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@melaniemelanin

2 жыл бұрын

Where is the Craig interview at ?

@bobbybobman3073

2 жыл бұрын

Speaking of bands that are less popular than they should be have you heard August Burns Red's EP "Looks Fragile After All". I just found out about the EP now, and was that EP almost 20 years too early? To me it sounds modern still and I think it shows how heavy you can go but still being incredibly creative. I have no idea how to classify their sound. And truly I've never heard anything like it before.

@Grimeyhoob

2 жыл бұрын

Interestingly Meshuggah and Refused were friends and toured together as well back in the day. Sweden has produced some fantastic bands across the entire realm of rock, punk and metal. From Meshuggah to In flames to Soilwork to Refused to Millencolin to Cult of Luna to Ghost to Opeth to Roxette to the Cardigans. So much brilliant songwriting across so many styles.

@MetaITurtle

2 жыл бұрын

Their amps are amassing. Probably the closest thing to old school trash in my opinion I'm talking about the mattresses lol jk jk just in case someone read this

@CarcPazu

2 жыл бұрын

The exact same video could be done on Voivod and how they brought dissonant riffs to metal. Never been the biggest band but they influenced pretty much every metal bands. Without Dimension Hatröss, Killing Technology and Nothingface, there's no Meshuggah or pretty much any metal genre that uses dissonance, staccato drumming, weird time signatures and overall odd song stuctures.

The best part of Meshuggah is their live show…sounds and lights. It is a life-changing experience that NO other band can compete with

@Cthorthu

Жыл бұрын

YES I don't usually listen to Meshuggah at home, but their live shows are absolutely magical.

@17peteclarke

Жыл бұрын

maybe sun o)))

@LoudnessJP

Жыл бұрын

There's a lot of good live bands these days but i wholeheartedly agree that there is no band that can compete with the experience of attending a Shuggah live performance.. Every friend I've brought to a show has become a fan of the band.. were often the same friends that didn't instantly become fans any of the hundred times i've linked shuggah songs to them over the years:)

@enlightendbel

Жыл бұрын

Their lights guy is their second drummer.

@WHOREHAMMER_OFFICIAL

9 ай бұрын

Id say behemoth can

Nobody ever believes me when I tell them early Meshuggah sounds like Metallica.

@pAWNproductionsDE

2 жыл бұрын

As much as I love their new stuff, I have a huge soft spot for their old music since it's basically just progressive thrash, which is a genre that barely exists

@mmpgssl2378

2 жыл бұрын

@@pAWNproductionsDE coroner was pretty progressive for thrash if you haven’t heard them

@pardonavich

2 жыл бұрын

Contradictions Collapse sounds like if Metallica kept going in the same path as ...And Justice For All

@elitaft7127

2 жыл бұрын

oh yeah you can definitely hear it. Especially on None and a little on Contradictions Collapse also

@IvanoForgione

2 жыл бұрын

wait until you discover how many people are actually aware of how Pantera sounded in their first few records. Very few. The best musicians take time to finally "click" on their own, immortal style

Bill Burr shared a story about a Meshuggah gig he visited where he happened to stand next to Danny Carey of Tool who was fascinated by Tomas Haake drumming

@oopsydaizi3s824

Жыл бұрын

I love that story

@amnofish

Жыл бұрын

@BouncyStickman Geegeegeggeggeggeegeggee!

@flaminghead1va

Жыл бұрын

Vyacheslav, do you happen to remember the # of the podcast he mentioned that? Any hints? Probably hard to remember, but figured I'd ask

@milanradojkovic3818

Жыл бұрын

Brrrrrta brrrrrrta brrrrrta brrrrrta...

@goatman3057

Жыл бұрын

Wildest drumming I ever heard is Gran Hechicero, nothing I ever heard as crazy as Afro-Cuban rock!

Future Breed Machine has one of the best breakdowns ever. That whole song takes you on a journey.

@SethHMG

2 жыл бұрын

BY THE NEW MACHIIIIIIINE

@techdeathhippie6319

2 жыл бұрын

Fuck ya it’s a journey . Amazing

@kalm420

2 жыл бұрын

Still blast it out my car lol

@pentexsucks43

Жыл бұрын

EVOLUTIOOOON, IN REVERSE!

@LukeBCtown

Жыл бұрын

Probably my favorite song I've ever listened to of all music genres and i mean literally all. Anything that's flown into my ears.

Honestly, Bleed gets all the hype but New Millennium Cyanide Christ is what got me into them. Still my fav song to blast

@bjornnilsson2941

Жыл бұрын

That song left my brains all over the wall the first time I heard it. It's definitely one of my go-to's when I want to get hyped up.

