“People have to put up with this rap-metal stuff. They’re looking for something with meaning”: Mudvayne were written off as third-rate Slipknot clones. They proved everyone wrong

Mudvayne onstage at the Ozzfest 2001.

Mudvayne may have become one of the most beloved 21st century metal bands, but that wasn’t always the case. When they rose to fame with their debut album, LD.50, they were written off in the press as ludicrous-looking nu metal chancers. In the year 2000, Metal Hammer flew to Atlanta to find out how four facepainted fiends had become metal’s unlikeliest nu superstars

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