When he said "000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000" I really felt that
@@Skorm731 doom eternals soundtrack release actually wasn't I'd software's fault. Read the follow up marty Stratton wrote. It was mick's fault. He had plenty of time and fucked it up. They gave him an extra 2 months and he still didn't finish it
That break at 2:31 followed by the more brutal iteration of the main theme is some expert-level songwriting dynamics. The whole song is expert-level, come to think of it.
My friend took gopro video on the back of my fire department’s trucks because it had a flag on the back. He shot a video with the strobes on in the background while it was blowing going down the road. He started this song at that same time stamp. It was pure metal
This song is fucking 13years old. It is still the heaviest shit around, blows everybody's mind and still owns every metal and djent band with ease. Meshuggah's skills are completely alien level.
@@juanjoyaborja.3054 Agreed, this is good musicianship no doubt, but it's nowhere near the heaviest stuff going, it's quite tame actually. It might be heavy to people who aren't into actual heavy music
@@ZTmerc "actual heavy music"? Lol. Meshuggah's guitar tone alone smokes 90% of corny death metal around. Undecipherable growling and obnoxious blast beasts may be harsh on the ears, but it got nowhere near the same level of pummeling impact of this goddamn freight train in musical form... and it's not even the heaviest track on the album it comes from.
this on guitar is much more complex than just open gallops, ive been playing guitar for around 20 years or so, and i still cant play this all the way through..these guys are truly talented
Aside from the amazing drums, what else is special about this song? I cant really appreciate the vocals at all, and for most of the song I cant quite pick up on the other instruments... (actually curious)
@@justagoose7741 the bass and both guitars are doing the same rhythm as the drummers feet while bending atonally in perfect unison. I know you're just trolling but it never bothers me to explain how awesome Bleed is.
@@weinerschnitzelsrule What do you mean overrated? In every metal video you see people shitting on Lars even if it has nothing to do with him. There is no one who regards him as one of the best drummers so he's accurately rated
@@johnroby6524 Again, no one says his drumming is amazing and everyone knows that the best selling artists aren't always the best (just look at Lil Pump and Justin Bieber).
Beams of fire sweep through my head Thrusts of pain increasingly engaged Sensory receptors succumb I'm no one now, only agony My crimson liquid so frantically spilled The ruby fluid of life unleashed Ripples ascend to the surface of my eyes Their red pens drawing at random, at will A myriad pains begotten in their wake The bastard spawn of a mutinous self The regurgitation of my micro nemesis Salivating red at the prospect of my ruin, my doom Malfunction the means for its ascent Bloodletting the stringent voice to beckon my soul So futile, any resisting tension As death-induced mechanics propel its growth The implement, the device of my extinction The terminating clockwork of my gleeful bane The definitive scourge of its mockery The end-art instruments, lethality attained Heed, it commands, heed my will Bleed, it says, bleed you will Falling into the clarity of undoing Scornful gods haggle for my soul Minds eye flickers and vellicates as I let go Taunting whispers accompany my deletion A sneering grin, the voice of my reaper Chanting softly the song of depletion
I believe this refers to dying from a brain aneurysm. I'm pretty sure you bleed everywhere from your head when that happens. Don't quote..lol. hence the song bleed. And it seems like the song is bringing you through his last thoughts through a badass polyrhythmic song that I hope to be my last thoughts 🤣 very well written that's for sure. Just like the rest of their music.
This song makes me want to sit my chair comfortably and listen to it with my headphones on while slightly bobbing my head to the rhythm. Nothing too brash.
From a drummer's point of view this is such an insane overkill it can't be described much different than lighting a cigarette with a space rocket launch procedure
I think the trick is letting your right foot (my dominant foot) keep the beat and do the lion's share of the work, then mix the left foot in for sixteenth beats... I think this makes it a lot easier to understand and more practical to play. Just let the dominant foot handle all the down beats, the even notes, and let the left foot mix in when you need sixteenth notes played. It simplifies the needed skills required for this song to sixteenth notes and eighth notes. All right foot for eighth notes, mix in left foot for adding sixteenth notes... It's a lot for the right foot to do though... A lot of endurance... It's double-sticking for your feet, I like using this feature... It can be so much easier to get the sound and feel you want.
It's mostly in 6/4. There's like a 28/16 bar in there somewhere. People have transcribed the drum notation and it's bananas. **EDIT:*** Here - ua-cam.com/video/D2p6YaomUi8/v-deo.html
@@nubcake67 don't overcomplicate it... it's just 4/4, you can hear the backbeat pretty clear with the snare hits on 3. But if you follow the hertas you get those nightmarish odd signatures and the backbeat would be misplaced. I think the guy who transcribed that way did it more as meme than as a pratical transcription.
I've always been a fan of big internal combustion engines, like on trucks or trains or planes, and the riff in this really reminds me of one. Great song
For some strange reason,this song puts me in an extremely peaceful,almost meditative state,whilst also being one of the most violent sounds I have ever heard in my life. Only Meshuggah
i recently got good headphones and i fell in love with the song all over again, because of the bass. Everyone talks about the drumming, i get it, but goddamn that bass is getting assaulted.
I saw these guys live a few years ago in Vancouver. It was an experience to say the least. I am not a hard core fan of yelling and growling in general, but this song specifically is damned incredible. The band knows their craft like a master blacksmith. Smelting metal, moulding it, hammering it out step by step into a magnificent piece of art, metal art.
frodo the hobo They’re drums??? the guitar part is made up of probably ten notes in each riff suprisingly fucking difficult to play on guitar, been playing for a good 10 years and can’t do this without being in immense pain
shouldnt sacrifice musicality for that. While the rhythm is very complex the musical creativity is just not there. It sounds like the whole band is doing warm up exercises.
