WHAT’S HOT: NEW MUDVAYNE PROMOS & EVENTS!!!

February 15th, 2008 by mudvaynemusic

HTTP://WWW.THISISMUDVAYNE.COM - NEWS : Week of Feb 10

Matt McDonough "On The Move" in DRUM! Mag
Check out the feature on Matt in this month’s DRUM! Magazine…
http://www.thisismudvayne.com/xn/detail/1104133:BlogPost:29804

Mudvayne Fan Mail!!
We’ve cleaned out the basement, and we thought we’d share some of the
fan mail you sent us over the years… Check it out on MOLI.com, add
us as a friend to get access to our VIP section, and shout on our
message board. The most ACTIVE fan wins an autographed CD from
Mudvayne!
FIO -Chad-ness
http://www.thisismudvayne.com/xn/detail/1104133:BlogPost:28601

We wanna know what you think!
What’s up Mudvayne fans!!!! You helped us with the record, now we
want to know how you think it turned out! Take a second and vote on
your favorite track on "By The People, For The People"
http://www.thisismudvayne.com/xn/detail/1104133:BlogPost:28547

Check out Mudvayne on NONELOUDER.COM!!!
http://www.thisismudvayne.com/xn/detail/1104133:BlogPost:28083

January 24th, 2008 by mudvaynemusic

Mudvayne

 WHAT’S UP MOTHERFUCKERS??? 
WE BET YOU DON’T HAVE ANY MUDVAYNE INK! 
IF YOU DO, POST PICTURES OF YOUR INK!
IF YOU DON’T, GET OUT THERE AND GET SOME!
THEN POST THOS BITCHES ON BRAGSTER.COM!!!
THE PERSON WHO POSTS THE BEST TATTOO WILL WIN A FREE
FOUR HOUR SESSION
WITH MUDVAYNE TATTOO ARTIST
PAUL BOOTH!
GET ON IT!

WIN A FREE TATTOO WITH PAUL BOOTH!!!

January 10th, 2008 by mudvaynemusic

Mudvayne

WHAT’S UP MOTHERFUCKERS??? 

THIS IS CHAD GRAY FROM MUDVAYNE

AND I BET YOU DON’T HAVE ANY MUDVAYNE INK! 

IF YOU DO, POST PICTURES OF YOUR INK!

IF YOU DON’T, GET OUT THERE AND GET SOME!

THEN POST THOS BITCHES ON BRAGSTER.COM!!!

THE PERSON WHO POSTS THE BEST TATTOO WILL WIN A FREE

FOUR HOUR SESSION

WITH MY TATTOO ARTIST

PAUL BOOTH!

GET ON IT!

New Mudvayne Press!

January 7th, 2008 by mudvaynemusic

MUDVAYNE
WANT YOU ON NEW BAND SITE

MUDVAYNE are
throwing their weight behind the new band networking site AMIE Street. They’re
seeking out bands they like to endorse on the service with a link from their
page. Even if you’re not a musician, you can still register through their site,
and they’ll give you five bucks to buy music credit as a way for you to vote
for who you think they should endorse.

________________________________________________________________________

Mudvayne - By the People For the People
2007 Epic Records
Ray Van Horn, Jr.

Sometimes greatest hits compilations after a handful of albums in a band’s
career are a bit suspect, none more so than A Flock of Seagulls shortly after
only two albums. However, if you’re going to do band anthology after four
full-lengths in the case of Mudvayne, then do it with an angle; give your fans
something they don’t quite already have!

By the People For the People
is Mudvayne’s bonding time with their fans. The album’s selections were
generated strictly by fan votes, however the twist is that Mudvayne serves up
demos, live versions and other assorted goodies (such as four
previously-unreleased songs) instead of cleaned up product their devout legion
currently owns in their collections. And to lend the album a personal touch,
vocalist Chad Gray introduces each song.

The expected songs such as "Death Blooms," "Dig,"
"Fall Into Sleep," "Not Falling" and "World So
Cold" all appear on By
the People For the People,
albeit in alternate forms, plus other
fan-favorites as "Happy," "(Per)Version of a Truth" and
"Skrying." To up the ante, Mudvayne does an acoustic redux of
"Forget to Remember" from Lost
and Found
along with two outtake songs, a brand spanking new jam,
"Dull Boy" and a cover of The Police’s "King of Pain."