@astrolopitekos

9 ай бұрын

I couldn’t understand the song when I saw it on MTV but the video was so mesmerizing that I kept watching. After a few mins I was just headbanging and laughing. Then came Bleed, Future Breed Machine, Rational Gaze etc. but man New Millennium Cyanide Christ still does it for me 😂

@mrconfusion87

8 ай бұрын

Bleed is NOT in my Top 10 Meshuggah songs list! Sickening, Ritual, Future Breed Machine, Beneath, Soul Burn, Transfixion, Sublevels, New Millennium Christ, Neurotica, Mouth Licking What You Bled, Rational Gaze are all higher up on my list! 🤣🤣🤣

@TheMooleytuna

5 ай бұрын

That Video tho lol.. sooo good

@Whiterioot

5 ай бұрын

Same here brother!!

Deftones' entire Diamond Eyes album had a full scoop of Meshuggah stirred in, especially Butcher and Rocket Skates

@jacksdad734

2 жыл бұрын

For sure.

@robwalsh9843

2 жыл бұрын

Blood Has Been Shed - Spirals

@GuitFiddlerOntheR00F

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Steph Carpenter has said in previous interviews that Meshuggah is one of his biggest influences.

@peazeralus

2 жыл бұрын

@@GuitFiddlerOntheR00F yup! Stephen carries the bulk of that Meshuggah flavor with Abe supplying what's left

@cookingman8709

2 жыл бұрын

Especially Sextape!

Meshuggah is the metal band's metal band. Every metal guitar and bass player loves being able to play flawlessly with a drummer throwing off weird time signatures culminating in a perfect song. Add to that when the crowd follows the music perfectly.

Meshuggah and Neurosis are like the Velvet Underground of metal; the amount of people who listened to them and then decided they needed to make their own music cannot be understated.

@ThePatcriss

Жыл бұрын

Add Voivod to the list.

Every member of the band is an absolute djentleman.

@danielclark-hughes692

2 жыл бұрын

Pack it up boys, found today's best comment

@jacksdad734

2 жыл бұрын

Booooooo

@TheDjentleman77

Жыл бұрын

I agree! 😉

I heard Meshuggah for the first time on November 8th 2002 (yup I even remember the exact date lol) when I saw them open for TooL. It quite literally blew my mind. Their Drummer and Danny Carey did like a 30 min drum solo that still to this day may be the most amazing thing musically I’ve ever seen live. I bought Nothing the next day.

@J.Skyler

2 жыл бұрын

That must have been one hell of a show.

@Cynical_Otter

2 жыл бұрын

I saw Meshuggah open for Tool on 9/8/01. Had never really listened to them but I was impressed with how good they were.

@majesticpbjcat7707

2 жыл бұрын

I went to that show in Seattle. Missed Meshuggah but I hadn't discovered them yet at that point. I'd heard a lot of praise of them so I bought Nothing. Listened to it. Didn't get it. Then a year later popped it my car CD player and after a couple listens it started to click. For the next decade they became, pretty much, my favorite band. I remember the first time I heard Bleed. It was monumental.

@Zeta9966

2 жыл бұрын

Lol I went to that tour too. Saw them in Roanoke VA. I had been listening to them for a couple years at that point. I think I started in 2000? It was before Nothing, but not too far.

@SethHMG

2 жыл бұрын

Man that was a tour. Messhugah closed w Future Breed Machine.

That Obzen album, wow, nothing less than a masterpiece.

@paveantelic7876

Жыл бұрын

nothing is better

@dermer007

Жыл бұрын

catch 33 gang wya

@bjornnilsson2941

Жыл бұрын

@@dermer007 Catch 33 was the first album of theirs I heard when it was released so it has a special place in my heart. As single songs are concerned though I think it's probably Bleed or New Millennium Cyanide Christ that take the cake.

@nategin9009

Жыл бұрын

@@paveantelic7876 plenty is better

@chadilay69

9 ай бұрын

​@@nategin9009he is talking about the meshuggah album called "nothing", lmao

I'll be honest, I've never until this point listened to Meshuggah. But now I'm going to check them out because I had no clue how influential they were.I really dig your channel, Finn, for discovering new-to-me music.

@ThePunkRockMBA

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@kevindie

2 жыл бұрын

*_Their latest album is really good. The two records before that are not that great. ObZen and earlier is 🤙._*

@jacksdad734

2 жыл бұрын

Theyre so good dude.

@Ninjamanhammer

2 жыл бұрын

@@kevindie Kolloss is better than Immutable

@DJENTISNTNOTAGENRE

2 жыл бұрын

Don't listen to that guy a couple comments above me. Koloss is an amazing album 🔥

Their EP "I" is one of the most amazing and underrated releases of their discography.

@dogelord79

11 ай бұрын

it's neshuggah's magnum opus

@spimbles

11 ай бұрын

its hard to have underrated pieces when their entire discography is unanimously praised lol

@Shake69ification

5 ай бұрын

​@dogelord79 I'd argue for Catch-33, but yes, I is awesome!

Ah yes, Meshuggah. The Swedish band with a Jewish name that sings in English.

