MUDVAYNE Announces Summer 2023 U.S. Tour With COAL CHAMBER, GWAR, NONPOINT And BUTCHER BABIES

Kickstarting their first headlining tour in over fourteen years, heavy metal band MUDVAYNE announced "The Psychotherapy Sessions". Produced by Live Nation, the 26-city tour kicks off on July 20 in West Palm Beach at iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre, making stops across the U.S. in Syracuse, Albuquerque, Phoenix, and more before wrapping up in Englewood, Colorado at Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre on August 26. MUDVAYNE will be joined by a number of supporting acts, including COAL CHAMBER, performing for the first time in eight years, along with GWAR, NONPOINT and BUTCHER BABIES.

Previously, MUDVAYNE made waves in 2022 when they embarked on the "Freaks On Parade" tour co-headlined with ROB ZOMBIE. This 2023 tour, however, marks MUDVAYNE's first headlining endeavor since 2009.

A special BLABBERMOUTH.NET presale will begin on Wednesday, March 22 at 3:00 p.m. EDT and end on Thursday, March 23 at 10:00 p.m. local time. When prompted, type in the presale code "BLABBERMOUTHSESSION" to access tickets before the general public. General on-sale will be Friday, March 24 at 10 a.m. local.

"The Psychotherapy Sessions" tour dates:

Jul. 20 - West Palm Beach, FL - iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre (buy tickets)
Jul. 21 - Tampa, FL - MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre at the FL State Fairgrounds (buy tickets)
Jul. 23 - Charlotte, NC - PNC Music Pavilion (buy tickets)
Jul. 25 - Bristow, VA - Jiffy Lube Live (buy tickets)
Jul. 26 - Scranton, PA - The Pavilion at Montage Mountain (buy tickets)
Jul. 28 - Wantagh, NY - Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater (buy tickets)
Jul. 29 - Camden, NJ - Freedom Mortgage Pavilion (buy tickets)
Jul. 30 - Mansfield, MA - Xfinity Center (buy tickets)
Aug. 01 - Syracuse, NY - St. Joseph's Health Amphitheater at Lakeview (buy tickets)
Aug. 02 - Burgettstown, PA - The Pavilion at Star Lake (buy tickets)
Aug. 04 - Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Blossom Music Center (buy tickets)
Aug. 05 - Tinley Park, IL - Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre - Chicago, IL (buy tickets)
Aug. 06 - Clarkston, MI - Pine Knob Music Theatre (buy tickets)
Aug. 08 - Noblesville, IN - Ruoff Music Center (buy tickets)
Aug. 09 - Peoria, IL - Peoria Civic Center
Aug. 12 - Dallas, TX - Dos Equis Pavilion (buy tickets)
Aug. 13 - Woodlands, TX - The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by Huntsman (buy tickets)
Aug. 15 - Albuquerque, NM - Isleta Amphitheater (buy tickets)
Aug. 16 - Phoenix, AZ - Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre (buy tickets)
Aug. 17 - Irvine, CA - FivePoint Amphitheatre (buy tickets)
Aug. 19 - Concord, CA - Concord Pavilion (buy tickets)
Aug. 20 - Reno, NV - Grand Theatre (buy tickets)
Aug. 22 - Auburn, WA - White River Amphitheatre (buy tickets)
Aug. 23 - Ridgefield, WA - RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater (buy tickets)
Aug. 25 - West Valley City, UT - USANA Amphitheatre (buy tickets)
Aug. 26 - Englewood, CO - Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre*

* Not a Live Nation show

MUDVAYNE formed in 1996 and has sold over six million records worldwide, earning gold certification for three albums ("L.D. 50", "The End Of All Things To Come", "Lost And Found"). The band is known for its sonic experimentation, innovative album art, face and body paint, masks and uniforms. MUDVAYNE is Chad Gray (vocals),Greg Tribbett (guitar, backing vocals),Matthew McDonough (drums, synthesizer) and Ryan Martinie (bass).

Gray has spent the past 17 years fronting HELLYEAH, which released its sixth studio album, "Welcome Home", in September 2019 via Eleven Seven Music. The disc marked the group's final effort with drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott, who passed away more than four years ago.

MUDVAYNE did not tour behind its fifth album, which was barely promoted and sold weakly upon release.

In a fall 2022 interview with Revolver magazine, Gray and McDonough spoke about the possibility of new music from the MUDVAYNE. The reunited metallers haven't released released any new material since 2009, which means we're coming up on nearly a decade and a half without a single fresh MUDVAYNE song.

"That's obviously something we got to cross, right?" Chad said. "There's two ways you can do it. You could go out, and you can go once around the rock and just play catalog. For sure, that's absolutely a possibility. Or you can try to put something together. You can gauge it, you can decide. I'm not going to say because I've been constantly writing, recording touring for the last 12 years with HELLYEAH. So I don't think my well's dry by any means. And I'm excited, I would be excited to write with these guys.

"We've done a little bit of file sharing or whatever. Just some riffs. Greg [Tribbett, guitar] went into the studio in Texas. He lived in Texas. He went in there and just laid some stuff down, sent it to Matt. Matt put just a really simple metronome drum beat to it. I was working on it. It's pretty rad, different stuff. I've got a few different angles that I'm working with kind of how I want it to be, my parts anyway. But it's cool, it's cool. And obviously we're not going to put something out if I don't feel like it stands up.

"It's going to have to fucking blow my hair back before I would put it out, because I wouldn't want to put anything out and then people are just, like, '[They] can't do it anymore.' You can be your own judge of that. And maybe it's not the first song, maybe it's not the third song, maybe it's the seventh song. That's like, okay, now we're on something, but we'll figure it out, man. We'll figure it out. We'll either do it or we won't. But yeah, I'm down for whatever right now, I'm having fun with it."

As for what a new MUDVAYNE album might sound like, McDonough said: "I can't honestly say. Some of the stuff that we have messed around is heavy. We messed around with some typical [sounds], people wouldn't be terribly shocked, but the opportunity to experiment and given our past success, I think I feel a sense of freedom. There hasn't been any kind of pressure from any professional direction to try to, 'You guys going to write another 'Dig'.' Or 'Not Falling' or whatever; nothing like that. So the headspace and the culture around the band right now is incredibly positive. So I personally just would like to be wide open and excited and positive about it. I want to be surprised."