Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects - Sol Niger Within (Ermz Remaster)

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  • Timeless record from Fredrik Thordendal's late 90s super group. Remaster done entirely for demonstrative, non-profit purposes.
    00:00 "The Beginning of the End of Extraction (Evolutional Slow Down)"
    01:36 "The Executive Furies of the Robot Lord of Death"
    03:04 "Descent to the Netherworld"
    03:33 "...Och Stjärnans Namn Var Malört"
    05:27 "Dante's Wild Inferno"
    06:26 "I, Galactus"
    07:54 "Skeletonization"
    08:08 "Sickness and Demoniacal Dreaming"
    09:14 "UFOria"
    09:51 "Z1- Reticuli"
    12:44 "Transmigration of Souls"
    14:12 "In Reality All Is Void"
    14:41 "Krapp's Last Tape"
    15:56 "Through Fear We Are Unconscious"
    16:55 "Death at Both Ends"
    17:54 "Bouncing in a Bottomless Pit"
    19:07 "The Sun Door"
    20:39 "Vitamin K Experience (A Homage to The Scientist/John Lilly)"
    22:13 "Sensorium Dei"
    25:41 "Z2- Reticuli"
    28:37 "De Profundis"
    29:06 "Existence Out of Joint"
    30:19 "On a Crater's Verge"
    31:33 "Solarization"
    33:22 "The End of the Beginning of Contraction (Involutional Speed Up/Preparation for the Big Crunch)"
    34:13 "Tathagata"
    37:15 "Missing Time"
    48:31 "Ooo Baby Baby"

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  • @MikeWJones1497
    @MikeWJones1497 6 років тому +359

    00:00 "The Beginning of the End of Extraction (Evolutional Slow Down)"
    01:36 "The Executive Furies of the Robot Lord of Death"
    03:04 "Descent to the Netherworld"
    03:33 "...Och Stjärnans Namn Var Malört"
    05:27 "Dante's Wild Inferno"
    06:26 "I, Galactus"
    07:54 "Skeletonization"
    08:08 "Sickness and Demoniacal Dreaming"
    09:14 "UFOria"
    09:51 "Z1- Reticuli"
    12:44 "Transmigration of Souls"
    14:12 "In Reality All Is Void"
    14:41 "Krapp's Last Tape"
    15:56 "Through Fear We Are Unconscious"
    16:55 "Death at Both Ends"
    17:54 "Bouncing in a Bottomless Pit"
    19:07 "The Sun Door"
    20:39 "Vitamin K Experience (A Homage to The Scientist/John Lilly)"
    22:13 "Sensorium Dei"
    25:41 "Z2- Reticuli"
    28:37 "De Profundis"
    29:06 "Existence Out of Joint"
    30:19 "On a Crater's Verge"
    31:33 "Solarization"
    33:22 "The End of the Beginning of Contraction (Involutional Speed Up/Preparation for the Big Crunch)"
    34:13 "Tathagata"
    37:15 "Missing Time"
    48:31 "Ooo Baby Baby"
    Copy Paste Powa

    • @coloripple
      @coloripple 5 років тому +12

      I'm pretty sure "Skeletonization" is my favorite song of less than 15 seconds ever! xD

    • @burntcrispycorpse
      @burntcrispycorpse 5 років тому +7

      Sounds like morbid angel guitar solos meshugah and a little taste of doom metal

    • @apartment213
      @apartment213 4 роки тому +6

      can we have the featuring artists names aswell. and which band they are from.

    • @MRSludgedude
      @MRSludgedude 4 роки тому +3

      Well the music cool..vocals ehhj. Got to respect it that's all in can say. Not bad but nothing addictive.

    • @The_Kevinist
      @The_Kevinist 3 роки тому +1

      made man
      Morgan Ågren on drums
      From his own fusion project to his own electro project, he did also guest drums for the las Devin Townsend album(along with Samus66 and Anup Sastry)
      Just to name a few

  • @XiyuYang
    @XiyuYang Рік тому +122

    This album somehow sounds like it’s released in 2050.

  • @pentexsucks43
    @pentexsucks43 4 місяці тому +44

    This album has enough riffs for 10 metal bands entire careers. Best Jazz Metal album ever.

  • @aphexlane
    @aphexlane 3 роки тому +263

    I bought this at a Best Buy when i was like 14. I had no idea who he was or anything. I just thought the cover looked cool. I had no idea what i was in for..

    • @metadata5638
      @metadata5638 2 роки тому +15

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @Heliosphan33
      @Heliosphan33 2 роки тому +48

      Best random CD purchase ever

    • @deezpro4412
      @deezpro4412 2 роки тому +25

      I got Destroy Erase Improve album from local record store for the same reason. First introduction to Meshuggah at 17. Favorite band ever since. 🤘🤘

    • @XxMETALJAREDxX
      @XxMETALJAREDxX 2 роки тому +13

      Dude… talk about a wild purchase. That’s an awesome story.

    • @YsAbTones
      @YsAbTones 2 роки тому +12

      same story, same age for me, but with Divine wings of tragedy - Symphony X ;)

  • @templeecho1206
    @templeecho1206 3 роки тому +351

    This has what I call "The Aphex Twin Effect."
    It's from the early 90's and yet still somehow sounds like it's from 2023

    • @pentexsucks43
      @pentexsucks43 2 роки тому +28

      "early 90's"
      Description:
      "Late 90's"
      Hmmm

    • @deliriumcb5959
      @deliriumcb5959 2 роки тому +38

      @@pentexsucks43 He definitely had this banging around inside his head for most of the early and mid 90's.

