Meshuggah
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Textures (band)...to date. The band plays a complex metal style, closely linked with progressive metal (and bands like Meshuggah), featuring elements of death metal and thrash metal; they also incorporate melodic interludes into their songs. On their first... In this article: Textures, Polars, Listenable Records, Meshuggah, Nuclear Blast, and Netherlands |
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Ultimate Guitar | June 01, 2009
After The Burial: Forging A Future Self [Reviews]
...is the result of the amalgation of various genres. There's definitely a deathcore root in it, but there's also touches of progressive metal and traces of... uh... whatever Meshuggah plays. Metal elitists be warned: There are lots of...
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Wikipedia | August 18, 2009
Ibanez Universe
...in 1996 largely due to Korn, a nu metal quintet from California, and Fear Factory, a California based Industrial metal band as well as Meshuggah, a Progressive metal band from Sweden. Many of Ibanez's competitors soon began to add...
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Dick Lovgren
Dick Lovgren Dick Lovgren is the current bass guitarist for the Swedish technical metal band Meshuggah. Previously, he played full-time in the following bands: the neo-classical metal/melodic power metal band, Time Requiem; the...
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33 (number)
...States has sent a satellite to explore and orbit Mercury (January 15, 2008) Progressive Metal band Meshuggah released their album "Catch 33" in the year 2005. In 2008, musician Teddy Geiger gives clues to fans about his new single,...
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New Millennium Cyanide Christ
New Millennium Cyanide Christ New Millennium Cyanide Christ is a song by the progressive metal group Meshuggah from the 1998 album Chaosphere. It stands as one of the most popular songs by the band to date. The song, in typical Meshuggah...
In this article: Tomas Haake, Rare Trax, New Millennium Cyanide Christ, YouTube, Jens Kidman, Fredrik Thordendal, The Kristet Utseende, Nuclear Blast, and Chaosphere
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Polyrhythm
...with complex polyrhythms, such as 11:17, and even nested polyrhythms. The metal bands Meshuggah, Nothingface and Mudvayne also use polyrhythms in their music. Contemporary progressive metal bands such as Tool and Dream Theater also...
In this article: Polyrhythm, Drums of Passion, Perfume, Carlos Santana, Trent Reznor, Hiccup, Sleepwalker, and Killing Floor
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Meshuggah
...fusion of fast-tempo death metal, thrash metal and progressive metal. Since its 2002 album Nothing '', Meshuggah has used eight-string guitars and downtuned, groovy riffs. Meshuggah has become known for innovative musical style, complex,...
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To-Mera
...progressive metal band Without Face. At the start of 2004 they began searching for full-time members and Akos Pirisi, a huge fan of Meshuggah and a master of polyrhythmics, was brought in on drums. Later Tom MacLean was found after he, a...
In this article: To-Mera, Without Face, Kerrang!, Delusions, Pain of Salvation, Malmonde, and Candlelight Records
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Meshuggah is a Swedish five-piece experimental metal band formed in 1987. Meshuggah's line-up has primarily consisted of founding members vocalist Jens Kidman and lead guitarist Fredrik Thordendal, drummer Tomas Haake, who joined in 1990, and rhythm guitarist Mårten Hagström, who joined in 1994. The band has gone through a number of bassists, but the position has been held by Dick Lövgren since 2004.
Meshuggah first attracted international attention with the 1995 release Destroy Erase Improve for its fusion of fast-tempo death metal, thrash metal and progressive metal. Since its 2002 album Nothing, Meshuggah has used eight-string guitars and downtuned, groovy riffs. Meshuggah has become known for complex, polyrhythmic song structures and precise musicianship. It was labeled as one of the ten most important hard and heavy bands by Rolling Stone and as the most important band in metal by Alternative Press. Meshuggah has found little mainstream success as of yet, but is a significant act in extreme underground music.
Nothing and the albums that followed have all charted on the Billboard 200. In 2006 and 2009, the band was nominated for a Swedish Grammy Award. Meshuggah's most commercially successful album, 2008's obZen, peaked at No. 59 and sold 11,400 copies in the first week and 50,000 copies six months after its release. Since its formation, Meshuggah has released six studio albums, five EPs and eight music videos. The band has performed in various international festivals, including Ozzfest and Download, and embarked on the obZen world tour in 2008.
- Name:
- Meshuggah
- Origin:
- Umeå, Sweden
- Years Active:
- 1987–present
- Current members:
- Former Members:
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- Peter Nordin
- Per Sjögren
- Jörgen Lindmark
- Gustaf Hielm
- Torbjörn Granström
- Johan Sjögren
- Niklas Lundgren
- Associated With:
- Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects
- Genre:
- Experimental metal
- Record Label:
- Nuclear Blast, Fractured Transmitter
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