They're playing in 4/4. They admitted so themselves. The drums and guitars are polyrhythmic, creating the illusion that they're playing in a different time signature.
I'm pretty sure Meshuggah and Tool put out albums every once in a while just to basically say "We're better at it than the rest of you. Enjoy your attempts to duplicate our sounds."
Okay so we are talking about the band Tool, most likely the same Tool as well. Just had me there for a moment, since the Tool that I am familiar with is definitely not better than any "rest of you", let alone any sort of influence in the same scale as Meshuggah. And speaking of overrated drummers, right after J Jordison there's D Carey!
+Timo E Not sure if trolling or serious. Either way, I fully disagree with you. Watch live videos of Danny. And they're probably a bigger influence musically than Meshuggah. A LOT of bands are influenced by Tool. The fact they constantly sell out tours and haven't put an album out in 10 years speaks volumes. Also, Joey might be overrated as a drummer just because a lot of Slipknot fans want to say he's the best drummer alive, but, he's also really talented. And the Tool I'm familiar with is pretty much hands down the best progressive metal band on the planet in my opinion. Just something we're not going to agree on regardless of whether you're trolling or not. lol. Meshuggah have opened for Tool and members of both bands have cited the other band as an influence. I'd have killed to see one of those shows.
+D'Artangan Oswald 55% serious, 45% trolling, 100% science. Meshuggah has been widely accepted as starting a new genre, could argue that they popularised what is known as djent. Meshuggah also tour frequently AND release albums at the same time... I have tried finding something interesting in Carey's work, I have. I'll take Gavin Harrison thanks.
I wish more people could understand how truly amazing this music is. To some people this sounds like random banging, but it's an absolute masterpiece! These guys are ridiculously intelligent.
The lyrics of this song were actually Tomas Haake's interpretation of what transition from life to death by an Aneurysm would be. The song's name was originally "Aneurysm" but they later decided to give it it's current title, "Bleed"
My favorite song by Meshuggah. It has an incredible guitar and drum rhythm (one of the best I ever heard), and the lyrics are as dark and twisted as the song. Ripples ascend to the surface of my eyes Their red pens drawing at random, at will A myriad pains begotten in their wake the bastard spawn of a mutinous self Heed - it commands, heeding my will Bleed - it says, bleed you will Just perfect.
with that said, this joke lost its novelty about a month after this track was released. people just keep making it, i guess just because they like the smell of dead horse lol
2008. I still can't believe a group of people went around and wrote this song. It's 2021 right now, even through the infinite amount of Meshuggah/Djent memes no one cannot question the authenticity of this song. 13 years later this song still bewilders people, first time listeners and hardcore fans alike. Transcending human boundaries, transcending boundaries of musicianship, transcending boundaries of metal. No amount of praise and ovations is enough for this song, this is a milestone in metal history
The "ha ha 0-0-0-0" jokes are fine and all guys. But Meshuggah here created, in 2008, a completely original song using one of the most overused and recognizable picking patterns in modern metal. I can't even get my head around how they managed to do this. And this song has now become such a big thing that if you do the picking pattern from the beginning any metalhead worth his salt will go "That's Bleed.". If that isn't artistry of legendary proportions, I don't know what is.
This beat became the beat that all metal drums are compared to, someone says "the drums in this band are amazing" and the response is almost always "but are they better than bleed by meshuggah?"
The sounds in Born in Dissonance is equally unique too. Well, that's what makes Meshuggah completely off the race. They create amazing sounds even if it's repetitive and simple.
Seriously one of those songs you can't help but come back to just because of how incredulous one is in reaction to the instrumentation, specifically the drums. That is the most menacing double kick of all time.
it's pretty easily eclipsed by the first riff, it's one of their only riffs that even resembles 'simplicity' and there's something elegant about it. my buddies and i tried writing something like this when we first started performing, before this album came out. just a slow bend over some kind of polyrhythm. we were just fucking around, not even really jamming, just making stupid faces while chugging on the first fret. someone just started bending and shit got real in a hurry. we couldn't think of any good follow-up riffs though, so we gave it up. these motherfuckers tho. rhythm for days.
The beauty of this song for me is the dichotomy of fast and slow - the zen of the slow 4/4 tempo implied by the snare, lead guitar / synth / solo parts, against the brutal speed and heaviness of the kick / rhythm guitar parts. Even the title of the album; is it pronounced "(ob)Zen", as in relaxed and meditative, or "Obscene"? It's both.
Huge music lover, never listened to meshuggah just because. Heard this and it was an unexpected surprise, but a welcome one. God damn though rip drummer
i mean, it starts in time with the clean bit. it might just be the only part in any of their songs that's played in 4/4 lol i started trying to learn Sickening a couple of days ago and gave up almost immediately. pretty sure it's impossible.
