Review# 27
Meshuggah is the Yiddish word for insane. Their music is perfectly co-ordinated insanity and technical brilliance. I must admit that I am only familiar with this album and Catch 33 and I have heard that this album isn't as good as earlier albums but I don't know or care, it's an impressive piece of work.
It's really hard to describe Meshuggah; they are extreme,intense and aggressive, they incorporate so many styles of music from Death metal to Prog that in the end it is just their sound. They are often referred to as Mathcore or Experimental metal due to their precision and technical style and not to mention the completely fucked up time signatures and time signature changes. And they are even more impressive live, showing that they can replicate what's on the album perfectly.
While this album is not necessarily an album that you need to listen to as one whole piece like Catch 33 it's not really an album of individual parts either. The sound on this recording is perfect for getting across the intensity but doesn't really show off the range, so when it dips into the “lighter” twangs of the guitar and bass it registers more as an absence of other instruments and is not of a change of pace.
But I do like this album and it is great fun to turn up the album and emulate the strange headbang of Jens Kidman .
Bleed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc98u-eGzlc
Pravus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QziPUfPbE28
Meshuggah is the Yiddish word for insane. Their music is perfectly co-ordinated insanity and technical brilliance. I must admit that I am only familiar with this album and Catch 33 and I have heard that this album isn't as good as earlier albums but I don't know or care, it's an impressive piece of work.
It's really hard to describe Meshuggah; they are extreme,intense and aggressive, they incorporate so many styles of music from Death metal to Prog that in the end it is just their sound. They are often referred to as Mathcore or Experimental metal due to their precision and technical style and not to mention the completely fucked up time signatures and time signature changes. And they are even more impressive live, showing that they can replicate what's on the album perfectly.
While this album is not necessarily an album that you need to listen to as one whole piece like Catch 33 it's not really an album of individual parts either. The sound on this recording is perfect for getting across the intensity but doesn't really show off the range, so when it dips into the “lighter” twangs of the guitar and bass it registers more as an absence of other instruments and is not of a change of pace.
But I do like this album and it is great fun to turn up the album and emulate the strange headbang of Jens Kidman .
Bleed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc98u-eGzlc
Pravus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QziPUfPbE28
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