Meshuggah discography
 Meshuggah performing live in 2008 | |
| Releases | |
|---|---|
| ↙Studio albums | 7 |
| ↙Compilation albums | 1 |
| ↙EPs | 7 |
| ↙Music videos | 10 |
Meshuggah is a Swedish experimental metal quintet formed in 1987 in Umeå. Meshuggah is known for its 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 a 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 were released by local record store Garageland in Umeå.[2] After signing to German heavy metal record label Nuclear Blast, Meshuggah released its debut album Contradictions Collapse in 1991. Meshuggah's second album, Destroy Erase Improve, was released in 1995.
Thordendal's side project's album, Sol Niger Within, was released in 1997, as was the next Meshuggah EP, The True Human Design. These were followed by the next full-length album, Chaosphere, in 1998.
A collection of demos (from Meshuggah) and rare recordings were released as the Rare Trax album in 2001.[3] In 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 that features the band's appearance at the Download 2005 festival, along with the official music videos for "Rational Gaze", "Shed" and "New Millennium Cyanide Christ".[5] Meshuggah released I in 2004, a single 21-minute track,[6] and in 2005 the band released the next full-length album, Catch Thirtythree, a 47-minute song divided up into 13 movements,[7][8] the only album with programmed drums.[9] In 2008, Meshuggah released obZen, followed by Koloss in 2012.[1]
Studio albums
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWE [10] |
FIN [11] |
FRA [12] |
GER [13] |
NOR [14] |
SWI [15] |
UK [16] |
US [17] |
US Heat. [17] |
US Ind. [17] | ||||
| 1991 | Contradictions Collapse
|
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1995 | Destroy Erase Improve
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43 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1998 | Chaosphere
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2002 | Nothing
|
41 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 165 | 6 | 10 | ||
| 2005 | Catch Thirtythree
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12 | — | 124 | — | — | — | — | 170 | 7 | 13 | ||
| 2008 | obZen
|
16 | 21 | 123 | — | — | 99 | 151 | 59 | — | — | ||
| 2012 | Koloss
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12 | 7 | 120 | 48 | 19 | 39 | 93 | 17 | — | 2 | ||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released in that country. | |||||||||||||
Live albums
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SWE [10] |
FRA [12] |
GRC [18] | ||
| 2010 | Alive
|
43 | 149 | 25 |
Compilation albums
| Year | Album details |
|---|---|
| 2001 | Rare Trax
|
EPs
| Year | EP details | Peak chart positions |
|---|---|---|
| SWE [10] | ||
| 1989 | Meshuggah
|
— |
| 1994 | None
|
— |
| 1995 | Selfcaged
|
— |
| 1997 | The True Human Design
|
— |
| 2004 | I
|
33 |
| 2012 | I Am Colossus
|
— |
| 2013 | Pitch Black
|
— |
Music videos
| Year | Song | Director(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2012 | "Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion" | Owe Lingvall |
| "Demiurge" | Anthony Dubois | |
| 2013 | "I Am Colossus" | Magnus Jonsson |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Ankeny, Jason; Torreano, Bradley. "Meshuggah Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved May 11, 2008.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Meshuggah - 1989". www.meshuggah.net. Archived from the original on April 21, 2008. Retrieved May 11, 2008.
- ↑ Espn. "A short biography". www.meshuggah.net. Archived from the original on May 13, 2007. Retrieved May 16, 2007.
- ↑ Adrien Begrand. "Nothing (Special Edition)". PopMatters. Retrieved June 10, 2008.
- ↑ "MESHUGGAH: 'Nothing' Re-Release Track Listing Revealed". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved June 8, 2008.
- ↑ "I - 2004". www.meshuggah.net. Retrieved May 11, 2008.
- ↑ Bowar, Chad. "Meshuggah - ObZen". About.com:Heavy Metal. Retrieved October 9, 2007.
- ↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Catch Thirty-Three review". Allmusic. Retrieved June 10, 2008.
- ↑ "Meshuggah". Nuclear Blast. Archived from the original on May 10, 2008. Retrieved June 10, 2008.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 "Discography Meshuggah". Hung Medien. Retrieved June 6, 2008.
- ↑ "Discography Meshuggah". Hung Medien. Retrieved June 6, 2008.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Discography Meshuggah" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved June 6, 2008.
- ↑ "Chartverfolgung / Meshuggah / Longplay" (in German). PhonoNet. Retrieved April 11, 2012.
- ↑ "Discography Meshuggah". Hung Medien. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
- ↑ "Discography Meshuggah". Hung Medien. Retrieved June 6, 2008.
- ↑ Zywietz, Tobias. "Chart Log UK: M - My Vitriol". Zobbel. Retrieved January 16, 2011.
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 Peak chart positions in the United States:
- "Meshuggah Album & Song Chart History: Billboard 200". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved January 16, 2011.
- "Meshuggah Album & Song Chart History: Heatseekers Albums". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved January 16, 2011.
- "Meshuggah Album & Song Chart History: Independent Albums". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved January 16, 2011.
- ↑ "Discography Meshuggah". Hung Medien. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
External links
Media related to Meshuggah at Wikimedia Commons
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