This has to be the hardest song I ever played so far Broken gallops is already diffcult to do Yes your hearing 000 buts it’s 00 while with 0 0 then 00 again while galloping that’s already sound hard now try to do that with insanely long stretches while bending the string and doing it for 6 to 7 mins and changing time signatures constantly because it could be 00 0 0 0 00 or 00 0 00 or 00 0 00 0 00 while doing all of that sweep picking is easier than playing bleed and even the band had to add this 4:11 due to how hard it is there hands were giving out And I can go on about it there is no other song like this that hurts your hands playing riffs of all things and I expect the solo to be the hardest part not the riff
@@emilfeuerstein8580 yeah but you have to consider the tempo and how extremely hard it is to do the chugging motions that these guys do, as well as the abrupt changes in rhythms not just the time signature
+Illusive Badger its perfect for killing floor. the metal in that game is great and all, and im happy that they're giving metal more limelight to those that aren't familiar with it, but I wish it was harder and more badass...like this. Although you can make ameshuggah playlist with your favourite songs, then play it in the background of the game with the game music muted.
I think the new Doom's soundtrack is perfect, it has the more electronic/modern quality combined with it being a futuristic game. KF2 is a bit more barebones so raw djentness would fit better.
@@Cheximus BUll shit, we got all those Djent bands and other bands influenced by it because of these guys. Tho, it does depend on what you mean by the metal head, as some call themselves metal heads but listen to pop metal like Avenged sevenfold. But there were a bunch of bands that also influenced the genre heavily. No one ever brings up Fear Factory or soil work. For me, bands like Devil driver and the Lamb of God types are more common. I like to distinguish this as more technical metal or... well... *Djent*.
You gotta respect a profession that can use the the phrase "just disgusting" in a positive sense, and have it describe the subject matter perfectly. Well done.
I've been thinking that since the first time I EVER heard this song. Such a small dynamic change but in this setting the change creates such a dynamic shift it is truly disgusting in every sense of the word lol.
When he said "000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000" I really felt that
XD
"he" actually never really said that though
@@aracon9721 ok
He said 000 0 000 0
yannow its more like 00000000000000 666666666666 but we dont talk about that
Americans be like: Where's my sugar?
Brits be like: Where's Meshuggah?
Lol hahahaha
One of those so lame but amazing. I dig it man 👍
Thanks I hate it 😉
Fucking lawless
this comment has no business making me exhale forcefully from my nose at 2am
Is this that "lofi hip hop" everyone is talking about?
nah this is metal welcome
they have influences from Rap-Metal , listen Corridor of Chameleons
@James Williams I also like Pantera, listening to them while doing homework feels so relaxing.
LeGojira - Lego, Godzilla, Turok, and more its a joke
It's more smooth indie Jazz
Drummer: *tired*
Guitarist: *tired*
Bassist: *tired*
Vocalist: oof ow my voice.
😅
Tomas Haake: anyone seen my lower back? No kidding, he damaged it doing licks like this.
Nobody knows what the drummer feels after this since Tomas isn't human
He is a human machine
Djent in a Nutshell?
you gotta hand it to them... they made a song 97% of ppl can't play and it's mostly one note lol
Synister Shreds My brothers drum teacher knows the drummer because he's from Sweden and he knows how to play this song
+Floridian Mapping *How many decades did he get to know this song?*
When DeathmetalIndian does a rain dance...it usually hails.
Although everything has a pitch you don't really refer to a kick drum 'playing notes'. It plays a beat
T0pMan15 there are guitars too in this song which play "notes"
Sounds like the time my car wouldn’t start, and I was yelling at it
Made my day xD
Holy fucking shit.
top kek
🤣🤣🤣
Slaughtered
I swear these guys could make a killer DOOM Eternal Soundtrack
facts
Well Mick Gordon is great friends with the members of this band.
Bethesda would just screw it up.
Mick Gordon did an impressive job at both Doom OST's. And, well, the metal-y stuff in there sounds more like Slipknot, actually.
@@Skorm731 doom eternals soundtrack release actually wasn't I'd software's fault. Read the follow up marty Stratton wrote. It was mick's fault. He had plenty of time and fucked it up. They gave him an extra 2 months and he still didn't finish it
This song gives me a 250% stamina boost
DED!~ 😂😂😂
I can tell when this song comes on during my bike rides because my heart rate is at max for 7:25 lol
This song is the equivalent to the player character in Oblivion drinking a hundred bottles of skooma haha
Its called Bleed because that's what the drummers calves were doing after this song...
Thot Police what about the guitarist's wrist and fingers?
I'm a drummer and I've always wondered if it's as hard to play on guitar/bass?
It's just as hard to play on guitar....
Haake doesn't have blood. Damn motor oil in his veins.
Gods don't bleed
This is oddly relaxing for such an aggressive song.
That's cause you're psycho lol
This is what my anesthesiologist made me listen to, and it worked for two hours. LOL
It’s the droning guitar riffs, they’re relaxing like listening to an air conditioner. I love it
Have you ever heard of screaming therapy?
You could say it’s pretty obzen
"7 minute guided meditation for deep relaxation"
This song would have been perfect for that one shin conditioning scene in "The Accountant".
That break at 2:31 followed by the more brutal iteration of the main theme is some expert-level songwriting dynamics. The whole song is expert-level, come to think of it.
My favourite parts of the song indeed.
this part is insanely complicated
My friend took gopro video on the back of my fire department’s trucks because it had a flag on the back. He shot a video with the strobes on in the background while it was blowing going down the road. He started this song at that same time stamp. It was pure metal
Master level*
This part tears apart worlds 👍👌👍👌⚰️⚰️
Song name: drummer ft. Others
+El Ammo Bandito you are a nice comedian.
haha. djent machine
+Clark Swanson I don't play either, but I can agree that this riff is indeed very complex. Both are amazing, and together sound even more so.
