Tracklist: 0:00 A guitarist practicing and trying to learn Bleed's picking patterns 1:33 Meshuggah try their hands at Grindcore 1:55 And now, back to our regularly scheduled Meshuggah show.
"How do you feel about other metal bands copying your style?" Meshuggah - "They can do what they want. They won't ever sound like us" Or something like that.
yeah I'm pretty sure that just happened here. We just had one of our extremely sexy maids instantly transported back to the basement. Thats cool though cuz it's easier to feed them when their all in the same room.
This sounds like some Lovecraftian god , whose reasoning is beyond human comprehension, emerging from eternal darkness and consuming everything on its path.
I know I'm a year late, but it's almost like it spoke in this weird frequency. The computer geeks (me) would convert it to a sound file and do other geek stuff with it, and then we get this song...
Fuck, I remember when I first hear this song back in '08, me and a few buddies were at a record store and spotted this album. We saw Meshuggah and were like "Fuck yeah, let's get it!" And little did we know it only had a few tracks. So we were like, "Damn, the hell?" But we popped in the CD in the CD player and drove back. We sat and listened to this song in its entirety and not a single word was spoken after the song was over. We didn't even say bye to each other because we were all in complete shock. Till this day, it stands to be on of my favorite songs of all time. Can never get tired of this track. An amazing masterpiece of fucking your brain musically.
The difficulty of playing this song is the equivalent of beating GoldenEye's Aztec mission on DLTK while blindfolded, spinning in a chair nonstop while trying to balance a glass of wine on your head all while trying to drive from New York to LA.
exactly. -- and with time to spare for feeding the bionic Liger in the hatchback a giant bottle of spider milk while not having to regret the price of the over sized nipple at dollar general as a bad investment. So who the fuck cares if he smokes crack. The amount of likes on the facebook posts dwarf the sacrifices made on the Ligers unfortunate habit all fuckin day long.
Somewhere I often feel that...the reason that these songs even exist is because the guys from Meshuggah thought "because..we can technically create these sounds"
the pattern for the number of hits in 8:39 to 10:32 1212213 1212213 121221212 1212213 121221213 12122131 1 11212123 1212212213 1212213 1212213 112213 1212213 121221313 1212212213 1212213 1212213 112213 1212213 1211 yeah I can see why Haake said this track is too random to ever play live
@@XadaTen i have no idea how they even wrote this, just one of the guys fucked around and came up with a totally random pattern and then the entire band had to nail it with absolute precision? these guys are fuckin insane, just the tremolo/doublebass parts inbetween each of the hits are so awkwardly timed yet executed so fuckin precisely, I know these guys do a lot of impressive shit but this is truly incredible
Saw these guys @ the Croatian Cultural Center in Vancouver and screamed 'PLAY I !! THE WHOLE THING !!' Jens kind of laughed and pointed and replied Sorry man we only got like 45 minutes !
+JerryMcChicken "Music theory" isn't even a part of the equation. It is called "theory" for a reason- by using theory, you can be safe and play notes that will not clash (create dissonance), but from a creative standpoint, theory is dull and predictable. Your ears are the judge of good music, not theory!