@michaelmccomb4045

2 жыл бұрын

Hebrew*

@terenceaaron1999

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelmccomb4045 *Yiddish

@User-54631

2 жыл бұрын

Wish there was a jerk off emoji.

@kevindie

2 жыл бұрын

@@terenceaaron1999 *Brail

@ncc1701mjs

2 жыл бұрын

Finn needs to work on his Yiddish pronunciation (just checked an interview and was happy to see that the band themselves say it correctly haha)

I think Fear Factory's Demanufacture (Self Bias Resistor) was the album that pioneered that sync'd kick/riff sound back in '95. I remember when that album came out and people were accusing them of using triggered kicks. They denied it but I think Ray Herrera is that good.

@DrDipsh1t

2 жыл бұрын

That combo of Ray and Dino was insane and made me "obtain" all of their albums in the mid 2000s

@homevalueglass3809

2 жыл бұрын

Good times, also had Strapping Young Lad Heavy Thing and Ministry Filth Pig doing the heavy industrial thing around that time.

@Darwinist

2 жыл бұрын

All my friends who were huge Fear Factory fans in 1994/5 went *nuts* over Destroy/Erase/Improve. FF definitely primed the fanbase for Meshuggah to take it even further.

@RamManNo1

2 жыл бұрын

De manufacture is a great album. But those kicks are defiantly triggered. FF kind of put triggers on the map. FF was my fave band in the mid 90s. Oddly enough I can’t stand the sound of flat clicky sounding bass triggers now lol. I was sore when they started getting way too nu-metally around digimortal. They definitely wrote catchier stuff than meshuggah in my opinion. I just think the timing was off for them to get bigger at that time.

@Hegder

2 жыл бұрын

@@RamManNo1 I don’t think they ever denied it. I interviewed Raymond about 20 years ago and basically told him that he was a pioneer of triggered drums and he was very happy to talk about it.

i heard Meshuggah first time in 1997-1998 when i was 16 and went to music school. Some classmates played me destroy erase improve and explained the parts after the solo and i was hooked. Later that year Haake and Mårten had a clinic at my school jamming and playing some of their songs. I have seen them live 11 times and they have been a big part of my life the past 25 years.

Thanks Jack Osborne for introducing Meshuggah to mainstream. He got their music on an episode of ‘The Osbornes’ and then got them on 2002 Ozzfest.

@TheKey304

2 жыл бұрын

Even if he did call them death metal from Norway🤣🤣

@robwalsh9843

2 жыл бұрын

That was when Sharon was bitching at the neighbors being too loud. I think the neighbors were also from the UK LOL

@USHARDY

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheKey304 to someone with virgin ears to extreme metal like myself, how are they not death metal?

@matthewackermanaski9687

2 жыл бұрын

@@USHARDY They're more technical, also since they started as a thrash metal band, as they were evolving in the 90s they were more like "extreme thrash". Also Jens uses harsh vocals rather than growls or screams that are more common in death metal.

@TheKey304

2 жыл бұрын

@@USHARDY I mean, just about every metal band that came along by then had death metal influence to some degree, even if it wasn't intentional. But yeah, like said above, and I'd also say just the darker presentation of death metal overall.

I'm glad you mentioned the jazz influence in Meshuggah's music. I've been a fan of theirs for a long time, but the moment I realized that Meshuggah was basically heavy jazz it blew my mind! I was listening to jazz on the radio and wondering why it sounded so familiar even though I knew I hadn't heard that song before. Then it hit me.......Meshuggah is brutal jazz.🤯🤯

@MrEtienne6657

Жыл бұрын

Meshuggah: Truly heavy meditation jazz music

@Ch3k0v

Жыл бұрын

@@MrEtienne6657 Exactly 😎

@sazerac1327

Ай бұрын

I always call them Psychedelic Progressive Trance Metal band.

@Ch3k0v

Ай бұрын

@@sazerac1327 100% accurate

@sazerac1327

Ай бұрын

The rhythmic beats and pulsating drums evoke a tribal vibe that makes me want to dance. Then, when the vocals, guitar, and bass kick in, it feels like I'm transported to a psychedelic ceremony, with the intensity of a machine god's shamanic scream right at my face. Absolutely love that feeling! 🥹🥹🥹

Chaosphere remains my favorite by them. Fast, cold atmosphere and angrier vocals.

@OneW1ngedDevil

2 жыл бұрын

Same. From "Concatenation" to "Corridor of Chameleons" to the weird-ass secret track at the end (which I know exactly what it is, just wanna keep it spoiler-free for any new folk reading this), nothing can top what that album is. To me (along with "i"), it's Meshuggah at its purest core.

@zacharysmithingell5460

Жыл бұрын

New millennium cyanide Christ was the first meshuggah track I heard on the ozzfest 2002 cd, I think it was. From there chaosphere became the foundation of what that band is for me. Subsequent records are amazing no doubt, but my god I always go back to chaosphere.

