Nothing (album)

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Nothing

Studio album by Meshuggah
Released	August 6, 2002
Recorded	2002
Genre	Tech metal
Length	53:09 (58:33)
Label	Nuclear Blast
Producer(s)	??
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Meshuggah chronology
Chaosphere (1998)	Nothing (2002)	I (EP) (2004)
Alternate cover

Re-release (2006)

Nothing is the fourth album by Swedish tech metal band Meshuggah, originally released in 2002.

It was re-recorded and re-mastered for a new re-release in 2006.

1 Summary
2 Track listing
3 Re-release
4 Track listing
- 4.1 DVD track listing
5 Personnel

[edit] Summary

The songs on this album consist of slower tempos and have a heavy focus on groove instead of the thrash influences on previous albums, though it carries the jazz fusion interludes that were present on some songs on the band's Destroy Erase Improve album. The stylistic change has lead to mixed reviews from fans, though the album received a warmer reception from mainstream critics than the band's previous efforts.

A video was filmed for the track Rational Gaze.

This was also the first album where guitarists Fredrik Thordendal and Mårten Hagström test 8-string tunings.

[edit] Track listing

"Stengah" – 5:38
"Rational Gaze" – 5:04
"Perpetual Black Second" – 4:39
"Closed Eye Visuals" – 7:26
"Glints Collide" – 4:56
"Organic Shadows" – 5:08
"Straws Pulled At Random" – 5:10
"Spasm" – 4:15
"Nebulous" – 6:33
"Obsidian" – 4:20

[edit] Re-release

A re-recorded and re-mastered version of the album was released on October 31, 2006. The new version has the rhythm guitar tracks re-recorded with new guitars and amplifiers. The guitars on the original 'Nothing' were recorded with detuned 7-string Nevborn guitars that suffered from bad intonation and getting detuned between each recording. When Hagström and Thordendal were sponsored by Ibanez with custom 8-string guitars they were so pleased with the results, they decided to re-record their parts with the new instruments. The drums were also redone by triggering the original drum hits using Drumkit From Hell Superior.^{[citation needed]} The re-release includes a DVD of video clips and their Download Festival performance in 2005, as well as modified cover art.