I - this fractal illusion burning away all structure toward the obscene I - to cleanse, to purge, to breach eternity and smother all life Blind-these mortal men of clay, divine and dying in their harassed form I-this furnace of limitless hate. Bestial, pure The pendulum swings semi-attached to the center of all I drug these minds into ruin and contempt-the acid smoke of burning souls This is an anomaly. Disabled. What is true? Not destined for incarceration, I crave my nothingness The illness that they whisper of, is that what makes me fail? I see through the eyes of the of the blind Not clear what it is to be this self I dread, the immense, the rabid I am The cogs turn, grinding away at ceaselessness-willing it to dust Re-disintegration. Convulse. A dead universe-Impales this twilight Fear aligns. Sadistic me. Meant to devour. Despair Sickened by the fact that immortality is not mine to have. A snail along a straight razor-dividing itself through motion I charge this feeble product of god Laughing, drenched in the bile of millions Chewing on the stinking flesh of the crown of creation Solitude in splendor has been rivalled Shroud stained with tarblack vomit Veiling the rotting eyes of the masses The strain of Armageddon evolves Shifting through worlds from chaos, to chaos, to chaos I devour this manure of existence-infertile, barren, whole Rancid redeemer. Virulent deterioration of faith Sacrilege in persona. In truth, fundamentally twisted A witness to this savage carnage. A frenzy of animosity The will to mutilate. Dominant deviation The worship of the sick and degenerate will spread I - The nihilist, not the lunatic Ridding my godlike being of doubt Obliterating all hope of escape I - Enter the echoes of despair Miracles inverted by default, a reflex to devastate Soaking in the will to violate, to castrate Soiling the purpose of mankind. Deus ex machina on hold The orgasmic, the splendid, the beginning of the end Conception derived from misconceptions The dimensionless features of truth Silence in the core of undoing Untie its knots and set it loose The inertia of my existence is clear Premutation of slaughtered worlds I alone will behold the dying sky A servant of eternity Progress finally, emergence of doom complete Here only to reverse the flow of life I
also in 8:40 i had to do this to learn the riff by series, like in that riff, curiosly you write I to each note, like the name of the song, and curiosly in the riff before the one you say that are also series of chugs when is about 110 chugs, it sounds three separated ( I I I) like the number 111, when i discovered that i thought that was the 111th chug in the I I I, but was a fail of calculate, but this is math metal
julian torres martinez III 3 I 4 III 7 I 8 I 9 IIII 13 I 14 IIII 17 I 18 II 20 I 21 IIII 25 I 26 IIIIIII 33 IIIII 38 I 39 II 41 I 42 I 43 IIII 47 I 48 IIII 52 I 53 II 55 I 56 IIII 60 I 61 IIIIIII 68 IIIII 73 I 74 I 76 IIIIIIII 84 I 85 IIII 89 I 90 I 91 II 93 IIII 97 II 99 III 102 I 103 I 104 III 107 I 108 I 109 I 110 III AND HERE IS THE GOAL 111, LIKE THE THREE MARKS BEFORE
Anthony Guardalabene I could have not said it better....... Literally....... 2,4,5,6,1273982739182379182379182, just doesn't WORK!3,333,33333,3,3333!Lol!!!
Really like the part where they simmulate a kind of "windchimes" with the part of the headstock of the strings of the guitar. This and the formal syncopation everywhere, they know how to move your expectations at every second. Beautiful band.
Massive Attack is anything but obscure (after all, the House MD soundtrack was a Massive Attack edit). However, i bet very few listen to both, I'll give you that.
listened to this at the peak of a shroom trip around 9 years ago, i get still flashbacks every time i listen to it. i can only describe the intensity as if skydiving without a parachute into the lava pool at the top of a volcano. pure insanity.
This is the single greatest song ever recorded. I'm just putting that out there. One of my favorite parts starts at 10:33. It's perfect for black & white goose stepping military parade footage. The words are also perfectly fitting: Sacrilege in persona. In truth, fundamentally twisted A witness to this savage carnage, a frenzy of animosity The will to mutilate. Dominant deviation The worship of the sick and degenerate will spread
Nietzsche would probably have been impressed with Jens Kidman's lyrics. Mozart, Vogner, and Beethoven would've been impressed by the complexity of the music.
guys i just nailed it and opened the wormhole.. i see mehsuggah playing for the gods of this strange universe where mountains pierce the sky and liquid metal flows out of rifts in the floor
Those bass slides at 9:35 and 10:11 are so sick. The bass tone on this album is so awesome, but I wish they had boosted it a little bit as it can be hard to isolate sometimes with everything going on.
The fact that the intro jumps between 7/8 to 5/8 to 3/8 to 2/8 to 6/8 at seemingly random in the intro is insane- Then you learn the rest of the song is in 4/4 which is crazy.
