@@josephbrenner2278 nope thomas was there from contradictions collapse at the time of this video he was already 3 years in the band if not more. It was Marten who was the new guy here :)
Its funny, now you say it i seem to recall my parents talking about having kids around this time. I was pretty stoked to say the least! A shame i didn't make it though 🤷♂️
They didn't release a Soul Burn demo on Selfcaged, but maybe they didn't record one. Goddamn what an early, ahead of its time, appearance that they were playing it even in 1993!
It's almost hard to believe metal like this existed back then. The soft solo bit in Cadaverous Mastication is a really beautiful passage and he nails it live. Thanks for this upload.
It’s not hard to believe guy, they have some Pantera grooves going for sure. His singing on the other hand, and Fredericks jazz leads have always been a signature for them.
And this video is proof on why the Swedish audience is such a relaxed, unsurprised but still satisfied crowd whenever metal bands come out there to play shows. The villages have already witnessed the heaviest shit there is !
Scandinavia seems dope as fuck. Like, the most popular music amongst the general public is ridiculously heavy lol. That’s so fucking wild to me compared to the rest of Europe and the US.
@@elconijo sorr yto burst your bubble but in no way is the music of the general public ridiculously heavy, or just heavy, for that matter. It's a subculture as everywhere else. It might be a bigger subculture compared to many countries but it's still a subculture
I can´t imagine how confusing must have been to listen to this back then. Contradictions Collapse and Destroy are absolute masterpieces that have nothing in common with what came after.
They came to Italy about a year later, I went to see them almost randomly - I was there for Machine Head, who were headlining - and that night my life changed forever. I almost ignored MH after, that's how much I was astonished. I currently play in a band strongly influenced by them
I had a friend playing drums back then (1996) who told me they were the best thing that ever happened to metal after early metallica. It took me 10 years to stop being confused.
I also had musician friends around 95 (we were 14-15) telling me about different rythms and syncopes and what not. They abandoned their grunge gods for meshuga fairly quickly.
These guys are seriously the tightest and sickest metal band to ever grace the earth. I first found Meshuggah when Chaosphere came out and I was still in high school, ended up seeing them live around 2002 on the Nothing tour and they blew me away. Tomas Haake's drumming has influenced my playing style so much over the years I don't know where I'd be without Meshuggah lol.
Man. Thats the meshuggah I loved. Remember hearing this back in the mid 1990s and totally fell in love with it. Hearing a band this tight with this kind of sound live was so refreshing.
None EP from 1994 was quite influential to this set list. I remember being quite stunned when it was released, maybe their best release ever. Also happy to see that they still played Cadaverous Mastication, which was a big hit in Umeå, Sweden back in the days 👴🏼
This enormous mechanical colossus starts walking down the path,off-balance,inhaling delusions,exhaling cyanide,shredding everything and everyone to pure nothingness and then surrendering to the bliss of chaos by deconstructing itself..thats meshuggah
Not really a good video to comment on/analyze the tone given the audio quality of the recording. Hard to tell what's actually the "tone" and what's just the sound being altered from VHS transfer and audio compression, as well as a slightly clipping mic, lol. And yes, I know it's from 1994, but that's sort of my whole point, not a counter/rebuttal to my point.
Find me a Valve state VS100 stack, that's the easy part for rhythm and clean tones. Yes you can use an impulse for the lead, but if you want the old school way use a Mesa Mark II/III + a few rack processors (including a power attenuator)... basically whatever Allan Holdsworth used in the 90s, that would work too LOL.
They were the pinnacle, the peak of metal at the date of infancy. Still to this day, it is metal in it's entirety. Since the early 90's, still one of my favorite bands.
They were already so far above almost any other metal band way back then, tighter and more professional, nowadays they are like the best production for live shows and records out there.