@BAVBAVBAV

Жыл бұрын

The chaos at the end of Elastic is brain melting

@noahsmith9025

Жыл бұрын

Still my favorite too

@KickenItOldSchool

Жыл бұрын

Can't believe he didn't even mention it

I was fortunate enough to see them live in 2008 on their Obzen tour. Hearing them live changed my musical tastes forever. They are still one of my favorite bands.

@kanvolu

2 жыл бұрын

You were, indeed, really fortunate

@robertomugabe11

Жыл бұрын

you lucky bastard

38 y.o. here, never seen Meshuggah live. Just few weeks away from seeing them live for the first time. Heard them for years now. I'm hyped AF!

@whereta3097

Жыл бұрын

How was it?

@Filoz

Жыл бұрын

@@whereta3097 Neck still hurts. Epic. 19/10 does recommend.

@ShunkLunkable

Жыл бұрын

They've always played the tightest sets I've ever heard!

@yoloautumn

3 ай бұрын

Im you a year later, can’t wait

@towertito2149

3 ай бұрын

How was the show? Did your face grow back yet from getting melted off?? They are AMAZING LIVE

I build guitars, and I know from a technical perspective that gear makes almost no effect on tone. I saw someone do a full cover of bleed on a baritone jazzmaster with single coil pickups, and it sounded dead on. Some people are just naturally better at getting good tones

@ThePunkRockMBA

2 жыл бұрын

Facts

@ileutur6863

2 жыл бұрын

With enough post processing you can get anything to sound like anything. Doesn't mean gear doesn't matter

@majesticpbjcat7707

2 жыл бұрын

@@ileutur6863 FACTS

@tlaserdk9536

2 жыл бұрын

That'd most likely be the scale length right? Pretty sure Meshuggah uses 30inch scale guitars, same as that jazzmaster

@KuhKronus

2 жыл бұрын

@@tlaserdk9536 I have a guitar with 30inch scale and fat ass strings and it doesn’t really sound like meshuggah. It sounds like a dirty bass a lot of the time

I’m sure most of your viewers don’t care but for musicians that are interested here’s a small correction: Polyrhythm is when two instruments divide the same beat into different sized pieces (i.e. triplet eights vs regular eighths). What Meshuggah does is called polymeter which is where one instrument plays in a different time signature than another (i.e. drums in 4/4 vs guitars in 9/8).

@pHpTjMoney

2 жыл бұрын

Learn your rudiments as well kids!

@sammyhain

2 жыл бұрын

And the slower u practice the faster you learn ^

@myman8656

2 жыл бұрын

which songs does meshuggah use polymeter ?

@deadSalesman_GD

2 жыл бұрын

@@myman8656 basically all of them lol a good example that’s easy to follow is autonomy lost from catch 33. The guitars/bass/kick drum are playing a pattern that’s non eighth notes long while the cymbals/snare are playing a 4/4 backbeat Edit: nine eighth notes

Never really liked the band but it's always fun to see a band from my hometown making so much success worldwide

@lewisb85

2 жыл бұрын

Well of the Umea bands I prefer Refused, Abhinanda and cult of luna.

@bertil3887

2 жыл бұрын

@@lewisb85 im more a fan of black metal like Naglfar or other more underground bands that noone has ever heard of except for a very few :P but i like the early cult of luna, hasn't heard that much tbh but they are pretty good :)

@DavidWeinehall

2 жыл бұрын

@@bertil3887 One of my brothers went to school with some of the Naglfar guys.

@asuka_the_void_witch

Жыл бұрын

@@lewisb85 refusedddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd

@heftyhugh9086

Жыл бұрын

Your country is going to shit because you don't like Meshuggah

I discovered Meshuggah through Tool's Adam Jones. He was talking about how much he liked them in a interview.

@needfoolthings

2 жыл бұрын

I listen to Bill Burr lauding them at least once a month. It makes me happy.

“A band in which every instrument is a percussion instrument”. You couldn’t have said it better

Finally saw them live a few weeks ago and was completely blown away. One of the most primal experiences of my life. All metal heads most certianly should make the pilgrimage to see them live.

I had seen Meshuggah in the 90's with Hypocrisy and Satyricon. The Show was sold out yet only 13 People saw Meshuggah Who were headliners.

@homevalueglass3809

2 жыл бұрын

I saw Hypocrisy in 97 I believe at Milwaukee Metal Fest, was amazing.

@jasont529

2 жыл бұрын

Dude I'd love to hear how the show was if you can remember. I only found out about them back in 2009 and have listened to them daily ever since. I remember it being a new style of metal that I had never heard before with the guitar tones, vocals, and time signatures if you will.

