Mavericks. Pioneers. Unique. Immutable.

Destined to be one of 2022’s most hailed and talked-about releases, "Immutable" once again showcases MESHUGGAH’s collective brilliance, including some of the most jaw-dropping ensemble performances they have ever executed. Since forming in 1987, the Swedish sound architects known as Meshuggah developed into one of the most technically complex and virtuosic group of players the metal realm has ever encountered, their distinctly unique brand of progressive groove-infused death metal inadvertently launching an entirely new subgenre. Recorded in Sweden’s „Sweetspot Studios“, their ninth full-length album „Immutable“ is the follow-up to their highly acclaimed and Grammy nominated album, „The Violent Sleep Of Reason“. The new album and 2022 tour will see the return of Fredrik Thordendal.

TRACKLIST CD:

1. Broken Cog
2. The Abysmal Eye
3. Light The Shortening Fuse
4. Phantoms
5. Ligature Marks
6. God He Sees In Mirrors
7. They Move Below
8. Kaleidoscope
9. Black Cathedral
10. I Am That Thirst
11. The Faultless
12. Armies Of The


MESHUGGAH is:

Jens Kidman - Vocals
Mårten Hagström - Guitars
Dick Lövgren - Bass
Fredrik Thordendal - Guitars
Tomas Haake - Drums

In 2017, Swedish progressive metal pioneers MESHUGGAH will be entering their 30th year of existence, defying expectations on record as to the limitations of metal, and then proving their virtuosic prowess by taking their cathedral-complex compositions to stages all over the world through the band’s legendary long tour cycles.

»The Violent Sleep Of Reason«, the band’s eighth full-length studio album, finds MESHUGGAH building upon their legacy for fearless metal sculpting within the context of extreme metal, but also recapturing some of the magic and excitement specifically within the aspect of performance, finding flow and groove that would be a challenge for any lesser band to locate, given such technical geometric madness at mischievous hand.

There’s a distinct methodology, says drum master, writer and spokesman for the band Tomas Haake, that was put into motion to help the band achieve the level of “swing” the attentive fan will feel as he makes his way through »The Violent Sleep Of Reason«.

“Basically, there are more natural sounds. On the last few albums, everything’s been kind of fixed and machine-like. For this one, it’s all live takes, something we haven’t done in many, many years. And that definitely goes against the stream of what you see in technical metal. So we went back towards a more old school approach, actually rehearsing and knowing the songs before we would record them. Because over the last few albums, we really didn’t know the songs well enough to play them as a band by the time we were recording them, because of time pressure, politics, income, finances, etc. For the last few albums, we’d record drums first, and then add guitar and everything and make it sound perfect, whereas this time we routined the songs well and were able to do all live takes. Jens was in one room, the guitarists were in one room, Dick was sitting right next to my drum set and he had an amplifier in the next room. So in that sense it’s old school; the methodology is similar to what metal bands were doing in the ‘80s and 90s. And that vibrancy comes out; it’s a very audible difference, sloppier if you will, but at the same time it brings an energy that I personally feel was lacking over the last few albums. They were too perfect - this is less perfect, but in that sense, more alive.”

The personal challenge taken on by the band produced fortunate byproducts as well, or, rather, it inspired them to “de-machine” other aspects of the technical MESHUGGAH juggernaut.

As a result, the band’s erudite and intelligent fan base “get something that they don’t really hear in any other bands. On the first album you still hear a lot of METALLICA and ANTHRAX and Bay Area kind of thrash metal influence. We knew that we sounded a bit like that, but we were aiming for something we hadn’t heard in any other band. And that’s still the main fuel. We’re not trying to write your average metal song. We’re not trying to write catchy songs. We’re not trying to write hit songs (laughs). We’re just trying to write something that is cool, that we haven’t heard before, and hopefully our fans haven’t heard before. And that gets harder and harder, because by now, there are so many fucking awesome musicians and so much great music out there. But it would seem like the followers that we do have, the people that have kept buying our albums and stayed with us for a lot of years, are not typical metal fans. The crowd we have is diverse. We have a lot of geeks and nerds and weirdos, and they are beautiful ones, you know? We have a lot of people with talent, and a lot of people that are interested in music as art, and not just an event.”

But it’s not lost on Tomas that MESHUGGAH is making daunting progressive music, music where melody is subservient to jackhammer rhythm, as evidenced by the way that even his lead singer, Jens Kidman, is situated within the maelstrom that is MESHUGGAH...