+Clark Swanson it's damn hard on guitar
Goddamn that name is giving me Bioshock flashbacks. This is a good thing.
i wish i had this many zeros in my bank account lol
What, are you trying to be Mecha-Trump MkII?
XD That's my night made.
This is the best comment ever.
you won the internet
\m/
This song is fucking 13years old. It is still the heaviest shit around, blows everybody's mind and still owns every metal and djent band with ease. Meshuggah's skills are completely alien level.
So you seriously thinks this owns metal bands? You clearly haven’t heard the doom eternal OST, infant annihilator, ingested, or slaughter to prevail.
@@juanjoyaborja.3054 but can those bands play their stuff live in basically studio quality?
@@juanjoyaborja.3054 Agreed, this is good musicianship no doubt, but it's nowhere near the heaviest stuff going, it's quite tame actually. It might be heavy to people who aren't into actual heavy music
yall need electric wizard
@@ZTmerc "actual heavy music"? Lol. Meshuggah's guitar tone alone smokes 90% of corny death metal around. Undecipherable growling and obnoxious blast beasts may be harsh on the ears, but it got nowhere near the same level of pummeling impact of this goddamn freight train in musical form... and it's not even the heaviest track on the album it comes from.
This is what the Doom Slayer's chainsaw sounds like when it's idling.
Underrated comment.
dude... that like... made my day
This is the best comment ever.
if this is idling... wtf does it sound like when he revs it??
@@espresso-6516 *Cultist Base starts playing*
Me: Repetitive 000 riffs are boring
Also me: Bleed is one of the best metal songs ever
Same
My life lol
Some of the best songs are the exceptions to the rule.
this on guitar is much more complex than just open gallops, ive been playing guitar for around 20 years or so, and i still cant play this all the way through..these guys are truly talented
It. Is. Not. A. 000. Riff.
Beethoven traveled through time, heared this song and returned back to his era deaf.
And really talented too! We owe it all to Meshuggah
🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
🤣
This song truly is a pinnacle in musical history.
It's a shame the majority of people won't ever hear it/can't appreciate it.
it's too harsh for the average listener
Aside from the amazing drums, what else is special about this song? I cant really appreciate the vocals at all, and for most of the song I cant quite pick up on the other instruments... (actually curious)
@@justagoose7741 how can you not hear the guitar
@@snow5772 bruh
@@justagoose7741 the bass and both guitars are doing the same rhythm as the drummers feet while bending atonally in perfect unison. I know you're just trolling but it never bothers me to explain how awesome Bleed is.
After listening to this, I feel like Metallica have been playing ukuleles in their whole career
Wait till you go even deeper into the rabbit hole
That's a good way of summarizing Metallica's career, actually. And Lars was hitting his Hello Kitty drumkit.
@@DocteurZeuhl And yet Metallica still sounds better...
So, what you're saying is... Metallica should make a ukulele album next? Go on....
@@MrDiZzY-ko1zp idk maybe oroboros is heavier still?
It's so heavy it's almost meditative.
mcgibs Obscene and Zen makes ObZen
As shown on the cover
Not almost, it is. It might be the only sound that can calm the ultra-violence that rests inside me and you.
Reminds me of some Strapping Young Lad stuff
Catch 33 is Meshuggah's best album and their most trance-like
*Lars Ulrich* has left the game
sucking his thumb.
Lars Ulrich is one of the most overrated drummers ever
@@weinerschnitzelsrule What do you mean overrated? In every metal video you see people shitting on Lars even if it has nothing to do with him.
There is no one who regards him as one of the best drummers so he's accurately rated
@@pranav3848 he's overrated because he plays drums for one of the greatest rock bands ever and he's barely mediocre.
@@johnroby6524 Again, no one says his drumming is amazing and everyone knows that the best selling artists aren't always the best (just look at Lil Pump and Justin Bieber).
What a shame the average person will write this off as "screaming garbage". This song is a masterpiece.
Best comment on any metal song video on youtube.
A brutal masterpiece. A beautifully brutal masterpiece. Incredible piece of music.
I've tried to like it, just not for me. I never call music garbage unless it's usually unpopular, which is pretty much never the case.
@@limitisillusion7 did u mean popular?
no they won't and your us vs them attitude is how every midwit thinks. The truth is, everyone is as complex and as uninteresting as you.
Director: So I was thinking ab-
Meshuggah: *000-0-000-0-000-0-000*
This is my first time listening to Meshuggah.
Mindblowing.
*mindblasting
it blasted your mind
You still addicted?
Lol same. Other than that wolf of wallstreet meme
welcome to this band
Amazing song for kid's party
I'm 10 and I want this for my birthday 🎸🎸🤘💀
The Warrior Spirits
Hell yeah, dude!
My nephew starts head banging when I put this on, his almost 2 :)
@@mastodonseven and the uncle of the year award goes to.....
help i played this at a kid's party and now they are all doing some weird shaky dance on the floor and they won't get up please help
Beams of fire sweep through my head
Thrusts of pain increasingly engaged
Sensory receptors succumb
I'm no one now, only agony
My crimson liquid so frantically spilled
The ruby fluid of life unleashed
Ripples ascend to the surface of my eyes
Their red pens drawing at random, at will
A myriad pains begotten in their wake
The bastard spawn of a mutinous self
The regurgitation of my micro nemesis
Salivating red at the prospect of my ruin, my doom
Malfunction the means for its ascent
Bloodletting the stringent voice to beckon my soul
So futile, any resisting tension
As death-induced mechanics propel its growth
The implement, the device of my extinction
The terminating clockwork of my gleeful bane
The definitive scourge of its mockery
The end-art instruments, lethality attained
Heed, it commands, heed my will
Bleed, it says, bleed you will
Falling into the clarity of undoing
Scornful gods haggle for my soul
Minds eye flickers and vellicates as I let go
Taunting whispers accompany my deletion
A sneering grin, the voice of my reaper
Chanting softly the song of depletion
This is the best, heaviest song known to man and all the angels and demons.
what is this song about?
