Mudvayne might be making new music again. Yes, really.

Mudvayne might be making new music again. 

Yes, really.

A teaser on Instagram has us all stirring in the crypt.

After years of silence, makeup-free reunions, and fans wondering if the freaks would ever return to form, Mudvayne just dropped a cryptic clip on Instagram. 

Just one word..."HURT".

And just like that, the nu-metal hive lit up again.

Just enough to start the speculation engine, and if you’ve been watching closely, that engine’s been idling for a while. Since reforming in 2021, the band’s stuck to playing live sets built from their early 2000s legacy—LD 50, The End of All Things to Come, Lost and Found—but they haven’t dropped anything new in over a decade.

This teaser doesn’t promise a full record but it does signal something some fans gave up on: movement.

Mudvayne was never just another nu-metal band. They were the math-metal mutants. The guys with full body paint and time signatures that made no sense but rocked any way. While everyone else was chugging through three-chord breakdowns, Mudvayne was splitting atoms in 7/8 time and screaming about bio-organic decay. 

Their early work still holds up because it never tried to fit in. Dig was raw, erratic, and ugly in all the right ways. LD 50 felt like a lab accident set to drums. Even when they veered toward the mainstream on later albums, that chaotic streak never fully disappeared.

So the idea that they’re finally making new music again? It’s not nostalgia bait. It’s a resurrection. The world they helped build—full of genre mashups, body horror visuals, and unhinged emotional honesty—has only gotten stranger. And now, maybe, they’re stepping back into it.

If Mudvayne is truly returning to the studio, it’ll be under completely different conditions. The scene has changed. The audience has changed. But one thing hasn’t: no one ever sounded like them. Not really. And if this new era brings even half the chaos of Internal Primates Forever or Nothing to Gein, we’ll take it.

The freaks are stirring.

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