This needs to be done live. I'll honorably take Tomas' part. Meshuggah is seriously one of the best bands in the world, and I'm so humbled that they were the first touring band I ever saw - minutes ahead of Tool. I'll never forget my brother saying to me during Meshuggah's set that he could see me as the drummer of a band like this. To this day, one of the best compliments I've ever received. - I should really add that I was 14 at the time. That was 2002.
I rediscovered Meshuggah after 12 years. I felt for a long time they ruined metal and their music was just a thoughtless mundane exercise on putting a riff into the random number generator. Years later, I was trying to think of a band that was a combination of Tool and Swans' last three albums but metal. Incessant and repetitive, hypnotic, mesmerizing, symmetrical but asymmetrical; in the same manner that DNA replicates itself or the mathematical geometric inflections of nature, it is symmetrical but becomes infinitesimally asymmetrical with every duplication, propagating the building blocks innate to all life. Does that band even exist? Lo and Behold I rediscovered Meshuggah through a completely different lens. Not from a "check out this sick riff" perspective"(nothing wrong with that) but from a more Buddhist Kali Ma Sith Lord meditative perspective. The lyrics from I and Catch 33 are incredible. They go through cycles of literal and metaphysical death and rebirth which is reminiscent to the planes of death in the Eastern Book of the Dead or the Bardo Thodol. I've noticed other people seem to make similar observations [here](www.reddit.com/r/Meshuggah/comments/36xrey/favorite_song_lyrically/crmb4dt). *I* seems to come from the perspective of an omniscient "omnicidal" being that obtains the power to reverse the streams of life mixed with themes of profound introspection and neurosis. I have a sneaking suspicion the band did DMT around the time of *I* and *Catch 33*. Their artwork/visuals recalls Tool's *Lateralus* and Alex Grey's artwork. The visuals that accompany Meshuggah's music via the artwork, certain music videos, etc. remind of the visuals from a movie called *The End of the Black Rainbow*. Particularly this [sequence](ua-cam.com/video/f3djVsLBBZ4/v-deo.html) I wish someone would do a music video End of the Black Rainbow and Meshuggah mashup. I took some acid and blasted I and Catch 33 while watching *The End of the Black Rainbow* on mute and it ended up being of the best musical experiences this side of Mahler 9. The black ink dispersing through the abyss and permeating the protagonist's psyche through a metaphysical realm, catapulting him to another plane of existential horrors fits perfectly with the visuals of the lyrics/music of Catch 33. Meditative, repetitive, hypnotic, symmetrical but asymmetrical.
A brutally amazing dedication to all that is metal insanity. No one sounds like Meshuggah. When a lone band can develop and maintain there own aspect of metal, respect for their sound and their talent comes both easily and naturally. Great song. Great band. No compromise. Meshuggah fuckin rules.
A snail along a straight razor-dividing itself through motion I charge this feeble product of god Laughing, drenched in the bile of millions Chewing on the stinking flesh of the crown of creation
It is said that if anyone plays this full song without any mistakes it will open a portal to a parallel universe
Jesus doesn't speak english very well bruh
fuck off jesus, your Christians hate on my precious metal
Kappa Kappa i remember reading before on here, a user said that "meshuggah is for smart people"
Kappa Kappa LMAO!
***** _Apo pantos kakodaimonos!_
Tracklist:
0:00 - I
You're welcome.
Haha. Nice one
Great observation bro
Thank you man. I was feeling confused
so what is the song at 0.01? I'm confused too
I
Tracklist:
0:00 A guitarist practicing and trying to learn Bleed's picking patterns
1:33 Meshuggah try their hands at Grindcore
1:55 And now, back to our regularly scheduled Meshuggah show.
"How do you feel about other metal bands copying your style?"
Meshuggah -
"They can do what they want. They won't ever sound like us"
Or something like that.
Devin Townsend's "Planet of the Apes" lyrics:
"While we all have lots of bands who influence still... we all rip off Meshuggah!"
I have a feeling tool took a lil
If you play this through its entirety with perfection, it is believed that all of the produced sound waves will open a wormhole to another dimension.
+Nanda Plagiarist.
