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Ok yeah this new Meshuggah album is an all time banger. I've written a 6 track sampler/intro/primer to Meshuggah previously on my blog, which I can reproduce here because cohost is great! Also, I really, really love this band, and believe they're one of the most influential groups (even outside of metal) in the past couple decades. Given how unique they still are, I like introducing people, and thus this intro with 6 representative pieces from the past 27 years. Enjoy!

Meshuggah is a long-running metal band which set off a lot of modern trends, especially the "djent" genre & timbres. Their music deals heavily in rhythm and groove via minimalist repetition, with textural additions from harsh vocals and additional guitar lines in the high registers. One of my favorite standout elements is Frederik Thordendal's atypical guitar solos, which sound almost completely alien from any guitar solo you've ever heard, but are perfectly intriguiging, fluid, and tasty. So... let's dive in!


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i should add – you can absolutely just listen to bits of these songs and get the effect. they’re good like that. also, here’s a great video that goes through the basics of their rhythmic style and explains how everything fits together!


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