Mudvayne Are Back With "Hurt People Hurt People," First New Song In 16 Years

BAND DROPS FIRST NEW SONG IN 16 YEARS WITH NEW SINGLE "HURT PEOPLE HURT PEOPLE" — WATCH

HEADLINE TOUR KICKS OFF IN SEPTEMBER

'00s hard rock provocateurs MUDVAYNE — Chad Gray [vocals], Greg Tribbett [guitar], Ryan Martinie [drums], and Matthew McDonough [drums] — have just dropped their first new single in 16 years with "HURT PEOPLE HURT PEOPLE" via Alchemy Recordings.

It was well worth the wait.

Watch the visualizer and listen to the song here.

"Hurt People Hurt People' has probably been around since the beginning of man," says Gray about the song. "Certainly longer than the phrase ever existed. The endless cycle of projecting our pain onto others. I think I wrote this song as a reminder to myself to break the cycle. We create our own suffering, our own hurt. It's time for us to create self-love and let go of the pain. It was never ours to begin with."

Mudvayne are looking towards their future as they also celebrate their impactful past. The song arrives on the eve of the band's L.D. 50 25th Anniversary headline tour, which kicks off on September 11 and runs through October 26. L.D. 50 was the band's debut studio album, arriving in August 2000 via Epic Records and established the band as a new yet major player in the hard rock scene. It eventually went on to achieve a Gold certification. Years after its release, both Revolver and Metal Hammer deemed the album an essential of the '00s metal class, rightfully so. 

The tour will feature support from Static-X, while Vended will open. All dates are below. Get tickets here.

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MUDVAYNE ON TOUR:

WITH STATIC-X + VENDED:

9/11 — Dubuque, IA — Q Casino — Back Waters Stage

9/13 — Waukee, IA — Vibrant Music Hall

9/14 — Chicago, IL — Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom

9/16 — Milwaukee, WI — The Rave/Eagles Club — Eagles Ballroom

9/17 — Youngstown, OH — Covelli Centre

9/19 — Louisville, KY — Kentucky Exposition Center

9/20 — Chesterfield, MO — The Factory

9/21 — Omaha, NE — Steelhouse Omaha

9/23 — Denver, CO — Fillmore Auditorium

9/24 — Albuquerque, NM — Revel

9/26 — Las Vegas, NV — Palms Casino Resort — Pearl Theater

9/27 — Phoenix, AZ — Arizona Financial Theatre

9/28 — Hollywood, CA — Hollywood Palladium

9/30 — Portland, OR — Moda Center — Theater of the Clouds

10/1 — Airway Heights, WA — Northern Quest Resort & Casino — BECU Live

10/3 — Pocatello, ID — Portneuf Health Trust Amphitheatre

10/5 — Sacramento, CA — Discovery Park

10/7 — Salt Lake City, UT — The Union

10/9 — Tulsa, OK — Tulsa Theater

10/11 — Dallas, TX — Gilley's Dallas — South Side Ballroom

10/12 — San Antonio, TX — Boeing Center at Tech Port

10/13 — Houston, TX — Bayou Music Center

10/16 — Durant, OK — Choctaw Casino & Resort Durant — Grand Theater

10/18 — Nashville, TN — Nashville Municipal Auditorium

10/19 — Atlanta, GA — Coca-Cola Roxy

10/21 — Raleigh, NC — Red Hat Amphitheater

10/22 — Virginia Beach, VA — Virginia Beach Dome

10/24 — Montclair, NJ — The Wellmont Theater

10/25 — Boston, MA — MGM Music Hall at Fenway

10/26 — Uncasville, CT — Mohegan Sun - Arena

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ABOUT MUDVAYNE:

Just before the turn of the century, Mudvayne rose up from the twisted heart of the country and redefined what heavy music could sound like, look like, and feel like. Hailing from Peoria, IL, the Gold-certified GRAMMY® Award-nominated quartet psychotically pushed metal to its breaking point at both ends, stretching their enigmatic sound from moments of mind-bending musicality to bloodletting melody. They carved out a catalog without comparison highlighted by a triptych of Gold-selling classics, including L.D. 50 [2000], The End of All Things To Come [2002], and Lost and Found [2005], which bowed at #2 on the Billboard 200. Beyond contributing music to franchises such as Saw, the band earned a place in the zeitgeist, achieving cultural recognition with an infamous MTV VMA moment (accepting a trophy with bullet-holes in their foreheads) and overtaking social media with their seminal breakout "Dig." As it would be hard to imagine the advent of "djent" or nu-metal's resurgence without them, Loudwire cited L.D. 50 among "The Top 50 Nu-Metal Albums of All Time," while Revolver christened them "one of the biggest metal institutions of the 2000s." Following a decade-plus hiatus, the group mounted a powerful comeback in 2021, headlining major rock festivals, playing packed arenas and amphitheaters with the likes of Rob Zombie and Megadeth, and transfixing another generation of fans. Mudvayne take a much-deserved victory lap with the L.D. 50 25th Anniversary Tour, but they also leap forward with the release of their first new music since 2009. They’re back with the brutal and bulletproof anthem "Hurt People Hurt People," paving the way for their Alchemy Recordings/BMG debut.  Welcome back to their fucked up world...