Catch Thirty-Three
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| Catch Thirty-Three | ||
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| Studio album by Meshuggah | ||
| Released | May 16, 2005 | |
| Recorded | 2005 | |
| Genre | Tech metal | |
| Length | 47:06 | |
| Label | Nuclear Blast | |
| Producer(s) | ?? | |
Catch Thirty-Three is the fifth album by Swedish tech metal band Meshuggah.
Although it is a full-length album with 13 tracks, it is actually a single continuous thirteen-part suite. The band themselves have said that even though it is a full length release, it is still considered to be an experimental piece and not quite a bona-fide album.
Lyrically this album is a concept album, revolving around different kinds of paradoxes; hence the title Catch 33. See Catch-22 and Catch-22 (logic). The '33' in particular comes from the band's original plan to make the album thirty-three minutes long, but it ended up being forty-seven.
This is also the first full Meshuggah album where the drums are programmed rather than performed by drummer Tomas Haake. They are programmed using The Drumkit from Hell, a software package that actually uses Tomas' drums and cymbals as samples. The first Meshuggah song to feature programmed drums was War from Rare Trax.
[edit] Track listing
- Autonomy Lost – 1:40
- Imprint of the Un-Saved – 1:35
- Disenchantment – 1:43
- The Paradoxical Spiral – 3:11
- Re-Inanimate – 1:04
- Entrapment – 2:28
- Mind's Mirrors – 4:29
- In Death - Is Life – 2:01
- In Death - Is Death – 13:22
- Shed – 3:33
- Personae Non Gratae – 1:47
- Dehumanization – 2:55
- Sum – 7:17
[edit] Personnel
- Jens Kidman - Guitars & bass, vocals
- Fredrik Thordendal - Guitars & bass
- Mårten Hagström - Guitars & bass
- Tomas Haake - Drum Programming & Spoken vocals