Haha funniest thing I've read
For now just my dick showed another dimension
I seent it!
yeah I'm pretty sure that just happened here. We just had one of our extremely sexy maids instantly transported back to the basement. Thats cool though cuz it's easier to feed them when their all in the same room.
This sounds like some Lovecraftian god , whose reasoning is beyond human comprehension, emerging from eternal darkness and consuming everything on its path.
good description. good comment.
I know I'm a year late, but it's almost like it spoke in this weird frequency. The computer geeks (me) would convert it to a sound file and do other geek stuff with it, and then we get this song...
Fuck, I remember when I first hear this song back in '08, me and a few buddies were at a record store and spotted this album. We saw Meshuggah and were like "Fuck yeah, let's get it!" And little did we know it only had a few tracks. So we were like, "Damn, the hell?" But we popped in the CD in the CD player and drove back. We sat and listened to this song in its entirety and not a single word was spoken after the song was over. We didn't even say bye to each other because we were all in complete shock. Till this day, it stands to be on of my favorite songs of all time. Can never get tired of this track. An amazing masterpiece of fucking your brain musically.
Haha that's awesome
Big Cheeso
Big Cheeso when Terminators and T-1000s were produced...that's when this was made
This song was pieced together over several years. Tomas Haake said himself "no one knows how I goes"
"how i goes"
"No one knows how I goes." sounds like a gangsta rap lyric.
I saw a video on UA-cam of a kid playing the whole song on guitar
Check Fredriks instagram. Looks like hes relearning
This song was not pieced together over several years. They never said that. They didn't even have 8 string guitars until the previous tour.
The difficulty of playing this song is the equivalent of beating GoldenEye's Aztec mission on DLTK while blindfolded, spinning in a chair nonstop while trying to balance a glass of wine on your head all while trying to drive from New York to LA.
zuku uyanguren :D
exactly. -- and with time to spare for feeding the bionic Liger in the hatchback a giant bottle of spider milk while not having to regret the price of the over sized nipple at dollar general as a bad investment. So who the fuck cares if he smokes crack. The amount of likes on the facebook posts dwarf the sacrifices made on the Ligers unfortunate habit all fuckin day long.
Somewhere I often feel that...the reason that these songs even exist is
because the guys from Meshuggah thought "because..we can technically create these sounds"
+skypjuh Nail on the head. Music at this point is abstraction, since much territory has been trod.
I disagree. There are SO MANY bands that do that. But none of them sound as well written, groovy and fun to listen to as Meshuggah.
"A snail along a straight razor, dividing itself through motion."
no one can out-Meshuggah Meshuggah
we all rip off Meshuggah
I see Meshuggah takes after Colonel Kurtz ^^
oh god oh fuck
I was 28 (2004) when this came out, 42 now and I appreciate even more. Incredible
the pattern for the number of hits in 8:39 to 10:32
1212213
1212213
121221212
1212213
121221213
12122131
1
11212123
1212212213
1212213
1212213
112213
1212213
121221313
1212212213
1212213
1212213
112213
1212213
1211
yeah I can see why Haake said this track is too random to ever play live
Well, fuck. This is why I can never quite get this song's rhythm down! I always feel like I've almost got it, then a beat gets thrown out of place.
@@XadaTen i have no idea how they even wrote this, just one of the guys fucked around and came up with a totally random pattern and then the entire band had to nail it with absolute precision? these guys are fuckin insane, just the tremolo/doublebass parts inbetween each of the hits are so awkwardly timed yet executed so fuckin precisely, I know these guys do a lot of impressive shit but this is truly incredible
@@horseradish4046 Yeah, for sure. Well their band is called "Crazy." Haha, makes sense.
I tried drumming to this song once. I got about as far as putting it on my ipod.
Damn, that’s brutal af
Saw these guys @ the Croatian Cultural Center in Vancouver and screamed 'PLAY I !! THE WHOLE THING !!' Jens kind of laughed and pointed and replied Sorry man we only got like 45 minutes !
hahahaha I wanted to see them playing this live!
14:42 is breathtaking. I'm so glad I got into this band.