I hope people haven't forgotten how bad ass Meshuggah was as a 'thrash(y)' metal band, in the Contradictions - None era and before that, early '90s. They were so much tighter than Metallica or any of the other thrash bands. They added the odd time signatures and polyrhythms, 7 string guitars, and 'jazzy' parts to the crunchy, chunky, shreddy, tight palm muted guitar riffs with the double kick drums locked to the picking of the gtars. The guitarists are never really 'shredding', but 'shred' guitar players have always had much respect for Thordendal and co. He adds that jazzy element to the solos, then the drums play off that with the super odd groovy jazzy sections of songs. Also meshuggah's bass sounded tight and fuckin' awesome, better than most of the bigger thrash bands at the time. They were considered in the thrash genre at the time, early '90s. Then there was a time when, in Hit Parader or one of those old metal magazines Meshuggah members referred to themselves as 'black metal', from my memory. They are now called 'djent' too, so I don't fuckin' know.
@@jameschauvet3140 IMO the albums sounded great for the time, the None EP was recorded in 1993 - '94 and sounded more like modern metal productions than most other "bigger" bands' records did at that time.
the style of their new stuff is so different, it wouldnt really fit. like first playing clockworks and suddenly erroneous manipulation pops out, it would be kinda odd
They played a bunch of old stuff on the 25th anniversary tour and honestly you can see why they don't play them regularly. The older songs are cool but they don't have a constant flow of energy like post DEP era. Songs like rational gaze just translate better live
I think they all mix well together. I mean if they didn't want people to Hear these albums why go through all the trouble of rereleasing them? I still love them and will continue to go see them live every time they come near me but personally I feel that the music And artwork is getting a little redundant. I can't wait to hear the new music!!!
Great upload. Love seeing the crowd confused on how to headbang to it lol. I think alot of us might have had that problem with meshuggah at first. But once it clicks and you get it, its master strokes of genius.
Absolutely groundbreaking and under appreciated by the broader metal audience at the time. Looking back, they belong among the upper echelon of metal greats.
Little did anyone know but Meshuggah themselves maybe that MESHUGGAH would be the biggest, baddest, heaviest and best metal band of all time. There legendary and true metal Gods. They'll never be topped. Not even in a thousand years 💯
Meshugahh had a time machine, that they used to write music like that... They travel 30 plus years in their own future ,and they copy themselves!!! There's no other explanation for this kind of metal back then. Forever respect.
In the sleeve booklet of Destroy Erase Improve they mention Allan Holdsworth. It’s actually the first place I ever saw the name, changed my musical life, thank you Meshuggah! They also wrote other influences like Bjork, Terminator and X-files hahaha I totally hear the ominous dissonant 90’s synthesizers xfiles musical influence, soo rad
@@MaXaNoMaLoUs and the very first influence was Earth Wind and Fire. Holdsworth is formidable, Frederik has a rhythmic gift, and his melodic stuff is def coming out of Holdsworth. I believe Forest Gump is listed in the influences as well, lol.
@@andym28Tomas did! He said Vinnie Colaiuta is one of his favourite drummers and influences when Chris Kontos from Machine Head interviewed him back in '95
I always wondered if others bands like Meshuggah existed in those days or if they were the only band with this crushing music. In terms of sound, of course.
I don't think so because it takes an unbelievable amount of time to practise for that style, let alone learn to write for that style/music. Seven string guitars were extremely rare and also expensive at the time, maybe was a factor that nobody wanted to move away from the standard sixer.
I think they were actually pretty close to Machine-Head in this era. They drifted way apart after this of course, but back then - not too dissimilar, they even toured together! And Pantera of course.
Strapping Young Lad, Cynic, Coroner, Death, Fear Factory etc were all active in 1994 with a similar sound to Meshuggah. I agree that Meshuggah were definitely one of the heaviest band during that period though. 1994 feels like recent history to me, being old and that.
The mid-90s were when death metal because its heaviest!!! Pre-nu metal and screamo. Cannibal Corpse and Messhugah came about the same time. Bolt Thrower is great. ua-cam.com/video/JgRbPe4ezCw/v-deo.html The band Living Sacrifice is incredibly heavy and started around 1992. ua-cam.com/video/iOomiaua5Oc/v-deo.html So many more. They were not alone!
Imagine hearing this at that time, how insanely new it would of been, I got into Meshuggah in the early 2000s but there first two records especially contradictions collapse are fucking so impactful.
