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MUDVAYNE's RYKNOW On New Album: "We're Not A Changed Band"

July 17, 2002

MUDVAYNE bassist Ryknow recently spoke to MTV.com about the recording process for the group's as-yet-untitled sophomore CD, which is currently being tracked at a Minneapolis studio with producer David Bottrill (i.e. TOOL, SILVERCHAIR, PETER GABRIEL) for a November 19th release through Epic Records.

"It's not going to be light years away from where [the first album] was," the bassist stated. "We're not a changed band. We didn't go and get a band facelift, but at the same time there's some things that I think are pushing our envelope. And we'll always try to do that no matter what."

Ryknow also commented on the group's selection of Minneapolis as the site of the recording process for the album—the follow-up to 2000's gold-selling L.D. 50.

"If you look at art as pure energy — and what we're trying to create here is just pure energy — any time you bring someone else into that, there's energy involved. And there's a transfer of energy involved. I don't think any of us are hip to that. We'd like to keep it kind of clothed. So we try to go to the real far away places that would be a pain in the ass for somebody to get to. And I think that's what we've done out here, so it's great. We love it out here, and I think everybody else would not. So that's perfect for us."

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