The guitar tone in their song rational gaze is my favorite I've heard from them and I've never heard anything like it from any other band

13 years ago I bought a meshuggah cd at a garage sale. It was “I.” I was 12 and didn’t get it but now I can enjoy it at 25. Seems meshuggah was ahead of the curve. Got in and out of metal but I’m happy to be back in it. So much good metal out there now. Sometimes u gotta dig for it but checkout your local heavy bands and enjoy them being in their prime.

@DavidWeinehall

2 жыл бұрын

I is probably my favourite still. Too bad it's made in such a way that it's hard/impossible to perform it live.

@funoolesbian4225

2 жыл бұрын

just checked it out; it's an amazing piece. seems like their first recording with their custom 8 string guitars.

@jakobsievers

Жыл бұрын

I was actually the first meshuggah record I fully "got". Everything else didn't really penetrate me... then I listened to "I" and my brain expanded and now I can't get enough of them

I still remember hearing them for the first time. We saw them with with Slayer, on tour. My friend’s brother told us…. Oh those guys, you might like them….pretty crazy stuff. Came out with hockey jerseys and cargo shorts. “We are Meshuggah from Sweden!” This is when Chaosphere was out. Just loved and was confused at the same time. I loved it.

A fun fact about EZ Drummer. version 3 just came out and Drumkit From Hell is still one of the best drum sample librairies ever.

@mikefoster5423

2 жыл бұрын

i STILL use dfk on all my band demos

@Eichro

2 жыл бұрын

I'm a bit ambivalent about DFH because that snare sticks out like a sore thumb. You KNOW it's DFH when you hear it, and that's a bit distracting. Listening to Ziltoid the Omniscient? You will hear it. Watching Hunter x Hunter 2011? You hear it.

@apoplexiamusic

2 жыл бұрын

@@Eichro very much so! I like to layer it with other snares. I also use it just for the cymbals and the kicks too

I love the small reference to Devin Townsend! He is really interesting, and I’d love to hear your thoughts on him, Finn!

@oopsydaizi3s824

Жыл бұрын

That would be a good idea!

Great video, man. Fear Factory is the other band I credit for the kick-following-chugs sound that everyone uses.

@jzmmm

2 жыл бұрын

i was just about to mention them too. When i first heard meshuggah, i thought they were a similar style to fear factory who i was a massive fan of back then.

@riffgroove

Жыл бұрын

Very true. The two bands used them very differently though. Fear Factory really specialized in that rapid-fire machine-gun style of riffing.

Meshuggah is very mathematic and it's amazing. I remember growing up my favorite band was the mars volta, so I was always digging in the M section of cd stores lol. Of course there was Meshuggah.

First heard Meshuggah music only about 5 years ago. Started with Chaosphere. Didn’t get it at all… then I heard New Milennium Cyanide Christ.. and OH MAN did I get it! To this day I think it’s one of the cleverest songs ever composed; accessible and obscure all at once

I got into Meshuggah on my own when I picked up their Catch 33 album at Best Buy. It blew me away.

I sound like a poser but my first song with Meshuggah is “Bleed”. As a drummer, hearing the technical abilities on that track blew my mind. Much respect to these guys.

@Gallasl666

2 жыл бұрын

Gotta start somewhere. That was the first one I heard on the Sirius metal station. For a long while after that, "If its not Meshuggah it's crap" , is what I said.

@mrconfusion87

8 ай бұрын

I started cuz Revolver Magazine talked about them around 2002ish!

You can’t say Europeans have bad taste in music and then talk how Gojira and Meshuggah are so great. Ahahah 😜

@matttaylor1449

2 жыл бұрын

Hehehe

@andrewbrock3675

2 жыл бұрын

It's all the industrial and eurorave shit we make fun of

@DigitalBath306

2 жыл бұрын

im from europe and hes right europeans have bad taste in music

@finmvn

2 жыл бұрын

EXACTLY

@phoenixsidepeen5468

2 жыл бұрын

When we say that, we’re mostly referring to UK rappers lol

I remember first hearing Destroy Erase Improve and Chaosphere when I was in high school. When Chaosphere dropped in '98, it was MINDBLOWING.

Awesome video! I think my favourite "Meshuggah inspired" bands were Textures on their frist 3 albums and Coprofago, a Chilean band. They released "Unorthodox Creative Criteria" back in 2005, and I still think very few bands came close to Meshuggah's intensity like they did on that album

@StahlmetallerM

2 жыл бұрын

I miss Textures. :(

@nickhaas9185

2 жыл бұрын

Yes Textures is amazing especially that 1st album! I was hoping Finn would mention them briefly since they came out so much earlier than the djent movement

@lesterama6110

2 жыл бұрын

@@nickhaas9185 correct! Polars came out in 2004, a lot earlier than Bulb and Tesseract's demos. I don't listen to Djent nowadays, but those releases were really unique and more inspired

@DavidWeinehall

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for mentioning Coprofago--found something new to listen to!

