Thrash Metal Meshuggah

[Magic]

Official Website

Current Members:

• Jens Kidman – lead vocals (1987–present), rhythm guitar (1987–1993)
• Fredrik Thordendal – guitars, backing vocals (1987–present), synthesizers (1992–2001), bass (2001–2004)
• Tomas Haake – drums, spoken vocals (1989–present)
• Mårten Hagström – guitars, backing vocals (1993–present)
• Dick Lövgren – bass (2004–present)

Albums:

• Contradictions Collapse (1991)
• Destroy Erase Improve (1995)
• Chaosphere (1998)
• Nothing (2002)
• Catch Thirtythree (2005)
• obZen (2008)
• Koloss (2012)
• The Violent Sleep of Reason (2016)
• Immutable (2022)

Meshuggah is a thrash metal/progressive metal/avant-garde metal band from Sweden that formed in 1987.


Their newest album, Immutable, was released April 2022.

Broken Cog

The Abysmal Eye

 

[Mr. Gregory]

The godfathers of djent. They're one of the first metal bands that I got into. It's been a minute since I last listened to them. I have fond memories of listening to them while playing the 2012 SSX game on my Xbox 360 and trying to set new personal best times.

Sounds like I might have to give Immutable a listen. The Violent Sleep of Reason didn't grab me like that when I tried to listen to it back when it first came out, so I never got into it. I like the rest of their albums, though. The first one I listened to was obZen, so that one will always be particularly special to me, but they're all great.

Here are a few of my favorite songs of theirs, although picking these is an impossible decision:

New Millennium Cyanide Christ (from Chaosphere)

Spasm (from Nothing)

Everyone's favorite, Bleed (from obZen)

And my favorite out of this bunch, Swarm (from Koloss)