The best cut on the entire project is one of the newer songs "On the
Move," a slapdash funkfest recorded during the End of All Things to Come sessions. Shame
that it couldn’t have appeared on the final album because it has a lot of
spunk, pep and personality with a soothing breakdown in-between the manic
sections of the song. The guitars are especially vibrant on this one as well,
which in hindsight leads one to think "On the Move" could’ve been a
sleeper hit for Mudvayne.

As for the other newer tracks, "Goodbye" is presented in raw form, a
tinkering session for Mudvayne right before they began officially recording End of All Things to Come.
In some ways, the song comes off like a trippy Cure ditty ala The Top and Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
era. As progressive an album as End
of All Things to Come
is, it’s no surprise that it spawned these
two highly diverse outtakes.

"Dull Boy" is a preview of what’s to come for Mudvayne as it was more
recently tracked following the Lost
and Found
sessions. As Mudvayne has been driving towards a more
rock-oriented direction, the song is metallic and straightfoward with acoustic
accents and subtle jazz syncopation from Greg Tribbett and Ryan Martinie.
Drifting away from the brash and crash of the L.D. 50 days, Mudvayne is gradually steering
towards becoming a straight-up rock band with shades of the soulful artistry
that has been a part of their genesis.

Perhaps the biggest surprise of By
the People For the People
is their "King of Pain" cover.
The song is so complicated (along with "Wrapped Around Your Finger"
from Synchronicity)
that even The Police themselves struggled with it live at the Virgin Fest this
past summer. Hearing Mudvayne nail the core melody and have the courage to
alter the tempo of the choruses with jacked bass and crunch chords, along with
some terrific layered guitars from Greg Tibbett makes this version of
"King of Pain" a worthy endeavor.

Kudos to Mudvayne for putting a little extra effort into something as tepid and
everyday as a greatest hits package. Linking this to the fans was a nice step,
but presenting the tracks as they have on By
the People For the People
is taking things in a much cooler
direction.

________________________________________________________________________

Mudvayne Score The Second Highest Chart Debut This Week

The
fans have spoken.

This week, MUDVAYNE–who’ve sold over 4.5 million units sold worldwide, with each
of their six releases certified gold in America–scored the second highest
debut on the Billboard Top 200 chart, entering at #51 with their entirely
fan-generated rarities collection BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE (Epic Records).

This news comes as the MUDVAYNE–featuring singer CHAD GRAY and guitarist GREG
TRIBETT (also of HellYeah) and rounded out by drummer MATTHEW McDONOUGH and
bassist RYAN MARTINIE–is preparing to record their fourth studio album for release in mid-2008. As
always, the new disc will reunderline MUDVAYNE’s position as one of the most
creative and distinctive bands in the heavy music world.

BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE is a 16-song offering–which features the new
single “Dull Boy” and an unreleased cover of “King of Pain” by The Police–that
consists of live recordings, rarities and demos chosen by fans at MUDVAYNE.COM
with the band deciding on the final selection. BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE
includes demo versions of some of the group’s most popular songs such as “Death
Blooms, “Fall To Sleep,” “Not Falling” and “Happy” as well as live and acoustic
versions of many fan favorites (see below for track listing).

For the collection, the group allowed fans to create the album artwork and
contribute liner notes. Fans have also been invited to participate in creating
the video for the first single “Dull Boy.” Utilizing editing technology from
the Eyespot and Kaltura websites, fans are able to select
from all of MUDVAYNE’s past video clips, mix their own mash up version, overlay
the “Dull Boy” audio and send it to the band all in one setting. On Eyespot,
fans can choose from all MUDVAYNE videos to create their own personal clip,
while on Kaltura fans have access to live and rare videos and are able to
collaborate with other fans when making the video. Currently, MUDVAYNE are
reviewing submissions and their favorite fan-generated video will be featured
on the band’s MySpace page and
their website and all other social networking sites with the band’s profile.

________________________________________________________________________

Mudvayne - By The People, For The People

By the
People, for the People
is the second compilation album, and fifth album release
by Mudvayne. It was released on November 27, 2007 by Epic Records. The album
features a track listing chosen entirely by the band’s fans, with the band
determining which version appears on the record (e.g. live, demo, acoustic), as
well as two new songs, "Dull Boy" and a cover of The Police’s song
"King of Pain" (both produced by Dave Fortman). Initially, if the
album was pre-ordered through the Sony Music Store, it was packaged with a free
lithograph of the lyrics to "Dull Boy", signed and numbered by Mudvayne
vocalist Chad Gray.