I appreciate Meshuggah’s music a lot even though I rarely listen to them. There’s something that feels almost superhuman about their tight, super clinical sound. And it’s very true that melodic metalcore riffs started to decline in favor of rhythmic chugs around the same time that Meshuggah got super influential on that scene. I experienced this firsthand; I knew a guitarist that was playing August Burns Red style melodic leads circa 2009 and jumped headfirst into the djent/Axe FX/8 string stuff by 2012. Interesting times to be sure.

I heard "war" in the early 2000's and was blown away by the drumming. Then I heard "Straws pulled at random" imo, their best song and was hooked.

@Juliankb39

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely the best solo. The ending of that song is beyond glorious

@bjaanderson

2 жыл бұрын

"Straws" was the first song I ever heard from them. That ending is transcendent.

@Hegder

2 жыл бұрын

Ironically, wasn’t War the first drumkit from hell song they did?

@UltimateTMF3

2 жыл бұрын

@@Hegder War was pretty composed to be a demo track for dfk. Easily one of my favorite Meshuggah songs.

@kumquatmagoo

2 жыл бұрын

Hell yeah! Had someone on reddit ask for messhugah recommendations and Straws Pulled at Random was mine. My favourite metal outro of all time, and I've heard Selkies.

My first drum VST was Drumkit From Hell. I had no idea Meshuggah's drummer was involved. It completely changed how I wrote metal back then.

It's like pure psychoactive rhythmic geometry. Meshuggah is my favorite example of a band chipping away and perfecting a specific sound. Awesome video Finn

They really do deserve all the accolades and high praise heaped on them here in your great analysis. Meshuggah changed the world.

I remember seeing Meshuggah live in Brisbane in 2010. They were insane; but when Bleed came on, it just got brutal! One of the best shows I ever went to

been a huge fan for years but i just recently got the chance to see meshuggah live in concert about 2 months ago and im still mentally processing what i heard and witnessed ! it was so good it was unreal if you can go see them do it!!!

Finn, you should do a video about fear factory, specifically how Demanufacture changed the face of metal in the 90s. You always bring them up, and I honestly think they’re a criminally underrated band.

@fact_frenzy386

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. He keeps mentioning them every 2nd or 3rd video. He needs to do an entire video on them. I still remember hearing them for the first time and thinking wow those lead singers sound good. I'm old enough to remember when band either used clean or dirty vocals and never the twain shall meet. Everyone does clean and dirty/screaming now but Burton was one of the first to do it right.

@laurisaarinen1126

2 жыл бұрын

I was just thinking how Fear Factory have to be pioneers of the whole "bass drum in sync with the guitars" thing Finn was talking about, then he mentioned them but not in that context

The first band I have heard that has the djent style was After the Burial. They are still going strong even after losing a guitarist. Coming back to add this bit to my comment. I watched them live in London Ontario Canada a few weeks back. Holy shit they are absolutely incredible.

@luciusdouglass3645

2 жыл бұрын

after the burial are very underrated. Cursing Akhenaten was the song that got me into them.

@jahoffm1

2 жыл бұрын

RIP Justin Lowe.

@mmmmmmmmdaaaamnnnnbabyyyy

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely love those guys

@TheLawlbreaker

2 жыл бұрын

@@luciusdouglass3645 Lost in the Static was the first I'd heard from them. It's been on my permanent playlist the first listen.

@luciusdouglass3645

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheLawlbreaker hell yeah man that's a great choice

“Beneath” is one my all time favorite jams.

Nice man - I really like it when you can compress the history of band and get me to listen to a few songs I otherwise would not have tried. Great video!

Meshuggah is so otherworldly. Thank you for making this video.

Tomas Haake is an absolutely superb drummer. I love the way he doesn't play anything particularly flashy but concentrates solely on emphasising the groove. Brilliant stuff

Also Porcupine Tree's Gavin Harrison said in the "In Absentia" documentary that Steven Wilson brought him to a Meshuggah concert to bring him, if I recall correctly, on a new path of drumming. He's (Gavin Harrison) talked about them very highly in different interviews

cant describe the love i have for this band

Love this video. You're perfectly right on almost everything, and mention most of my fav musicians I grew up with, in the nineties. Sublime stuff.

Perfectly described my thoughts on the band! Im a 40 plus metal fan, Pantera, Slayer, Fear Factory etc, but for some weird reason never got into Messhuggah. First time I heard them was Rational Gaze which came on a Metal Hammer CD back in 2002. 20 years later the riff randomly came to my mind and instantly Spotified it, rest is history, new favourite band with an instant back catalogue!

@stevekramerf242

Жыл бұрын

Well, bands like Meshuggah or similar ones like Behold! The Arctopus are more or less Avantgarde/Free Jazz-bands that play with Metal-instrumentation. So, as a normal Metal-fan you have a hard time getting into them, unless you have interest in the more leftfield music out there.

