Mudvayne’s Chad Grey says all new metallic bands “sound the identical”

Mudvayne frontman Chad Grey has mentioned that the present wave of metallic bands all “sound the identical”, not like when he was beginning to make music.

The singer was talking lately to The Underground Australia, the place he was requested about his views on the affect of nu-metal and his era on the present music scene.

“Dude, possibly I shouldn’t say this, however I don’t give a fuck. As a result of I’m me, and I’ve obtained stuff to say, and I’m going to say it. Music now to me — God bless them, new bands — however they sound the identical. All new music jogs my memory of the identical fucking factor,” he mentioned.

“I used to be on Ozzfest 2001,” he continued. “So that you had Slipknot, [Marilyn] Manson, Papa Roach, Disturbed, Mudvayne, Drowning Pool… Each fucking band, each band I simply named, none of them sound the identical. None of them. And I believe that’s why it was such a particular time in music as a result of everyone was bringing what they had been bringing to the desk. You had System of a Down and shit-tons of bands, man. And all very authentic and all doing their very own factor. We had been a part of that.”

Mudvayne played together again in 2021 for the first time in 12 years. The nu-metal band, who fashioned in 1996 and is made up of Chad Grey (vocals), Greg Tribbett (guitar, backing vocals), Matthew McDonough (drums, synthesizer) and Ryan Martinie (bass), went on hiatus in 2010, a yr after the discharge of their self-titled fifth studio album.

Since then, vocalist Chad Grey has been fronting the band Hellyeah, of which Mudvayne guitarist Greg Tribbett is a former member.

Persevering with on his tirade in opposition to new artists, Grey added: “What bands do once they take a look at this new band, and everyone follows that new band, it’s not even an affect often because they’re present. … Even once I got here out in 2001 … my influences had been from 1981 [or] 1983. Like 20 years, nearly 20 years prior [to] me dropping my first album. I wasn’t ripping off a band from 1999 and releasing my album in 2001.”

Grey was a sufferer of circumstance in 2022 when he involuntarily fell off the stage throughout a efficiency of Mudvayne’s track ‘Not Falling’.