When the likes of Cannibal Corpse and Obituary came about and pleased every butt-rocking wannabe Satanist out there, a term such as "intellectual death metal" was only thought of as just an oxymoron.
That was before Meshuggah came out and outsmarted all these suburban burnouts.
Sure "Chaosphere" flaunts the flaming guitar solo every now and then, and don't forget their tendency of trying to come across as all dark and evil.
But what Meshuggah have over all the carbon copy death metal acts out there is that they focus primarily on knowing how to play their instruments and segue tempo changes rather than trying to outspeed and outgrowl everybody.
Seriously, each song will have one guessing on which direction the band is going to take next.
Who would have thought that there would be a band that could respark a genre that was long thought overdone after the second Napalm Death record?.
| Title/Composers | Performer | Listen | Time | Size | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ConcatenationTomas Haake, Fredrik Thordendal | Meshuggah | Play | 04:17 | 9 MB | 33 MB |
| 2 | Corridor of ChameleonsTomas Haake, Fredrik Thordendal | Meshuggah | Play | 05:02 | 11 MB | 37 MB |
| 3 | NeuroticaMårten Hagström | Meshuggah | Play | 05:19 | 12 MB | 39 MB |
| 4 | The Mouth Licking What You've BledTomas Haake, Fredrik Thordendal | Meshuggah | Play | 03:57 | 9 MB | 29 MB |
| 5 | SaneTomas Haake, Mårten Hagström, Jens Kidman | Meshuggah | Play | 03:48 | 8 MB | 28 MB |
| 6 | The Exquisite Machinery of TortureTomas Haake, Fredrik Thordendal | Meshuggah | Play | 03:55 | 8 MB | 29 MB |
| 7 | ElasticTomas Haake, Mårten Hagström | Meshuggah | Play | 15:30 | 35 MB | 111 MB |
| 8 | New Millenium Cyanide Christ | Meshuggah | Play | 05:35 | 12 MB | 43 MB |
| 47 mins | 108 MB | |||||
| 47 mins | 353 MB | |||||
| Artist | Job | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Daniel Bergstrand | Engineer, Mixing |
| 2 | Tomas Haake | Artwork, Composer, Design, Drums, Voices |
| 3 | Mårten Hagström | Composer |
| 4 | Jens Kidman | Composer, Vocals |
| 5 | Meshuggah | Primary Artist |
| 6 | Fredrik Thordendal | Composer, Engineer, Guitar, Guitar (Rhythm), Mixing |
| Quality | Format | Encoding | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | MP3 | 320kps 44.1kHz | MP3 is an audio coding format which uses a form of lossy data compression. The highest bitrate of this format is 320kbps (kbit/s). MP3 Digital audio takes less amount of space (up to 90% reduction in size) and the quality is not as good as the original one. |
| CD Quality | FLAC | 16bit 44.1kHz | FLAC is an audio coding format which uses lossless compression. Digital audio in FLAC format has a smaller size and retains the same quality of the original Compact Disc (CD). |