Artist: Mudvayne Genre(s):
Rock
Metal
Metal: Alternative
Alternative
Rock
Metal
Metal: Alternative
Alternative
Discography:
By The People, For the People Year: 2007
Tracks: 33
Lost and Found Year: 2005
Tracks: 12
The End Of All Things To Come Year: 2002
Tracks: 19
Dig Year: 2001
Tracks: 5
L.D. 50 Year: 2000
Tracks: 17
Beginning Of All Things To End Year:
Tracks: 11
Heavy alloy quadruplet Mudvayne formed in Peoria, IL, in 1996, its members adopting the strange pseudonyms sPaG (M. McDonough) (drums), Gurrg (G. Tribbett) (guitar), and Kud (Lake Chad Gray) (vocals). The group's original bassist was replaced afterward 2 age by Ryknow (Ryan Martinie). During their development, the bandmembers began the pattern of applying freaky make-up. After self-releasing their first record album, Kill, I Oughta, they were gestural by Epic Records and recorded their major-label debut,
L.D. 50, which was released in August 2000 shortly afterward the end of their first-class honours degree internal circuit gap 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 record album came new personas, this time as outer space aliens. The bandmembers changed their names accordingly, taking the novel monikers of Chüd (Kud), Güüg (Gurrg), R-üD (Ryknow), and Spüg (sPaG). They embarked on a European go, arriving plump for stateside in July to link up the Summer Sanitarium spill spell, featuring such heavyweights as Metallica and Linkin Park. In 2005, the band released
Befuddled and Found, their third base record album for Epic. In September 2007, Mudvayne announced they would let fans to vote on the band's website to mold the track selection for
By the People, for the People, released the following month.
Wintersun