    • @SW3Raceman2890
      @SW3Raceman2890 2 роки тому +15

      this is timeless

    • @danielreyna7897
      @danielreyna7897 2 роки тому +20

      Is the selected ambient works 85-92 in metal

    • @user-wl6ew5eq1e
      @user-wl6ew5eq1e 2 роки тому +3

      interesante

  • @SuperSonicSauce
    @SuperSonicSauce 3 роки тому +74

    Soul Nigga Within

    • @Ryo7_7
      @Ryo7_7 2 роки тому +6

      😂🤘🏾🔥🔥🔥

    • @sethhoffman8213
      @sethhoffman8213 Рік тому +3

      Fact

    • @phylazen5649
      @phylazen5649 4 місяці тому +1

      two years two late

    • @redmondbarry449
      @redmondbarry449 3 місяці тому

      Or Sole Nigga Within, implying the definition of "being the only one"

  • @bornthebjorn1490
    @bornthebjorn1490 4 роки тому +235

    When one becomes too swedish to remain terrestrial

    • @sexhaver420
      @sexhaver420 3 роки тому +5

      Real Annunaki hours

    • @matthewhiggins604
      @matthewhiggins604 3 роки тому

      How true...

    • @samcarlen6097
      @samcarlen6097 3 роки тому +4

      @@sexhaver420 *The Greys have entered the chat*
      *Blue Avians have entered the chat*

    • @jesusa_ikher
      @jesusa_ikher 3 місяці тому

      i cannot stress enough how this comment made me spat water because of laughter

  • @NicolaiAwesome
    @NicolaiAwesome 2 місяці тому +4

    It’s difficult not to get hyperbolic about this music - it’s that good. Fredrik hitting one chord eg 3:33 in «Och stjärnas namn..», palm muting it and then slowly opening up the chord has more power and depth to it than a lot of other music I’ve ever listened to. Majestic.

  • @69leipa
    @69leipa 3 роки тому +54

    I need more unexpected saxophone solos in my life.

  • @Consural
    @Consural 3 місяці тому +7

    This album never ages. This album will never age.

  • @Heliosphan33
    @Heliosphan33 7 місяців тому +32

    Z2 Reticuli is like a jazz ensemble straight from inter-dimensional hell. Never heard anything like that, but that also goes for the entire record. I’m still absorbing this album and it’s been over 2 years since I’ve been listening to it.

    • @andrewbennett7610
      @andrewbennett7610 6 місяців тому +1

      Man, this has legit become one of my favourite albums ever, after also first hearing in about 2 years ago. I’m hooked and can’t stop listening to it lately and I don’t even know how to purchase/ access it other than UA-cam (shrugs)

    • @timh4595
      @timh4595 6 місяців тому +1

      Yes never gets old. I picked this CD up back in 1999. Monumental milestone for the signature Meshuggah mathematical ingenuity in song structure and riff technique - after this was released they changed their approach to how they structure songs which you can hear on Chaosphere (1998) all the way until their latest - which in turn has had an incredible influence on 99% of metal you hear today. So in short, THANK YOU Frederik Thordendal, your musical contributions have a long lasting impact likely for many more years to come. As Devin Townsend says in his song Planet of the Apes "we all ripoff MESHUGGAH!". 🤘

  • @OdinPerez
    @OdinPerez 3 роки тому +140

    Thordendal really managed to evolve the Holdsworth sound into outer fucking space. One of the greatest musical intellects of our time.

    • @Noone-ew2wk
      @Noone-ew2wk Рік тому +5

      I wouldn't say thordendal evolved holdsworths sound, thordendal is good but was never on holdsworths level

    • @enijize1234
      @enijize1234 Рік тому +37

      @@Noone-ew2wk He is. He may not have the harmonic library of Holdsworth but Holdsworth doesnt have the rhythmic library of Thordendahl. You can argue semantics, specifics and technicalities that say otherwise, but at the end of the day they are both true Super-Novas orbiting the same black hole.

    • @davidbond8139
      @davidbond8139 Рік тому +4

      @@enijize1234 love this description!

    • @arsonravengarcia8370
      @arsonravengarcia8370 Рік тому +3

      @@enijize1234 Jeez man you nailed it on that one..both are bat shit crazy on their own respective crafts.

    • @truslyd
      @truslyd Рік тому

      I jock the fuck outta the galactus solo..the tone, the phrasing, it's just beautiful

  • @Petar_Nikolov
    @Petar_Nikolov 6 років тому +256

    Playing of Morgan Agren in this album must be essential for EVERY drummer on this world!!!

    • @jackmakackov7077
      @jackmakackov7077 5 років тому +24

      Except no one else can pull this stuff off but him. Absolutely incredible

    • @michaeljohnston490
      @michaeljohnston490 3 роки тому +15

      I feel like the drumming on this album has caused people to quit drumming

    • @Rxbandit421
      @Rxbandit421 3 роки тому +6

      Right! They did have him Fredrik and mattias ia eklundh on some Swedish tv channel sponsored by Vic Firth. Check it out if you haven’t seen it. It was just a medley of this album but still awesome even tho I don’t play drums haha.

    • @Rxbandit421
      @Rxbandit421 3 роки тому

      Not sure much info about the special they did but it’s on UA-cam and it’s super sick from all parties.

    • @MilkoOfficialChannel
      @MilkoOfficialChannel 3 роки тому +2

      Ringo is essential, this is Doctor level.

  • @TurkeyGuy9790
    @TurkeyGuy9790 6 років тому +164

    I truly love the fact that almost every comment is people giving appreciation for this album. No elitists or assholes. Just pure love for this masterpiece!

    • @HINRG14
      @HINRG14 4 роки тому +14

      8/10, not enough Freebird

    • @rorybass7915
      @rorybass7915 4 роки тому +1

      This record is fucking genius that’s why

    • @sexhaver420
      @sexhaver420 3 роки тому +15

      I'm an elitist and an asshole.

    • @vonbraunprimarch
      @vonbraunprimarch 2 роки тому

      this record is shit, how about that huh

    • @7stringwings7
      @7stringwings7 Рік тому

      It's one of the greatest open secrets in music. For us, by us type of community. I was introduced to this piece in 2006. Limewire was a huge factor in my discovery of some of the best shit ive ever heard. But back then i was like the only person who knew this existed and i showed it to EVERYONE. I was obsessed. Till this day I still have people thank me for showing them this, as they would have never discovered it otherwise. It's a rare and strange feeling. As is this masterpiece 🤘

  • @michaeljohnston490
    @michaeljohnston490 3 роки тому +299

    Just tripped on a borderline heroic dose of shrooms, and I can say with 100% certainty this is one of the greatest pieces of music ever made

    • @frankschrodinger1424
      @frankschrodinger1424 3 роки тому +50

      Brave of you to listen to this on shrooms...

