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MUDVAYNE PARTY LIKE IT’S 1969

 Thursday, October 8th, 2009 at 10:30am by

I haven’t known anyone who’s owned a blacklight since I was thirteen, because that’s about the age when you realize “Hey, this is cool for all of ten seconds and then you’re just bored in a different-colored room.” Yes, even if you’re on drugs.

But our friends at Metal Insider tell us that Mudvayne’s new, self-titled album “is being printed on blacklight-reactive ink” and that the cover art “will be pretty much invisible to the naked eye unless your uncle still has that blacklight.” (And if he does, call the cops. ‘Cause he’s a pedophile.) Deluxe editions of the album will apparently come with a blacklight, just to save you that extra trip to the mall I guess.

Of course it’s always tempting in 2009 to cry “Gimmick designed to sell physical CDs!”, but I’m actually willing to give Mudvayne the benefit of the doubt and say that they’re trying to do something legitimately cool. I think that this is a band that has always aspired to Tool-levels of “Make ya think”-ness, and their heart is probably in the right place. Whether they’ve succeeded or not will most likely depend on how much you like Mudvayne.

Mudvayne’s Mudvayne will be out December 22 on Epic.

-AR

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  • Jimmy

    Ld50 was kickass. Stuff after that… eh.

    • SourDeez

      They showed so much promise on that album, I can’t believe how badly they suck now. That’s one of the only albums of the nu-metal era that I can still listen to.

  • Mark Gavin

    I liked what Chickenfoot did with the whole “touch it to see it” thing.

  • msv81

    “I think that this is a band that has always aspired to Tool-levels of “Make ya think”-ness”

    To even remotely compare Mudvayne to Tool is blasphemy. The way I see it, Tool is the Led Zeppelin of our generation; each member is a genius in his own right and every song they’ve ever written is mind blowingly phenomenal. Mudvayne, on the other hand, has written one great album (L.D. 50), with each subsequent release having been a major disappointment and massive failure.

    • msv81

      And for the record, even though I still enjoy L.D. 50…

      What Maynard/Adam/Justin/Danny leave in the toilet after eating Taco Bell > Mudvayne

    • Marty Jannetty

      I wouldn’t say every song I feel that’s a bit much, but to each his own.

    • \m/Eluveitie\m/

      To even remotely compare Tool to Led Zeppelin is blasphemy.

      • Mike

        Tool the Led Zepplin of our generation? I don’t ever remebering Robert Plant hitting a high enough level of pretention where he felt inclined to write a song about his dick.

        • msv81

          You’re more than entitled to your opinion, but you should know two things;

          1) “Maynard’s Dick” is meant to be a joke, as in ‘ha ha’ funny. I happen to think it’s kind of stupid (though I still love the song itself, sans the attempt at humor in the lyrics)

          2) It was one of the first songs the band ever wrote, back in ’90 or ’91, it far precedes the band’s fame and success, so regardless of what you may think of him (and I happen to agree that Maynard is one pretentious asshole), those particular lyrics were written before he was full of himself.

        • Dee

          “Squeeze my lemon and watch the juice run down my leg” isn’t about his dick? Really? “I wanna be your backdoor man”….c’mon

      • msv81

        I disagree.

        Have you ever seen one of their live shows? Do you own any of their albums? The sheer level of intensity, creativity, and uniqueness they exhibit in every facet of their performances and recordings is unmatched by most modern day bands. Now, I must admit, I’m not fortunate enough to have ever seen Zeppelin in concert so I’m not qualified to make an adequate comparison between the two bands’ live shows, but insofar as the recordings go, Tool’s best work, at least in my opinion, matches that of Zeppelin’s.

        Also, Tool did cover “No Quarter” as I’m sure you’re aware; the lyrics were changed and the song was extended in length so the two are difficult to compare, though Tool did a phenomenal job on it. Their videos and albums are ART, in the truest sense of the word; the band does not showcase themselves playing instruments in their videos; rather, they tell stories.

        I’m an obvious fanboy of the band so my opinion is biased, but if you pay attention to their work more closely, I don’t think you would consider it blasphemy to make a comparison to Zeppelin.

        • \m/Eluveitie\m/

          I don’t see how Tool’s body of work even comes close to Zeppelin in terms of diversity, musicianship, and creativity.

          • SourDeez

            Apples and oranges, people. Both bands are amazing. They also can’t even be remotely compared to each other. Tool doesn’t play the blues and they never sang about banging girls or Lord of The Rings. Zeppelin never played trippy introspective metal with philosophical lyrics and talkbox solos. This comparison is even worse than apples and oranges, it’s like comparing elephants to strippers.

    • http://www.myspace.com/somethinglikesweet CJ

      Nay.

  • http://www.myspace.com/ihopeyourot DemiGod

    They’re streaming a new song called Beautiful and Strange on their myspace right now.
    It sucks, it’s boring, stereotypical Mudvayne, people say it’s heavier, it’s about as heavy as Fish Out Of Water on their last garbage cd.

