Mudvayne - Lost and Found (2005)

It's been three years for Mudvayne, three years when metal started to reject its "Rap" and "Nu" prefixes. At first, Lost and Found reflects that realignment. Vocalist Chad Gray and his mates have nixed the nicknames and makeup for their third Epic full length, and they try to focus on songs instead of heavy music shtick. However, they equate getting real with the melodramatic plead that interrupts the razor-sharp main part of "Choices," and Gray can't overcome lines like "IMN"'s "No one/No one could ever understand/This life." The song is about suicide, which is very serious. But yelling "Fuck this shit!" over thudding rhythms just isn't very powerful anymore. They nail it on opener "Determined" one of Mudvayne all time strongest tracks, it's a fist swinging blast of modernized thrash. But Lost and Found soon falls into the familiar, busting no one understands me lyrics and matching moments of refreshing rawness to stretches of stereotypical "corporate metal," a non genre that's risen up to accept loud rock refugees and the harder side of Post-Grunge. The energy in "Determined" and "Just" is sapped by the meandering "TV Radio" and "Fall into Sleep," and ultimately Mudvayne gets lost between thrash and diluted Slipknot devotion.

Band: Mudvayne
Album: Lost and Found
Genre: Alternative Metal/Heavy Metal
Country: Peoria, Illinois, United States
Release Date: Apr 12, 2005
Label: Epic Records

"Tracklist"

01. "Determined"
02. "Pushing Through"
03. "Happy?"
04. "IMN"
05. "Fall into Sleep"
06. "Rain. Sun. Gone."
07. "Choices"
08. "Forget to Remember"
09. "TV Radio"
10. "Just"
11. "All That You Are"
12. "Pulling the String"

Lost and Found ♪♫

Mudvayne

Heavy metal quartet Mudvayne formed in Peoria, IL, in 1996, its members adopting the unusual pseudonyms sPaG (M. McDonough) (drums), Gurrg (G. Tribbett) (guitar), and Kud (Chad Gray) (vocals). The group original bassist was replaced after two years by Ryknow (Ryan Martinie). During their development, the bandmembers began the practice of applying bizarre makeup. After self-releasing their first album, Kill, I Oughta, they were signed by Epic Records and recorded their major label debut, L.D. 50, which was released in August 2000 shortly after the end of their first national tour opening for Slipknot. The album later went gold and earned Mudvayne the first ever MTV2 Video Award at the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards. Mudvayne continued touring and reissued their self-released debut EP, Kill, I Oughta, in November 2001 as The Beginning of All Things to End. A year later the band returned with its official follow up, The End of All Things to Come, which was recorded at Minneapolis Pachyderm Studios with Tool producer David Bottrill. With a new album came new personas, this time as space aliens. The bandmembers changed their names accordingly, taking the new monikers of Chüd (Kud), Güüg (Gurrg), R-üD (Ryknow), and Spüg (sPaG). They embarked on a European tour, arriving back stateside in July to join the Summer Sanitarium shed tour, featuring such heavyweights as Metallica and Linkin Park. In 2005, the band released Lost and Found, their third album for Epic. In September 2007, Mudvayne announced they would allow fans to vote on the band website to determine the track selection for the compilation By the People, for the People, released the following month. The all new full-length New Game arrived in November 2008, followed six months later by an eponymous 2009 effort.

L.D. 50

Band: Mudvayne
Album: L.D. 50
Genre: Alternative Metal/Heavy Metal
Country: Peoria, Illinois, United States
Release Date: Aug 22, 2000
Label: Sony Records

"Tracklist"

01. "Monolith"
02. "Dig"
03. "Internal Primates Forever"
04. "-1"
05. "Death Blooms"
06. "Golden Ratio"
07. "Cradle"
08. "Nothing to Gein"
09. "Mutatis Mutandis"
10. "Everything and Nothing"
11. "Severed"
12. "Recombinant Resurgence"
13. "Prod"
14. "Pharmaecopia"
15. "Under My Skin"
16. "(K)now F(orever)"
17. "Lethal Dosage"

L.D. 50 ♪♫

Soundtrack - Saw 2 (2005)

Band: Soundtrack
Album: Saw 2
Genre: Alternative Metal/Industrial Metal
Country: Various
Label: Image
Year: 2005

"Tracklist"

1. "Irresponsible Hate Anthem [Venus Head Trap Mix]" (Marilyn Manson)
2. "Sound Effects and Overdramatics" (The Used)
3. "Forget to Remember" (Mudvayne)
4. "September" (Bloodsimple)
5. "Blood" (Papa Roach)
6. "Rev 22:20 [Rev 4:20 Mix]" (Puscifer)
7. "Pieces" (Sevendust)
8. "Rodent [Ken "Hiwatt" Marshall Remix -- DDT Mix]"(Skinny Puppy)
9. "Burn the Witch [UNKLE Variation]" (Queens of the Stone Age)
10. "Holy" (A Band Called Pain)
11. "Three Fingers" (Buckethead; Saul Williams)
12. "Home Invasion Robbery" (Legion of Doom)
13. "Caliente (Dark Entries)" (Al Jourgensen; Gibby Haynes; Revolting Cocks)
14. "Step Up" (Opiate for the Masses)
15. "Don't Forget the Rules" (Charles Clouser)