Band Archives: meshuggah
Meshuggah — The Violent Sleep Of Reason
★★★★ This is the culmination and perfection of Meshuggah’s explorations from their previous albums “Koloss,” “Obzen,” and “Catch Thirty-Three.” But more than ever in the band’s career, this material feels designed from the ground up to live for performance in front of a crowd, not Meshuggah’s prior standard of careful curation in the confines of a studio.
Sweet, sweet metal
Now here’s a labor of love that I can get behind: London-based musician Pete Cottrell has recorded a cover of Meshuggah’s “Straws Pulled At Random,” in which he’s replaced all the percussion with samples of British sweets.
How to make djent
Here’s an interesting glimpse into Meshuggah’s songwriting process, courtesy of the man himself, Tomas Haake.
It’s the little things
How do you make Meshuggah heavier? Slow it down enough to drop the tuning by 4 semitones, that’s how.
Sport the war
A lot of hay has been made this week about the 10-year-old guitarist shredding some Slayer. And while I don’t think Kerry King should give up his search for a new co-guitarist, Audrey’s skills are pretty formidable.
But that’s just burying the lede. Pay attention to her 6-year-old sister Kate, doing a Shatneresque interpretive screamfest all the while.
Re: Re: Re: This is the most metal thing that I have ever seen.
The headbanging is appropriately absurd for this also-ridiculous Meshuggah track, and yeah I kept expecting to see fingers flying. So fargin’ metal!
I really dug the Vader album. The Septicflesh was a bit too disjointed, even for me. Check out the new Origin album – tasty!
We’re at the halfway mark of 2014, and I already have enough contenders for the Arsies.
Happy anniversary, Meshuggah!
Last night, I went to see Meshuggah live, on their minitour celebrating 25 years of music (with Between The Buried And Me as support). The bands were both in fine form, but it was an odd night, insofar as the band’s conceit of playing a set of material largely in chronological order led to pacing issues.
Die, Allied schweinehund
Bethesda Games is on the verge of releasing Wolfenstein: The New Order; it’s already out for PC, but I’m a Mac and Xbox 360 kind of guy, so I have to wait.
And while I wait, here’s a track from the game’s soundtrack… by Fredrik Thordendal. Achtung!