I believe this refers to dying from a brain aneurysm. I'm pretty sure you bleed everywhere from your head when that happens. Don't quote..lol. hence the song bleed. And it seems like the song is bringing you through his last thoughts through a badass polyrhythmic song that I hope to be my last thoughts 🤣 very well written that's for sure. Just like the rest of their music.
@@codeling2552 it's about dieing from an aneurysm.which the was originally going to be called but jens didn't like it.
@@joshuagarcia8547 Someone's read their interviews.
I don't like metal with very few exceptions and this is one of them.
Bill: "Brrrta brrrta brrrta brrrta brrrt"
Omfg listening to Bill burr talk about meshuggah was fucking 👌 awesome haha!!
Burr B Burr B Burr B Burr
Billy Burp
Basically. Basically.
in loving memory of Berta
The guy on the cover is like: "When you listen to the song just right".
When the Meshuggah is brutal just right.
When she's virgin...
...no more
When she accidentally falls down the stairs
He's more like: "When you finish playing Bleed by Meshuggah on guitar or bass"
The guy on the cover reminds me of Maynard from Tool...........
After a full listen to this song, everything else sounds like dora the explorer
Not Nile :p
Try Cytotoxin :)
kro3107 I get it. It's heavier, because it's a highly TECHNICAL and COORDINATED wall of noise. Big difference.
***** Are you a wizard?
xD
2019 and my calves still hurt thinking about playing this song.
Be a better rancher. It’s kinda mean to expect them to be able to play this at a young age
This song makes me want to sit my chair comfortably and listen to it with my headphones on while slightly bobbing my head to the rhythm. Nothing too brash.
Literally doing just that haha
that's literally what i do LOL
That's me right now haha
Sat in my garden smoking a 🌿 "cigarette" doing exactly that, it's 8:21AM on day 4 of learning to play this banger lol
That’s what I’m doing right now!
Perfect karaoke song
at your grandmothers birthday party
I would imagine your throat would be in another dimension after singing this.
Aggretsuko anyone?
I would love this played at my funeral
@@orlyn09andino 😂😂😂
From a drummer's point of view this is such an insane overkill it can't be described much different than lighting a cigarette with a space rocket launch procedure
Cr00xY been drumming for 16 years. Can’t play this song.
The song was originally made using a computer program and the drummer taught himself how to play it.
Tomas said in an interview that he wrote the song in a tab program then spent 8 MONTHS leaning to be able to play it live. Lol.
All leg work...
I think the trick is letting your right foot (my dominant foot) keep the beat and do the lion's share of the work, then mix the left foot in for sixteenth beats... I think this makes it a lot easier to understand and more practical to play. Just let the dominant foot handle all the down beats, the even notes, and let the left foot mix in when you need sixteenth notes played. It simplifies the needed skills required for this song to sixteenth notes and eighth notes. All right foot for eighth notes, mix in left foot for adding sixteenth notes... It's a lot for the right foot to do though... A lot of endurance... It's double-sticking for your feet, I like using this feature... It can be so much easier to get the sound and feel you want.
Me: What time signature is this?
Meshuggah: *Yes.*
4/4 with a 3:4 polyrhythm and one 2/4 break @0:50
It's 4/4 but polyrhythmic.
Omg I mean yeah it is 4/4 but that is the only comment I read that made me choke on my water
It's mostly in 6/4. There's like a 28/16 bar in there somewhere. People have transcribed the drum notation and it's bananas.
**EDIT:*** Here - ua-cam.com/video/D2p6YaomUi8/v-deo.html
@@nubcake67 don't overcomplicate it... it's just 4/4, you can hear the backbeat pretty clear with the snare hits on 3.
But if you follow the hertas you get those nightmarish odd signatures and the backbeat would be misplaced.
I think the guy who transcribed that way did it more as meme than as a pratical transcription.
I've always been a fan of big internal combustion engines, like on trucks or trains or planes, and the riff in this really reminds me of one. Great song
Harley Davidson Shovelhead🥶🥶🥶
this is what it sounds like to get stuck in an old coal-fed locomotive engine
For some strange reason,this song puts me in an extremely peaceful,almost meditative state,whilst also being one of the most violent sounds I have ever heard in my life. Only Meshuggah
+Robert Marquez ObZen, brah
Feel the same and the artwork is just creepy but also relaxing
+Drink Me Obscene + Zen = ObZen
+DEthe5150 mind=shiy
Probably something to do with the repetitive nature of the rhythm. like being hypnotized.
This is what happens when you accidentally drop your sheet music into a bucket of ink.
Very good analogy
Such a perfect comment lol
Haha, oh my god that's genius!
Andreus You,my friend, are genius XD
+Andreus "What key are we in?" "ALL OF THEM."
i recently got good headphones and i fell in love with the song all over again, because of the bass. Everyone talks about the drumming, i get it, but goddamn that bass is getting assaulted.
Did you listen to the isolated bass track? It's beautiful
@@emanuelss nooo, i didnt but i want to now!
Bass and drums play awesome together. No matter what song. They are the background and atmosphere to every setting to a song.
