MUDVAYNE Helps Raise Funds For Members Of Band's Extended Circle

According to The Pulse Of Radio, MUDVAYNE has asked fans to help out two members of the band's extended circle of friends in an e-mail that went out on Monday (March 21). The email explains that a girl who appeared in the group's video for the song "Beautiful And Strange" was recently in a bad car wreck, and while she is recovering smoothly, the driver is still in critical condition and will need many more surgeries. Friends of both have set up a fund to help cover their medical bills, and the band has posted a link to the fund for anyone who wants to donate at www.mudvayne.com.

It's been over a year since MUDVAYNE released its self-titled fifth album and little has been heard about the band since then. But in a late 2010 interview with the music blog Warwick, bassist Ryan Martinie discussed the group almost entirely in the past tense. When asked about the quartet's musical evolution, Martinie said, "I think that what we did is valuable. It's become a cog in the wheel of music in some sort of way. We are a piece of musical history now . . . We were always just responding to our environment. I always saw the band to be important as an aspect of my life, as something that was supposed to take us places that are positive, and in that sense everything that happened with the band has happened for a reason."

Martinie also hinted that he was working on his own musical project, but said, "Nothing is really solidified in terms of who I'm working with. But yes, of course, I will share it with the world when the time comes and it's something relevant that I'm happy with."

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

Back in February 2010, The Pulse Of Radio asked MUDVAYNE drummer Matt McDonough about the band's future. "I think with any artist it's important to have moments to decompress, to kind of self-reflect," he said. "We're kind of reacting to this whirlwind of activity that we've done for years, and now we're kind of letting the dust settle on the rubble and just giving ourselves time to breathe, and to kind of come back after reflecting and deciding what we're gonna do."

MUDVAYNE frontman Chad Gray and guitarist Greg Tribbett have spent the last year recording and touring behind "Stampede", the second album from their other band HELLYEAH.