Meshuggah

   
Artist: Meshuggah

   Genre(s): 
Metal
   Metal: Thrash
   Metal: Progressive
   Metal: Death,Black
   Rock
   Metal: Alternative
   

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Discography:


   
 Catch Thirtythree

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 13


   
 Catch 33

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 13


   
 I

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 1


   
 Nothing

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 10


   
 Rare Trax

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 10


   
 Chaosphere

   Year: 1998   
Tracks: 8


   
 The True Human Design

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 6


   
 Destroy Erase Improve

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 10


   
 None

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 4


   
 Contradictions Collapse

   Year: 1991   
Tracks: 13

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Offering a complex form of metallic element that combined the wholesale adverturism of mathematics rock candy, the flake tempos of experimental jazz, and the stunning ferociousness of thrash metallic element, Meshuggah raised the bar for metallic element bands all over upon their debut. The roots of Swedish metal dance band Meshuggah were planted in 1985; primitively named Metallien, the creation get hold included frontman Roger Olofsson, guitarists Peder Gustafsson and Fredrik Tordendahl, bassist Janne Wiklund and drummer Örjan Lundmark. After a few demos made the rounds, Metallien stony-broke up and Fredrik Thordendal continued the dance band with a different lineup and a dissimilar name. The original lineup of Meshuggah as well included singer Jens Kidman, guitar player Johan Sjögren, bassist Jörgen Lindmark and drummer Per Sjögren. A fistful of demos followed ahead Kidman left wing the group to form a new outfit, Calipash, with guitar player Torbjörn Granström, bassist Peter Nordin and drummer Niclas Lundgren; the living members of Meshuggah shortly disbanded, and when Granström left wing Calipash, Thordendal assumed guitar duties in the new band. Kidman and Thordendal so in agreement to reform the Meshuggah name, and in 1989 the dance band released a three-song mini-LP; after sign language to Nuclear Blast (and swapping Lundgren for new drummer Tomas Haake), they issued the uncut Contradictions Collapse in 1991. Second guitar player Mårten Hagström was recruited for 1993's None EP, followed two long time by and by by Selfcaged; in the meantime, however, the radical was forced to asseverate a low profile -- first-class honours degree Thordendal cut off a finger in a woodworking accident, then Haake injured his helping hand in a mysterious poor boy misadventure. Destroy Erase Improve appeared later on in 1995, and won over critics with their foolhardy tempos and abstract approach. In 1997 Meshuggah returned with The True Human Design EP; that same year, Thordendal's face propose, Special Defects, released their LP Colloidal suspension Niger Within. Meshuggah reunited for 1998's Chaosphere, a thunderous album that was unbearably impenetrable in its songwriting and cRO. Several successful tours followed, and their incredible abilities were starting to get recognized by mainstream music magazines, peculiarly those consecrate to particular instruments. Once they left wing the touring lap, the ring was surprisingly quiet, cooking up newfangled material for a few old age piece on a rarities magnetic disk marked the time. But in the summer of 2002, they released Nothing, a masterpiece of atmosphere that added psychedelic touches to their ever tightening sound. Unique in nigh every path, the album didn't get much of a mainstream impact but had alloy fans banging their heads to 7/4 tempos and esoteric lyrics. A safe word from Ozzy Osbourne's son Jack scored the ring a situation on the annual Ozzfest tour, where they flourished on the instant stage, often stealing the show with their original and ferine maths alloy. After a brief break, Meshuggah released the I EP in 2004. Composed of a unmarried epical lead, the complex arrangements of I were scarcely a suggestion of what was to follow. Their adjacent album, Catch Thirty-Three, was released the following year and proved to be their most challenging to date.