    • @michaeljohnston490
      @michaeljohnston490 3 роки тому +33

      Frank Schrodinger I would argue it’s the proper way to listen to this album. It has a story to tell you

    • @frankschrodinger1424
      @frankschrodinger1424 3 роки тому +34

      @@michaeljohnston490 Yeah and it's not a pleasant story - i'd end up throwing myself out the window

    • @jakeison2968
      @jakeison2968 2 роки тому +17

      My brother showed me this album for the first time while we were tripping on acid, always loved meshuggah and had no fucking clue this existed! We were dying laughing at how insanely technical it is, reminds me of Blotted Science!

    • @dexterj5615
      @dexterj5615 2 роки тому +7

      i would argue that every piece of music sounds this epic on shrooms. Just ask a grateful dead fan. To clarify, my stash is heady as fuck, I pick azurescens like they're chanterelles.

  • @lsptnjpmc
    @lsptnjpmc Рік тому +20

    I'll say it again... Fredrik has one of the coolest guitar styles even this early in his career.

  • @t3hgir
    @t3hgir 8 років тому +378

    Albums like this make me truly appreciate this era I'm living in.

  • @BigFloppa_TheNoble
    @BigFloppa_TheNoble 2 роки тому +4

    Yoo I can't believe Drake just dropped this secret album after certified lover boy

  • @griffinmcclain9360
    @griffinmcclain9360 2 місяці тому +3

    Crazy that Meshuggah’s drummer Tomas Haake did the vocals on this one

  • @djentmaster33
    @djentmaster33 6 років тому +115

    I love how you can hear the guy gasping for air on the sax between rests on the 27:00 mark. So much emotion and brutality put into it.

    • @nihility00
      @nihility00 4 роки тому +13

      I like it when he gasps at 38:39 when he has tissue and fluid samples taken.

    • @teepeeth
      @teepeeth 2 роки тому

      @@nihility00 Goddamn i laughed out loud ✌️

    • @harpernicholson1
      @harpernicholson1 8 місяців тому +2

      i never noticed this before, it gives me even more goosebumps now

    • @djentmaster33
      @djentmaster33 8 місяців тому

      @@harpernicholson1 more to add to the list of why this is a masterpiece.

  • @MeekDrill
    @MeekDrill 5 місяців тому +6

    This Is A Masterpiece

    • @luisbenjaminnunezquintana4221
      @luisbenjaminnunezquintana4221 4 місяці тому

      Missing time, awsome, what a travel through this album..20 years later, the best ever..like you say master piece

  • @cyclopsvideo1
    @cyclopsvideo1 9 років тому +226

    Brilliant.This is where fredrik goes into outer space.

    • @Wormbung
      @Wormbung 6 років тому +3

      Yikes! You think that's funny or somethin?

    • @mattharris9015
      @mattharris9015 4 роки тому +3

      @@Wormbung ye

    • @Cestariarts
      @Cestariarts 4 роки тому

      Speaking of outer space, Baby Yoda loves it ua-cam.com/video/jQjUIyDVaOQ/v-deo.html

    • @pedromrls6
      @pedromrls6 4 роки тому +3

      This would be some Lovecraft shit

    • @pyramidhead3109
      @pyramidhead3109 2 роки тому

      @@Cestariarts gay

  • @02SplinterCell02
    @02SplinterCell02 3 роки тому +254

    This and Catch 33 are objectively the greatest albums ever made

    • @arsonravengarcia8370
      @arsonravengarcia8370 3 роки тому +25

      I cannot agree with you more..as a long time Meshuggah fan,this is just fuckin boinkers man.Beyond crazy.

    • @SW3Raceman2890
      @SW3Raceman2890 2 роки тому +6

      you forgot the third one: "the dark side of the moon"

    • @mattvdh
      @mattvdh 2 роки тому +19

      ok simmer down lol

    • @Noone-ew2wk
      @Noone-ew2wk 2 роки тому +6

      Check out rivers of nihil's "monarchy" not the same style but check it out you might like it, "suntold" is sick af, idk why I'm recommending it I just love meshuggah been listening to them for years and rarely find good metal since finding them

    • @gabberpiet6919
      @gabberpiet6919 2 роки тому

      @@SW3Raceman2890 worst album ever

  • @MusicAsMedicine88
    @MusicAsMedicine88 3 місяці тому +2

    Descent to the Netherworld... perfection. Those cymbals just wow.

  • @ShreddedASMR
    @ShreddedASMR 3 дні тому

    Even as a life long guitar player and Thorendal stan, I'm still fucking stunned by the drumming on this album.
    These are some of the best drum performances I've ever heard recorded.

  • @dimitriospapapavlou9539
    @dimitriospapapavlou9539 8 років тому +440

    Damnit guys...this is the evolution of metal. I feel sorry for people who cannot aknowledge the passion and energy these dudes put into this. Friends would start laughing when i made them listen to this and they never got it. Especially in my country, Greece, people would be thinking monolithically in the sense that if you enjoy this kind of music you can only be a metalhead. But one can enjoy classical and pop music and still get goosebumps when listening to Meschuggah. So much emotion...

    • @PanasonicTooth
      @PanasonicTooth 8 років тому +10

      +Dimitrios Papapavlou Friends are dumb :)

    • @jenshalsberghe
      @jenshalsberghe 8 років тому +34

      +Dimitrios Papapavlou it's because people who never listen to the heavier stuff out there would find this crap. You cannot blame them though. I also grew slowly into metal and it's now my most preferred genre. But if you had me listen to this 10 years ago I only would have heard screaming and noise, no melody, nothing. Of course it's different for everyone but sometimes I instantly like a band I listen to and sometimes it takes a bit of time. It is true though that people start finding it weird that you can like other music besides metal and they get surprised lol. heck, I even like some justin bieber songs these days. overly commercial, underground. If I like it, I listen to it!

