Great song, but dark lyrics. They're about Ed Gein, a real life murderer and grave robber. His story is even more disturbing than the song, but yeah... he did wear masks of dead skin and most other things described in the song. Leatherface from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre movies was inspired by him as well as Norman Bates from Psycho.
So many ‘monsters’ in horror movies and shows are based off Ed Gein. Buffalo Bill in Silence of the Lambs and Dr Thredson in American Horror Story: Asylum. And the craziest part is he only had 2 confirmed murders, but countless grave robbing incidents. And apparently he used to wear his ‘woman suits’ and go dance around by the road at night. That guy was def sick
Yep, I knew Matt when he was still in Peoria. He meticulously beat the fuck out of his drums! Killer good but went through heads and symbols like water..lol. Mat was a very sober intelligent person. Very personable/likable and cool.
This reaction was actually my first listen to this song as well. I was meaning to listen to it, but never got around to it. Also here's something I learned about it off of Genius. Edward Theodore Gein was born on August 27, 1906 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The son of a timid alcoholic father and a fanatically religious mother, Gein grew up alongside his older brother, Henry, in a household ruled by his mother’s puritanical preachings about the sins of lust and carnal desire. Obsessively devoted to his mother until her death in 1945, Gein never left home or dated women. After she died, he became increasingly deranged and eventually began prowling cemeteries to unearth recently buried female corpses. He would cut off body parts and keep them as trophies, returning the corpses seemingly undisturbed to their graves. In 1954, Ed Gein turned from grave robbing to murder, a task he was less meticulous about. Police implicated him in the murders of two women in 1957. During the investigations, police learned that he had practiced necrophilia and experimented with human taxidermy. Gein was ultimately found guilty of murder by reason of insanity. He was confined in various criminal psychiatric institutions, including the Central State Hospital in Wisconsin and the Mendota Mental Health Institute, where he died of respiratory failure on July 26, 1984, at age 77. His killings live on as the inspiration for such film characters as Norman Bates (Psycho), Jame Gumb (The Silence of the Lambs) and Leatherface (Texas Chainsaw Massacre).
Same honestly. As my understanding with life and my experience has grown though, I've come to appreciate it on a level I never could've in my days of angst when it originally came out. I've come to be so thankful honestly.
It makes sense that this song you did not like. Its from Ed Gein's perspective growing up with an extremely abusive mother that isolated him. Its cool you understand how this can help people even though you did not like Nothing to Gein. Can't wait for your next mudvayne reactiom, Happy? has more vocal range :) and i think you will like it since you liked Death Blooms.
I highly recommend listening to severed from Mudvayne next it's on the same album and is in my top 3 for mudvayne. Either that or Happy which is from a different albuk but also in my top 3
It's about Ed Gein who was one of the most terrifying serial killers of all time. He was inspiration for several movies like Psycho and Silence of Lambs. I recommend -1 from same album.
On the same album, which imo is one of the most genius and intense albums eve made, there is still Cradle and Severed, both those are equally epic pieces of work. You might like Katatonia, songs like Heart set to divide, and Hypnone, are great songs, kinda dark, sad yet beautiful
@@MusicCatsandCoffee Awesome! I'm sure you'll enjoy it. On this video you mention you like songs with somewhat of a sad mood/feeling. Severed is definitely that, and much more... sadness, pain, anger, in such a melodic and amazing musical way. Thank you for replying and taking it into consideration. I love your reaction videos, keep up the amazing vids! 😁🙂👍
Should really read about Ed Gein to understand this song. He was very sheltered by his mother. She was very religious and abusive. Didn't allow him and his brother to really leave their farm except to go to school. Taught them that people outside were immoral. He loved his mother a lot though, despite these things. They say he might have killed his brother, but it's just a theory. They were burning vegetation and lost control of it. His mom had a stroke after that and Ed tried to take care of her. She died and since he was completely reliant on her his whole life he was devastated by the loss. Which is when he took doing things like digging up people's grave and making suits out of women's skin. I think he dug up women that supposedly looked like his mother. It's a tragic and wild story. The lyrics make quite a bit of sense when you put these things into context. I think it's one of the better songs of theirs to me. I like a lot of their songs though. Chad really puts himself into the live version of this song. Edit: Also the bit about nailing shut the shrine. He was talking about nailing shut his mother's room. I think Ed tried to keep his mom's room exactly as she left it. And also maybe he thought she was still watching him. "To screen your dead eyes from me and my sickness."...perhaps the things he started doing. It should freak you out a bit with the imagery and what is being talked about...but it's still great.
Anyone who says that they aren't musical geniuses is full of crap. The amount of skill to arrange a song with so many styles and changes. I mean it's just incredible. They weren't just creating a wall of sound like other " nu metal" bands of their era.
