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Post by digit24 on Nov 7, 2008 1:12:38 GMT -5
I'm a little more excited to hear the "Sonic Ranch" album then The New Game. Don't get me wrong, I'm fuckin stoked for The New Game, but the "Sonic ranch" CD is like all heavy, and back to "Old School Mudvayne".. What do ya'll think?
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Post by homewrecker on Nov 7, 2008 2:03:13 GMT -5
Yeah man, i totally feel you. Unlike you however, I don't think the New Game is gonna be that great. The songs they've released are the most mainstream they've ever done, and just dont satisfy me. If they could go back to a Teoattc style, I would be a happy mother fucking panda! I've pretty much given up on the fact that they won't top LD50, but making another equally amazing album as Teoattc is definitely attainable.
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Post by kudvayne on Nov 7, 2008 3:42:15 GMT -5
I'm sure The new game will be great, and i've never heard Sonic Ranch stuff ever, and will not ever do.
Mudvayne is my thing,
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Post by Matt - Eoattc on Nov 7, 2008 5:30:55 GMT -5
Im up for Sonic ranch album cause im waiting for some old school heavy mudvayne
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Post by stallan on Nov 7, 2008 10:16:14 GMT -5
What the fuck is Sonic Ranch?
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Post by Matt - Eoattc on Nov 7, 2008 10:40:10 GMT -5
It's a studio where Mudvayne recorded their next album which is going ot be released in 6 months, that's why we are writing something like 'sonic ranch album'.
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Post by mudfan16 on Nov 7, 2008 11:52:42 GMT -5
ohhh,well i think the new game will be good will be good,not the best but good,i will not judge until i hear every single song from the album
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Post by digit24 on Nov 7, 2008 12:39:03 GMT -5
Yeah, I like the songs they've released to an extent, but they only feel like 60% Mudvayne. The 'Sonic Ranch' album, I can just feel it already that it'll be epic. I'm not gonna make any judgement calls til I hear the rest of The New Game. I'll find the article that talks about the 'Sonic ranch' CD
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Post by digit24 on Nov 7, 2008 12:42:44 GMT -5
EL PASO -- Sometimes El Paso's geographic and cultural isolation can be a good thing. Especially if you're a Mudvayne fan.
The quartet from Peoria, Ill. -- who once described their amped-up brand of cerebral-meets-visceral music as "math metal" -- opens the "The New Game" World Tour on Tuesday at the County Coliseum.
Why here?
Things just added up.
Mudvayne was here all summer recording at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo (where ultra-hip New York post-modernists the Yeah Yeah Yeahs also recorded earlier this year). The band and their crew returned to the Tornillo studio Oct. 13 to prepare for the tour.
"The cost is good, (which is) the first thing you think of when you're a band in our situation, a working-class band like us," bassist Ryan Martinie explained.
Plus, "it's away from things. That will keep us out of trouble, probably, by not having all the things downtown in a city, the nightlife, the scene and all that. ... We tried to sequester ourselves away in an environment conducive to one thing and one thing only: working."
And they've been doing a lot of work, putting the finishing touches on one album, "The New Game," which comes out Nov. 18, and writing and recording an entirely new, as-yet untitled, album due next summer.
It's been three years since singer Chad Gray, guitarist Gregg Tribbett, drummer Matt McDonough and bassist Martinie have released a new studio album. After their last tour, they "felt we might need to go away for awhile," Martinie said.
In the ensuing break, they also changed management.
The band had worked quickly on what was to become the sometimes brutal, sometimes melodic, sometimes surprising "The New Game. Its first single, "Do What You Do" was the most added song on heavy-rock radio stations the week of Sept. 22.
But the album, which was recorded mostly in New York and produced by Dave Fortman (Slipknot, Evanescence), was put on hold while Gray and Tribbett opted to record and tour with Hellyeah, former Pantera/Damageplan drummer Vinnie Paul's new band.
"It was an experience me and Chad needed at the time. We wanted to venture out a bit and we did it," Tribbett said of the supergroup.
"Playing with Vinnie Paul and the rest of the guys was a great experience, and it gave us a little energy to come back to Mudvayne."
They returned with a vengeance. Acting on a suggestion from Ministry frontman and El Paso transplant Al Jourgensen, they opted to use Tony Rancich's Tornillo studio to write a couple more songs for the new album.
They wound up writing and recording a whole new album from March to August. Tribbett said the as-yet-untitled disc should be out by the summer of next year.
"It's weird," he said. "We're writing and making a record during the setup of a new record. It's complete chaos. We will never do that again."
Tribbett described "The New Game" as having "more of a rock vibe. It's got a metal vibe and a Mudvayne vibe to it, and we expanded on it a little bit. I got sick of writing a metal riff, basically."
The Hellyeah gig took him out of his admittedly complex comfort zone into more straightforward metal territory, leading to "more heavy riffing" on the Sonic Ranch album. That doesn't mean it's all the same.
"Chad's doing a lot of things. There are longer songs. We kind of went back to the old Mudvayne way, but more old-school metal Mudvayne," Tribbett said. "It's definitely more complex."
Martinie agreed.
"We definitely went out on a limb, we push that edge and push boundaries" with the Sonic Ranch album, he said.
The Tornillo studio afforded them time to "get on four-wheelers out here riding around. We can shoot guns and have fun because we're in our own world on 400 to 500 acres," Martinie said, adding that it made sense to start the tour in here.
"We were gonna be in El Paso to do rehearsals and production and stuff, and I was talking to our agent, and said, 'Why not start in El Paso?' " Tribbett said.
It's their first tour in nearly two years, and while you can expect to hear songs from "The New Game," Martinie said the Sonic Ranch sounds probably won't surface until much later on the tour, the first leg of which runs through Dec. 20.
"People can expect a lot of energy from us," Martinie said. "It's been a while."
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Post by stallan on Nov 7, 2008 20:05:57 GMT -5
Epic.
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Post by ultimatemangod on Nov 7, 2008 22:22:21 GMT -5
I would have to say I'm now more excited for the next album over New Game after reading that article. Although I'm still pretty excited to see how the rest of New Game pans out, considering we've heard quite a bit from it. It should definitely be a good album. Both should.
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Post by shroomfairy on Nov 8, 2008 6:01:40 GMT -5
Ok, now I want to hear this sonic ranch album too.
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Post by Naomi on Nov 8, 2008 19:42:17 GMT -5
Yeah I'm more excited about Sonic than Ng [although I try my best to restrain from linkages to sample it, even band-provided ones].. Not that I don't want to hear Ng, I'm definitely buying it knowing I will most definitely love it like the rest of my collection.... it's just that the tunes I did listen to from Ng don't feel Mudvayne enough, it's *almost* got a "yeah we're gonna sell anyway" feeling to it...imo. The old shoe deserves some airing out XD
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Post by mudvayne8megan on Nov 9, 2008 4:29:20 GMT -5
Old school metal Mudvayne.
...i think i just had a stroke.
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Post by mudfan16 on Nov 9, 2008 13:45:27 GMT -5
i think once we hear both of those albums,we will really understand why mudvayne took a lighter approach to some of the songs to the new game
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