This is most likely the best news I will hear all week.
The first time I heard them, I laughed my ass off because I thought it was the epitome of modern, shitty music. Yelling for the sake of yelling and just making noise on the instruments. Clearly, I wasn’t really listening. A few months later a buddy was dropping me off at my house and we heard this song on the radio, the chorus came in and the bass was doing these AWESOME arpeggios in it with a really unique vocal sound (“Death Blooms”) We both sat there listening and when I found out it was I had to bust my own balls for dismissing them previously. I was hooked from that point on.
I tend to only think of Mudvayne as if their last two albums don’t exist. IMO, they were clearly a “Let’s get these albums out so we can fulfill our record deal and be done with this fucking band”. I’ve got a couple friends who toured with them back in the early 00’s and both of them said these guys used to pull into a parking lot, get off the bus and just wail the piss out of each other. Doesn’t really surprise me that they haven’t really wanted to reunite.
I just hope they don’t carry on with the 3.5 minute songs; the very shit that made them amazing to me was the prog elements; odd times, non-standard song structures, spacey shit, which pretty much ground to a halt by the third album and was non-existent on their last two.
Welcome To Rockville is happening in November, which they’ll be playing at. Not sure how safe I’m going to feel around that point in a large crowd of people. I suppose at that point, if people are still wearing masks and mostly vaccinated, it shouldn’t be too much of an issue. The thought of it up front is a bit jarring, though.
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