Just saw Meshuggah live this month. They had the best live metal performance I’ve ever seen. mind blowing!

Epic video man, been a meshuggah fan for 15 years and still learnt plenty from this, really engaging. Just wanna give an extra shout out to SikTh as you mentioned around 20:00, I believe they have a different but similar level of influence on tech metal, also pioneers with absolutely timeless contributions to the genre. Death of a Dead Day has remained my favourite album of all time for a long time now and even though the likes of Meshuggah, Textures, Gojira, Opeth have come close, it's still a cut above for me, anyone who hasn't given it a go I strongly encourage it, ESPECIALLY if you're into anything that sounds remotely like Periphery.

I was 17 when Obzen came out in 2008. I really liked Swedish bands so I listened to them too. I thought it was pretty interesting but also weird, never expected they'd become some huge influence though. Then I kinda fell out of keeping up with metal from 2010-2015 (first few years of my 20s). Consider me shocked when I caught up with everything I had missed during that time and metal core sounded completely different and Meshuggah suddenly went from being an eccentric niche band to being the most influential group of modern metal core & a big part of prog somehow. It was like a weird time skip lol

My first exposure to Meshuggah was “Rational Gaze” which appeared on the first MTV2 Headbangers Ball album. I discovered so many great bands from those albums.

@derekfletcher8934

2 жыл бұрын

Fuck yea! I had those as well. But I think my first exposure to Meshuggah was on an Ozzfest cd, probably 2002 New Millennium Cyianide Christ. That Headbangers Ball double disc was the shit though. Introduced me to Chimaira and Mastadon.

I would definitely like to check more of their music out because I always hear people talking about them,so thanks for making this video.

for me .. the track off of Destroy Erase Improve that changed everything was Soul Burn! .... that was the game changer .... Big shout out for this video, you really nailed it !!!!

@NickTheDrumscum

2 жыл бұрын

Damn right brother! First riff is such a heavy HEAVY one, plus the hihats kick your head out of the groove, haha. Phenomenal

Meshuggah is your favorite band's favorite band

I met some Swedes in 2017 for a live Meshuggah show and they told me the city is pronounced oo-mey-o, or something along those lines.

I'd play, a warm-up gig with Meshuggah, in July, 1995, in Aarhus, Denmark...it was something else!

I love Meshuggah, and when "djent" was first kicking off in the late 00's and early 10's I was enjoying bands like Sikth and Fellsilent. It went from being this niche and unique sound to being an oversaturated soulless cash cow for talented musicians who lack originality to capitalize on. Some made good use of it and made it their own (Animals As Leaders for example) but for the most part it's just so derivative that I have a lot trouble finding modern metal that isn't just poorly ripping off Meshuggah and Periphery.

I've been aware of them since Obzen, though I never really cared for their music. But the new album Immutable is kicking my ass on a daily basis.

Meshuggah definitely belongs in a Top 20 of "Most Influential Metal Bands Of All-Time" list! ALWAYS IMITATED, NEVER DUPLICATED! 😎🤘🍻

I heard rational gaze in 2006 and it completely changed what I thought metal could be. Meshuggah tuned guitars to the key of earthquake and Haake played 7 different cadences at the same time.

I saw Meshuggah live at bogarts in Cincinnati. By far and away one of the most surreal and memorable experiences of my life…hard to describe for anyone who asks that doesn’t know about them. Lifelong fan of these guys

I've waited for this kind of video ever since I first discovered you.

I remember seeing them open for Tool way back in 2002. About half the crowd coudn't make heads or tails of them, but the other half, myself included, were just mesmerized. I was able to get close enough to the stage and counted the tuning pegs on their guitars. I didn't even know an 8 string guitar even existed until that point, much less could be used to make brutally heavy and complex music. I will say this: Meshuggah is to modern metal what Helmet was to Post Grunge and Nu-Metal in the late 90s.

@padawansound6423

2 жыл бұрын

The Helmet comparison is spot-on.

I've discovered this band a year and a half ago. I couldn't get into it at first and the entry point was bleed which I listened to over and over again. I've been listening almost everyday for a year now. I think I've listened to catch thirty three on repeat for several months and I still dont get tired of it. Although I've loved metal and awesome artists since my teenage years, meshuggah seems to be really up there, unreachable.

Great video as always! The only bad thing about it is that it ended. Love your work dude, thanks for everything

Meshuggah is one of those bands I never got into but have always had a deep respect for. They basically created an entire subgenre.

Meshuggah live is probably the most impressive band i've ever seen.. can't get much more tighter than them..

@jacksdad734

2 жыл бұрын

Everyone paying close attention and making blown away eye contact with each other is a great time.

@Hyrkh

2 жыл бұрын

I've seen them once but till this date it's one of best concert experiences ever. The music was just so hypnotising I was in one big trip during the show, whilst being completely sober. Just God Tier.

