Mudvayne
LD 50 2LP (yellow & black marbled vinyl)

Taking influence from death metal, hardcore punk, jazz fusion, speed metal and hip hop - a heady brew of noises if ever there was one - Mudvayne pretty much invented 'math metal' when they landed L.D. 50. Listen hard and you can hear shades of Pearl Jam, King Crimson, Alice In Chains and Obituary. Listen harder still and you'll catch hues of Motley Crue, Porcupine Tree and Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. To say L.D. 50 was a brave record would be understating things, then and 24 years after its initial release we can say the same things with similar confidence. Formed from what band member Matthew McDonough termed 'number symbolism', a process of pairing riffs with lyrics based on their thematic similarities, it's a fascinating record technically, but that never overshadows the impact of the tracks themselves.

NEW / Released in 2000 / Reissue 2024

Tracklist:

A1 Monolith

A2 Dig

A3 Internal Primates Forever

A4 -1

A5 Death Blooms

B1 Golden Ratio

B2 Cradle

B3 Nothing To Gein

B4 Mutatis Mutandis

C1 Everything And Nothing

C2 Severed

C3 Recombinant Resurgence

C4 Prod

D1 Pharmaecopia

D2 Under My Skin

D3 (K)now F(orever)

D4 Lethal Dosage