By the
People, For the People
is presented in a format where each song is introduced
through a short interlude generally no longer than 30 seconds long, where Chad
Gray debriefs the listener on surrounding facts such as where the song was
recorded or performed live, or distinguishing a demo from an album version
(obviously limited to in the case of demos).

The album
debuted at number 51 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling about 22,000
copies in its first week.

Duffpress

Interview: Chad Gray of Mudvayne

January 4th, 2008 by mudvaynemusic

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
   
   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

   

featured news

   

   

Chad Gray of Mudvayne

   

   

Interview: Chad Gray of Mudvayne

   

Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:47:41

   

 

   

Enigmatic vocalist talks fan-generated b-sides release
    and new material

   

   

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
   
   

   

 

   

Mudvayne
    vocalist Chad Gray is heavy music’s Renaissance man. Not only has he created
    some of the most intriguing and intelligent metal of the last decade with
    Mudvayne, but he also fronts HELLYEAH,
    the ultimate supergroup featuring Vinnie Paul (Pantera,
    Damageplan),
    Tom Maxwell (Nothingface),
    Greg Tribbett (Mudvayne) and Bobzilla (Damageplan). In addition, he founded
    Bullygoat records, home to Bloodsimple.
    How’s that for a busy schedule?

   
    While selling out theaters with HELLYEAH across
    the country, Gray managed to help compile a new Mudvayne release of
    b-sides, rarities, new tracks and live songs called By
    the People, For the People
. In groundbreaking Mudvayne fashion,
    fans were allowed to pick what tracks they wanted to make the album online, and
    the band chose the versions. In addition, fan artwork adorns the cover. It
    allows hardcore fans clearer insight into the often elusive band, and will
    certainly hold them over until Mudvayne’s next full length.

   
    From backstage at one of the many old theaters
    he’s played this Fall, Chad sat down and gave ARTISTdirect a look even
    deeper inside Mudvayne, HELLYEAH and all things to come.

   
    How did the idea for a fan-generated album
    come about?

   
    We just had a bunch of drives and CD’s sitting around.
    These contained pretty much everything that we’ve ever done: live versions,
    exclusive tracks, demos and unreleased songs. We just figured it would be
    cool for the kids to choose. Since we had every angle covered, they
    couldn’t come up with something that we didn’t have a different version of.
    This record is for true, hardcore Mudvayne fans, and it derived from having
    all of this material.

   
    You guys have always been so meticulous
    about your music. Do you view this as a window into the band’s creative
    process?

   
    Absolutely, fans can see where the songs come
    from before they’re completely realized. When you’re demo-ing, you’re just
    mapping and trying to get the bulk of everything down. During the demo
    process, you’re not really worried about every little transition and every
    minute detail. After you get it down, you start tweaking stuff in the
    studio. This release gives the fans an idea of where the songs came from
    before they were produced high-end.

   
    You guys included interesting voiceover
    tracks before the songs explaining each version. The voiceover is similar
    to a commentary track on a DVD.

   
    We didn’t know what to do with that. I thought
    it would make people crazy to have to keep constantly skipping forward.
    However, I figured these days you can put whatever you want on your iPod.
    You don’t have to put everything on there, but it is on there if you want
    it. I just looked at the tracklisting and said what I knew about the
    individual songs. I did the whole thing in about two minutes. There wasn’t
    a whole lot of energy that went into it, but that’s like the essence of
    this entire release. It is what it is.

   
    That fact speaks volumes though, because a
    lot of these versions are really raw and powerful like "Skrying."
   

   
    Well you’re mapping at that demo point so
    nothing’s finished. "Silenced" has a completely different chorus
    on this album. It all changes once you go into the studio and try to make
    everything timeless. I figured hardcore fans would really dig seeing where
    everything came from.

   
    Allowing the fans to create the artwork was
    another great way to encourage fan interaction.

