Chaosphere

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Chaosphere
Studio album by Meshuggah
Released	November 10, 1998
Recorded	Dug-Out, Uppsala, Sweden
Genre	Tech Metal
Length	47:27
Label	Nuclear Blast
Producer(s)	Daniel Bergstrand Fredrik Thordendal
Professional reviews
All Music Guide [1]
Meshuggah chronology
Destroy Erase Improve (1995)	Chaosphere (1998)	Nothing (2002)

Chaosphere is the third album by Swedish tech metal band Meshuggah. It was released in 1998.

Chaosphere's sound is largely a combination of the thrash style of the band's previous releases and the crushing technicality that they would further explore on subsequent albums, such as 2002's Nothing. The second track, New Millennium Cyanide Christ, is one of the band's most well-known songs and is a fan favorite, and a video was filmed for just that song.

This album is considered to be Meshuggah's most intense album they have recorded so far as it is mostly atonal through the entire album's duration and does not carry the jazz fusion elements shown on the previous album with the exception of the guitar solos

[edit] Track listing

1. "Concatenation"" – 4:17
2. "New Millennium Cyanide Christ" – 5:36
3. "Corridor of Chameleons" – 5:02
4. "Neurotica" – 5:20
5. "The Mouth Licking What You've Bled" – 3:57
6. "Sane" – 3:49
7. "The Exquisite Machinery of Torture" – 3:56
8. "Elastic" – 15:30
9. "Unanything" – 3:00 (Japanese Bonus Track)

[edit] Personnel

• Jens Kidman - Lead vocals
• Gustaf Hielm - Bass
• Tomas Haake - Drums & voice
• Mårten Hagström - Rhythm guitar
• Fredrik Thordendal - Rhythm & lead guitar & Synthesizers