I saw these guys live a few years ago in Vancouver. It was an experience to say the least. I am not a hard core fan of yelling and growling in general, but this song specifically is damned incredible. The band knows their craft like a master blacksmith. Smelting metal, moulding it, hammering it out step by step into a magnificent piece of art, metal art.
My Physics teacher got me into these guys with this very album.
Marc Shlyshen Best fucking teacher ever.
Marc Shlyshen same my boss told me to look these guys up
@@jordanmolinaro6507 best fucking boss ever!
wish i had your fuck**g teacher!
Wish I had a teacher like that at my school
This will be played at either my wedding or my funeral. I have yet to decide
Play this if you die of an aneurism.
Or a stab wound.
What if they’re both at the same time
On your girlfriends period
Why not both?
My Harley Davidson when idoling sounds just like this.
I’m gonna try to play this song on guitar
Edit: I now know why they call it bleed
This is the most progressive 1-note song I have ever heard
Hey....there are some bends ok?
what drugs are you on that you think this song has 1 note? www.flickr.com/photos/wrightdrums/5980210852
frodo the hobo
They’re drums??? the guitar part is made up of probably ten notes in each riff
suprisingly fucking difficult to play on guitar, been playing for a good 10 years and can’t do this without being in immense pain
None of the instruments only play one note
This must be the "one note song" Tenacious D was talking about:
"Just repeat the same note, over and over again. Every once in a while you bend it"
sounds like pantera's walk XD
it's pretty hard to play anything other than one note with the complex time signatures they use
shouldnt sacrifice musicality for that. While the rhythm is very complex the musical creativity is just not there.
It sounds like the whole band is doing warm up exercises.
Listen to some of their other songs first, before making a judgement call on them. They are pretty much a collective creative force.
They're playing in 4/4. They admitted so themselves. The drums and guitars are polyrhythmic, creating the illusion that they're playing in a different time signature.
All started 7 years ago, listening EDM and a friend ask me to download some Avenged Sevenfold songs for him.
Now I ended here. No regrets
Awesome music progression my dude! Wish that would happen to my brother (he's a big EDM fan, but hates metal, lol!)
@@MrEgofreak let him listen to edm then lol
@@dimitripapadinikolaus I have to everytime he gives me a ride.
@@MrEgofreak enjoy the bass wubs lmao
@@dimitripapadinikolaus let’s time travel back to 2013 and blast some DUBSTEP
This song makes everything else sound like a lullaby for children.
I played this for my pet lizard......
Now half of Tokyo is destroyed!
Underrated comment
Now that's a Gojira
Nah thats what happens when your lizard listens to Gojira
This to me is the quintessential metal song. Melodically simple, fast but heavy, rhythmically sophisticated, and so on. Bravo, Meshuggah
1:25 Meshuggah.exe has stopped working
damn that actually does sound the same
I know everyones complimenting the drummer, but that dang guitar.
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My favorite asmr video
On yo feet maggot +1 \m/
Remember when Homer, was a Bass player?
ahahahh lmao
Andy Howard Oh yeah 😂
I really love the silent part in the middle. It allways gives me chills.
Can never seem to get this loud enough
I am so glad the DOOM soundtrack is heavily inspired by this.
+Screep5 the fuck?
Fuck yes that games is incredible, music is so dope for crazy fights
+matt pass damn right it is! 🤘🏻
Exactly my thoughts :)
I HEAR IT TO
I'm pretty sure Meshuggah and Tool put out albums every once in a while just to basically say "We're better at it than the rest of you. Enjoy your attempts to duplicate our sounds."
Tool? The band called Tool? Are we..I mean..wait. Tool?
+Timo E Yeah, that would be the band. The band that influences Meshuggah and that Meshuggah also has an influence on.
Okay so we are talking about the band Tool, most likely the same Tool as well. Just had me there for a moment, since the Tool that I am familiar with is definitely not better than any "rest of you", let alone any sort of influence in the same scale as Meshuggah. And speaking of overrated drummers, right after J Jordison there's D Carey!
+Timo E Not sure if trolling or serious. Either way, I fully disagree with you. Watch live videos of Danny. And they're probably a bigger influence musically than Meshuggah. A LOT of bands are influenced by Tool. The fact they constantly sell out tours and haven't put an album out in 10 years speaks volumes. Also, Joey might be overrated as a drummer just because a lot of Slipknot fans want to say he's the best drummer alive, but, he's also really talented. And the Tool I'm familiar with is pretty much hands down the best progressive metal band on the planet in my opinion. Just something we're not going to agree on regardless of whether you're trolling or not. lol. Meshuggah have opened for Tool and members of both bands have cited the other band as an influence. I'd have killed to see one of those shows.
+D'Artangan Oswald 55% serious, 45% trolling, 100% science. Meshuggah has been widely accepted as starting a new genre, could argue that they popularised what is known as djent. Meshuggah also tour frequently AND release albums at the same time... I have tried finding something interesting in Carey's work, I have. I'll take Gavin Harrison thanks.
I ain’t gonna lie,
That album cover goes hard
Bros like: 👨🦲👌🩸
@@ChirahyBoo😂😂😂
I wish more people could understand how truly amazing this music is. To some people this sounds like random banging, but it's an absolute masterpiece! These guys are ridiculously intelligent.
Dude looks like Voldemort with a nose.
Like Joe Satriani?
Or Billy Corgan?
Voldemort finally got his nose back!
Devin Townsend!
