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Somnambulist said:
Meshuggah are one of those bands that you warm to slowly, but once you're hooked it becomes a lifetime addiction, for a lot of people anyway. They have a hypnotic quality rather than head-banging appeal, at least in my case. I get the same sort of feeling with a few other bands that are completely different, such as Blut Aus Nord (black), Portal (death); they all create a sort of pocket you fall into and sway around in, a mood, so to speak, rather than it being about memorable song-writing/riffs/leads/hooks - although Meshuggah have quite a few epic riffs.

I'm also really looking forward to the next Special Defects album which Fredrik is working on, why must you take so long Mr. Thordendal!!?!?! Even when the guy is mucking about, it's godly:

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I like this vid too.


Edit: Getting really hyped for the new album, need it now! Listened to Chaosphere again last night, it's so damn good, heavy as anything.

 
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Yeah can't wait for the new Meshuggah album, and previous posts are right, does take a good few hours of listening to get into them, but then the madness will put a bulge in anyone's pants
 
I recently picked up In Waves by Trivium. I had never listened to them before! Awesome stuff. Bought all their other albums shortly after.

 
Ephemera said:
25 years since the release of Scum and still an important and relevant band today. Pretty sure they have a new album out soon aswell.
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I prefered the Scum line-up to the current lads tbh. Saw them play at Supersonic in '10 and wasn't impressed. Then I went to see Justin Broadrick at the same fest as Godflesh, fully sorted. Wish i could have made it last year though, missed Mick Harris :(
 
Thought that first song they put out from the new album was just ok for meshuggah standards, but this one is back to being awesome.

Neither seem as heavy as Obzen, though.
 
Robosapien said:
Completely not getting the Messugha love - is there something wrong with me???? (Is it some sort of joke?)
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So you want to get into meshuggah - start with destroy erase improve then go in chronological order. DEI probably their most accessible and then you should be ready to take on the awesomness of any meshuggah album.
 
The mistake with Meshuggah is to listen to them as if they're just a straightforward metal band playing in odd time sigs. They started off like that, in a way, when they changed form being a thrash band in Contradictions Collapse to the sound of the None EP, DEI and to an extent Chaosphere and Nothing, but essentially they transcended and progressed beyond that years ago.

Taking the 2nd track I posted, it was, according to Haake, inspired by them listening to funk music, which is reflected in the drums, the way the guitars play in the pocket and create a kind of swing. For Meshuggah it's quite a departure, in a way, despite it sounding so obviously them. The first track is very much in the vein of their recent output - hypnotising, hardly ever repeats itself, complicated vocal patterns, evokes a certain feeling. It's been years since they've been about writing riffs in the way your typical band does.
 
Eames said:
So you want to get into meshuggah - start with destroy erase improve then go in chronological order. DEI probably their most accessible and then you should be ready to take on the awesomness of any meshuggah album.
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Wouldn't obZen be the best album to get into them? *shrug*

Robosapien - If you don't like this song, yet you like metal, there is definitely something wrong with you:

 
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Really enjoying Amon Amarth lately, a band that passed me by for years, but I've been scouring their back catalogue lately and I've found that beneath all the cheesey Viking **** (which I'm not knocking, they're music has actually encouraged me to read up on Viking/Norse mythology) they've got real song writing and playing ability, very heavy at times but with extremely melodic guitar parts in many songs, love the vocal style too, great band imo, will have to see them live one day.

 
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Protest the Hero are just awful. I saw them supporting Darkest Hour last year, and despite a friend of mine being a fan just had to walk out and get a beer next door instead. I honestly can't understand that completely random stuff. It's like metal jazz -- I just don't know what's going on or how to appreciate it.

smit101 said:
Really enjoying Amon Amarth lately, a band that passed me by for years, but I've been scouring their back catalogue lately and I've found that beneath all the cheesey Viking **** (which I'm not knocking, they're music has actually encouraged me to read up on Viking/Norse mythology) they've got real song writing and playing ability, very heavy at times but with extremely melodic guitar parts in many songs, love the vocal style too, great band imo, will have to see them live one day.

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Amon Amarth are the bee's knees. I've spent many a day on the bus to work listening to them thinking how much better life would be as a viking warrior, smashing skulls and spilling guts on the battlefield, always content in the belief that should I die, I'll merely join my lost friends in Valhalla for an endless party!

Instead, I'm on a metal wagon filled with barely sociable idiots on their way to an 8-hour-a-day death sentence.
 
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