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| Boston |
 Mudvayne’s new self-titled album is steeped in anger. In this case, anger, like Rage Against the Machine told us, is a gift. The music’s surly angst provides some cohesion to an effort that mines many sources. As with its previous release, Mudvayne uses some less abrasive hard-rock elements to leaven the caustic sound it arrived with nine years ago. Yet this is also an album reaching out to all those fans of Pantera, Korn, and Marilyn Manson wondering where the ’90s went. Bringing mellower, more melodic counterpoints to a core of nu-metal bombast makes Mudvayne’s fifth studio album at times sound clumsy. But “Mudvayne’’ has its allure - guitarist Greg Tribbett shows greater sonic reach and singer Chad Gray stretches his voice to fit more sizes and shapes of aggression. Now the band just needs to better blend the expanded variety of sounds it is hearing in its collective head. Song content, though, is where Mudvayne has stayed unrelenting, packing these 11 tunes with thoughts that run from the grim to the suicidal. But the band’s willingness to experiment with its sound and vision (remember the makeup days?) has allowed it to sell the apocalypse many times over. (Out today)...full text |
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| Latimesblogs |
After the exceedingly nerdy concept pop-metal album "The New Game," Mudvayne has by and large returned to what it does best (or at least do frequently) on its new self-titled album. Drums roil, guitars tangle and singer Chad Gray continues to do terrible things to his larynx in service of the band's grind.
It's all old hat for the members, who have yet to recapture the almost charming absurdity of their breakthrough "L.D. 50," but if your metal-head blood sugar is a bit low, "Mudvayne" is an easy fix.
Except for a few failed radio-bait cuts such as "Scream With Me" and "All Talk," "Mudvayne" keeps its tempos quick and the riffage constant. "Heard It All Before" conjures an entire adolescence worth of gnarly hormones in its half-time chorus rage, while "Burn the Bridge" walks a tricky time-signature tightrope....full text |
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| Spin |
| "It's getting harder all the time," roars Chad Gray on the new self-titled album by his Illinois alt-metal outfit Mudvayne. That may well be true of the life that Gray leads. But harder all the time definitely isn't the case with Mudvayne's music, which since the band's 2000 debut has gotten progressively handsomer and more melodic: These guys once flailed like a future-prog version of Slipknot (whose Shawn Crahan served as executive producer on L.D. 50), but now their doomy riff-o-rama comes equipped with mellow-bellow butt-rock choruses. Mudvayne even closes with a tender acoustic number that recalls Nirvana's "Something in the Way." The result? Ozzfest for oldsters....full text |
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