Round 3, chapter 3 of my 30 year music career is almost underway! I can’t wait to see my favorite Metal Kids this Friday in Las Vegas at the Fremont country club. 1000 peeps nuts to butts. Let’s bring the fucking house down! Be well my Metal Family. -The Madnesss ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Mudvayne- The Most Impressive Bassline of the 2000s Numetal Era
Mudvayne — “Dig” — L.D. 50 (Released August 22, 2000) — Live at Tattoo The Earth — July 28, 2000 — Float-Rite Park, Somerset, WI
In summer 2000, Mudvayne were touring Tattoo The Earth just weeks after releasing L.D. 50. “Dig” became the breakout track — chaotic, rhythm-driven, and built around one of the most aggressive bass performances in mainstream metal at the time.
Ryan Martinie’s approach on “Dig” wasn’t typical nu metal root-note doubling. He used rapid-fire fingerstyle, slap accents, and complex rhythmic phrasing in low tunings, pushing string tension and attack to extremes. The physical intensity of his right-hand technique is part of why the part looks violent — and why broken strings weren’t uncommon in live sets during that era.
Lyrically, “Dig” centers on psychological fracture and self-directed rage. The repeated “Dig” works as an inward command, matching the mechanical precision of the rhythm section. The album itself was structured conceptually around altered mental states, with interludes framing the record’s theme of instability and transformation.
By 2001, “Dig” won the first MTV2 Award and helped define the heavier, more technical edge of early 2000s nu metal.
This was precision chaos.
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