   
    We had so much fan art that we wanted to give
    those people their day in the sun. They take the time to do that stuff for
    us and send it in. They go through the trouble of doing it, just out of
    pure passion. The only reason they do it is because they love the band. So
    we were like, "Why tinker with the art ourselves?" It’s just like
    the songs; we had an endless supply of art that we could collage together.
    We did a contest for the cover, and it turned out great! It’s got that vibe
    of "The People." Getting artwork together for a CD is one of the
    biggest headaches as it is. So this alleviated that (laughs).

   
    Is the one new track "Dull Boy"
    indicative of Mudvayne’s next evolution?

   
    In the way we put our songs together, sometimes
    we’ll touch on something in the beginning that won’t really realize itself
    until the end, and it’s just foreshadowing what’s to come. We’re big
    advocates of not giving it all away up front and letting things unfold
    during the song. We like bringing something that we might have just touched
    on at the beginning of a song full circle at the end. "Dull Boy"
    was an opportunity for us to take something from the new writing sessions,
    and foreshadow the next Mudvayne full length that’s coming. There was some
    thought put into why that one was actually the song that made it onto
    "By the People, For the People." It’s definitely a bizarre track.
    I was really happy that the label was excited about that song in particular.
    It’s got the heavier edge too, and we like to lead with that. We’re
    thrilled about it, and we’re actually going to write some more, and see
    what happens. It’s a process unfolding for sure.

   
    The acoustic version of "Forget to
    Remember" shows a different side of the band. Would you guys ever
    think of doing an acoustic record a la Alice
    In Chains
Jar
    of Flies
?

   
    I think if there was a band that could do it,
    we could pull it off. It’s just a matter of being able to make things
    applicable to that scenario and translating songs to an acoustic vibe. With
    "Forget to Remember," we changed some of the melodies and played
    around with different notations and fluctuations. I didn’t want to just
    record it like the actual record. We could absolutely do some kind of
    acoustic record someday, though. You never know.

   
    It’s a testament to the song’s strength that
    you can strip everything electric away and it holds up.

   
    For sure, and that is at the root of what we
    do. There are a lot of bells of whistles put on at the end, but if you
    strip those away, there still are songs there. If we were to do bells and
    whistles over acoustic stuff, it would be different percussion or something
    like that.

   
    "Goodbye" is one of the most
    ethereal and engaging tracks on By the People, For the People.
    What’s the story behind that?

That song wrote
itself quickly. We just basically threw that and "On the Move"
together before The
End of All Things to Come
writing sessions. I love "Goodbye."
I think it’s one of my favorite songs that we’ve ever written. I like the vibe
of it, the way that it comes across, the emotion in it and the idea behind it.
It’s just a really heartfelt track. It meant a lot to me to write that track
from where it came from. So it was a very important song for me. While writing songs,
you’re trying to convey exactly what you’re thinking about right at that time,
and get it out of your heart and on the tape. Hopefully it makes that
transition, and when you listen to it back it comes across with that kind of
meaning. I think that song conveyed exactly how I was feeling at that moment of
recording, because I literally finished the lyrics and walked into the studio
and started tracking. It was pretty much tracked within 20 minutes of the
lyrics being done.

It’s interesting because you’ve mentioned to me
before that with HELLYEAH everything went straight to tape. "Goodbye"
sounds like it had a similar process.

It’s got that feel. It has the raw, demo edge,
which I think that raw emotion is amazing. When you start polishing it up, you
lose some of the edge and the dangerous aspects about it. I think that was one
of the best things about the Hellyeah record. We were writing and recording at
that same time. You have that raw, dangerous hard rock vibe that comes through
on the record, and it makes it easier to duplicate live too. It’s so raw when
it went to tape; it’s got more of a live feel too. That’s how
"Goodbye" always went over for us too. We played it on one Mudvayne
tour, and even though people didn’t know it, they dug it.

How did the "King of Pain" cover come
about it? Does that song hold a certain significance for you?

It was just that title kind of fits me (laughs). We
did a version of that cover in 1999. I loved it, but we always thought that we
could do better. So when the opportunity came up to do it again, we did, and I
think we did make it better.

   

 

 

 

 

Interview with Chad Gray

December 18th, 2007 by mudvaynemusic

MUDVAYNE Singer Talks Touring, Upcoming Album
- Dec. 16, 2007

 

Greg
Maki of Live-Metal.net recently interviewed HELLYEAH/MUDVAYNE vocalist
Chad Gray. Excerpts follow.