I literally traumatized my best friend with this song she was not aware of the past serial killers in history this one was about Ed Gein who the Texas Chainsaw Massacre was based on
He is singing from the perspective of a serial killer named ed gein. Hence the title 'nothing to gein' the texas chainsaw massacre was based off him aswell
Motograter is another underrated band from the same sort of era and who wear face paint. It's gone through many iterations so I recommend the classic Ivan line-up and therefore songs like 'Suffocate', 'Down', 'Prophecies', 'Wrong', 'No Name', and 'New Design'.
I didn’t know how dark the song was until I read the lyrics my god, I thought it was about abuse. When I seen the band live play I thought I was gonna cry, but didn’t .
happy? not falling, dig are songs that many already react to you should react to their lesser known songs like the patient mental, per vertion of a truth, rain sun gone
This album is top 5 of all time. No one pulled off what they were capable of doing, dven in the height of numetal. This album is for fans of art in music and musicians. Now, go watch them perform this live in Peoria (its a dvd where rhey played this whole album, im sure you can find it online) the ending is what screaming used to be. An emotional release. Now most pwople, especially woman, when they acream they look bored. You can feel the emotion. Dude went to a fark place, kneeling eocking back and forth, hitting himself ein the head with the mic repeatedly whilw screaming as the music fades to badically nothing amd hes still screaming. Best live dvd ive ever seen amd i used to collect them. This album is so drastically underrated, but ita following is cult like. Im trying to find the special edition vinyl
@MusicCatsandCoffee I just checked...the live video I found was from ozzfest. Not a bad performance, kind of similar. Just not mixed as well. The one in talking about is indoors. At starts out with -1 and there's this massive high rise, kike 20 feet up, and on top I'd a mic stand, but it's like a pogo stick but the spring is stuck to the stage. It's just wild. I always felt the emotion in numetal, that's what drew me to it when I was in highschool. And you go to shows and feel it. But watching that DVD was the 1st time I SEEN IT. And I felt it in my heart, my arm hair stood up. That's when I was like oh, this is therapy. Like this is real. And it clicked. And have been obsessed with music ever since. I liked it before that. Loved it before that. But that was like the scales falling off the eyes. If you happen to run across it, no need for a video, (unless I just didn't find the right one) but it's an experience.
This song is about ed gein and his relationship with his Mother, thats why its so dark. Try to listen to it from that perspective . But glad you ll do more mudvayne. I suggest you to listen to fear factory descent or staind for you, i think you ll like the lyrics.
Hey! I’ve checked out all your Mudvanye and Deftones videos. I’m really digging your channel. The first time I heard this song, I was watching a Mudvanye set from an 01 performance. And honestly I was super stoned, this song almost gave me a panic attack lmao. I think you’ll enjoy Happy. Also, for Deftones. Check out the song Diamond Eyes. Very different sounding track for them.
I remember coming home drunk in 2002, watchin mtv2. Thinkin music fuckin sux nowadays (Rush, Megadeth, etc Maiden bein prior influences ) as I’m listening to world so cold- and he gets to the heavier escalations in his voice- I went out and bought their album next morning. Driving to Florida w friends - everyone agreed they were the shit. My friends only listened to rap.
hey Lauren, do i have an album for you, The band is Vision of disorder, the album is called From Bliss to Devastation, the whole album is a masterpiece, just like this one from mudvayne, you need to listen to it, please!
This is one of my favorite songs off this album nothing to gain and also you should watch a live version of nothing to gain ozzfest 2001 of him playing the song live it is phenomenal then the second favorite song is called -1 by mudvayne and it's off the first album ld50 I just saw your reaction to Happy it's meant to be more mainstream for the radio type of song compared to the first album ld50
It really is, but it's also kind of overhyped when compared to the rest of their discography. Their self-titled, instrumentally, has far better songwriting in my opinion. Lyrically it lacks the depth but it's very good.
I would have liked if at the end of the video you would have added your thoughts about the song once you found out what it was about. Maybe between your recorded listen and your re-listen that you do off screen you could take a minute to Google the song's meaning. I feel like had you known what the song was about on your second listen you would have had a better appreciation for the song and not been quite so creeped out. (Although a song about Ed Gein is inherently creepy)
Lauren curiosity how old were you in 2000? Because I was 10 I was wondering you didn't grow up with those bands Korn, Limp Bizkit, Deftones, Slipknot I mean I was born in 1990 I don't know what year you were born in.
I don't like MOST music the first listen through, to be honest. Thankfully I know that about myself and give songs multiple chances to get its hooks into me.
That's why I always do the second listen thing at the end of all my videos. But by the time the video is posted, I'll have heard the song 10+ times usually, just from putting the video together and editing and everything. If my opinions have changed about something, I can update what I've said in the video by adding subtitles before I upload it. Or sometimes I'll add pin a comment with an updated opinion. :)
I like mudvayne but let me state this rn. Nothingface is probably better then them. Nothingface is criminally underrated. Some of the band members of nothingface and mudvayne formed the band "hellyeah". That's literally the name of the band. You should react to Nothingface's songs blue skin and villains
