Mudvayne

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Before reading be sure to read this previous post on an informative essay im writing.

The Provocation Of The Female Image

WARNING

(explicit matiriel will be involved, nothing is meant to be erotic or offending, this is merely a scholarly pursuit.)

Mudvayne is an American heavy metal band formed in Peoria, Illinois, in 1996. Members are lead singer Chad Gray, guitarist Greg Tribbett, bassist Ryan Martinie and drummer Matthew McDonough. Signed onto Epic Records, Mudvayne has released five studio albums, two compilations albums, and two DVDs.

Mudvayne rose to fame in 2000 with their debut album L.D. 50, which peaked at number 85 on the Billboard 200, and has since been certified gold by the RIAA. The lead single from the album, "Dig", won the MTV2 Award at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2001. This was the first time the award was presented to a metal band. In 2006 Mudvayne was nominated for Best Metal Performance at the Grammy Awards for the single "Determined" from the band's 2005 studio album Lost and Found. Mudvayne has four gold certifications by the RIAA, and has sold nearly 3 million records in the United States, and over 6 million records worldwide.

The End of All Things to Come

In 2002, the band released the album The End of All Things to Come. Mudvayne participated in the 2003 Summer Sanitarium Tour, headlined by Metallica.[6]
[edit] Lost and Found

In 2005, the band released its third album, Lost and Found.[6]

In mid-2005, Mudvayne played on the main stage of Ozzfest. After this tour Mudvayne started a world tour which included Australia, North America and Europe. During their show in Sydney various Australian TV personalities made an appearance such as Nikolas Crowfoot, Mitch Jones and Craig Welton. These concerts were a great success. Mudvayne originally toured Australia in 2001 as part of the Big Day Out festival.

The single "Happy?" was also the theme song for WWE Pay Per View Vengeance 2005.
[edit] By the People, for the People

By the People, for the People is a compilation album released on November 27, 2007 by Epic Records. The album features a track listing chosen entirely by the band's fans, with the band determining which version appears on the record (e.g. live, demo, acoustic), as well as two new songs, "Dull Boy" and a cover of The Police's song "King of Pain" (both produced by Dave Fortman and written by Bradley Bower).


By the People, for the People is presented in a format where each song is introduced through a short interlude generally no longer than 30 seconds long, where Gray debriefs the listener on surrounding facts such as where the song was recorded or performed live, or distinguishing a demo from an album version. The album debuted at number 51 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling about 22,000 copies in its first week.[7]
[edit] The New Game


After the return of Gray and Tribbett from their touring commitments with side project Hellyeah, Mudvayne began the recording process for The New Game with producer Dave Fortman, who produced their previous effort, Lost and Found.[8] Fortman reported to MTV that the album will be followed six months later by a second full-length record.[9] He attested that while the album should please listeners, it will incorporate a distinct rock and roll sound not heard on previous Mudvayne records. "It's heavy and has great hooks," said Fortman, "but it also has some moments that are a little more rock n' roll that are really cool. It's not anything drastic, but every now and then you'll catch a little hint of old-school rock. Also, the tones are a little more earthy sounding and somewhat warmer than Lost and Found. Although Mudvayne was going to follow up The New Game six months later with an album titled The End Game, the plan never came to fruition. Instead a self-titled album was released a year later.
[edit] Mudvayne

Their fifth full length album, the self-titled Mudvayne, was produced by Dave Fortman's associate Jeremy Parker and is "a little more retro" from a songwriting point of view, according to Gray. "We've been kind of making this natural progression, and I think for this one, we just sort of naturally regressed," he told Noisecreep. "We took the smarter songwriting guys that we've become and mixed it with the not-smart songwriting guys that we were." The album was recorded during Summer 2008 in El Paso, Texas.[10] On October 7, 2009, Mudvayne posted a bulletin on their MySpace saying that they will be releasing a self-titled album on December 22, 2009 followed by a tour. They have two new songs called "Beautiful and Strange" and "Heard It All Before" on their official MySpace page. Mudvayne has been described by McDonough as "the best" CD "the band has recorded since our second album, The End of All Things to Come." The effort will be released in three different formats — a standard jewel case edition, a deluxe version packaged with a black light and a super deluxe edition that features a larger black light, a special edition blacklight-reactive poster and more. For those who pre-ordered the super deluxe edition they would receive a full album download two weeks before the album release. Only a 1000 of the super deluxe edition were available.[11]

