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The New Game is the fourth album by American Progressive Metal band Mudvayne, as well as their third Concept Album (and so far, their last).

The recording sessions produced enough leftover material that the band released a whole other album, their 2009 self-titled album.


Track listing:

  1. "Fish Out of Water" 3:30
  2. "Do What You Do" 3:36
  3. "A New Game" 5:03
  4. "Have It Your Way" 3:45
  5. "A Cinderella Story" 4:40
  6. "The Hate in Me" 3:22
  7. "Scarlet Letters" 3:56
  8. "Dull Boy" 4:14
  9. "Same Ol'" 4:49
  10. "Never Enough" 3:39
  11. "We the People" 3:07


I'm a trope out of water. Trope me and trope on the tropes:

  • Call-Back: "Dull Boy" opens by having Chad repeat the Madness Mantra from The Shining, which was also a lyric in "IMN",
  • Cover Version: The deluxe edition bonus disc has the band covering The Police's "King of Pain". This originally appeared on their Greatest Hits album By the People, for the People.
  • Concept Album: The album's concept is an interactive murder mystery tied to the artwork and a promotional website which set up the storyline of a small town where everyone is a suspect, and the eccentric characters that inhabit the town. The deluxe edition is packaged to look like a dossier.
  • Product Placement: Subverted. "Have It Your Way" uses the Burger King slogan to criticize George W. Bush-era foreign policy and nationalism.
  • Updated Re-release: The deluxe edition, in addition to the dossier-style packaging, has a disc of bonus tracks, consisting of the exclusive tracks from By the People, for the People without Chad's introductions.

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