    • @martinkorn2668
      @martinkorn2668 8 років тому

      +Jens Halsberghe yes a agree

    • @martinkorn2668
      @martinkorn2668 8 років тому +1

      exeis dikio

    • @stayrosgre
      @stayrosgre 7 років тому +4

      Meshuggah is amazing. μην τους ακους :P

  • @polcio3559
    @polcio3559 4 роки тому +24

    Fredrik Thordendal's guide on how to disassociate on a long night drive ™️

  • @positivebenzowithdrawal5578
    @positivebenzowithdrawal5578 5 років тому +153

    I’m trying to get my metal head 16 year old drummer son to take a jazz intensive this summer. Gonna play him this album as a reminder (he’s heard it before) of WHY he needs to study some jazz.

  • @tedeisner822
    @tedeisner822 7 років тому +185

    It may sound odd, but this album has a powerful hypnotic effect that helps me sleep..especially when having too many thoughts to fall asleep when tired

    • @sooryapraveen1780
      @sooryapraveen1780 6 років тому +3

      augustus rayne same here! It's perfectly normal.

    • @albinullanger7862
      @albinullanger7862 5 років тому +3

      Me too. I wonder what Fredrik thinks about that?

    • @ELCAFELO
      @ELCAFELO 5 років тому +1

      been there!

    • @garrettjohnsen
      @garrettjohnsen 5 років тому +4

      Yeah, this kind of music has always helped me sleep.

    • @george9822
      @george9822 4 роки тому +13

      Its the droning polyrhythms. Puts me to sleep like a metranome

  • @prince13896
    @prince13896 7 років тому +168

    Everyone I play this for sits silently, both mesmerised and horrified, until it's done. It's pretty much the scariest album of all time.

    • @colins7771
      @colins7771 5 років тому +2

      you should listen to any album by Child Abuse... that is scary

    • @IMHOLUKE
      @IMHOLUKE 5 років тому +22

      Its perfect because no metal album has succeeded in just being disturbing the way a horror movie or HP Lovecraft book is, despite the long association of metal with horror and other related imagery. Im always surprised that no other band or artist has tried to follow in the path of this sound

    • @nackskott12
      @nackskott12 4 роки тому +18

      Maybe I'm just jaded, but after hearing artists like Gnaw Their Tongues, Plebeian Grandstand and Axis of Perdition, can't say I find this album scary. It's trippy as fuck though. Very weird and eclectic, amazing stuff.

    • @tomdongerson1474
      @tomdongerson1474 4 роки тому +14

      Scary? I think it’s beautiful.

    • @schpleeb
      @schpleeb 4 роки тому +1

      Try Scott Walker’s The Drift

  • @KLANC8
    @KLANC8 4 роки тому +30

    Back when I was in college (around 2003) I had this on CD and it got stuck in my cars CD player, best equipment malfunction ever, I got to listen this record daily for a long time !!

  • @Jukestar
    @Jukestar 8 місяців тому +5

    The beginning is just the perfect way to describe to others how I felt at the worst of my mental health.

    • @Heliosphan33
      @Heliosphan33 7 місяців тому +1

      Hope you’re feeling better

    • @Jukestar
      @Jukestar 7 місяців тому +3

      @@Heliosphan33 Certainly better than that time. I am not perfect, but definitely better than I was in the past. Thank you for the good wishes. It's very kind.

  • @diegoarana5862
    @diegoarana5862 4 роки тому +47

    Thordendal is a genius. This is the most innovative thing in metal that ive ever heard and it's been like 20 since this was released.

    • @cthulpaspawn
      @cthulpaspawn 4 роки тому +14

      Morgan Agren's drumming is INSANE in this album. Dude can make his drums sound like they're falling down a stairwell and then throw the meanest groove. Ugh.... I fuggin love this album

  • @leventetakacs4638
    @leventetakacs4638 Рік тому +4

    I am stuck forever in 03.03.1997

  • @DIRTKNAPFX
    @DIRTKNAPFX Рік тому +11

    I bought this CD at Music Express in Kalamazoo in 1998. I had been into Meshuggah for a few years by then so I figured, it was going to be quite similar. Boy, was I wrong. This album is an hour of atmosphere and texture, 25 years ahead of its time.

  • @jackbenson8228
    @jackbenson8228 2 роки тому +4

    dissolving abyssal emptiness overflowing out of and into itself

  • @Spermicidee
    @Spermicidee 2 роки тому +4

    we were all living in 1997 when this came out while fredrik was living in 2197

  • @MinnesotanMysticism
    @MinnesotanMysticism Рік тому +5

    To those who don’t know; sol niger is the black sun is an archetype I think jungian in origin but not in symbology and mythology. There is a really interesing book called “black sun: the alchemy and art of darkness” it’s fascinating, changes my life. I’ve loved meshuggah a long time and just recently read that book and found this afterwards. Meshuggah and Fredrick are deeper artist than they even appear.

  • @productive_citizen
    @productive_citizen 8 років тому +41

    This was released in 1997 and I can think of dozens of metalcore bands that would release something like this today. As always, Fredrik was/is way ahead of his time, yet undeniably timeless.

    • @lordofrephaim1824
      @lordofrephaim1824 8 років тому +10

      +RespectfulDad Its great that, even though theres alot of metalcore/deathcore acts that use the 'djent' tone and play 8 string guitars, Fredriks playing is still unique, which is what makes Meshuggah such a great band.

    • @productive_citizen
      @productive_citizen 8 років тому

      +mike patton Faith No More sucked, Mike

    • @heppper
      @heppper 8 років тому +21

      +RespectfulDad
      doubt any metalcore band would ever release this perfect blend of complex metal chugg riffs with fusion drums and melodies/solos.

    • @productive_citizen
      @productive_citizen 8 років тому +5

      +heppper It was a comment on the style, not necessarily the technical aspects. I agree with you

    • @ashleyvillanueva6969
      @ashleyvillanueva6969 8 років тому

      hey! Buddha, aren't you with Jesus in super best friends? yeah. he's looking for you, you'll be his next guest on his TV show. 😂

  • @josephbrenner2278
    @josephbrenner2278 Рік тому +3

    Sounds more like early 90s meshuggah mixed with strapping young lad with other psychedelic prog jazz elements in itself. And I love the Allen Holdsworth style guitar solos.