@@CTCAC2000 that's why he looks so chilled
The lyrics of this song were actually Tomas Haake's interpretation of what transition from life to death by an Aneurysm would be. The song's name was originally "Aneurysm" but they later decided to give it it's current title, "Bleed"
What a lovely song! This should be the first dance at somebody's wedding
My favorite song by Meshuggah. It has an incredible guitar and drum rhythm (one of the best I ever heard), and the lyrics are as dark and twisted as the song.
Ripples ascend to the surface of my eyes
Their red pens drawing at random, at will
A myriad pains begotten in their wake
the bastard spawn of a mutinous self
Heed - it commands, heeding my will
Bleed - it says, bleed you will
Just perfect.
i heard the lyrics when i saw this, it actually scared me for a second
poethic noise
I feel like the tablatures of this song are on binary
Dude this aint just 0 and 1 it has some 11 and the leads has higher notes
Roy Gelvan ...11 still occurs in binary lol
with that said, this joke lost its novelty about a month after this track was released. people just keep making it, i guess just because they like the smell of dead horse lol
Currently meditating to this song, just like the man on the album cover.
2008. I still can't believe a group of people went around and wrote this song. It's 2021 right now, even through the infinite amount of Meshuggah/Djent memes no one cannot question the authenticity of this song. 13 years later this song still bewilders people, first time listeners and hardcore fans alike.
Transcending human boundaries, transcending boundaries of musicianship, transcending boundaries of metal.
No amount of praise and ovations is enough for this song, this is a milestone in metal history
My new workout playlist is just this song on constant repeat
Meshuggah is so heavy you probably can understand the secrets of black holes if you study their music pattern...
Well, not black holes, but maybe they have a website written into their songs. It's just 1's & 0's, after all.... binary.
+Jeffrey Lebowski lol XD
WHERE'S MY MONEY, YOU BUM!?!
Meshuggah is so heavy you can bend space-time itself simply by listening to them
"Heavy" and "Mass" are 2 different things, but i enjoy you're at least on the right path, Keep up the quest for knowledge.
Tool : Bruce Banner
Meshuggah : Hulk
I think of it this way now --
Tool: Samurai Jack
Meshuggah: Primal
Gojira: thor
@@xxwintermadnessxx1960 i can't tell if you're trying to say Gojira is good or absolute trash
@@jonahi1304 their great.
@@xxwintermadnessxx1960 I see you just changed it from Captain Marvel to Thor; good decision. Unless you meant the original Mar-Vell Captain Marvel
The bright shining diamond of Metal
The "ha ha 0-0-0-0" jokes are fine and all guys. But Meshuggah here created, in 2008, a completely original song using one of the most overused and recognizable picking patterns in modern metal. I can't even get my head around how they managed to do this. And this song has now become such a big thing that if you do the picking pattern from the beginning any metalhead worth his salt will go "That's Bleed.". If that isn't artistry of legendary proportions, I don't know what is.
This beat became the beat that all metal drums are compared to, someone says "the drums in this band are amazing" and the response is almost always "but are they better than bleed by meshuggah?"
Two 32nd notes and two 16th notes is the repeating pattern. No triplets there, dude.
On the tabs it says its 1-1-1-1-1
beat yer meat till it bleeds
The sounds in Born in Dissonance is equally unique too.
Well, that's what makes Meshuggah completely off the race. They create amazing sounds even if it's repetitive and simple.
"How good is your drummer?"
"Yes"
Is it weird that I'm in constant fear of that monk suddenly opening his eyes at some point in the video?
This song's title is what will happen to your wrists if you attempt to play it.
+AJ Abad and feet...
+kickfliprik yeah mostly feet. I wonder how long it would take the average drummer to learn this lol.
+Alex LaHood Their entire lifetime.
Needs more cowbell
sleepy filth took me three months To give up...
Playing at 1.5x sounds like evil popcorn
Wait wut
I hate the fact that you're right
it sounds more like a train about to plow into your brain
James Ferren Tino lol
😂😂😂
Meshuggah makes Slipknot the best kpop group in the world.
some nice relaxing music to help me fall asleep
I agree
Meshuggah is so fucking incredible. It gives me the urge to run into a mosh and not look back at all.
Perfect for waking up
I brush my teeth to this
Conner Smith I do yoga to this!
Conner Smith
i have sex to this :D
Perfect for falling asleep
champs672 and start headbanging \m/
Seriously one of those songs you can't help but come back to just because of how incredulous one is in reaction to the instrumentation, specifically the drums. That is the most menacing double kick of all time.
the final boss of leg day
as a technical death metal drummer, this is correct.
my mummy used to put this at night as a cradle so I could sleep when I was 3)))
4:44 to 5:51 will go down as one of the most badass riffs ever.
it's pretty easily eclipsed by the first riff, it's one of their only riffs that even resembles 'simplicity' and there's something elegant about it.
my buddies and i tried writing something like this when we first started performing, before this album came out. just a slow bend over some kind of polyrhythm. we were just fucking around, not even really jamming, just making stupid faces while chugging on the first fret. someone just started bending and shit got real in a hurry. we couldn't think of any good follow-up riffs though, so we gave it up.
these motherfuckers tho. rhythm for days.
1:41 is badass as fuck too
Actually its a solo, not a riff, but I have to agree its the best part of the whole song!
Don’t forget about 3:22 !!
True Scandinavian talent.
The beauty of this song for me is the dichotomy of fast and slow - the zen of the slow 4/4 tempo implied by the snare, lead guitar / synth / solo parts, against the brutal speed and heaviness of the kick / rhythm guitar parts. Even the title of the album; is it pronounced "(ob)Zen", as in relaxed and meditative, or "Obscene"? It's both.
