L.D. 50 (album)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

L.D. 50
Studio album by Mudvayne
Released	August 22, 2000
Recorded	The Warehouse Studio, Vancouver
Genre	Nu Metal, Heavy Metal
Length	1:08:16
Label	Epic Records No-Name Recordings
Producer	Shawn "Clown" Crahan GGGarth Mudvayne
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone link
Mudvayne chronology
Kill, I Oughtta (1997) L.D. 50 (2000) The Beginning of All Things to End (2002)

L.D. 50 is the debut studio album by the band Mudvayne, released in 2000 through Epic Records and produced by GGGarth, who has produced albums for such bands as Rage Against the Machine and Melvins. Shawn Crahan from Slipknot is also credited as being an executive producer on the album. The title refers to the LD₅₀ or median lethal dose, a toxicology term meaning the dose amount of a toxic substance required to kill 50% of a tested population. L.D. 50 is widely considered a concept album dealing with the pushing of boundaries and subsequent evolution.

The first single released from the album, "Dig", won the MTV2 Award in 2001.

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Cover Art 3 Trivia 4 Personnel 5 Chart positions 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Track listing

• All songs written by Mudvayne

1. "Monolith" – 1:52
2. "Dig" – 2:43
3. "Internal Primates Forever" – 4:25
4. "-1" – 3:58
5. "Death Blooms" – 4:52
6. "Golden Ratio" – 0:54
7. "Cradle" – 5:14
8. "Nothing to Gein" – 5:29
9. "Mutatis Mutandis" – 1:43
10. "Everything and Nothing" – 3:14
11. "Severed" – 6:33
12. "Recombinant Resurgence" – 2:00
13. "Prod" – 6:03
14. "Pharmaecopia" - 5:34
15. "Under My Skin" – 3:47
16. "(k)Now F(orever)" – 7:06
17. "Lethal Dosage" – 2:59

[edit] Cover Art

The album art features the Sephirot of Hermetic mysticism as well as photographs of a naked baby and chemistry models. The chemical models are representations of the major active ingredients found in the psychedelic drugs LSD and DMT. Also, the numbers 12:97:24:99 are printed within the cover art as 1:29:7:24:99 , later revealed as track 11 on The End of All Things to Come.

[edit] Trivia

The spoken words in Monolith are from Terence McKenna, a famous hallucinogens researcher, explaining his theory of how apes evolved to humans by consuming hallucinogenic mushrooms.^[1]

[edit] Personnel

• Chad Gray - Vocals
• Greg Tribbett - Guitar
• Ryan Martinie - Bass
• Matthew McDonough - Drums
• GGGarth - Production, Engineering, Electro-organic audio manipulation
• Andy Wallace - Mixing
• Steve Richards - Executive producer
• Shawn Crahan - Executive producer
• Andre Wahl - Engineering, Electro-organic audio manipulation
• Chris Vaughan-Jones - Engineering
• Ben Kaplan - Engineering
• Dean Maher - Engineering
• Scott Ternan - Assistant engineer
• Alex Aligizakis - Assistant engineer
• Paul Forgues - Assistant engineer
• Zak Blackstone - Assistant engineer
• Steve Sisco - Assistant mix engineer
• Howie Weinberg - Mastering
• Richard Leighton - Guitar technician
• Chris Crippin - Drum technician
• Chris Potter - Technical support
• Ron Vermuelen - Technical support

[edit] Chart positions

Album

Year	Chart	Position
2001	Top Heatseekers	1
2001	The Billboard 200	85

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
2001	"Dig"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	33
2001	"Death Blooms"	Mainstream Rock Tracks	32

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official L.D. 50 lyrics

v • d • e Mudvayne Chad Gray · Greg Tribbett · Ryan Martinie · Matt McDonough Shawn Barclay Studio albums L.D. 50 · The End of All Things to Come · Lost and Found Extended plays Live Bootleg Compilations The Beginning of All Things to End · By the People, for the People Videos L(ive) D(osage) 50: Live in Peoria · All Access to All Things Singles "Dig" · "'Death Blooms" · "Nothing to Gein" · "Not Falling" · "World So Cold" · "(Per)Version of a Truth" · "Determined" · "Happy?" · "Forget to Remember" · "Fall Into Sleep" · "Dull Boy" Related articles Discography · Videography · Hellyeah