Mudvayne reunites after 12 year hiatus

Band to exclusive perform at all four Danny Wimmer Presents 2021 festivals

Mudvayne — one of the most creative and distinctive bands in the aggressive music world — has announced that they’re reuniting after a 12-year hiatus, and will be performing at all four Danny Wimmer Presents U.S. festivals in 2021, including a headlining performance at Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival in Ohio, Louder Than Life in Kentucky, Aftershock in California and Welcome To Rockville in Florida. These dates mark the band’s first shows since 2009 and their only dates this year.

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 their 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).

“In our fan surveys, Mudvayne has consistently been one of the most requested bands – even though they weren’t an active band!” recalls Danny Wimmer, founder of Danny Wimmer Presents. “We’ve been working for years to make this happen, so when I got the call that they’d finally take a meeting, [DWP Executive VP & Talent Buyer] Gary Spivack and I jumped at the chance to fly to Vegas. We sat down for dinner with Mudvayne, their lawyer Eric German, manager Diony Sepulveda and agent Ryan Harlacher – the band hadn’t even been in the same room together for 10 years – and pleaded our case for why the time was right for this to happen. We were hoping to announce this in 2020, we’re fortunate enough to be able to do it in 2021, and DWP is super pumped to have Mudvayne exclusively at all four of our festivals this year.”

Specific show dates and performance times will be announced later, but the Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival takes place September 10-12th at Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio. Early bird passes are on sale now. Full lineup announcement coming Tuesday, April 20th at noon ET.

Louder Than Life will be held September 23-26th at Highland Festival Grounds at KY Expo Center in Louisville, Kentucky. Early bird passes are on sale now.

Revealed as the “mystery reunion band” for Aftershock, Mudvayne will be performing on Saturday, October 8th at Discovery Park in Sacramento, California. Weekend passes are sold out, but a very limited number of single day passes are still available.

Welcome To Rockville takes place November 11-14th at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Early bird passes are on sale now.

Danny Wimmer Presents is known worldwide for their stellar portfolio of music and lifestyle events, which includes Aftershock, Bourbon & Beyond, Epicenter, Hometown Rising, Louder Than Life, Sonic Temple Art + Music Festival, and Welcome To Rockville. DWP recently entered the digital content curation space, promoting pay-per-view concert streams and creating the popular digital series Offstage with DWP and Beyond the Barrel, with new episodes debuting this spring.

Buddy Iahn
Buddy Iahn

Buddy Iahn founded The Music Universe when he decided to juxtapose his love of web design and music. As a lifelong drummer, he decided to take a hiatus from playing music to report it. The website began as a fun project in 2013 to one of the top independent news sites. Email: info@themusicuniverse.com