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New Millennium Cyanide Christ is a song by the heavy metal group Meshuggah from the 1998 album Chaosphere and it stands as one of the most popular songs by the band to date.
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The song, in typical Meshuggah fashion, applies various poly-rhythmical changes throughout the song.
- The intro riff is five measures of 23/16 and one of 13/16.
- The verse is 9 measures of 3/8 and one measure of 5/8.
- The passage from the lyrics "Self-inflicted fractures" changes to 3/4, 9/16, 3/4, 9/16, 3/4, 5/8
- The passage from the lyrics "Baptized in vitriolic acid" and the guitar solo alternates between 7/16 and 9/16
- The passage from the lyrics "Disciples" changes to a 4/4 rhythm, but with a triplet feel.
- The ending riff is 6/8, 8/8, 6/8, 8/8, 4/8
The song features a rather un-orthodox music video, displaying the five members of the band sitting in a moving RV, headbanging and air guitaring to the song (which includes Fredrik Thordendal's precise solowork as well), while Tomas Haake sits on a bunk bed with two drumsticks and Jens Kidman mouthes the words into a ballpoint pen - all while keeping a straight face. According to the liner notes of Rare Trax (which contained the MPEG version of the video), the video was recorded in 1999, "somewhere in Ohio". Hagström has claimed that the band was drunk at the time.
The bed has "It was Satan's wrong!" scrawled upon it, which is a literal word-by-word translation from Swedish band The Kristet Utseende's song "Det var Satans fel" ("It was Satan's fault"). Haake later admitted that the writing was done via duct tape, "out of pure boredom". [1] He also admitted that the video itself was intended as a joke, and was never really meant to be released, although it ended up being the most popular Meshuggah video on YouTube.
Due to a production mistake, some CD-s were lacking the videos from Rare Trax - they were later made available online by Nuclear Blast.
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