Mudvayne
The End Of All Things To Come

THE REVIEW

With "The End Of All Things To Come," their second album, Mudvayne manages to make the leap in quality that was expected after the excellent first record "LD50," shaking off the burdensome label of a band trying to emulate Slipknot. Well, I don't find many similarities, in fact, none at all... perhaps the only thing the two groups have in common is the extraordinary and powerful voice of their respective singers.

The album opens with "Silenced," where all of Mudvayne's anger already explodes (and it's just the beginning) as it did with "Dig" on the previous album, and you already understand what the sound of the entire CD will be. "Trapped In The Wake Of A Dream" impresses with its excellent drum rhythm and is truly a great song, thanks also to Chud's powerful and continuous scream (I HOPE I NEVER WAKE UP! drives me crazy); "Not Falling" is the first single from the album, an excellent song as well, especially towards the end, then we move on to "(Per)version of a Truth," where you can also notice the singer's clean voice that explodes in the finale, "Mercy, Severity," this one is also amazing. After all this nonstop power and anger, you encounter "World So Cold," for me, it's the most beautiful song on the whole album, with beautiful lyrics and musically, I have no words to describe it: it starts only with guitars (by the way, with a sound that gives shivers), then comes the strong but not too strong chorus, continues with a rap interlude, calms down and becomes dreamy, and then explodes again with the chorus. After this masterpiece or almost, there's "The Patient Mental" (nice) "Skyring" (pleasant verses, aggressive chorus but maybe a bit boring if repeated several times) "Solve Et Coagula" (powerful song but nothing more, in Mudvayne's style) and "Shadow Of A Man," really excellent. Then after a track-break of a few seconds, you move on to the final part of this CD: the title track, where the band focuses more on being heavy, finally arriving at "Key To Nothing" (good riff), which concludes the album.

In short, an excellent CD from a band that managed to improve after the previous album (which, in my opinion, is a great album anyway), extending their music not only with a powerful and lethal sound, made of great riffs and incredible tempo changes, but also dreamy and, why not, more catchy.