Mudvayne and Coal Chamber have announced a package tour of Australia.
Kicking off on February 14 in Brisbane at the Fortitude Music Hall before heading for dates at Sydney's Hordern Pavilion, Melbourne's Festival Hall, Adelaide's Hindley Street Music Hall and Perth's Metro City, the tour will bring two powerhouses of '00s metal down under.
The tour will see Illinois noisemakers Mudvayne gracing Australian stages for the first time since 2006. One of the most celebrated acts of their era, Mudvayne have sold over six million albums worldwide and can lay claim to a staggering three platinum albums in Australia alone. They're also the only metal band to have been purposely written into an episode of The Sopranos.
For fans the visit has been a long time coming, and Mudvayne will be intent on dishing up the anthems that have come to define so many fans lives, including highlights from their breakout debut L.D.50 and the classic Lost and Found.
Mudvayne's musical alchemy defies categorisation, seamlessly blending death metal, jazz, fusion, progressive rock, and world music into an audacious mix that completely sets them apart from their peers; so much so that they are unofficially credited with creating the ‘math metal’ genre.
Tourmates Coal Chamber were one of the first bands to weave detuned guitars, noisy textures, white knuckle intensity, hardcore punk, and hip hop like they were always meant to be.
Bridging the gap between heavy metal power and industrial groove at an infectious tempo, their self titled debut delivered the classics, Loco, Sway, Big Truck, and Oddity. Chamber Music and Dark Days followed respectively with the band dominating every festival and stage they appeared on, before 2015's Rivals which did not so much press the reset button on their career as much as smashed the thing with a hammer.
A key influence on the current nu-metal renaissance, Coal Chamber will dish up a healthy dose of nu-stalgia when they hit Australia for the first time since 2012 as part of this co-headline package.
Mudvayne and Coal Chamber
Australian Tour 2024
February 14: Fortitude Music Hall, Brisbane
February 16: Hordern Pavilion, Sydney
February 17: Festival Hall, Melbourne
February 19: Hindley Street Music Hall, Adelaide
February 21: Metro City, Perth
Register HERE for info and exclusive access to pre sale tickets.
Last year, Mudvayne vocalist Chad Gray fell off stage at a show in Tampa, Florida while performing the song Not Falling.
The iconic voice behind the '00s hits Happy? and Dig plummeted from the stage, with fan footage showing he was completely unprepared for his unscripted fall to the floor.
Unsurprisingly, the fall lit up the metal corner of the internet, with a lot of people finding humour in the combination of action and song title. Gray however revealed that while quite humorously timed, the fall was actually pretty brutal.
Posting on Instagram, Gray explained "the fucking brutal" fall has left him sore, days after the incident and appeals to fans to look out for him as the band continued their run on the Freaks Of Nature tour with Rob Zombie, Static-X and Powerman 5000.
Mudvayne reunited in 2021. No new music has yet to surface from the reunion but the band has hinted that it is coming.
While we wait for Gray and co. to release some new music, and for February to bring them to our shores, let's revisit the song that brought about Gray's misfortune, Not Falling.
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