This makes Tsar Bomba look like a firecracker...
***** hehe, yea I fig'd as much, but still... those that do, should understand :D
8:38 musical jumpscare that gets you every time.
Haha yeah, that part is like "AY YOU STILL AWAKE BRUH, I IN'T TELL YA TA NOD OFF"
+Bob Jones Holy crap your right! I just about shit myself!
Bob Jones ye
With the Deftones's Rosemary, yes :D always
the song I I'd say is Meshuggah's greatest achievement.
Catch 33 by a hair
The people who composed this should be given Nobel prices.
+MANS4ON Well they're offering a Nobel Prize in Djent nowadays, but I think they'd refuse it since they predate that shit.
+JerryMcChicken the time constant stop and start and just shear shredding of the band ..from the band themselves I don't think can play it live lol
+JerryMcChicken it's just complicated to play, nothing special in terms of musicality
+JerryMcChicken "Music theory" isn't even a part of the equation. It is called "theory" for a reason- by using theory, you can be safe and play notes that will not clash (create dissonance), but from a creative standpoint, theory is dull and predictable. Your ears are the judge of good music, not theory!
There is not just one theory of music, and so not just one outcome of composing based on "theory."
I - this fractal illusion burning away all structure toward the obscene
I - to cleanse, to purge, to breach eternity and smother all life
Blind-these mortal men of clay, divine and dying in their harassed form
I-this furnace of limitless hate. Bestial, pure
The pendulum swings semi-attached to the center of all
I drug these minds into ruin and contempt-the acid smoke of burning souls
This is an anomaly. Disabled. What is true?
Not destined for incarceration, I crave my nothingness
The illness that they whisper of, is that what makes me fail?
I see through the eyes of the of the blind
Not clear what it is to be this self I dread, the immense, the rabid I am
The cogs turn, grinding away at ceaselessness-willing it to dust
Re-disintegration. Convulse. A dead universe-Impales this twilight
Fear aligns. Sadistic me. Meant to devour. Despair
Sickened by the fact that immortality is not mine to have.
A snail along a straight razor-dividing itself through motion
I charge this feeble product of god
Laughing, drenched in the bile of millions
Chewing on the stinking flesh of the crown of creation
Solitude in splendor has been rivalled
Shroud stained with tarblack vomit
Veiling the rotting eyes of the masses
The strain of Armageddon evolves
Shifting through worlds from chaos, to chaos, to chaos
I devour this manure of existence-infertile, barren, whole
Rancid redeemer. Virulent deterioration of faith
Sacrilege in persona. In truth, fundamentally twisted
A witness to this savage carnage. A frenzy of animosity
The will to mutilate. Dominant deviation
The worship of the sick and degenerate will spread
I - The nihilist, not the lunatic
Ridding my godlike being of doubt
Obliterating all hope of escape
I - Enter the echoes of despair
Miracles inverted by default, a reflex to devastate
Soaking in the will to violate, to castrate
Soiling the purpose of mankind. Deus ex machina on hold
The orgasmic, the splendid, the beginning of the end
Conception derived from misconceptions
The dimensionless features of truth
Silence in the core of undoing
Untie its knots and set it loose
The inertia of my existence is clear
Premutation of slaughtered worlds
I alone will behold the dying sky
A servant of eternity
Progress finally, emergence of doom complete
Here only to reverse the flow of life
I
Thank you!
I can't get 8:40 onward out of my head, no matter what I do. It's great!
3:34 love how filthy and raw that part sounds.
These aren't any 0s and 1s. These are Meshuggah 0s and 1s.
I couldn't said it any better
@@oldmanknowsnothing5005 onely gitaris know tihs
14:42 This part gives me chills down my spine
I just finished listening to this song. This is insanity, & a masterpiece!!!!
you know the deal ; )
Their music really is destruction, like a mechanical malfunction; a failure to repeat blurring chaos and order into each other.
