MUDVAYNE Singer Says All Of The New Metal Bands “Sound The Same”

A recent interview conducted by The Underground Australia found Mudvayne/HELLYEAH vocalist Chad Gray unloading on “the lack of individuality in the current heavy music scene.” In particular, Gray had the following to say of the recent rise of popularity in nü-metal and seemingly the state of the heavy metal scene as a whole as it currently stands.

That nü-metal scene of course helped give birth to Mudvayne in the mid-90s, with that genre’s commercial heyday propelling the progressive nü-metal band to land several gold certifications in the United States.

Speaking on how he views the latest revival of that genre, he stated:

“Dude, maybe I shouldn’t say this, but I don’t give a fuck. Because I’m me and I’ve got stuff to say, and I’m gonna say it. Music now to me, God bless them, new bands, but they sound the same. All new music reminds me of the same fucking thing. There’s nothing separating it, one band from another. It’s, like, one band kinda does something, a hundred bands follow that band, then another band does something, then a hundred bands follow that band and sound just like that fucking band.

I was on Ozzfest 2001. So you had Slipknot, Manson, Papa Roach, Disturbed, Mudvayne, Drowning Pool… Every fucking band, every band I just named, none of them sound the same. None of them. And I think that’s why it was such a special time in music, because everybody was bringing what they were bringing to the table. You had System Of A Down and shit-tons of bands, man. And all very original and all doing their own thing.

We were part of that. We were more progressive than a lot of our counterparts from that era. So we were doing our own thing. Just a lot of really good fucking music and a lot of people really digging into what they were. Nobody was fucking following somebody else. We just didn’t see a lot of that. A couple bands here and there, maybe, you know what I mean? But for the most part, bands were doing their own thing and really pushing the boundaries, really challenging the listener. And that’s what music’s all about, right? It’s individuality.”

Source: The PRP