  • @unabashedindividualist6232
    @unabashedindividualist6232 8 років тому +26

    This was the most elusive/expensive album I've ever paid cash for.

    • @tomzen660
      @tomzen660 3 роки тому +4

      Largely it's the only album I have considered aqquiering. I mean: a vinyl collection got to begin somewhere, and with this work of art the standard would be set.

  • @gabegrohl9437
    @gabegrohl9437 8 місяців тому +7

    Morgan Agren's drumming in Sensorium Dei is phenomenal. HOW DO YOU STAY ON POINT THROUGHOUT ALL OF THAT RANDOMNESS. The extra high hats enhance the whole experience so much.

  • @Yggdra666
    @Yggdra666 4 роки тому +41

    I love music to the point where I've always said that I do not have a favorite album. I listen to anything, from tibetan ceremonial music to noise, anything I can get my hands on.
    But this.. this is something else.
    I can listen to this album 3 times a day and not get bored of it. Since I have found this album about 5 months ago I have listened to this easily over 100 times and I still love it like the first time I've listened to it. I have never heard of a single piece of music that has been able to capture my attention for this long in such an intense manner even though I know of some strong contenders, this one takes the cake by a long shot.
    Thank you Fredrik, thank you Morgan and thanks to everyone else involved in the production of this, in my eyes, absolutely flawless piece of Art.
    I will carry this until the day I die.

    • @yuricoutinho233
      @yuricoutinho233 3 роки тому +3

      Man, I second you... It's been my favorite for ages and I kinda listen to it every week... should've gotten tired of it by now!

    • @krewm.2128
      @krewm.2128 3 роки тому +3

      You know it’s a great album when you can listen to it multiple times a day and it doesn’t get boring.

    • @roybatty2268
      @roybatty2268 Рік тому +2

      Couldn't agree more. There are other albums I have listened to a lot, like Mark of the Mole from the Residents to the point I can hum that whole album from beginning to end, and that is a very strange album! But SNW is the one I never get tired of. Literally every day I get in my car I tap the opening bass rhythm on the steering wheel, like its a code or password to start the car properly. I feel like I know this album so intimately.

  • @ivyhallquist3159
    @ivyhallquist3159 7 місяців тому +2

    Bouncing In A Bottomless Pit has such a STANKY riff.

  • @johannrajan6357
    @johannrajan6357 3 роки тому +60

    Guitar Solos
    - 0:36 The Beginning of the End of Extraction(Evolutional Slow Down)
    - 2:35 The Executive Furies of the Robot Lord of Death
    - 5:28 Dante's Wild Inferno
    - 6:57 I, Galactus
    - 9:55 Z1- Reticuli
    - 13:17 Transmigration of Souls
    - 18:00 Bouncing in a Bottomless Pit
    - 24:08 Sensorium Dei
    - 30:28 On a Crater's Verge
    - 38:57 Missing Time
    - 49:35 Ooo Baby Baby
    Saxophone Solo
    - 25:53 Z2- Reticuli
    Bass Solo
    - 42:10 Missing Time
    Synth Solos
    - 43:05 Missing Time
    - 45:30 Missing Time

    • @krewm.2128
      @krewm.2128 3 роки тому +6

      Underrated comment 🙏

    • @SW3Raceman2890
      @SW3Raceman2890 2 роки тому +2

      my favorite guitar solo of all i've ever heard... and i have listened very very much different ones... - is from "I, galactus".
      every single note and the way them played, the guitar tone, and of course, rhythmical decisions - are meaningful

    • @truslyd
      @truslyd Рік тому +1

      I galactus solo has more feeling and is as jazzy as anything I've heard...miles Davis would dig this...

  • @carryingfire286
    @carryingfire286 8 місяців тому +3

    Ok class, today is the day! Everyone ready up your one song you wished to share with music class.
    Me:

  • @user-ru1qk4qq1u
    @user-ru1qk4qq1u 2 роки тому +8

    Pretty much the record every extreme prog/tech death metal act of the 90s aspired to make, until Fred came along and proved them hopelessly deluded. It hasn't been bettered since.

  • @rehm402
    @rehm402 10 місяців тому +3

    “Who are you!? Why are you here?!”

  • @officialrhythmicthoughts
    @officialrhythmicthoughts Рік тому +6

    14:46 SHEESH

  • @jadedmastermind
    @jadedmastermind 5 років тому +18

    I first heard this in 1999 and was completely blown away. It was like falling asleep in 1849, waking up 150 years later and being blown away by how revolutionary and advanced everything was compared to the world I’d known up to that point.

  • @Facundoviscarra34
    @Facundoviscarra34 9 років тому +24

    9:56 the best fucking guitar solo EVER

    • @MaXaNoMaLoUs
      @MaXaNoMaLoUs 6 років тому +5

      Facundo viscarra 18:00 - 19:14 one of my all time favorite solos and riffs from anyone. "Bouncing in a bottomless pit"

    • @BengB
      @BengB 6 років тому +2

      Z1 is unparalelled imo

    • @israelcosta980
      @israelcosta980 3 роки тому +1

      so lydian...

  • @oRnch199
    @oRnch199 7 років тому +97

    Honestly my favorite album of all time. I've shown it to friends, like most fans of the album have, it just takes time to sink in how genius and crazy this album really is.

    • @oRnch199
      @oRnch199 7 років тому +9

      It really is actually brutally beautiful.

    • @Galactu5
      @Galactu5 7 років тому +12

      Same here. My favorite of all time. It NEVER gets old. Listened to this album more than probably all other albums I've heard combined. Went about 5 years playing this on average every day. Just got caught listening again right now and can't stop, lol!
      So true about it taking time to soak in, but once it does, it becomes a part of you. I really can't say the same about just about any other music I've heard in any genre. This is a masterpiece without any reservation. It is unlikely that Fredrik could surpass this which might explain the long delay for a part II.

    • @luciano9755
      @luciano9755 6 років тому +2

      They don't understand, Ogre Dubs . They don't understand.