Live-Metal.net: It’s almost over now, but how has this [HELLYEAH]
headlining run been?

Chad Gray: It’s cool. It’s the same shit, fuckin’ day in and day out.
What might be new to you ain’t that new to us. We do it every fuckin’ day. We
try to bring it just as hard every day. Even on days when you don’t think you
can, something about the music, it’s the fuckin’ wind in your sails. You can
just fuckin’ drag your ass up to that stage and it’s like, "Fuck."
You get on it and the music starts going and it’s loud and the crowd’s there,
it’s like fuckin’ flipping a switch. It’s been cool, though. Like I said, I’m
fuckin’ burnt. I’m burnt out. I haven’t toured this hard probably since 2001,
since the early days of MUDVAYNE when did 300-some shows in a year. We toured
for "L.D. 50" for 22 months. This is pretty equal to that lifestyle
of touring. There’s a lot of people on this bus and it’s just been going and
going and going. This tour that we’re on now — by the time I get off of it Dec.
17, I will have not been home for three months. To me, that’s a long time
because the last time I was not home for three months I was fuckin’ 26 years
old, 27 years old. This is fuckin’ eight years later. It’s a little different
now. It’s harder touring. People have fuckin’ families now and you feel more
established. No matter how established MUDVAYNE is, this has been very much a
starting over process and you would’ve maybe never thought that. You put these
players together, you would think that it’s just gonna go BOOM! and
everything’s gonna be fuckin’ limos and fuckin’ catering. It’s been like,
"OK, here’s your fuckin’ $10 buyout. Go to fuckin’ Burger King." It
reminds me of 2001. It really does. It reminds me of fuckin’ years ago.

Live-Metal.net: After this tour is over, is that gonna be it for
HELLYEAH for a while?

Chad Gray: We’re gonna go back out. We’re working on it. We haven’t
confirmed anything yet, so I can’t even say the bands that we’re talking about.
We’re maybe slated to go out like late January through February.

Live-Metal.net: Headlining or supporting?

Chad Gray: Headlining.

Live-Metal.net: Switching to MUDVAYNE, where did the whole idea come for
the new "By the People, For the People" album?

Chad Gray: We had so much shit on hard drives and discs and live
versions of stuff, acoustic versions and different shit we had laying around.
It was kind of like we need to put this out there. Like, "This is fuckin’
stupid. We’ve got something here that we can put out and I think people would
really dig it." We’re not putting this out to sell millions. We don’t give
a fuck, although it did 27,000 the first week, which I was really overwhelmed
by. It’s just demos and live versions and shit. It’s not new stuff. "Dull
Boy" is the only new fuckin’ song on it. We were just like, "We
should do this." I’m like, "Well, fuck it. If we’ve got all this
stockpile of shit, this music sitting around or whatever, we should use the
stockpile of artwork that we have sitting around from fans to do the artwork
with." Because one of the biggest fuckin’ headaches of doing a record is
putting together the artwork. It’s a nightmare. It’s a zillion emails back and
forth. I’m like, "Fuck it. Let’s collage it, put it together." And
then we were like, "Fuck it. If we’re doing a contest, there’s not one
song that somebody could pick that we don’t have some version of. So fuck it.
Let’s let them pick the tracks and then we’ll determine what version they
get." If somebody wants "Forget to Remember", we’ve got a live
version of it, we’ve got a demo version of it and we’ve got a fuckin’ acoustic
version of it. OK, fuck it. Let’s give them the acoustic version ’cause it’s
something different and it’s something we can put out there and whatever. So
it’s cool, man. There are a couple things, obviously, that people wouldn’t have
known we had, like the cover of "King of Pain".

Live-Metal.net: Is the new MUDVAYNE album done?

Chad Gray: Yeah, it’s done.

Live-Metal.net: Any idea when it will be out?