"Talking about music is like dancing about architecture."
best song to use as an alarm clock
The riff @ 2:54
The "3's" are triplet chugs
The "/" are stops
This is fun to follow.. (sat here at work and did this :p)
333 / 33333 / 3 / 33 / 3 / 3 / 3333 / 3 / 333333 / 3 / 3 / 3333 / 3 / 3333 / 3 / 33 / 3 / 3333 / 3 / 3333333 / 33333 / 3 / 33 / 3 / 3 / 3333 / 3 / 3333 / 3 / 33 / 3 / 3333 / 3 / 3333333 / 3 / BOOM!!!!
also in 8:40 i had to do this to learn the riff by series, like in that riff, curiosly you write I to each note, like the name of the song, and curiosly in the riff before the one you say that are also series of chugs when is about 110 chugs, it sounds three separated ( I I I) like the number 111, when i discovered that i thought that was the 111th chug in the I I I, but was a fail of calculate, but this is math metal
julian torres martinez III 3
I 4
III 7
I 8
I 9
IIII 13
I 14
IIII 17
I 18
II 20
I 21
IIII 25
I 26
IIIIIII 33
IIIII 38
I 39
II 41
I 42
I 43
IIII 47
I 48
IIII 52
I 53
II 55
I 56
IIII 60
I 61
IIIIIII 68
IIIII 73
I 74
I 76
IIIIIIII 84
I 85
IIII 89
I 90
I 91
II 93
IIII 97
II 99
III 102
I 103
I 104
III 107
I 108
I 109
I 110
III AND HERE IS THE GOAL 111, LIKE THE THREE MARKS BEFORE
Wow that's insane we all spent way too much time on this hehehehe
thank you great work :p
Anthony Guardalabene I could have not said it better....... Literally....... 2,4,5,6,1273982739182379182379182, just doesn't WORK!3,333,33333,3,3333!Lol!!!
Really like the part where they simmulate a kind of "windchimes" with the part of the headstock of the strings of the guitar. This and the formal syncopation everywhere, they know how to move your expectations at every second. Beautiful band.
The way the 'chimes' bit slows down and 'dies', it makes me think of some warped version of a wind-up music box right before it stops.
10:35 one of the heaviest parts ever!
Wrong. Get some good speakers and 4:52 is the heaviest thing you'll ever hear.
No Colonel Sanders, you're wrong.
Mama's right.
Oceano District of Misery. Last part of the song. Way heavier.
Agree
I'm gonna have to stop you right there
5:40-7:47
21 minutes wasn't long enough damnit. Epic piece of work here
10:33 That is fucking vicious.
Somehow not the longest song I've listened to in one sitting.
This is a fucking masterpiece.
Absolute wizards
the grooves are almost sexually arousing....meshuggah is some sort of million-megaton metal version of massive attack.
Hahaha, Massive Attack? You win the award for most obscure comparison of the year my friend :)
Massive Attack is anything but obscure (after all, the House MD soundtrack was a Massive Attack edit). However, i bet very few listen to both, I'll give you that.
i thought you meant M.A. is obscure, my bad.
Brought to you by the one and only Lundgren M8.
lol
8:40
I'm watching Rocky and right when this part hits in the song, he's explaining his rare turtles. Wow.. brutal..brutal rocky
That pattern though
One of the greatest films
so brutal
listened to this at the peak of a shroom trip around 9 years ago, i get still flashbacks every time i listen to it. i can only describe the intensity as if skydiving without a parachute into the lava pool at the top of a volcano. pure insanity.
Fuck. That.
This is the single greatest song ever recorded. I'm just putting that out there.
One of my favorite parts starts at 10:33. It's perfect for black & white goose stepping military parade footage. The words are also perfectly fitting:
Sacrilege in persona. In truth, fundamentally twisted
A witness to this savage carnage, a frenzy of animosity
The will to mutilate. Dominant deviation
The worship of the sick and degenerate will spread
I myself consider this as the metal version of Emerson, Lake and Palmer's Tarkus. Equally long, equally genius.
Wow showin your age ole timer!! Excellent point......Would have never thought of that one!
@@markk9184 dont need to be old to enjoy tarkus, im 18
This is the definitive shit. Epic beyond description.