    • @justinm50
      @justinm50 6 років тому +4

      people also never seem to remark on the genius level of lyrical content in this masterpiece

    • @justinm50
      @justinm50 6 років тому +1

      www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/fredrikthordendalsspecialdefects/solnigerwithinversion333.html

  • @aramisvanaquin827
    @aramisvanaquin827 7 років тому +103

    How the hell did the earth, let alone the Studio in which they were recording this Album, hold and not just break into pieces? I mean, judging by the result (this Album), the recording Process had to be something similar to the big bang. This Album definitely created it's own Universe.

    • @isaacw9357
      @isaacw9357 6 років тому +8

      The Sinister Haunted Moartea Of Melancholy Obviously was recorded in hell

    • @claytoncardoso9201
      @claytoncardoso9201 5 років тому +14

      You are gay

    • @nejczupan
      @nejczupan 4 роки тому

      Its inspired by other other musicians .. they just happen to put this kind of music into metal and made their own thing that way :)

    • @cthulpaspawn
      @cthulpaspawn 4 роки тому +1

      Fabric of reality: broken

    • @felinekaiju4517
      @felinekaiju4517 4 роки тому +7

      it simultaneously both destroyed and reconstructed reality around them as they recorded it. Death and rebirth. ;)

  • @andrewbennett7610
    @andrewbennett7610 2 роки тому +6

    "The executive furies of the robot lord of death" may be the best title for a heavy metal song in human history.

  • @Zaksporebrainiac
    @Zaksporebrainiac 2 роки тому +7

    If Meshuggah used those jazzy haunting clean sections much more, I'd be a lot more into them now. They're just so good.

  • @nihilanth_mudrarakshas
    @nihilanth_mudrarakshas 4 роки тому +75

    This is to Meshuggah what Meshuggah is to normal Metal bands

    • @19RaxR91
      @19RaxR91 3 роки тому +4

      It has been for the longest time.
      Im listening to this album for the first time in its Entirety after quite some time, and it was definitely before I finally went through Destroy Erase Improve a couple of times, and if you listen to That album, I think its safe to say that Fredrik could Never really express himself to his fullest potential in Meshuggah after that ever again.
      Dont get me wrong, because Certainly Fredrik has done a lot of great stuff in Meshuggah, right till his leaving, but listen to This, and the Meshuggah album that came after DEI, as well as after This album came out, which is Chaosphere, and its basically This, but without most of its psychedelic tendencies, and adventurous experimentation melody-wise.
      I mean, when you compare the Sol Niger Within and Chaosphere, the latter might have become iconic more quickly, but the former was the Actual creative progression and elevation of ideas done in Destroy Erase Improve.
      Once again, not that it diminishes my fondness of Chaosphere - not in the least, but I should say that Catch Thirtythree is my all time Favorite Meshuggah album, and it might be due to it adhering more to the formula of this record, in that both are concept albums, with CT sounding like a dystopian future when compared to the transcendental trip that is SNW.

    • @nihilanth_mudrarakshas
      @nihilanth_mudrarakshas 3 роки тому +1

      @@19RaxR91 DEI is growing on me slowly, and I absolutely love the mind bending melodies. None and DEI are so vastly underrated despite them having some of Meshuggah's best material. I mean I love the turn Meshuggah took after DEI as well, there is not a single song I don't like. But I miss the old Meshuggah as well. It would be amazing if they decide to revisit those days in their new album

    • @holygroove2
      @holygroove2 3 роки тому

      In the Meshuggah camp it's folks who cling to Catch 33, or folks who love Chaosphere. If you like utter brutality, funk, and hip hop, Chaosphere is for you. If you like odd sounds Catch 33 is for you. I'm in the Chaosphere camp with Catch 33 and "I" being my least fav albums. I do like the parts of Catch 33 that they play live, but Chaosphere, Nothing, DEI, Obzen, Violent Sleep. Those are all albums that I listen to regularly. I haven't heard that Frederick has left Meshuggah, but that he's taken a break to record his own stuff, and build his studio, which you can see if you follow his Insta. 🤘

  • @colins7771
    @colins7771 5 років тому +37

    one of the greatest albums of all time.... its pretty cool that Fredrik has been working on a second one for a long time now!!!!! Canttttttttt wait to die and be reborn again when he releases number 2.

  • @Wabungus2
    @Wabungus2 3 роки тому +17

    Holy god damn FUCK this is the most incredible piece of music I have EVER heard

  • @BlaacHollow
    @BlaacHollow 3 місяці тому +1

    When the drum dopamine level blows my head off, you know this is a great masterpiece.

  • @demoncleaner80
    @demoncleaner80 3 роки тому +6

    Tathagata @34:13 is the outro from Sublevels on Destroy Erase Improve but just ... way more intense. Too cool.

  • @color-head1696
    @color-head1696 3 роки тому +7

    👍🏻 Wow! Very inspiring stuff! (So far I didnt know that Gollum was a Swedish Djent-Singer before he started his movie carreer in New Sealand ...)

  • @dronmusicsound
    @dronmusicsound 2 роки тому +10

    Best avant-garde metal album of all time! It’s like I’ve been looking for it all my life! Very beautiful guitar playing from Fredrik combining metal and jazz fusion!!!

  • @gaborkrausz5402
    @gaborkrausz5402 Рік тому +5

    33:37 When you finally arrive home after a long day of work

  • @JoyBard
    @JoyBard 7 місяців тому +2

    When I first found this on Spotify I saw Fredrik Thordendal in the name and thought "Huh interesting, this must sound like Meshuggah then"... Boy was I wrong (and sorta right)

  • @luismg2130
    @luismg2130 9 років тому +39

    Impeccable album, I never get tired of it.

    • @Galactu5
      @Galactu5 9 років тому +8

      Absolutely true! I hum it every day at least and listen a couple times per week since 1999.