Chad Gray: We haven’t decided what we’re doing yet. We talked about
writing more. We talked about writing another record. We talked about doing all
kinds of shit. I think now we’re really trying to figure everything out in the
sense of timelining and scheduling and how we want to see things going down
’cause we do have something else now. We’re excited about HELLYEAH, but we are
very, very much still very passionate about MUDVAYNE and I think we’re gonna
try to get the most bang for our buck. Give as much to the MUDVAYNE people as
we can without wasting a lot of our lives and our time. So maybe we’ll do
something like — we thought about putting out two records in a year. We put out
two records in a year, then that opens up another two years where we would be
touring and supporting those two separate records. If you put one out and you
tour for 18 months, then you put the other one out and you tour for 18 months,
there’s a lot of fuckin’ time gone there. When you can just write ‘em, put one
out, start touring, put the next one out while you’re touring, finish up
touring, support both records at the same time, come off, be done, go back,
write a HELLYEAH record, go out, tour, come back, write a MUDVAYNE record — you
know what I mean? Let’s start hustling. Let’s start moving and shaking. Not
hustling people, hustling our time, really lassoing our time and fuckin’
corralling it and going, OK, this is what the fuck we want to do with our time.
We don’t want to waste it anymore by going out and touring for 18 fuckin’
months and doing fuckin’ five runs through the States and two runs in Australia
and two runs in Japan and fuckin’ two runs through Europe. Essentially, you’re
doing the same shit anyway. The cool thing is with doing a couple different
records in one year is that if you are gonna roll through the States five
times, you’re gonna go to Australia twice, you’re gonna go to Japan twice and
you’re gonna go to Europe twice, you can schedule everything so that when you
do go back to Australia for that second time, you’re playing some new new
material; go back to Japan the second time, you’re playing new new material;
you go back through the States for the third time, you’re playing new new
material; you go back to Europe the second time, you’re playing new new
material. And the first time you went there, you’re playing new new material,
too. So it’s cool. It gives the fans more, too. They’re not seeing the same
show.

Read the entire interview at Live-Metal.net.

New Press 12.17.07

December 17th, 2007 by mudvaynemusic

Check
out the MUDVAYNE clips that appeared today:

BLABBERMOUTH.NET

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=86784

 

MUDVAYNE And HELLYEAH Are Looking For Best
New Bands - Dec. 14, 2007

 

MUDVAYNE
and HELLYEAH have announced that they will be searching music social networking site Amie Street for the best
up-and-coming metal bands for them to endorse. Fans of these two bands will be
encouraged to create profiles on Amie Street, and message the bands with their
suggestions. Any artists who would like to be endorsed by either MUDVAYNE or
HELLYEAH can also message them on Amie Street for consideration. The top five
bands will be featured on a Hot List that lives on MUDVAYNE and HELLYEAH’s MySpace pages as well as their official web pages.

HELLYEAH’s live DVD, "Below the Belt", was released on November 13.
The disc contains footage going back to the formation of the band, including
the group’s first recording session, the making of its self-titled debut album
and various stops on the group’s ongoing world tour, as well as personal
interviews and other features. The two-hour DVD also includes videos, backstage
clips, footage from the band’s April record release party and a look inside
Chasin’ Jason, the studio once owned by late PANTERA
guitarist "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott where HELLYEAH recorded.

MUDVAYNE’s new collection of rarities, demos and live recordings, "By The
People, For The People", sold 22,000 copies in the United States in its
first week of release to debut at position No. 51 on The Billboard 200 chart.

Fans helped choose the songs on "By The People, For The People" at
Mudvayne.com, with the group deciding on the final selection. The record
contains demo versions of some of MUDVAYNE’s most popular songs, including
"Death Blooms", "Fall Into Sleep", "Not Falling"
and "Happy".

 

HEAVYMETALMUSIC.BIZ

http://heavymetalmusic.biz/2007/12/14/slipknot-touring-this-summer-with-disturbed-and-mudvayne-and-new-album/

Slipknot touring
this summer with Disturbed and Mudvayne and new album?

December 14,
2007

Slipknot
touring this summer with Disturbed and Mudvayne and new album?

Once
again rumours persist of  Slipknot touring this summer with Disturbed and
Mudvayne

Drummer Joey
Jordison told Launch

We’ll
probably start touring a month or so before the album comes out, kind of the same
way we did the Jagermeister Tour before ‘Vol. 3′ came out," he said.
"So we’ll do something like that as well and we’re looking at right now
doing some European festivals next year, but nothing’s in stone yet. You know,
there’s still some things to be worked out, but the main thing is, you know,
the fans should know that there will be another SLIPKNOT record."