Two words: Brutal Epicness
Nietzsche would probably have been impressed with Jens Kidman's lyrics. Mozart, Vogner, and Beethoven would've been impressed by the complexity of the music.
...or disgusted by the noise of the drum, the distorted guitars and the screams 😂
Those are Marten Hagstrom's lyrics. Jens only wrote some of the lyrics in the earliest releases.
15:30
I love that dark ominous riff, so mystical.
***** Why?
***** Don't worry about me. :)
2:52 "The asses are curvaceous"
guys i just nailed it and opened the wormhole.. i see mehsuggah playing for the gods of this strange universe where mountains pierce the sky and liquid metal flows out of rifts in the floor
Those bass slides at 9:35 and 10:11 are so sick. The bass tone on this album is so awesome, but I wish they had boosted it a little bit as it can be hard to isolate sometimes with everything going on.
The fact that the intro jumps between 7/8 to 5/8 to 3/8 to 2/8 to 6/8 at seemingly random in the intro is insane- Then you learn the rest of the song is in 4/4 which is crazy.
The dissonance is strangely beautiful
This needs to be done live. I'll honorably take Tomas' part. Meshuggah is seriously one of the best bands in the world, and I'm so humbled that they were the first touring band I ever saw - minutes ahead of Tool. I'll never forget my brother saying to me during Meshuggah's set that he could see me as the drummer of a band like this. To this day, one of the best compliments I've ever received. - I should really add that I was 14 at the time. That was 2002.
Smoke weed and listen to Meshuggah's I, and you'll be transported to another dimension. For increased intensity, use a visual player too
math wood
weed ceirtainly makes it even better
TeSLiK This album is played when Skynet takes over
What a coincidence, I picked it to smoke to because of the length lol
I rediscovered Meshuggah after 12 years. I felt for a long time they ruined metal and their music was just a thoughtless mundane exercise on putting a riff into the random number generator. Years later, I was trying to think of a band that was a combination of Tool and Swans' last three albums but metal. Incessant and repetitive, hypnotic, mesmerizing, symmetrical but asymmetrical; in the same manner that DNA replicates itself or the mathematical geometric inflections of nature, it is symmetrical but becomes infinitesimally asymmetrical with every duplication, propagating the building blocks innate to all life. Does that band even exist? Lo and Behold I rediscovered Meshuggah through a completely different lens. Not from a "check out this sick riff" perspective"(nothing wrong with that) but from a more Buddhist Kali Ma Sith Lord meditative perspective.
The lyrics from I and Catch 33 are incredible. They go through cycles of literal and metaphysical death and rebirth which is reminiscent to the planes of death in the Eastern Book of the Dead or the Bardo Thodol. I've noticed other people seem to make similar observations [here](www.reddit.com/r/Meshuggah/comments/36xrey/favorite_song_lyrically/crmb4dt).
*I* seems to come from the perspective of an omniscient "omnicidal" being that obtains the power to reverse the streams of life mixed with themes of profound introspection and neurosis. I have a sneaking suspicion the band did DMT around the time of *I* and *Catch 33*. Their artwork/visuals recalls Tool's *Lateralus* and Alex Grey's artwork.
The visuals that accompany Meshuggah's music via the artwork, certain music videos, etc. remind of the visuals from a movie called *The End of the Black Rainbow*. Particularly this [sequence](ua-cam.com/video/f3djVsLBBZ4/v-deo.html)
I wish someone would do a music video End of the Black Rainbow and Meshuggah mashup. I took some acid and blasted I and Catch 33 while watching *The End of the Black Rainbow* on mute and it ended up being of the best musical experiences this side of Mahler 9. The black ink dispersing through the abyss and permeating the protagonist's psyche through a metaphysical realm, catapulting him to another plane of existential horrors fits perfectly with the visuals of the lyrics/music of Catch 33. Meditative, repetitive, hypnotic, symmetrical but asymmetrical.
moist_ cabbage well if this isn't the most pretentious comment I've ever read.