  • @lucasveese379
    @lucasveese379 6 років тому +11

    In my opinion:
    -Contradictions Collapse: 7/10
    -Destroy Erase Improve: 8/10
    -Chaosphere: 10/10
    -Nothing: 10/10
    -Catch-33: 12/10
    -obZen: 6/10
    -Koloss: 7/10
    -The Violent Sleep of Reason: 7/10
    ...This bullshit: 15/10

    • @xMagnificuSx
      @xMagnificuSx 6 років тому +2

      Lucas Veese Come on guys, TVSOR is some of their best work. I mean it took me a year to appreciate it but when it klicks it k(l)icks hard ;)
      Clockworks, the title track and Ivory Tower are 3 of their most sophisticated songs yet.
      But yeah this solo record is just beyond everything

    • @Heliosphan33
      @Heliosphan33 6 місяців тому

      Don’t completely agree but thanks for being here

  • @Cestariarts
    @Cestariarts 4 роки тому +141

    He was SO MUCH AHEAD of his time, this stuff is trending now. 20 years after its release. Do you have any idea what this means?

    • @xtoreighty5891
      @xtoreighty5891 4 роки тому +17

      He's a visionary!

    • @cthulpaspawn
      @cthulpaspawn 4 роки тому +16

      Straight up. I always mention when this was released, still blows my damn mind. I was a wee lad when this mastery was unveiled. Sorcerers, all. Pioneering af.

    • @Cestariarts
      @Cestariarts 4 роки тому

      Guys, if you're into Star Wars, look at this ua-cam.com/video/jQjUIyDVaOQ/v-deo.html

    • @8KILLSTEP
      @8KILLSTEP 4 роки тому +1

      REAL recognizeReal

    • @michaeljohnston490
      @michaeljohnston490 3 роки тому +5

      I’m gonna show this album to people when I’m 60 and ask them to guess its age. Crazy to think this came out a year before I was even born

  • @MaXaNoMaLoUs
    @MaXaNoMaLoUs 6 років тому +58

    38:57 the Most Holdsworth homages I've ever heard! Please everyone listen, this is not from Sol Niger. Its a song called "Missing time" Fredrik did with Mats & Morgan, everyone also needs to realize this drummer played with Frank Zappa!

    • @__Henry__
      @__Henry__ 5 років тому +3

      Yes! Tone and composition very much so in several parts of the album

    • @U2SaxFan
      @U2SaxFan 5 років тому +4

      Same goes for the song following that at 48:31, "Ohh Baby Baby." However, both tracks were included at the end of the 3.33 re-release version of Sol Niger Within as bonus tracks, which is why they're included here. It's also to note that Morgan Ågren is the drummer on Sol Niger Within, and Mats Öberg is featured on several tracks of the album.

    • @snuppssynthchannel
      @snuppssynthchannel 4 роки тому +2

      Never expected that, thorendal is a great player, Holdsworth is miles ahead though, that guy is unreal.

    • @dylano0126
      @dylano0126 4 місяці тому

      The intro sounds like something out of Sand.

    • @MaXaNoMaLoUs
      @MaXaNoMaLoUs 27 днів тому

      @@snuppssynthchannelwhen I met Fredrik we both acknowledged we know nothing and Holdsworth is/was the grandmaster haha.

  • @h.p.dominocus
    @h.p.dominocus 2 роки тому +5

    Hash Tag Missing time. Some of the best guitar playing I have ever heard in my life. So unique but also memorable much like alot of his other solos.

    • @metadata5638
      @metadata5638 2 роки тому

      Alan Holdsworth style of not much picking legato .

  • @ofirtalmor
    @ofirtalmor 6 років тому +19

    This is how it feels when you're in outer space, entering a space-time vortex, and suddenly all these old suppressed memories of that time when you've been abducted by aliens start to resurface....

  • @iananderson292
    @iananderson292 Місяць тому +2

    mans had some good dmt and a Stenotype writer to record all the data

  • @igormendoncacanga2569
    @igormendoncacanga2569 2 роки тому +3

    Black Sun Within. This album is so freaking cool man!!!

  • @CircleofShit
    @CircleofShit 4 роки тому +5

    That mental yelling at the very beginning of the first track is awesome haha. Sounds like someone's brain slowly getting sucked out into a violent vortex hahahaa.

  • @robertkelly3475
    @robertkelly3475 2 роки тому +3

    That is the craziest speck of dust I've ever seen move like that, God bless Fredrick

  • @starrrkkk
    @starrrkkk 8 років тому +35

    5:29 I think I listened to this about 100 times

  • @knockpotato
    @knockpotato 5 років тому +23

    25:52
    This sax solo gets me every time. Jonas Knutsson, you are truly a genius accompanied by geniuses.

  • @o-redbeard-o1036
    @o-redbeard-o1036 3 роки тому +7

    Aliens come to Earth and dock their giant craft suspended above the desert. You can only play 1 song to communicate with them.
    The song: Sol Niger Within.

  • @rooxg
    @rooxg 4 роки тому +11

    the beginning of missing time sounds soooo much like an early DOOM soundtrack ! what a wonderful album. I've been a meshug fan for more than 10 years but it took me starting to study jazz and lots of other shit to really grasp this album. Now that my ear is more developped i can really enjoy that incredible sound. To think these guys did this in 1997 is even more astonishing because they litterally were pioneering a sound that would only start getting popular 10/15 years later. Such amazing musicianship and such an underrated album !

    • @AidanMmusic96
      @AidanMmusic96 2 роки тому +2

      Me too. Though ironically, I've just come out of the "schooled musician route", and it's taken this time away (and detaching my notation brain) to finally work out some of what's going on.

    • @rooxg
      @rooxg 2 роки тому +1

      @@AidanMmusic96 yea i feel like this kind of music is between both worlds. I'm in no way theorically qualified enough to say with certainty whats going on here and there but being a metalhead first that got into jazz later i really understood how much jazz had influenced this music.

    • @dylano0126
      @dylano0126 2 місяці тому

      Listen to the album 'Wardenclyffe Tower' by Allan Holdsworth. It's very much inspired by that. Or any of Allan's late 80s to early 90s work.

  • @GojiraScorn
    @GojiraScorn 5 років тому +41

    This album stands on its own today. It could be released ten years from now, and still be the most relevant album that metal has ever experienced. Existential angst and ecstacy in aural form.

