for what they are
Dangerous New Machine? Sounds like the name of a shitty Metal band out of Nor Cal’s Bay Area. God knows they’ve had plenty.
The Nor Cal metal scene is crap all the bands out there suffer from Rob Flynn disease
sweet goatees.
Vince, do you also like Ultraspank?
The first ultraspank album was a pretty cool listen
For the record, I have never owned a Stereomud album. And the last album I bought was Earthsblood and not just to get Metalsucks “street cred”. :D
Oh wait, I also bought Clint Lowery’s acoustic solo EP. I’d say that makes me a pussy, but all y’all at the Metalsucks Palace like 7Dust (which I just don’t get).
Hey now, I’ve always though Ultraspank was very underrated! Wish MS would catch up with them instead Stereolab…. I mean mud…. does it matter?
agree, first ultraspank album was great! still sounds good today
Time to invade metalsucks and install a democracy.
You had your two terms, no more invading anything for you Jizz.
Indeed, so, Sevendust, Stereomud, and Shinedown.
Then, they lash out at Disturbed, makes for some funny posts.
The nu-metal worship works so well for metal inquisition, so everybody else has gotta jump on board too.
I wish the metalsucks guys would be able to do this more often. “What is ‘this’?” you might ask. “This” is liking a GOOD band despite it not fitting into the current, trendy, tiny range of “acceptable” bands that metal fans are expected to like.
Enjoy music for the music.
(But, yes, this is tarnished by the fact that they shit talk bands are as good as, if not better)
I can’t believe this band is even still making music…sorry folks, I can’t take any band that calls itself “Stereomud” seriously, now if you’ll excuse me, i’m going to go blast some Limp Bizkit and throw on my Slipknot hoodie.
I’ve had the pleasure of following parts of Erik Rogers’ career since Stereomud. I can tell you that Erik is truly talented and a gifted songwriter. Joey Z had influence on the overall sound, but the heart of the band IMHO was Erik.