The artwork for the CD was printed entirely in blacklight-reactive ink, making it only visible under a black light (a source of light whose wavelengths are primarily in the ultraviolet) In the limited edition packaging, a key chain blacklight is included.[11]


yes taken from wikipedia. mudvayne is very complex. their music is unique an if any of you know me you know i love unique. so heres mudvayne enjoy.

Breaking Benjamin

Before reading be sure to read this previous post on an informative essay im writing.

The Provocation Of The Female Image

WARNING

(explicit matiriel will be involved, nothing is meant to be erotic or offending, this is merely a scholarly pursuit.)

Breaking Benjamin was my first concert with seether, red, and three days grace. while these bads arnt popular with some groups, it was a major moment for me. i love this band. i rarely hear a song by then i dont like, Phobia being my favorite album, i was truely inspired by them. the following is a little bit of their history.

Breaking Benjamin is an American rock band from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, consisting of Benjamin Burnley and Chad Szeliga. The band has released four studio albums to date and a greatest hits album on August 16, 2011. The group initially went on indefinite hiatus due to frontman Benjamin Burnley's recurring illnesses and inability to tour in mid-2010. Further complications arose in August 2011, when it was revealed that members Mark Klepask and Aaron Fink had been fired from the band.

If you want to get inside Ben Burnley’s head, just look at the Dear Agony album cover– it’s an actual scan of the singer’s brain. The lyrics to the first single, “I Will Not Bow,” provide further insight: “Now’s your chance to run for cover / I don’t want to change the world / I just want to leave it colder.” Then there’s the musicality—trademark Breaking Benjamin, full of uber-catchy choruses, dexterous drumming, intricate, powerful riffs and a darkly compelling vibe. It’s a sound that gave the band the #1 rock hits “So Cold” and “Sooner or Later” off 2004’s platinum We Are Not Alone,” and “Breath” and “Diary of Jane” off 2006’s recently certified platinum Phobia. On Dear Agony, produced again by David Bendeth (Paramore, Killswitch Engage), Breaking Benjamin upped the ante, as Burnley notes:

“We’ve been together 8 years, which is like 20 years these days. We’ve honed our sound and focus. Being on the road, you become a better musician, and the more music you listen to and the more experiences and people you’re exposed to, the more complicated you become, the more complicated your music can become.”

Indeed, behind insinuating layers of melodies and radio-ready rock riffs are intense and complex feelings explored and expressed by Burnley. “The title track started as a sort of ‘letter to agony.’ I have some symptoms and health issues that just won’t go away, so I equate it to anybody who has a permanent illness, in that you deal with it and it becomes a part of you.” That said, Dear Agony is the first album Burnley recorded since he quit drinking. “I can’t say if it would have been a better or worse album if I’d been drinking. For me, drinking was a way to put myself in an inspirational mindset to write and create. Writing sober is more time-consuming… waiting for that inspiration to hit. But when you do write, you know it’s good, you don’t have to wait until you’re sober the next day and listen to it,” he laughs. Proof positive of Burnley’s ever-increasing songwriting skills are the 11 stellar tracks on Dear Agony–the dynamic ‘I Will Not Bow” was snapped up for the Bruce Willis flick “Surrogates,” while ‘Give Me a Sign” is an instantly memorable mid-tempo classic, in contrast to the raw, aggro intensity of “Hopeless.”


Recorded at the appropriately named House of Loud studio in New Jersey with David Bendeth, Breaking Benjamin was thrilled to do their third album with the Brit producer again at the helm. As bassist Mark James notes, “it’s the first time we worked in a studio owned by a producer, which helped the process immensely as far as a comfort factor. We were not afraid to try something new, to jump off the edge of the cliff and put ourselves out there. The bar has been raised pretty high, but it’s crucial to stay relevant and excited and exciting.”

