Resurrected nu metallers Mudvayne have launched their first single in 16 years. Titled Harm Folks Harm Folks, it’s their first launch since signing to Alchemy Data in Could and the primary style of recent music because the band reformed in 2021.
In 2023, frontman Chad Gray had confirmed the band had been engaged on new materials. “We’ve began placing some new stuff collectively just a little bit,” he advised Heavy Magazine.
“Those who have heard [some of the early demo] stuff are actually enthusiastic about it. Solely the individuals which can be closest to us have heard something, and, like I mentioned, it’s actually tough; it’s demos. However you’ll be able to inform it’s particular. And I believe that we’ve to ensure it’s Mudvayne. Now we have to ensure that it’s what we would like. So we’ll simply need to see. We had been engaged on it, engaged on it, engaged on it just a little bit right here and there.”
When the band introduced their signing to Alchemy in Could, the band’s Instragram account posted Mudvayne had been “coming via [sic] the fucking desk quickly”.
With the discharge of the brand new tune, Chad Smith has spoken just a little about what it means. “Harm Folks Harm Folks has in all probability been round because the starting of man,” he says in an announcement. “Definitely longer than the phrase ever existed.”
“I believe I wrote this tune as a reminder to myself to interrupt the cycle,” he continues. “We create our personal struggling, our personal damage. It is time for us to create self-love and let go of the ache. It was by no means ours to start with.”
The band are set to have a good time the twenty fifth anniversary of their debut album L.D. 50 with a US tour that kicks off in Dubuque, Iowa on September 11 and runs till October 26 when the tour will wrap-up in Uncasville, Connecticut. Help comes from Static-X and Vended.
Since their reformation in 2021, Mudvayne have performed a variety of excursions and pageant appearances within the US, and toured Australia in 2024, although have not performed in Europe or the UK since 2005.
The band haven’t but commented on a potential launch window for his or her upcoming sixth album, nor confirmed if Harm Folks Harm Folks will characteristic or has been launched as a stand-alone observe.
Watch the official lyric video beneath.
Mudvayne L.D. 50 twenty fifth Anniversary US Tour
Sep 11 Dubuque Q On line casino, IA
Sep 13 Waukee, Vibrant Music Corridor, IA
Sep 14 Chicago Byline Financial institution Aragon Ballroom, IL
Sep 16 Milwaukee The Rave, WI
Sep 17 Youngstown The Covelli Centre, OH
Sep 19 Louder Than Life Competition Louisville, KY
Sep 20 Chesterfield The Manufacturing facility, MO
Sep 21 Omaha Steelhouse, NE
Sep 23 Denver The Fillmore, CO
Sep 24 Albuquerque Revel Leisure Middle, NM
Sep 26 Las Vegas Palms On line casino Resort, NV
Sep 27 Phoenix Airzona Monetary Theatre, AZ
Sep 28 Los Angeles Hollywood Palladium, CA
Sep 30 Portland Moda Middle, OR
Oct 1 Airway Heights Northern Quest Amphitheater, WA
Oct 3 Pocatello Portneuf Well being Belief Amphitheatre, ID
Oct 5 Aftershock Competition Sacramento, CA
Oct 7 Salt Lake Metropolis The Union Occasion Middle, UT
Oct 9 Tulsa Tulsa Theater, OK
Oct 11 Dallas South Aspect Ballroom, TX
Oct 12 San Antonio Boeing Middle at Tech Port, TX
Oct 13 Houston Bayou Music Middle, TX
Oct 16 Durant Choctaw Grand Theater, OK
Oct 18 Nashville Nashville Municipal Auditorium, TN
Oct 19 Atlanta Coca-Cola Roxy, GA
Oct 21 Raleigh The Pink Hat Amphitheater, NC
Oct 22 Virginia Seaside The Dome, VA
Oct 24 Montclair The Wellmont Theater, NJ
Oct 25 Boston MGM Music Corridor at Fenway, MA
Oct 26 Uncasville Mohegan Solar Area, CT