M3 (album) explained

M3
Type:	studio
Artist:	Mushroomhead
Cover:	Mushroomhead-M3.jpg
Released:	^[1]
Studio:	Mars (Cleveland)
Genre:	Alternative metal
Length:	62:29
Label:	MRH
Producer:	Mushroomhead
Prev Title:	Superbuick
Prev Year:	1996
Next Title:	XIII
Next Year:	2003

M3 is the third studio album by American heavy metal band Mushroomhead. It was released independently in 1999 on their own label. This was the final studio album with JJ Righteous and Dinner as band members. The album, alongside Mushroomhead and Superbuick, was reissued with alternate artwork in 2002. The songs "Before I Die", "Solitaire/Unraveling", "The New Cult King", "Xeroxed" and "Born of Desire" were later included on both the Eclipse and Universal Records versions of XX in 2001.

Musical style

Musically described as alternative metal, the album incorporates elements of genres such as rap, punk, industrial, gothic rock, and techno.

Track listing

Notes

• Tracks 10 and 11 are separated by ten minutes and sixteen seconds of silence.^[2]
• "Dark and Evil Joe" is a prank phone call made by Mike Martini (Original Pranksta) to Joe Aufricht of the black metal band Satanicon.

Personnel

Mushroomhead

• Jeffrey Nothing – vocals
• J Mann – vocals
• J.J. Righteous – guitars
• Dinner – guitars
• Pig Benis – bass
• Shmotz – keyboards, samples
• Bronson – samples, programming
• Skinny – drums

Additional musician

• Scot Edgel – additional vocals on "The New Cult King" and "The Final Act"

Production

• Mushroomhead – production
• Bill Korecky – engineering
• Patrick Lewis – additional engineering
• Steve Felton – mastering
• Rich Moore/Rmg – artwork

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mushroomhead - M3. portALTERNATIVO. April 10, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20121019104003/http://portalternativo.com/banda/Mushroomhead/M3/. October 19, 2012. dead.
2. Web site: Mushroomhead – M3 (1999, CD). Discogs. January 20, 2024.