 

METALRAGE.COM

http://www.metalrage.com/news/31575

 

Mudvayne
and Hellyeah are looking for best new bands

 

Mudvayne
and Hellyeah have announced that they will be searching music social networking
site Amie Street for the best up-and-coming metal bands for them to endorse.
Fans of these two bands will be encouraged to create profiles on Amie Street,
and message the bands with their suggestions. Any artists who would like to be
endorsed by either Mudvayne or Hellyeah can also message them on Amie Street
for consideration. The top five bands will be featured on a Hot List that lives
on Mudvayne and Hellyeah’s MySpace pages as well as their official web pages.

Hellyeah’s live DVD, "Below the Belt", was released on November 13.
The disc contains footage going back to the formation of the band, including
the group’s first recording session, the making of its self-titled debut album
and various stops on the group’s ongoing world tour, as well as personal
interviews and other features. The two-hour Dvd also includes videos, backstage
clips, footage from the band’s April record release party and a look inside
Chasin’ Jason, the studio once owned by late Pantera guitarist
"Dimebag" Darrell Abbott where Hellyeah recorded.

Mudvayne’s new collection of rarities, demos and live recordings, "By The
People, For The People", sold 22,000 copies in the United States in its
first week of release to debut at position No. 51 on The Billboard 200 chart.

Fans helped choose the songs on "By The People, For The People" at
Mudvayne.com, with the group deciding on the final selection. The record
contains demo versions of some of Mudvayne’s most popular songs, including
"Death Blooms", "Fall Into Sleep", "Not Falling"
and "Happy".

Check out the MUDVAYNE CD review and news

December 14th, 2007 by mudvaynemusic

ARTISTDIRECT.COM
http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,4452257,00.html

 

By the People - For the People
11/27/2007
Epic

by the people - for the people - artistdirect
editor review

Mudvayne’s By the People, For the People
could easily have been called "Mudvayne 101"—the collection of demos,
live songs, new cuts, unreleased tracks and b-sides proves to be an insightful
glimpse into the creative process behind one of heavy music’s most enigmatic
and challenging bands. In groundbreaking fashion, Mudvayne allowed fans to
choose the songs they wanted on the record online, and then the band chose the
versions of each that would be included. Among some of the standouts are
unreleased tracks from The End of All Things to Come, including the
ethereal and brooding "Goodbye" and a classic neck-snapper of a song
"On the Move." A live version of their breakout single
"Dig" from L.D. 50 pummels just as much as the studio version,
capturing the raw energy that has made Mudvayne a consistent draw live, while a
demo of "Skrying" is almost as schizophrenic-yet-captivating as the
final album version.

One of the big surprises is the acoustic rendition of the Lost and Found
hit "Forget to Remember"—even when stripped of distortion, Mudvayne’s
songs remain powerful largely due to their intricate instrumentation. The one
brand new track, "Dull Boy," evinces another evolution, with frontman
Chad Gray’s voice swinging from heavy to melodic like a guillotine and Greg
Tribbett’s riffs hitting harder than ever. The last track, a cover of The
Police
’s "King of Pain," allows bassist Ryan Martinie and drummer
Matt McDonough space for the mindblowing rhythmic experimentation that
listeners have come to expect. As an added bonus, Gray provides audio intros to
each track that elucidate the stories behind the music. The people have spoken,
and Mudvayne have listened, providing a cohesive collection of rarities
targeted at true fans.

Rick Florino
12.12.07

 

 

SHREDGUITARNOW.COM

http://shredguitarnow.com/8475/mudvayne-people-second-highest-billboard-debut/

Mudvayne:
‘People’ Second Highest Billboard Debut

December
12, 2007

Mudvayne’s
album, By The People For The People, has debuted at the Number 51, which is the
second highest debut on the Billboard 200 album chart this week.

Mudvayne News

December 11th, 2007 by mudvaynemusic

ST.CLOUDTIMES.COM
(St. Cloud, MN)
 
http://www.sctimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071206/ENT/112060041/1005/ENT

Local
CD Picks

Mudvayne, By
The People, For The People

Mudvayne’s
new disc, “By The People, For The People,” is unique in that the entire track
listing was chosen by the band’s fans. “By The People, For The People” is a
collection of demos (many of which were recorded here in Minnesota), live cuts
and rarities along with a couple of new tracks.

