They’re arguably the heaviest and most technical band of all time, but they’re also extraordinarily easy to listen to ...
While both releases might seem like willfully antagonistic efforts to skirt the djent craze, Meshuggah denies any such motivation. “With Catchthirtythree-- especially that very idea of doing a ...
You know you've got something unique on your hands when it takes the rest of the world well over a decade to latch onto your style. Imitation is the highest form of flattery as the old adage goes and ...
For fans of Meshuggah a new album is still at event status. It’s been four years since 2012’s Koloss, but it seems like longer. Now details are beginning to emerge from Meshuggah’s follow-up, and I’m ...
The title of Meshuggah‘s second salvo, 1995’s Destroy Erase Improve, promised a permanent paradigm shift — a common enough boast, but no idle one in this case. Nor were they content with subsequent ...
Few bands can legitimately claim to have spearheaded an entire movement in music, let alone a genre all its own. Meshuggah can. If you enjoy bands such as Periphery or Tesseract, Animals As Leaders or ...
Unknown Mortal Orchestra are preparing to release the double album V. Singles “Layla,” “I Killed Captain Cook,” “Nadja,” “That Life,” and “Weekend Run” have all been shared so far and portray an ...
Meshuggah have developed an approach to progressive death metal so distinctive and compelling that it’s spawned an entire subgenre of imitators. And right from its title, the Swedish band’s ninth ...
Swedish extreme metal masters Meshuggah are back with their seventh full-length, Koloss, the highly anticipated follow-up to their stellar 2008 album, obZen. In a recent Exclaim! interview, guitarist ...