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Mudvayne - All Access To All Things

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This is one great DVD. This is not near as strictly a live DVD as Mudvayne's Live Dosage release. On All Access To All Things you get to get much more personal with the band and their everyday life on tour.

First off, let me review the live portion of the DVD. You get ten live songs:

Internal Primates Forever
-1
Silenced
Death Blooms
Mercy, Severity
Cradle
Nothing To Gein
World So Cold
Not Falling
Dig

As you can see, it's a great selection of songs. They were all recorded at the Summer Sanitarium Tour 2003 and are all performed during the day time. The sound quality is much better than their previous live DVD, especially Chad's vocals. Chad sounds fantastic compared to Live Dosage. Another cool thing is the fact that they no longer wear make up onstage. They look just look like regular guys. These performances are proof that Mudvayne is a great performing band with massive amounts of talent and energy.

The performances are all very spaced out with the Behind The Scenes Footage put in between. I really enjoyed the Behind The Scenes stuff that goes on. You have footage of the band before and after the show, during interviews, on the tour bus, all kinds of crazy stuff. It's great to see that this group of rock stars are really pretty cool and calm guys. I found Matt to be extremely intelligent, especially his little discussion on how technology has helped benefit music. He really seems to know what he's talking about, and really seems to be an interesting guy.

You also get the World So Cold Video as well as a making of feature. World So Cold is a wonderful song and the video is great. I really think of this as a nice addition to the DVD.

To sum this all up, this is the best DVD release yet from Mudvayne. If you are a fan of the band, you will love this release.

This DVD is unbelievable. If you are thinking of recruiting any of your friends into "Mudvaynians", turn them on with this DVD. The backstage stuff was cool, but the performances will blow you away. Do not watch this before you go to bed - you'll be up all night! The adrenaline rush is fantastic. This band should have been a headliner, no doubt about it. My personal favorite on this is "Nothing to Gein." Absolute genius. Chad's vocals are phenomenal - these guys were born to perform live. And I agree with many other fans, losing the makeup was a VERY smart move. I think it allows them and their music to be taken a lot more seriously. If you are a fan of Mudvayne at all, or even just of metal, believe me - you MUST buy this DVD! It will not leave you unsatisfied...

i like that mudvayne opted to keep everything raw instead of cleaning everything up with protools. here's a full review....

Internal Primates Forever- 5/5 energetic, perfect opener
-1- 5/5, one of my favorites. Greg's screaming is right on and it's one of my favorite songs.
Silenced- 4/5, meh, its ok.
Death Blooms- 5/5, probably my favorite along with Cradle and -1, very energetic.
Mercy, Severity- 4/5, upbeat and energetic. i liked it.
Cradle- 5/5, probably my favorite. great song.
Nothing to Gein- 6/5, ok forget what i said about my favorite, this one beats every other song out by a mile. electrifying.
World so Cold- 5/5, great song=great performance
Not Falling- 5/5, crazy song i loved it.
Dig- 5/5 the perfect closer. great song

so if you're a Mudvayne fan or a fan of any band in the genre, buy this DVD. you won't regret it.

Well, I'm a huge Mudvayne fan...but only in the past year &1/2 (roughly) did I realize how amazing they really are. I own the first Mudvayne DVD, and I think it's pretty good. But now...they have gained so much power...trashed the makeup and outfits. Now it's just pure, heavy, great metal music. I just saw this DVD a few days ago with my friend. I think I just sat there with my jaw dropped most of the time. This DVD consists of them performing live on the Summer Sanitarium Tour. You even get to see James Hetfield a couple of times. Anyways. In between songs there are short interviews/clips of the band. And also a new video to check out. I think my favorite part in the whole thing is when they do the extended ending to "Nothing to Gein" where Chüd just keeps repeating "Zion...Zion...ZZIIIOOOOONNNNNNN." It's so great. If you're already a Mudvayne fan, you'll love this...it's amazing (at least to me) to say the least. If you're not a fan of them really, but a fan of the genre, check it out...you never know. They have got past getting everyones attention, they have grown together, becoming a full-force attack. Ask me and I'll say that they are here to stay for a while. Oh yeah...my friend who got to see them live (which I had to miss due to class) now explains them as "the new Pantera", stepping up where Pantera left off. I agree. I could feel the power emanating from them while watching that DVD, even though it was just a DVD. So, to end this...one word. GREAT!!!