@@Bitchfinder_General I don't think someone with your name has a say on what is pretentious and what is not.
Ucmh it's not fancy spelling, it's a pun on the band name anaal nathrakh.
Bout time for another experimental album
18:22 is so fuckin dirty, love it. Just been been biting my lip with a scrunched up face.
so ur doin the jens face? appropriate!
So fuckin heavy!! That sound is insane!!
A brutally amazing dedication to all that is metal insanity. No one sounds like Meshuggah. When a lone band can develop and maintain there own aspect of metal, respect for their sound and their talent comes both easily and naturally. Great song. Great band. No compromise. Meshuggah fuckin rules.
Now, after 21 minutes i think i can start picking up my brain form the floor... Pure insanity!
thank you MESHUGGAH FOR THIS PIECE OF MADNESS it's a part of me now
Nietzschean madness in every second of this masterpeice
its easier for me to grasp the entity of this all when i close my eyes.
RIP METAL BANDS
“Death metal is more than just noise” 1:33
Thank you so much for posting this! Had it burned on a CD and lost it and could never find that version again. Thank you, thank you!
Soundtrack to my failure..one syllable..one vowel
This song is my deity/religion of choice.
OrbAsM Psssh, you don't get to pick who you worship, it's all hormonal.
My hormones gravitate towards the infinite gaping and maddening abyss that is Meshuggah. I chose to tell them to do that.
OrbAsM Because your neurotransmitters compel you to choose to tell them to do that.
Please stop trying to sell me LSD, i've taken enough in my lifetime.
OrbAsM You know you want it. Weirdo.
_ride the snake..._
Meshuggah's best piece of work to date. Id love to see someone learn this in it's entirety. Good luck!
Nowadays if you type "Meshuggah I Cover" in .... you can watch two young dudes literally nail the entire song. They most likely vanished afterward
Excelente banda!!!!
This is their drummer's workout routine
i can´t believe how amazing is this......................
I listened to this when I had the flu, now I have syphilis
6:47 turns me into some kind of creature
The chimes sound dulcimer something amazing after the ensuient chaos
A snail along a straight razor-dividing itself through motion
I charge this feeble product of god
Laughing, drenched in the bile of millions
Chewing on the stinking flesh of the crown of creation
Props to you Meshuggah, you have officially written two songs that blew my mind the first time I heard them (I & Bleed)
All hail Meshuggah!!
I just finished my hour-long workout in 21 minutes..
Damn, i really dont know what to say. Every time i listen to this song it puts me in a trance.
Can anyone else hear YYZ at 8:39?
The quantic theory explained througth music
esto es jodidamente hermoso lml
Best workout song ever.
Their drummer said this song is all random, but, I wonder are this song's lyrics random????
Naomi Ripper Probably the vocals be recorded after and the lyrics be written or they wrote them before record.
The guitars from 6:21 to 6:49 sound like fucking heavy artillery going off
I've waited for my pre order for days now... Its days late.. I just dont care anymore. happy uuber belated birthday to a masterpiece
somehow... I like this shit.
gotta listen to it some more times^^
Absolute pleasure for ear, brain & soul!
unbielieveble! looks like a kind of medley :)
Praise upon the elder ones black in their ways extant since older times drifting in outer space
Anyone realize the beginning is Anthrax- time? That's the song they are paying tribute to
Sweet as Meshuggah
This is the longest Meshuggah song with a brakedown I couldn't play. Because it was a part of the most messed up brakedowns of Stevie T's list.
if they figure out how to play this live, it'd be like the best concert of all time in one go, id pay so much to see it..
If only the very beginning and end parts were cut off. So my ears don't bleed every time, this would be perfect.
Time checks its watch to see what Meshuggah it is.
3:34 is the sickest moment in music history.
10:34 most heaviest moment of my life
06:20 Sweet dreams, my fellow virtual friends.
this song bends reality and time itself, how the fuck a 21 minutes song doesnt feel like 21 fucking minutes!?
My fingers hurts but must keep the beat going!
GOOD SHIT GOOD SHIT GOOD SHIT!