Meshuggah (SWE)

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Meshuggah - The Ophidian Trek (2CD) (2014)











Year : 2014
Style : Thrash Metal , Extreme Metal , Groove Metal
Country : Sweden
Audio : 320 kbps + front + Videos
Size : 254 mb

Info:

Meshuggah /məˈʃʊɡə/is a Swedish extreme metal band from Umeå, formed in 1987. Meshuggah's line-up has primarily consisted of founding members vocalist Jens Kidman and lead guitarist Fredrik Thordendal, drummer Tomas Haake, who joined in 1990, and rhythm guitarist Mårten Hagström, who joined in 1992. The band has gone through a number of bassists, with the position currently being held by Dick Lövgren since 2004.Meshuggah first attracted international attention with the 1995 release Destroy Erase Improve for its fusion of fast-tempo death metal, thrash metal and progressive metal with jazz fusion elements. Since its 2002 album Nothing, Meshuggah has switched from seven-string to downtuned eight-string guitars. Meshuggah has become known for their innovative musical style, complex, polymetered song structures and polyrhythms. Meshuggah was labeled as one of the ten most important hard rock and heavy metal bands by Rolling Stone and as the most important band in metal by Alternative Press. Meshuggah has found little mainstream success as yet, but is a significant act in extreme underground music. Nevertheless, Meshuggah has begun to gain attention and respect among more mainstream audiences since the late 2000s.Since its formation, Meshuggah has released seven studio albums, seven EPs and eight music videos. The band has performed in various international festivals, including Ozzfest and Download, and embarked on the obZen world tour from 2008 to 2010. Meshuggah's latest studio album, Koloss, was released on March 23, 2012. Nothing and the albums that followed have all charted on the Billboard 200. Meshuggah's most commercially successful album, Koloss, debuted at number 17 in the USA, with first week sales of 18,342 copies. In 2006 and 2009, the band was nominated for a Swedish Grammy Award.

Album:

Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the recording of their first EP, Swedish experimental extreme metallers MESHUGGAH will release a concert DVD / 2CD set and Blu-ray, "The Ophidian Trek", this fall via Nuclear Blast. With visual footage shot in the U.S.and Europe during "The Ophidian Trek" tour and festival footage from Wacken Open Air 2013 in Germany, the live audio was processed and edited by MESHUGGAH guitarist Fredrik Thordendal, mixed by Daniel Begstrand (DIMMU BORGIR, BEHEMOTH) and mastered by Mats "Limpan" Lindfors (ROXETTE, OPETH, MANDO DIAO).Meshuggah celebrate more than a quarter of a century at the forefront of their genre and delight their fans now with the release of a new DVD titled "The Ophidian Trek". This audio-visual Waiting for a complete Meshuggah live show, recorded on May 03, 2013, at the co-headline show with Devin Townsend at the Brixton Academy, London.The 13 tracks on "The Ophidian Trek" make a great retrospective of the brilliant career of Meshuggah is - starting with the first song of the evening "Swarm", just one of many from their latest album "Colossus" (2012), on "Obzen '(2008) with songs like "lethargica" and "Bleed" to the very early days of "Chaosphere" (1998) with the track "New Millenium Cynadie Christ."

Line-Up:

Tomas Haake Vocals (additional), Drums (1989-present) - See also: Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects, ex-Barophobia
Fredrik Thordendal Vocals (backing), Guitars (1987-present), Keyboards (1998) - See also: Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects, ex-Metallien, ex-Calipash
Jens Kidman Guitars (1987-1992), Vocals (1987-present), Bass (2005) - See also: ex-Metallien, ex-Calipash
Mårten Hagström Guitars, Vocals (backing) (1992-present), Bass (1995, 2005) - See also: ex-Barophobia
Dick Lövgren Bass (2004-present) - See also: ex-Cromlech, ex-Last Tribe, Nica Group, ex-Armageddon, ex-Frequency, ex-Time Requiem, ex-Arch Enemy (live), ex-In Flames (live)

Tracklist:

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 Millenium Cyanide Christ
04. Dancers to a Discordant System
05. Mind's Mirrors / In Death - Is Life / In Death - Is Death
06. The Last Vigil

+ Video "Do Not Look Down" The Ophidian Trek (OFFICIAL LIVE VIDEO)
+ Video "I Am Colossus" (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)




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Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep Of Reason (2016)













Year : 2016
Style : Thrash Metal , Extreme Metal , Groove Metal , Djent
Country : Sweden
Audio : 320 kbps + scans + Video
Size : 154 mb

Info:

Meshuggah /məˈʃʊɡə/is a Swedish extreme metal band from Umeå, formed in 1987. Meshuggah's line-up has primarily consisted of founding members vocalist Jens Kidman and lead guitarist Fredrik Thordendal, drummer Tomas Haake, who joined in 1990, and rhythm guitarist Mårten Hagström, who joined in 1992. The band has gone through a number of bassists, with the position currently being held by Dick Lövgren since 2004.Meshuggah first attracted international attention with the 1995 release Destroy Erase Improve for its fusion of fast-tempo death metal, thrash metal and progressive metal with jazz fusion elements. Since its 2002 album Nothing, Meshuggah has switched from seven-string to downtuned eight-string guitars. Meshuggah has become known for their innovative musical style, complex, polymetered song structures and polyrhythms. Meshuggah was labeled as one of the ten most important hard rock and heavy metal bands by Rolling Stone and as the most important band in metal by Alternative Press. Meshuggah has found little mainstream success as yet, but is a significant act in extreme underground music. Nevertheless, Meshuggah has begun to gain attention and respect among more mainstream audiences since the late 2000s.Since its formation, Meshuggah has released seven studio albums, seven EPs and eight music videos. The band has performed in various international festivals, including Ozzfest and Download, and embarked on the obZen world tour from 2008 to 2010. Meshuggah's latest studio album, Koloss, was released on March 23, 2012. Nothing and the albums that followed have all charted on the Billboard 200. Meshuggah's most commercially successful album, Koloss, debuted at number 17 in the USA, with first week sales of 18,342 copies. In 2006 and 2009, the band was nominated for a Swedish Grammy Award.

Album:

Meshuggah have miraculously managed to remain aloof from the oft-maligned genre they are credited with inventing – the onomatopoeic "djent" – largely through an ingenuous adherence to quality and songcraft. This in spite of the fact that the band's work has relied less on novelty than sheer consistency the last decade and change; what was once a revolutionary sound has arguably settled into staid formula, although the old adage "if it isn't broke don't fix it" ought certainly to apply to these inveterate Swedes.Equal parts Cynic and Machine Head, Spiral Architect and Fear Factory, djent weaves a complex strand of technical thrash (often bordering on death metal) with catchy 90's-era groove metal to produce a dateless style that most imitators frankly kind of suck at… hence the love/hate relationship with the genre that many fans – and indeed the members of Meshuggah themselves – find themselves wavering in and out of.With next year marking their 30th anniversary as a band, The Violent Sleep of Reason find Meshuggah charging out of the gate in familiar fashion, blistering riffs and stop-on-a-dime time signature changes in familiar effect. The primary purpose of a Meshuggah album this far along in the band's trajectory is less to rewrite the script and more to overwrite the all-too-familiar back catalog that fans have worn down the needles on their record players over. Which is not to say that anything on this album will make one forget the very existence of classics like Destroy Erase Improve or Chaosphere, but a little fresh blood never hurt anyone, and the ten extended tracks making up Violent Sleep will resound with any existing fan, even while it fails to win over that small segment of the metal fan base that never really got the band… and probably never will.Cockily starting off the album with its longest song at over seven minutes, Meshuggah turn "Clockworks" into a clinic of what has made the band so revered over time: brutal tech-savvy riffs, wailing guitar solos seemingly time-shifted from another dimension, Tomas Haake's incomparable octopus-like drumming. "By the Ton" shifts the emphasis away from sheer brutality – not entirely absent, by the way – and complex instrumentation toward a fitful, staggered groove, with "Ivory Tower" splitting the difference between the two approaches with a true block-leveling guitar riff.While lacking in true surprises, The Violent Sleep of Reason does what it's supposed to do: scratch a familiar itch while staving off any hint of stagnation. At this stage of the band's history it becomes more and more difficult to play favorites among a reliable catalog not necessarily known for its diversity; most Meshuggah fans will likely favor whatever the first couple of albums they heard by the group. Which is fine by me; not every band needs to toss out the playbook and blaze new trails, and if anyone should be exempt it ought to be the ensembles that actually wrote the damn playbook to begin with. And so while any band can technically do whatever the hell they want, it doesn't matter much if the results do not resound with listeners. 30 years in, Meshuggah prove that, for them, that will never be a problem.

Line-Up:

Jens Kidman Guitars (1987-1992), Vocals (1987-present), Bass (2005) - See also: ex-Metallien, ex-Calipash
Fredrik Thordendal Guitars, Vocals (backing) (1987-present), Keyboards (1998) - See also: Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects, ex-Metallien, ex-Calipash
Tomas Haake Drums, Vocals (additional) (1989-present) - See also: Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects, ex-Barophobia
Mårten Hagström Guitars, Vocals (backing) (1992-present), Bass (1995, 2005) - See also: ex-Barophobia
Dick Lövgren Bass (2004-present) - See also: Cromlech, ex-Last Tribe, Nica Group, ex-Armageddon, ex-Frequency, ex-Arch Enemy (live), ex-In Flames (live), ex-Time Requiem

Tracklist:

01. Clockworks 07:15
02. Born in Dissonance 04:34
03. MonstroCity 06:13
04. By the Ton 06:04
05. Violent Sleep of Reason 06:51
06. Ivory Tower 04:59
07. Stifled 06:31
08. Nostrum 05:15
09. Our Rage Won't Die 04:41
10. Into Decay 06:32

+ Video "Clockworks" (Official Video)




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