I was about to run late for a meeting and I galloped down the highway on foot to this song.
Meshuggah! Better than caffeine confirmed.
Huge music lover, never listened to meshuggah just because. Heard this and it was an unexpected surprise, but a welcome one. God damn though rip drummer
4:45 always catches me off guard ... so peaceful ... then BOOM man I jump every time lol
+sev happens to me with lethargica aswell
i mean, it starts in time with the clean bit. it might just be the only part in any of their songs that's played in 4/4 lol
i started trying to learn Sickening a couple of days ago and gave up almost immediately. pretty sure it's impossible.
TeddyGNOP it’s 4/4 all the time
i guess it's just because that particular part of the song isn't polymetered.
seven that solo is beautiful
Mercury and Lead (the elements): “we are the heaviest muahahaha!”
Meshuggah: “Hold my drink”
Eh, it's mostly just one open chord. How hard can this song be?
*1 hour later*
WHAT EVEN IS THIS RHYTHM?
This has to be the hardest song I ever played so far
Broken gallops is already diffcult to do
Yes your hearing 000 buts it’s 00 while with 0 0 then 00 again while galloping that’s already sound hard now try to do that with insanely long stretches while bending the string and doing it for 6 to 7 mins and changing time signatures constantly because it could be 00 0 0 0 00 or 00 0 00 or 00 0 00 0 00 while doing all of that sweep picking is easier than playing bleed and even the band had to add this 4:11 due to how hard it is there hands were giving out
And I can go on about it there is no other song like this that hurts your hands playing riffs of all things and I expect the solo to be the hardest part not the riff
It's 4/4
@@emilfeuerstein8580 yeah but you have to consider the tempo and how extremely hard it is to do the chugging motions that these guys do, as well as the abrupt changes in rhythms not just the time signature
@@peyton8086 it's all 4/4, there's just different underlying polyrhythms and polymeters underneath it, once you've got the groove, it's easy stuff 🤙🏻
the first rhythm is actually hard to play once you figure out what it is and get it up to speed
My gold fish listened to this now it is a shark
Well said sir
Thats funny as hell hahaha
Try Megalodon by Guttural Slug
I played this song to an oak tree and now it keeps saying "I am Groot"
My lizard listened to this & now it's Godzilla !!!
swedish metal musicians arent human..
riffs are actually their native language, Kidman is just their translator.
Same goes for Swedish Melee players.
Brad MacDonald there like machines that dont stop
Ya'll got a single and or an EP out?
Meshuggah is truly the best Swedish metal band... Well, after Abba.
I listened to this when I had the flu, now I have syphilis
6 months ago I listened to Psychosocial for the first time and I promised that I wouldn't listening to anything heavier than that. Here I am lol
This needs to be in Killing Floor 2
Killing Floor needs Meshuggah in general
Illusive Badger YES! perfect for each other
+Illusive Badger Dude it really does. How did no one think of that?
+Illusive Badger its perfect for killing floor. the metal in that game is great and all, and im happy that they're giving metal more limelight to those that aren't familiar with it, but I wish it was harder and more badass...like this. Although you can make ameshuggah playlist with your favourite songs, then play it in the background of the game with the game music muted.
OR 2016 Doom.
I think the new Doom's soundtrack is perfect, it has the more electronic/modern quality combined with it being a futuristic game. KF2 is a bit more barebones so raw djentness would fit better.
Did they get Maynard James Keenan to model for the cover of obZen?
That'd be interesting, assuming they toured together in 2001
Aahhahh =) Aenima period
Its vitas
It's Billy Howardell
he wasan't bald in 2001 , he had that freaky hair
That ending to this masterpiece of a song will forever be legendary especially after that beautiful guitar solo
It's crazy to look back and see how much this song changed the face of metal. It was, and still is, one of the most mind-blowing songs in the genre
Is it? I'd imagine most metal heads have never even listened to it before let alone it changing the face of metal. Lmao.
@@Cheximus BUll shit, we got all those Djent bands and other bands influenced by it because of these guys. Tho, it does depend on what you mean by the metal head, as some call themselves metal heads but listen to pop metal like Avenged sevenfold. But there were a bunch of bands that also influenced the genre heavily. No one ever brings up Fear Factory or soil work. For me, bands like Devil driver and the Lamb of God types are more common. I like to distinguish this as more technical metal or... well... *Djent*.
@@TRFAD always ironic for a supposed metal head to look down on other kinds of metal and be elitist. That's the opposite of what metal is about.
the switch to the hi-hat after 2:46 is just disgusting
absolutely love this tune
no, and it is hard to drum. give a example of how it has to be then
+Ultimate Music meant as a compliment there big fella. ive been a drummer for years, this is nothing but appreciation.
You gotta respect a profession that can use the the phrase "just disgusting" in a positive sense, and have it describe the subject matter perfectly. Well done.
I've been thinking that since the first time I EVER heard this song. Such a small dynamic change but in this setting the change creates such a dynamic shift it is truly disgusting in every sense of the word lol.
Oden save me I put the video speed up to 2x. Absolutely terrifying.
Whoa I put it on half speed and it sounds like an electronic satan is trying to escape
1.25x is pretty awesome :)
Listening to Meshuggah at half speed is fucking scary... I'm not gonna lie, I almost shitted myself.
Devin Odell Yesss omg
Reign In Bleed