“Like all of us, he’s a tool,” reflects Haake. “He’s the perfect tool for the job. We really all like music where you sing, you know, where there’s singing, and we all love singers. Personally, I think the voice is the most empathic instrument in the world. You hear some people sing and you’re like, oh my God, that’s the coolest instrument in the world to me. But at the same time, what we’re trying to do is not that. Just like the guitars and me as a drummer, he’s a rhythmic tool that also adds aggression, if you will. We’re not aiming for vocals that are trying to really enhance the song or create a certain vibe. Jens has got - as I do as a drummer - he’s got an on-off switch. I mean, people think that I can play jazz, but I can’t play jazz! - I can do this! I can play MESHUGGAH. That’s what I’ve been doing my whole life. And the same thing for him. He has an on-and-off switch and that’s what he does. He can’t sing like, ‘Oh, hey baby’ - he roars. Or he’s silent, you know? (laughs). So, he’s just like the rest of us; we’re not after much dynamic - it’s just basically on or off.”

So would Tomas then acquiesce to the idea of MESHUGGAH as metal’s reigning enemies of melody?

“In a sense, yeah. I mean, there is definitely melody and melodic thought put into tonalities and things like that, but at the same time, we’re not going for anything pretty. Not really. Sometimes there’s a little bit, where we go, ‘Oh, that’s beautiful,’ but then we just fuck it up again. You give it a little bit of something sometimes, but basically we’re not going for niceness (laughs).”

Produced by MESHUGGAH; engineered by Tue Madsen, Puk Studios, Kaerby, Denmark.


TRACKLIST CD/ DIGI:

01. Clockworks
02. Born In Dissonance
03. MonstroCity
04. By The Ton
05. Violent Sleep Of Reason
06. Ivory Tower
07. Stifled
08. Nostrum
09. Our Rage Won’t Die
10. Into Decay

LINE-UP:

Jens Kidman I vocals
Mårten Hagström | guitars
Dick Lövgren | bass
Fredrik Thordendal I guitars
Tomas Haake | drums

 - New two-disc live album incl. DVD or Blu-ray as ltd. Digipak! Commemorating the 25th anniversary since the recording of their first EP. With visual footage shot in the U.S. & Europe during The Ophidian Trek tour [!]
 - The live audio was processed & edited by MESHUGGAH guitarist Fredrik Thordendal. Mixed by Daniel Begstrand (MESHUGGAH, DIMMU BORGIR, BEHEMOTH). Mastered by Mats Lindfors (ROXETTE, KATATONIA) [!]
 - THE MATH METAL KILLING MACHINE LIVE [!]

A true must-have for all die-hard MESHUGGAH- fans and those who still need to be fully convinced!

Formed in the college town of Umeе in northern Sweden in 1987, MESHUGGAH have spent the last twenty seven years and cumulative fourteen releases developing, exploring, and redefining their complex, inimitable approach on the art of expressing the music they hear in their heads. A group that has not sounded like anyone else in over two decades, MESHUGGAH are one of the few purely and honestly lateral-thinking forces, genuinely
dedicated to pushing the boundaries of extreme music, simply because doing so comes naturally to them.

Celebrating over a quarter of a century as one of the spearheads of their genre, MESHUGGAH are now treating their fans to the release of a new DVD entitled »The Ophidian Trek«. This audio-visual encounter contains a full MESHUGGAH live show, recorded on May 03, 2013 at their co-headline show alongside DEVIN TOWNSEND at Brixton Academy, London. The thirteen tracks on »The Ophidian Trek« represent a great retrospective of MESHUGGAH’s fulminant carrier. Kicking off the show with ‘Swarm’, just one of many from their most recent album »Koloss« (2012), going back to »ObZen« (2008) with songs like ‘Lethargica’ and ‘Bleed’ and all the way to the very early days of »Chaosphere« (1998) with the track ‘New Millenium Cynadie Christ’.

CD1:

01. Swarmer
02. Swarm
03. Combustion
04. Rational Gaze
05. ObZen
06. Lethargica
07. Do Not Look Down
08. The Hurt That Finds You First
09. I Am Colossus

CD2:

01. Bleed
02. Demiurge
03. New Millennium Cyanide Christ
04. Dancers To A Discordant System
05. Mind's Mirrors / In Death - Is Life / In Death - Is Death
06. The Last Vigil

DVD/Blu-ray Tracklist:

01. Swarmer
02. Swarm
03. Combustion
04. Rational Gaze
05. ObZen
06. Lethargica
07. Do Not Look Down
08. The Hurt That Finds You First
09. I Am Colossus
10. Bleed
11. Demiurge
12. New Millennium Cyanide Christ
13. Dancers To A Discordant System
14. Mind's Mirrors / In Death - Is Life / In Death - Is Death
15. The Last Vigil

LINE-UP:

Jens Kidman - Vocals
Marten Hagstrom - Guitar
Fredrik Thordendal - Guitar
Dick Lovgren - Bass
Tomas Haake - Drums

 

Докато всичко е твърде много прибързано в наши дни, някои банди оползотворяват детайлно времето си за да направят нов албум. MESHUGGAH е една от тези банди и винаги знаеш, че чакането си е заслужавало, когато чуеш за първи път новият им албум.

