“Death Blooms” by Mudvayne

"Death Blooms" followed "Dig" as the second single from L.D. 50, Mudvayne's 2000 debut on Epic, and for all its fury it's a song about grief and neglect. Singer Chad Gray wrote it about his grandmother, Betty Rae, and a family that looked away once she grew old and sick, leaving him the only one who cared. She was also the one who took him to the local choirs where he learned to sing. She died in 2005.

All four members, Gray, Ryan Martinie, Matthew McDonough and Greg Tribbett, share the writing credit, and Garth Richardson produced. Thomas Mignone conceived and directed the video, splitting it between the abandoned Seaview Hospital on Staten Island, the same building the film Jacob's Ladder used, where the band plays, and a remote Malibu beach where a frail old woman crosses over, helped along by Gray and a little girl who is her younger self.

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