This Dvd is really good, it has many more featurs than Live Dosage. Sure, once again, Chad's voice is not the best (I wish they had taken a day off before they filmed this, because I saw them live in Detroit, where they had taken a day off, and Chad hit every note his voice never broke). But the over all sound and presence of the dvd is superb. I love it, and I'm sure every Mudvayne fan will too. The DVD has many more features than on the last DVD. It feautures interview with the band(who seem to be very childish at times, especially Ryan, but it works and has a lot of humor)their crew and fans. The behind the scenes of "World So Cold" is disapointing, and not as in-depth as I would have hoped. Also the music video for "World So Cold" is not mixed in 5.1 which was a disapointement, but that was the same thing for Live Dosage. I recommend this DVD to anyone who is into technical music (Bass players or Drummers especially) Because this band has two of the most well crafted players out there. Enjoy, and ROCK ON!

A great album! You can see all the power of the band on this DVD. If you like Mudvayne, you can't miss this one.

I love Mudvayne, they're one of my favorite bands, but this DVD is merely above par. The concert portion is pretty good, despite some sound quality issues. I thought the vocals overpowered the band, and I also thought the vocals were lacking. The behind-the-scenes footage between the songs was okay, but it mainly consisted of "Get that camera out of here." The high-point of this footage was the interview with Matt, the drummer. It shows just how intellectual he is. The World So Cold video is very good. One of the best metal videos I've seen in recent years. But once again, the behind-the-scenes of this video wasn't very good. I am really glad that they don't open up entirely to the camera though. That's a sign of a true metal band in my opinion. The Mudcam is pretty good. No big complaints there.

Now as anyone can see, the songs they chose to play live are impecable. It highlights their career very well (minus Beginning Of All Things). As I said earlier though, the performance as a whole is less than stellar. Chad has the ability to reach the screams he does on CDs live, and he shows that ability here, but he sounds so out of breath the entire time. The band would sound as near to perfect as you can get, if you could just hear them. The bass is very prominent, the drums are less, but you can still make them out pretty easily. The guitar however, almost sounds like it's not even there. Greg is a good guitarist, not groundbreaking, but still good. I don't know if they thought it sounded good in rehearsal and something just went wrong or what, but that's something they should've corrected.

All in all they did a good job with this DVD. They leaned more for L.D. 50 songs than they did The Beginning..., but hey, L.D. 50 is a better CD. The songs they did play from The Beginning... were some of the best ones from that disc though. The songs they performed the best were -1, Death Blooms, Not Falling, and World So Cold. It's worth the money, I'll say that, but let's hope the next DVD they release has better quality sound.

I caught Mudvayne at the beginning of the Summer Sanitarium tour...they seemed somewhat uneasy on the huge stage. Here, you have the end of the tour, and they not only seem at ease, but at the top of their game. I wish I had been at the show in Salt Lake City where it was just them and Metallica. This DVD made me long to see that particular show. The backstage stuff is fun, and this is the live DVD the Mudvayne fan has been waiting for.

Everything else is basically already reviewed on this one, but I own something like 20-30 dvds of metal bands, so I'm only reviewing the content of the 'backstage' and 'concert' and I know what I like, so anyway here we go.

This DVD is a good balance between 'backstage' and 'concert.' With an option to view just the concert, which is a nice bonus. The concert won't disappoint, and more importantly, the backstage won't make you hate the band.

So if you want to learn more about Mudvayne, it has good 'backstage' and if you want to listen to Mudvayne in the background, this won't disappoint either.

It's my first review on Amazon, give me a break. :P

I loved the live shows as well as all the backstage footage of the band. All fans will lvoe this!