L.D. 50 (album)

Infobox Album
Name = L.D. 50
Type = studio
Artist = Mudvayne


Released = August 22, 2000
Recorded = The Warehouse Studio, Vancouver
Genre = Nu metal
Length = 1:08:16
Label = Epic Records
No-Name Recordings
Producer = Shawn "Clown" Crahan
GGGarth
Mudvayne
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:rjtxlfwekcqr link]
*"Rolling Stone" Rating|3|5 [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/mudvayne/albums/album/93388/review/5941180/ld_50 link]
Last album = "Kill, I Oughta"
(1997)
This album = "L.D. 50"
(2000)
Next album = "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, Trapt, and the 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.

Track listing

*All songs written by Mudvayne

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

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 12:97:24:99 , later revealed as track 11 on "The End of All Things to Come".

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.cite web
url = http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=72946
publisher = songmeanings.com
title = SongMeanings - lyrics - Mudvayne - Monolith
accessdate = 2008-02-28
date = 2002-07-30
last = SilentAenima]

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

Chart positions

Album

Singles

References

External links

* [http://www.mudvayne.com/ld50/lyrics.html Official "L.D. 50" lyrics]