Meshuggah
Meshuggah /məˈʃʊɡə/ is a Swedish extreme metal band from Umeå, formed in 1987. Meshuggah's line-up consists of founding members vocalist Jens Kidman and lead guitarist Fredrik Thordendal, drummer Tomas Haake, who joined in 1990, rhythm guitarist Mårten Hagström, who joined in 1992 and bassist 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 elements. Since its 2002 album Nothing, Meshuggah has switched from seven-string to downtuned eight-string guitars. Meshuggah has become known for their innovative musical style, complex, polymetered song structures and polyrhythms. Meshuggah was labelled as one of the ten most important hard rock and heavy metal bands by Rolling Stone and as the most important band in metal by Alternative Press. Meshuggah has found little mainstream success as yet, but is a significant act in extreme underground music. Nevertheless, Meshuggah has begun to gain attention and respect among more mainstream audiences since the late 2000s, having also inspired the djent movement within progressive metal.
Meshuggah (EP)
Meshuggah, also known as Psykisk Testbild (Pronounced "syh-kisk test-build") is the first recording released by Swedish metal band Meshuggah. The three tracks on this EP were later reissued on the compilation Rare Trax. Although the EP is known as Psykisk Testbild ("mental test pattern"), this title is not to be found anywhere on the cover itself. It was released as a 12" vinyl record, limited to 1000 copies, by local record store Garageland in Umeå. This is the only Meshuggah record featuring drummer Niclas Lundgren. Tomas Haake later replaced Lundgren on drums.
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by Meshuggah
Concatenation
by: MeshuggahA Stale Organic Cage.
Incarceration.
I'm In The Stranger: Me.
(Lost In Corporeal Inanity)
The User Of My Face;
Beneath Its Guise I Rot.
A Paradox In Terms.
(I Am Now What I'm Not)
Interconnected, Fused.
My Words Are Its Thoughts.
I Now Share My Self With My Reflection.
Straining To Divide Our Twined Formation.
Duality Within Singularity.
(I'm Forlorn In My Own Withering Soul,
Racked By Continuous Waves Of Dissolution
My Gemini Mind The Creator Of The Undulation.
I Strain To Untangle These Malignant Bonds,
To Become Again The One That I Was)
Coalescence Done,
The Merging Complete,
The Sentence Carried Out.
(I'm Condemned For Eternity)
The Confluence,
Our Interwound Flows;
Surges Not To Be Fused.
(Now Combined, Intertwined)
In This Mental Cage We Absorb Our Selves.
The Only Certainty Is My Suffering.
My Mind In Constant Pleas For An End To This Concatenation.
A Struggle All In Vain,
We're Both The Same.
(A Withering Soul Torn By The Attempts Of Regeneration.
My Gemini Mind The Obstacle Of My Redemption.
I Strain To Elude The Face Of My Other Self.
To Become Again The One That I Was)
Plug Me In, Reconnect Me To My Self.
Plug Me In, Reconnect Me To My Soul.
Gone Are All My Hopes,
All My Vain Illusions.
Deceived I Dwell In Me.
In The Core Of My Agony.
I Fade In This Duress.
I'm Weakening.
The One Who Claimed My Front Is Now The Claimant Of My Soul.
(A Withering Soul Torn By This Antipolar Mental Integration.
My Divided Mind A System Split In Two Creations.
I Strain To Reach The Separation Tools,
To Be Again The One That I Was)
Into The Core Of Self, The Neuro-Axis, I Fade
Within The Fading Core Of Self I Am.....