    • @metalheadpolack
      @metalheadpolack 3 роки тому +2

      Thank you friend. Beautifully put. It’s like an inter dimensional being crossed over to this reality and made an album..

  • @diegoarana5862
    @diegoarana5862 3 роки тому +3

    i do not understand how i enjoy this. fredrik's riffing is too good.

  • @continuum288
    @continuum288 5 років тому +6

    By far in my experience and opinion the best and most entertaining album i have ever heard.. iv'e probably had over 50 versions of this album. I have a ton of downloaded and ripped versions. This one included. I also have 1 of the vinyls sold from Husaria Records and years ago bought the Sol Niger Within version from Morgan Agren himself.. . I'd most likely never play it(the vinyl)even if i had a record player. This album means a fucken lot to me!

  • @billthebutcher1780
    @billthebutcher1780 3 роки тому +5

    This album has ran through my blood since it was released. I fucking live for this

    • @metadata5638
      @metadata5638 2 роки тому +2

      Same her been my top album since it was released nothing has topped it period .

    • @billthebutcher1780
      @billthebutcher1780 2 роки тому

      @@metadata5638 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

  • @Ruddi_SK
    @Ruddi_SK 6 місяців тому +2

    im stuck on looping "...Och Stjärnans Namn Var Malört" ~3rd day now, 4:54 is insane

    • @Heliosphan33
      @Heliosphan33 5 місяців тому +1

      So heavy and terrifying

  • @d3tach3d
    @d3tach3d Рік тому +2

    I come back to listen to this album a lost a few years ago and realize by the channel name that This Weirdo named Ermin Hamidovic Remasered This Album because maybe he just wanting make it sound better!? Yes, It sounds amazing. Anyways, this Meatwad also happens to make my favorite Sim Racing Content too (I havnt check your channel in a while, Life). He's just a Chad at Everything he does because of his Integrity and this High Bar of Standards He sets himself to. Oh, and He's one of the most impressive Mastering Engineers I've heard whom I Respect a fuck ton more after reading his book.
    As mentioned, I bought your book like a year ago, Fucker. It was worth its weight in Gold and Ive gained so much from it while regurgitating the things I've learned to help others with questions or tips, like my friends, other bands/musicians at the Music Venue whenever I'm helping setup, doing sound check, running the board for them, etc.). Mainly whenever conversation of recording and audio stuff is talked about, which is quite often, or a see a great musician who great on his instrument but knows fuck all about their own gear, achieving a good tone, or anything Audio Related, which is a lot of musicians. But, I dont blame them at all. I love to help out other musicians in regards to the other side of it all.
    Anyways, I even picked up Djinn Bass and Flatline from Submission Audio. Out of the Endless seas of a millions VSTs and Virtual Instruments to drown in, Djinn was perfect and Flatline does way too much, way too simply, for way too little the cost. Thanks for putting your stamp out there ERMZ, you've helped me out in a lot of ways, among countless many others when you decided to be a UA-cam Creator. I found you through Sim Racing, Heard you mention Being an Engineer who worked with Misha, I shit my pants, then a checked out your Massive BODY (of work), haha. I was blown away. It also felt weird that This "UA-cam Guy" shared some of the same very specific combo of Interests that I did, as well as having a similar personality. That's never happened before. Naturally, a non-consensual Man Crush developed, haha. You're just a G.O.AT, Brother. Thank You again, for Everything you put out to us.
    Im just a Younger Guy who loves to play and record music on his Guitar and Drums, Work on other people projects, and pay it forward with my Basement Studio Setup. I'll always be a death metal head who grew up listening to Meshuggah, Morbid Angel, Mayhem, Tool, Misha (Bulb), Mats Morgan Band, Faith No More, Mr Bungle, (Anything Mike Patton and Trey Spraunce) The Secret Cheifs 3, Screaming Headless Torsos, Prog Jazz-Funk, etc) I goes on and on like everyone's list. I can appreciate all forms music now which just makes everything better.
    Cheers, man

  • @timojoki4901
    @timojoki4901 5 років тому +20

    23:24 Grade-A Meshuggah name drop

  • @tigersinyourlungs
    @tigersinyourlungs 4 роки тому +4

    2020. My first listen to this album. Wow!!!

  • @umi5082
    @umi5082 Рік тому +2

    gotta love ooo baby baby

  • @metadata5638
    @metadata5638 2 роки тому +2

    Tripping on this is mandatory at least once !

  • @Vanhaomena
    @Vanhaomena 2 роки тому +3

    This is pure insanity in a good way

  • @rumblefishes
    @rumblefishes 2 роки тому +3

    Honestly the best music I have ever heard. I wanna cry.

  • @Heliosphan33
    @Heliosphan33 Рік тому +1

    I keep coming back to this record

  • @60hzmasterrace17
    @60hzmasterrace17 5 років тому +7

    Love how he re-purposed the end of Sublevels

  • @conradtaylor9513
    @conradtaylor9513 3 роки тому +5

    The experience of travelling into a black hole in musical form.

  • @joshcobb5939
    @joshcobb5939 3 роки тому +3

    Just brilliant. Those sweds know how to do things right. Love you Fredrick

  • @glebvic
    @glebvic Рік тому +3

    A fusion masterpiece for the ages for sure. A logical next step for fusion from Miles Davis' "Aura" and Terje Rypdal's "Odyssey". A lot in common, as far as the ambient bits, rhythm, and harmonies go. Loved this album for many years.

  • @sonicheadspace3710
    @sonicheadspace3710 3 роки тому +4

    Hauntingly mindblowing!!!

  • @floreavictormihaigeorge6962
    @floreavictormihaigeorge6962 3 роки тому +11

    I've listened to this thing 10 times in a row when i discovered it

  • @hugoflores8090
    @hugoflores8090 2 роки тому +3

    It's been a long while since I listened to something this good.

  • @freestylerelaxmusicnichola7385
    @freestylerelaxmusicnichola7385 3 роки тому +3

    I just don't know what to say, Fredrik is really not a human! No one on this entire earth has done something like this, I feel blessed every single time I listen to this ablum, this is true nirvana!

  • @luciano9755
    @luciano9755 6 років тому +32

    This is my bible.