Meshuggah performing live in 2008 |
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↙Studio albums | 6 | |
↙Compilation albums | 1 | |
↙EPs | 5 | |
↙Music videos | 8 |
Meshuggah is a Swedish five-piece experimental metal band formed in 1987 in Umeå, known for their use of extended polymetric passages, complex time signatures, dissonant guitar riffs, and harsh vocals. As of 2008, the band consists of vocalist Jens Kidman, guitarists Fredrik Thordendal and Mårten Hagström, bassist Dick Lövgren and drummer Tomas Haake.
Meshuggah's first release was self-titled three-song 12" vinyl EP Meshuggah, which is commonly known as Psykisk Testbild, although that title is not printed anywhere.[1][2] Only 1000 copies have been released by local record store Garageland in Umeå.[2] After signing to German heavy metal record label Nuclear Blast, Meshuggah released their debut album Contradictions Collapse in 1991. Their second album Destroy Erase Improve appeared in 1995. Thordendal's sideproject's album Sol Niger Within was released in 1997, as well as the next EP The True Human Design, which was followed by the next full-length album Chaosphere in 1998.
A collection of demos (from the Psykisk Testbild EP) and rare recordings were released as the Rare Trax album in 2001.[3] In summer 2002 the band released their next album Nothing.[1] Meshuggah was not satisfied with the production of the album and later re-recorded the guitars for the re-release in 2006,[4] which also includes a bonus DVD featuring the band's appearance at the Download 2005 festival and the official music videos of "Rational Gaze", "Shed" and "New Millennium Cyanide Christ".[5] In 2004 Meshuggah released I EP, one single 21-minute track[6] and in 2005 the next full-length album Catch Thirtythree, one 47-minute song divided up into 13 sections,[7][8] the only album with programmed drums.[9] Meshuggah's last release is 2008's obZen.[1]
Contents |
Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||||||
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SWE [10] |
FIN [11] |
FRA [12] |
SWI [13] |
UK [14] |
US [15] |
US Heat. [16] |
US Ind. [17] |
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1991 | Contradictions Collapse
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1995 | Destroy Erase Improve
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43 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
1998 | Chaosphere
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67 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
2002 | Nothing
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41 | — | — | — | — | 165 | 6 | 10 |
2005 | Catch Thirtythree
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12 | — | 124 | — | — | 170 | 7 | 13 |
2008 | obZen
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16 | 21 | 123 | 99 | 151 | 59 | — | — |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. |
Year | Album details |
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2001 | Rare Trax
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Year | Album details | Notes |
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1989 | Psykisk Testbild
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1994 | None
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1995 | Selfcaged
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1997 | The True Human Design
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2004 | I
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Peaked at #33 on the Swedish charts.[10] |
Year | Song | Director(s) |
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1991 | "Abnegating Cecity" | Meshuggah |
1995 | "Transfixion" | |
"Terminal Illusions" | ||
1999 | "New Millennium Cyanide Christ" | |
2002 | "Rational Gaze" | Torbjorn Oyervold |
2005 | "Shed" | Matthias Haase |
2006 | "Rational Gaze" (Mr. Kidman Delirium Version) |
Jens Kidman |
2008 | "Bleed" | Ian McFarland Mike Pecci |
Media related to Meshuggah at Wikimedia Commons
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