A cool
feature to the disc is that every track is introduced by frontman Chad Gray.
The live tracks and new songs, including a cover of the Police’s “King of
Pain,” are solid enough to appease even the slightest fan.

— Tim,
Rockin’ 101, 101.7 FM. On air 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, noon-2 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.
Sunday.

 

 

 

TUNELABMUSIC.COM

http://www.tunelabmusic.com/2007/12/05/mudvayne-debuts-at-no-51/

Mudvayne Debuts At No. 51

Mudvayne’sBy
the People, For the People
‘ has made its Billboard debut at No. 51 with
22,000 copies sold.

Other
notables in the top 50 include:

No. 13 Led ZeppelinMothership‘ - 59,000
No. 37 Daughtry
Daughtry‘ -
34,000
No. 39 Nickelback
All the Right Reasons‘ -
32,000
No. 46 Kid Rock
Rock N’ Roll Jesus‘ -
23,000

Sales were
down 16.9% from the same week last year and down 12.1% for the year.

 

 

 

BLABBERMOUTH.NET

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=86329

 

SLIPKNOT To Tour With DISTURBED And MUDVAYNE?
- Dec. 7, 2007

 

According
to HardDrive Radio, SLIPKNOT will
tour this summer with DISTURBED and MUDVAYNE.
No further details are currently available.

SLIPKNOT drummer Joey Jordison recently offered up a tentative timeline for the
recording of the band’s fourth major label album, saying that the group would
begin this fall and get into the studio by January of 2008, with the CD likely
to arrive in the spring. Jordison then told Launch that SLIPKNOT will most
likely return to the road even before the disc is out. "We’ll probably
start touring a month or so before the album comes out, kind of the same way we
did the Jagermeister Tour before ‘Vol. 3′ came out," he said. "So
we’ll do something like that as well and we’re looking at right now doing some
European festivals next year, but nothing’s in stone yet. You know, there’s
still some things to be worked out, but the main thing is, you know, the fans
should know that there will be another SLIPKNOT record."

Jordison told the U.K.’s Kerrang! magazine that SLIPKNOT’s follow-up to
2004’s "Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)" will be "heavy as
fuck," adding that it will also be "just as weird and as
experimental" as that album.

Jordison spent much of this year as the touring drummer for KORN.

Two other members of SLIPKNOT, singer Corey Taylor and guitarist Jim Root, have
been on the road with their other group, STONE SOUR.

 

 

HEAVYMETALMUSIC.BIZ

http://heavymetalmusic.biz/2007/12/10/will-slipknot-tour-with-mudvayne-and-disturbed-new-album-update/

Will
Slipknot tour with Mudvayne and Disturbed? New album update.

December 10,
2007

HardDrive
Radio is claiming that Disturbed and Mudvayne
may tour with Slipknot this summer. Also, dummer Joy Jordinson offered Launch
an update on the album with:

We’ll
probably start touring a month or so before the album comes out, kind of the same
way we did the Jagermeister Tour before ‘Vol. 3′ came out," he said.
"So we’ll do something like that as well and we’re looking at right now
doing some European festivals next year, but nothing’s in stone yet. You know,
there’s still some things to be worked out, but the main thing is, you know,
the fans should know that there will be another SLIPKNOT record."

SMNNEWS.COM

http://www.smnnews.com/2007/12/07/slipknot-disturbed-mudvayne-planning-summer-tour/

Slipknot,
Disturbed, Mudvayne - Planning Summer Tour?

SLIPKNOT are rumored to be planning a Summer tour
with DISTURBED
and MUDVAYNE.
No further details are currently available.

 

METALUNDERGROUND.COM

http://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=31790

Slipknot To Tour With
Mudvayne And Disturbed?

posted
Friday, December 7, 2007 at 03:26:23 PM by Diamond
Oz
. (thanks SMN News)

SLIPKNOT are
rumored to be planning a Summer tour with DISTURBED and MUDVAYNE. No further details are currently
available.

ALBUM SALES NEWS!

December 5th, 2007 by mudvaynemusic

Mudvayne’s release hit No. 51 on Billboard in its first week of sales. 
21,741 copies were scanned. 
Good job spreading the word! 
If you didn’t pick up your copy yet, go get it! 
Support Metal!

"BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE"
IN STORES NOW

BUY THE ALBUM