Though Dear Agony is a forceful title, it doesn’t sum up any theme for the CD, as Burnley explains. “It’s pointless to ask me what a song is about—it’s about whatever the listener feels when they listen to it. That’s what the song exists for.” Though Burnley is the sole lyricist, he did some collaboration with Jasen Rauch, guitarist of Grammy-nominated band RED. “He has his band, I have mine, and they’re two totally different things,” Burnley notes, “but together we have a flow. I’m really fortunate to know him and work with him.” Akin to Tool and Nirvana, two Breaking Benjamin inspirations, Burnley likewise crafts cryptic, evocative lyrics. “I don’t particularly like listening to songs that are very obviously about something unless it’s something really, really clever and cool,” says the frontman. “I try to make it so that every line is a self-contained thing.” Though Burley titled the previous CD Phobia, he finds writing about personal issues hasn’t proved cathartic, especially when it comes to his well-documented fear of flying. “I didn’t get into a band to fly. I never kept it a secret. That’s one thing I’m not going to bend on,” he states. “I’ll have that fear until the day I die. Being in a band doesn’t change that in any way whatsoever.”

That said, BB ventures far from their Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania home base, touring in front of rabid fans for months at a time. For his part, guitarist Aaron Fink is looking forward to road-testing the new tunes: “You see the visceral reaction between you and the audience, and you know what songs and riffs are working,” he says, adding, “If you like Breaking Benjamin, you’re gonna like this record.” James concurs: “All our records are quite eclectic, so there’s a song for any mood. We’re excited to tour, and along with our great catalog, we now have these new songs to reach from.”

As for Breaking Benjamin’s growth since Saturate, Burnley cites an apt analogy: “If you have a kid, and you’re around the kid every day, you don’t know how much it’s growing. But if you spent a few months away and came back and looked at him, and he was three feet taller and had facial hair, you’d be like “wow, you’ve changed so drastically!” That’s how it is. I haven’t noticed the change as much, because I’ve been there creating it every single step of the way.”


Breaking Benjamin believe it’s a need to not do the same thing twice that created the musical evolution evident on Dear Agony. “I never put out anything I’m not 100 percent satisfied with, but then again, you’re never going to find a group of people who have the same favorite song,” says Burnley. “They’re all going to say ‘this song rocks, this song sucks.’” That said, Breaking Benjamin is thrilled with their place in the rock pantheon. “I totally realize that we’d be nothing without our fans. That’s just a given. We’re the kind of people who have our jobs because what we like just so happens to be what a lot of people like,” Burnley concludes. “I’ll be honest: I write music for myself, and if other people like it, that’s awesome.”

The Provocation of the Female Image

I am a Student at Cameron University. Obviously this keeps me from going into too much depth in this blog. Its difficult to find time and effort to post things at this point.
However i did want to take time out of the usual grind and point to a situation that has come to my attention starting back to the Kiki Kannabal post.

You see throughout history women have held a specific place in society. over time this place has changed and evolved, in my opinion for the better, and while posting on miss Kannabal i had a question.

Why would people be driven to do this. Why would someone term someone whom is flaunting what they have or openly sexual, not just Kiki but many girls.
Strippers, pornstars, scene queens, Models. People through the word slut like no tommorrow. Why can men walk around with no shirt on but the moment a woman puts on some daisy dukes, she becomes a dirty whore?


I am writting an essay over the provoking imagry of woman. in it i will be addressing the sociological and, since im a phycology major, the psycological aspects of this imagery.


in other words i wanna know why Shit like this happens<
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or why this image is automatically met with disapproval. in order to do this perfectly i wish for your help. if you do look at this blog at all please send it to others. have them read this post and put in their imput. if you or anyone you send
this too hasany arguments for and against this sort of topic, im all ears. send me an email at dylonishere123@hotmail.com thanks