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Way back in 2000 before Hellyeah<\/a><\/strong> came together, Nothingface<\/a><\/strong> guitarist Tom Maxwell<\/strong> and Mudvayne<\/a><\/strong> vocalist Chad Gray<\/strong> started talking about forming a band. Hellyeah<\/a><\/strong> eventually materialized in 2006 with Greg Tribbett<\/strong> on guitar, Jerry Montano<\/strong> on bass, and the late and great Vinnie Paul<\/strong> on drums.<\/p>\n Now Gray<\/strong> has revealed he and Maxwell<\/strong> are talking about reviving their original pre-Hellyeah<\/a><\/strong> project. Gray<\/strong> spoke a little about the idea on The Jesea Lee Show<\/em>, noting that Hellyeah<\/a><\/strong> without Paul<\/strong> isn’t happening and that Maxwell<\/strong> is kicking around some riffs in the studio.<\/p>\n “I can’t see us ever doing [Hellyeah<\/a><\/strong>] again without [Vinnie Paul<\/strong>], you know what I mean?” said Gray<\/strong>. “It’d be a lot of fucking fun, but I’m excited to do other shit. I’m excited because Tom<\/strong>, he’s going in the studio and he’s just writing these absolutely crushing riffs. So we’re talking about putting back together a project that was the beginning of Hellyeah<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 what Hellyeah<\/a><\/strong> was supposed to be, and then we got Vinnie. So it didn’t end up coming to fruition, that particular project.”<\/p>\n In the same interview, Gray<\/strong> also touched on Mudvayne<\/a><\/strong>‘s progress with their new material. Gray<\/strong> noted that the band is still trying to figure out what sound they’re going for, and that he’s really not interested in rehashing the old stuff.<\/p>\n “We’re just trying to figure out where we want it to go,” he said. “Right now, we’ve got some, you can call them whole songs ’cause they have a start and a finish, but I feel like they’re kind of half-songs. I just don’t think they’re realized yet. I don’t think we have figured out exactly how we want this to play out with what we’re doing in our business or how we want it to sonically sound.”<\/p>\n “Nothing inside of me wants to be the Mudvayne<\/a><\/strong> of L.D. 50<\/em>. I think that the more albums we wrote, the better we got as songwriters. A lot of people would probably disagree with me, but The New Game<\/em> is probably one of my favorite fucking albums. It’s got like ‘Dull Boy’ on it, it’s got just some really quintessential Mudvayne<\/a><\/strong> stuff that’s not anything like anybody else was doing. I feel like we fucking finally had kind of found our groove. L.D. 50<\/em>, to me, was a very gratuitous, individual workshop, and we put all four pieces together and called it an album.”<\/p>\n \n