MESHUGGAH albums poll

spun Chaosphere today.

everybody talk's about Meshuggah's groove, and with good reason. last time I saw them, I was doing the goofiest dance possible to their groovy sounds, all by myself in a tucked away area behind the soundboard.

Chaosphere is less groove and more "the guitars are one gigantic battering ram", a major extension of the drums. which of course they do on their other albums as well, but not to this extent.

the first 'breakdown', on "Concatenation" still makes me lose my mind, the abrupt shift into a polyrhythmic pattern that sounds akin to a kid learning how to drive stick shift for the first time, with one of Thordendal's more insane solos, sounds almost like an alien communicating in its mother tongue.

classic.

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Went with Obzen. Was the peak for me. Just revisited it after seeing this poll and still sounds great.

I had kind of reserved myself to thinking Meshuggah had passed their peak and wouldn't be releasing much that interested me anymore and just bought Obzen on drop date on a whim and by the time I got to "Bleed" i had quite the smile on my face.

lended it to a friend a week later and it's still his favorite.

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I was the sole vote for C33. It kind of stretched the boundaries of what metal could be for me as a teenager and the first album I felt physically drained after listening to.

Poor showing here, ILM!

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"Stengah" is one of the heaviest riffs known to man. I still haven't bothered to check out the re-recorded version because the original was perfect enough to me.

ok I just listened to the re-recorded "Stengah" and hated it, so fuck that.

I mentioned on the metal thread that I saw them for the first time a couple of weeks ago. When Tomas announced he had eczema on his hands (which, iirc, is what caused their tour to be postponed, not covid) I realized they're getting pretty old (for this type of metal) and can't keep doing this forever. Though who knows, the guys in Anthrax are in their '60s, right? Maybe there is no ceiling.