Track Listing

1. HELLYEAH
2. You Wouldn't Know
3. Matter of Time
4. Waging War
5. Alcohaulin'Ass
6. GodDamn
7. In the Mood
8. Star
9. Rotten to the Core
10. Thank You
11. Nausea
12. One Thing

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1992 in Music
• Released on: 2007-05-07
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Amazon.com
On paper it looks like a headbanger's dream and in the imagination it sounds like no other band possibly could: Mudvayne's Chad Gray (vocals) and Greg Tribbett (guitar), Nothingface's Tom Maxwell (guitar), and Jerry Montano (bass) join Damageplan/Pantera drummer Vinnie Paul for a good ol' batch of brawny brewtality. On record, Hellyeah sounds like your run-of-the-mill post nü metal band as it serves up a batch of southern-inflected tunes that rock hard but unconvincingly over the course of the album's 44 minutes. A thoroughly bad album would inspire the listener to pipe up with a resounding "hell no," but instead, Hellyeah's mediocre debut forces one to issue a whimpering, lukewarm "well, maybe," a far more troubling sign.

The opening, titular track slams the listener's eardrums with precision guitar figures from Maxwell and Tribbett and some career-defining pummeling from Paul. Even Gray fires on all cylinders for the bulk of the tune's three-and-a-half minutes. But the record quickly sinks beneath the weight of Gray's unsophisticated and often sophomoric lyrics. His attack on critics, "Waging War," is little more than a profanity-laden temper tantrum that's as cliché as it is petulant; "Alchohaulin' Ass," a would-be southern rock anthem, fails to live up to the minimal promise of its title and instead of turning into triumph of the spirit and celebration of the party life serves to remind us that the bottle is far more capable of drowning creative impulses than it is drowning one's sorrows; "Thank You," alternately an ode to the departed and a way of making good with the living, confuses the numbing effects of drugs and drink with the powerful connectivity of intimacy and thus fails in its attempts at suggesting we all get a little closer. Others, such as "Nausea," "One Thing," and "Star" feature lyrics so poorly developed and derivative that it's hardly worth commenting on them.

Well worth avoiding.

Album Description
HELLYEAH. Five musicians, three bands = creative collision of sonic proportions. The highly anticipated debut release features MUDVAYNE lead singer Chad Gray and guitarist Gregg Tribbett, former PANTERA drummer Vinnie Paul and NOTHINGFACE guitarist Tom Maxwell and bassist Jerry Montano.

The quintet includes three of hard rock's most revered and valuable players, with careers highlighted by an astonishing run of chart-topping gold and platinum albums, major industry awards, critical acclaim, Grammy nominations and music of monolithic power. REVOLVER magazine hailed the band as "the ultimate metal super group."

Album Description
Japanese pressing of Hellya's self-titled album includes one bonus track, 'Alcohaulin' Ass' in acoustic version. 13 tracks total. Sony. 2007.

Customer Reviews

hell to the yeah!!!
this album is my 2007 metal album of the year. best band i"ve herd in years. if you loved pantera you will love this album and if you don't like pantera you still will love this album! you metalheads have got to add it to your collection.

HELLNO!!!!!!
what the hell mudvayne i thought that u guys were'nt going to split i guest wrong why HELLYEAH

3 1/2 Solid, above average, yet..........
Some might scoff at the idea of another supergroup or side project, as most of the time if is just a bad marketing ploy, yet, it seems like the selected members of Mudvayne, Nothingface, and Pantera/DamagePlan have worked pretty hard on trying to make this all blend and work. SO the question is what exactly are you getting here. Are you going to get a more NU-Metal style of music or kick in the teeth thrash. The question, is a little bit of both, even though Chad had a vocal style that is much more suited for Nu Metal, but there are some songs that quick, but the majority of it has more of a Mudvayne sound. Mind you, if you like Mudvayne, its not a bad thing.I think most NU Metal sounds the same, but I think Chad's vocals are the most unique and the best in the genre. The album as a whole is pretty enjoyable, but there are a few things that just dont seem to all come together. I do give Chad a ton of credit, even though his vocal style fits more nu metal, he does a pretty good job, for example on the more thrash style songs such as HellYeah and Waging War, but at times, he seems to turn the thrash style groove into more of a Mudvayne style type of vocal, which kinda kills the vibe of some of the songs. Adding Vinny seems like a bit of a waste, since you dont hear all of his amazing footwork and timing on some of the songs, yet there are times that you hear him throw a nice double bass rumble in there just for giggles. To conclude, its a pretty solid album, its just well, strange, and it might take some getting used to, but I am only on my second listen. The album starts off really strong, but seems to fade a bit toward the end. I dont know, mayne its just my mood, but I will give it 3 1/2 stars, creeping slowly up to four, maybe after a few more spins. It is worth getting, and I think that if you listen to it with a open mind, you might just like it. As I mentioned, it is a little strange at first, mostly because Vinny seems to be the black sheep, but its a strong effort. ENJOY