  • John

    I think tool trys really hard to be weirder than they are. I don’t like either band though, so my opinion might be bias

  • Walker

    LD50 is one of my favorite records of all time and that band never made another record IMO.

  • deanerhead

    Ryan Martinie was the only thing that made this band stand out. Without him, they’d be be just another nu-metal band from the mid-west. And that’s pretty much what they’ve been on their past two albums (and a bad one at that). The new song on their myspace doesn’t showcase the bass-lines, so I’m guessing they still don’t have a clue, if they ever really did.

    • Beard

      Thank God someone said it. Ryan Martini is the only reason I like Mudvayne. Without Ryan, all you have is Hell Yeah. In fact, I think after that Hell Yeah bullshit, Greg Tribbet (or whatever the fucking guitarists name is) decided he didn’t want to sit back anymore and let the bass player steal the show. Heaven forbid. So now he solos.

      • marshall

        Hell yeah killed mudvayne for me.I really wish it didnt because I used to be obsessed with them,LD50 actually saved my life,but after hellyeah something happened.

  • Philo Betto

    Tool is not that fucking great.

    • Marty Jannetty

      Thank you completely agree.

  • http://www.myspace.com/somethinglikesweet CJ

    Mudvayne fucking RULES live. Nothing better man. And all their albums are pretty damn good too. Consider me excited.

  • http://www.last.fm/user/groverXIII groverXIII

    You can add me to the list of people who liked LD 50 and thought they went way downhill after that.

    Although I did kinda like their last album… it wasn’t great, but there were some good tunes (I liked ‘Dull Boy’… kinda reminded me of their old stuff).

    • vecima

      why is everyone saying L.D. 50 was good, but dissing everything after? is this some sort of grab for “metal cred” or something?

      I enjoyed LD50 when i was into nu-metal in high school. since then I don’t listen to any mudvayne except “the end of all things to come” their song writing capabilities were phenomenal on that record. for those comparing to tool, it was their “lateralus” – especially thematically. While parts of it are nu-metal, they also blend genuine metal chugging and odd timing into it. they stretched out in more directions (though they dropped the funky parts from LD50, which i did like). I agree that lost and found was not nearly as good, and i haven’t heard the new game, but end of all things to come was a definite cut above the rest of the nu metal out there.

      I will agree with those above that the bass is the best part of the band, and the guitar is the worst. but on that one record they got it just right (you have to skip the first song though, that one sucks ;) )

      • http://www.myspace.com/badkarma619 Alan

        Fuck! Thank you for that, although I have to disagree about skipping the first track, “Silenced” – I love that one.

        “The End Of All Things To Come” is hands down their best record – actually, the two tracks “Silenced” and “Skrying” alone will always set Mudvayne a cut or two above the rest of the nu-metal bands that are all rightfully vanished into obscurity, these days.

        LD 50 was pretty cool at times, but it had a lot of filler junk to sift through. You can grab “Nothing To Gein” and “Prod” and a few others, and basically delete the rest of that album.

        Lost and Found was garbage, pure and simple. A few sort-of-catchy melodies thrown in with a lot more contrived ones, thrown over mediocre, half-assed radio metal.

        The New Game was a bit more tolerable… actually, the title track is pretty okay. Not very high on my list this year, though.

  • http://www.myspace.com/7stringslaughter cjlAS

    I’m gonna have to go along with pretty much everyone else here and say that “L.D.-50″ smokes anything Mudvayne has released since said album. Why is it so hard to make something that good again??

  • http://www.myspace.com/jay234t BrutalJay

    Kill I Oughta, L.D. 50, and The End Of All Things To Come were great albums. Lost And Found was alright, the songs were catchy. I didn’t really like The New Game. The songs were pretty catchy but, easily forgettable. Now, Mudvayne has a new song on their MySpace that looks promising. I guess we’ll see soon enough.

  • Binkles

    I like the first two…I think they have gone progressively downhill on each one though…they are starting to get pretty generic…I didnt even buy the last one

  • PaxlRose

    It seems that Mudvayne songs these days are just filler between Mandatory Metallica songs on shitty rock radio.

  • http://salsicha.wordpress.com Gabriel

    WTF, seriously? Dudes, I really like their music, but I didn’t know they’re about to release a new album. I hope it’s better than that crappy “The New Game”

  • joe

    Their last album the new game did something pretty cool too. They had this whole murder mystery thing going on and the winner got liftime backstage passes or something like that. The album itself was well not awesome but not bad either. they stopped trying to raise the bar music wise right about the time they decided to write Lost And Found. Since that album Its all been not real good but not bad either. All the songs kinda have the same feel, and they stopped doing offtime stuff. Hope they find their way back to making great albums like L.D.50 and The End Of All Things To Come!