Така че нищо чудно, че тяхната продуктивна дейност отнема доста време и усилия за да излезе това, което в последствие е познато като math metal – нали така? Впрочем math metal е жанр и търговска марка, които са измислени от Tomas Haake & Co.!

Както и да е – след това включителното обръщение металното общество отново е с главата надолу след вече познатите техни последни усилия: “Alive” (CD/DVD, 2010) и аплодирания от критиката последен студиен албум “obZen” (2008), както и от непрекъснато обикаляне по цялото земно кълбо на шведите.

В началото на 2011, иконичната банда се завърна под сводовете на собственото си студио за да запише едно огромно чудовище. Резултатът е подобаващо озаглавен “Koloss”, показвайки зашеметяващо сложността и разнообразието на бандата. Това е осъществено чрез добавянето на още повече груув и рок ударения, които от своя страна още повече революционират собствения саунд на MESHUGGAH. Той е направен да звучи съвсем малко по-привличащо, но и все още е действащо разрушителен от своето пробуждане.

2012 все така показва MESHUGGAH на върха на играта, която е била удължена, преименувана и какво ли не от куп нови банди, опитващи се да достигнат до висотата на кръстниците на math, jazz, djent или какъвто-искаш-го-наречи metal. Тези банди може да се приближават, но никога не ще достигнат до висотата, която шведите показват повече от двадесет години.

„Както винаги, ние се опитваме да правим музиката си в леко различна посока с всеки албум и с “Koloss” се чувстваме сякаш сме наистина приковани да извършим това, което сме замислили. Органична бруталност, вътрешности и груув натъпкани в 54 минути металическо лечение, което е най-добре да се избягва от хора със слаби сърца!!”
Tomas Haake, Drums

TRACKLIST CD:

1 - I Am Colossus 4:43
2 - The Demon's Name Is Surveillance 4:39
3 - Do Not Look Down 4:44
4 - Behind The Sun 6:14
5 - The Hurt That Finds You First 5:34
6 - Marrow 5:35
7 - Break Those Bones Who Sinews Gave It Motion 6:55
8 - Swarm 5:26
9 - Demiurge 6:13
10 - The Last Vigil 4:32

DVD:
1 - Kunstrukting The Koloss 25:00
2 - Meshuggah In India 26:25


LINE-UP:

Jens Kidman I vocals
Marten Hagstrom | guitar
Dick Lovgren | bass
Fredrik Thordendal I guitar
Tomas Haake | drums

ONLINE SHOP:

MESHUGGAH - ALIVE LTD. EDIT. (CD+DVD DIGI) 30.00
- Боговете на Math Metal стила и негови пионери MESHUGGAH отново удрят с първото DVD в своята история като група! Ltd. CD+DVD digipak [!]

"Alive" съдържа различни концертни парчета поставени в DVD формат, които са записани по време на разни шоута от тяхното Северно Американско/ Канадско турне със CYNIC през 2009, както и от изявата им на фестивала Loudpark festival в Токио през 2008. Това е разнообразено от кадри зад сцената, обстоен поглед върху работата на ударните и китарите плюс видеоклип! Допълнителното CD се гордее с 12 концертни парчета.

Задължителен атрибут за всички фенове на шведският квинтет, който революционира целия метъл жанр!

TRACKLIST DVD:

01. Begin
02. Perpetual Black Second (Tokyo)
03. Twenty Two Hours
04. Pravus (Tokyo)
05. Dissemination
06. Bleed (NYC)
07. Ritual
08. New Millenium Cyanide Christ (Montreal
09. Cleanse
10. Stengah (Montreal)
11. The Mouth Licking What You’ve Bled (Montreal)
12. Machine
13. Electric Red (Tokyo)
14. Solidarius
15. Rational Gaze (Tokyo)
16. Moment
17. Lethargica (Toronto)
18. Communicate
19. Combustion (Toronto)
21. Straws Pulled At Random (Toronto)
20. Humiliative (Montreal)
22. Straws Pulled At Random (Toronto)
23. End

Bonus:
01. Bleed Music Video
02. The Making Of Bleed
03. Micha Guitar Tour
04. Tomas Drum Tour

TRACKLIST CD:

01. Perpetual Black Second
02. Electric Red
03. Rational Gaze
04. Pravus
05. Lethargica
06. Combustion
07. Straws Pulled At Random
08. New Millenium Cyanide Christ
09. Stengah
10. The Mouth Licking What You’ve Bled
11. Humiliative
12. Bleed

LINE-UP:

Jens Kidman - Vocals
Marten Hagstrom - Guitar
Fredrik Thordendal - Guitar
Dick Lovgren - Bass
Tomas Haake - Drums