@legoman786

2 жыл бұрын

I get to see them for the first time in October! I cannot wait.

@biblicaladrian6007

2 жыл бұрын

They're coming to my city in October Definitely planning on going

@legoman786

2 жыл бұрын

@@biblicaladrian6007 Denver, CO? That's the one I'm going to.

Destroy Erase Improve straight up changed my whole outlook on metal music as a genre. It was incredible.

@Shootingbloodfromyourc0ck

2 ай бұрын

That breakdown in Future breed machine…

I've seen them live a couple times, it's absolutely one of the most intense experiences you will have.

We comment for the algorithm! We comment for Finn! We comment for ourselves!

@ThePunkRockMBA

2 жыл бұрын

🙏🏼

one of few bands I'm proud to actually buy and own their music, they are 50 yr old dudes and are still putting out great music

I've been waiting for someone to make this video, great job

When he was talking about how Meshuggah invented djent, all I was thinking was: "Devin Townsend summarized it best." Then the exact snippet of Deconstruction came on that I was thinking of and I was surprised but gained even more respect for him.

"while we all have lots of bands who influence, still, we all rip off Meshuggah" - From Planet of the Apes by Devin Townsend Project

Tomas raised the importance of drums in metal to another level. Back in the 90s drummers were often some kind of timekeeper adding a drum fill here and there, but now they often define the sound of the whole band in a way. On most modern metal albums drums are by far the loudest instrument in the mix, this had never been the case in decades before

@gregfalc

2 жыл бұрын

And Justice For All did that too.

@Melodeath00

2 жыл бұрын

This comment only makes sense if you ignore all Thrash, Death and Black Metal. Metal drummers stopped being basic timekeepers back in the mid 80s.

Had the great fortune of seeing em live in Australia a few years back - insane show and one of my all time fav gigs.

Lol... KZread had this dancing to meshuggah compilation in my recommendations for ages.... literally watched it yesterday for the first time and I was hooked on their sound. Love your work Finn 👍👍

@ThePunkRockMBA

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I think a huge part of their success when it comes to music theory in their music, is how all the complex rhythms are resolving in an absolute order. A lot of musicians like decoding their songs and being completely mesmerized by how all the different parts at first counteract with each other and then they tie together in the end. They always come up with certain pattern length and either cut it short or extend it to fit the 4/4, that's a big reason why they sound so groovy. They sound like a rusty engine, all the different moving parts spinning at different speeds and yet somehow always working together. If you are interested in music theory behind their songs, check Yogev Gabay's channel on KZread. He explains it really well, using a lot of great visual tools.

Saw them on tour with Tool. They all came out together and played a ton of different drums together. It was a spiritual experience. I was frying on mushrooms too! God damn what a show. Tool said they needed to get heavier after playing with them. So if you wonder why 10,000 days and Fear Incrobobulum has “djentier” elements thrown in, now you know why.

This was a great watch! Meshuggah is one of my favorite bands, and today is my birthday!

I discovered Meshuggah from an interview of Jay Postones of Tesseract. He said that Meshggah was a principal influence on him and that the way that Thomas Haak drums is almost melodic. I had to investigate after that.

The fact that there was a time when Meshuggah used to use 6 strings is insane to me

I wholeheartedly respect Meshuggah's talent, and how influential they've been in the metal scene. Unfortunately I just can't vibe with their music, no matter how many times I try. Bleed will always have a spot in my playlist, though! Great video, Finn!

@123612100

Жыл бұрын

Bleed is their most overrated song.

@minxy6121

Жыл бұрын

@@123612100 Facts

That nod to Devin Townsend at 7:55... well played, sir

First time I heard Meshuggah I was on Acid and someone put on the just released Chaosphere. That was a good trip.

When I heard Combustion from Obzen I was speechless, then Bleed happened, I was slapped out of reality and want to become a Norse god hearing from that crazy mess.

@jacksdad734

2 жыл бұрын

Ive watched like 10 videos of people hearing bleed for the first time. Its funny stuff.

@kgmulato5951

2 жыл бұрын

@@jacksdad734 some cringe but mostly really funny.

also i hate to be that guy, but they don't really play polyrhythms at all, they play polymeters. Polyrhythms are for example 8th note triplets played over the top of straight 8th notes (3:2 ratio etc.), in which the notes don't neatly line up with each other until the beginning of the phrase... where as polymeters are just an odd number of notes in a phrase which cycles over the base time signature (which in meshuggah's case is almost always 4/4. Meshuggah pretty much stick to a steady grid of 8ths, 16ths or triplets, and then just make odd groupings of phrases, so there's nothing really polyrhythmic going on, just polymeters.

@jacksdad734

2 жыл бұрын

I was looking for “that guy”. Somebody has to do it. Its a djent comment section.

So glad you mentioned tesseract. I love them and I always felt they didn’t get enough credit, I think they’re very good