So raw and amazing. Hate that I missed them back in high school when I craved more metal. All worked out, though, and had the privilege of seeing them live for the first time in September!
Just how does Pantera deserve credit in the same breath as Meshuggah? Listen, i like Pantera as much as the next guy, but they were just an opportunistic hairmetal glam band that discovered Slayer and Metallica by the same time as everybody else and rode their fame 🤷♂️ Aint nothing about them. Meshuggah wrote actual history. I know you are ashamed now. It's ok 🙂
Notable moments. 7:49 Jens headbangs so suddenly and hard that he almost passes out and falls into the drumset. 15:28: Nerdy looking guy jumps up stage to headbang with Jens. 16:24: Insane bonus scream 16:40 Nerdy guy cameo 27:05 Random pirate hoppin around 28:40 Girl stage dives into the void 31:25 Pirate guy body slamming unkown target.
I remember way back in the day, someone, somewhere left a comment about having a VHS/camera recording of Meshuggah doing a live version of Ritual. I was looking for years. Sometimes things work out For the better. 🤓. This is probably my favorite concert video ever.
I remember dropping Meshuggah on all my metal head buddies back in the early 90s. They all flipped out on me!! In a good way though!! Their response was, "WHY DIDNT YOU TELL US EARLIER!!!"... 😂😂😂😂
Dude..."djent" is just the sound the guitars make, not an actual genre. As for Meshuggah, they have a very unique sound of their own but they've always been a metal band. They just play a very complex style of metal.
@@msw0322 It's viewed as a genre generally. It's also used as a genre description in the metal archives. Wouldn't have troops of other bands started to play in the same style and left Meshuggah alone playing like this, it probably wouldn't been looked at as a genre.
@@Knochenbrigade Yeah that's true. Well as they say...imitation is the highest form of flattery. I honestly think Meshuggah plays this style the best though. Some people don't like their newer material but I find it enjoyable.
@@msw0322 I don't like the newer style (which they play already for 18 years) because the albums sound too similar and a lot of songs are just grating and drag on for too long. Being technical doesn't automatically mean having written memorable or good songs. What once made them sound innovative just sound very repetetive today. For me after "Nothing" they've lost their spice.
Oddly enough it's the only Meshuggah song I know with clean vocals. One thing is for sure, Jens' voice is definitely not what it was 20+ years ago. It's cool though, I think his modern robotic guttural style fits their current style.
33:33 Please, guys, check it out... Holy fuck, I am so impressed .. I probably did like 20 comments on this video, and deleted them, because i felt silly doing like 10 comments in a raw.. I am probably the biggest fan of of this clip, from 110k views I enjoy this the most ... I keep listening to this live performance, every week, sometimes 2-3 times in a raw.. I dont find anyone to share this expierence I make with watching these guys, shout out so fking nice... PURE EXPRESSION.. This sound, for me, honors all the people that have pain and suffer within their existance... SOUL BURN.. And the greatest thing about this video is... The fucking hardest sound I´ve ever heared.. But they all smile and have the most friendly faces I could ever imagin... Music is my life. Life is music, and I wanna go heavy.. hard rock and roll..
imagine its 1994 and you're the house mixer at this club, this band rolls through and you're like "wtf do I do with this?"
Sometimes life is very hard.
YES! Been seeing so much old school Meshuggah footage popping up in my feed and it’s making me so happy. Hail to the kings.
IKR?!
The Algorithm Did not Disappoint!
@@guillermolopez1377 heheh
Nice to meet you here uncle Ben
What's up uncle ben
Are we just going to ignore 37:20. Stage dive into crowd of one. That's dedication
Jesus, that drumming. He was MURDERING it already back in '94.
I think as soon as Tomas picked up sticks and sat behind the kit he just started playing this way.
ceck contraddiction collapse album
They been around since the late 80s.
This era is around the time they picked up Thomas.
@@josephbrenner2278 nope thomas was there from contradictions collapse at the time of this video he was already 3 years in the band if not more. It was Marten who was the new guy here :)
No fancy lights, Jens with a skullet, not even a backdrop, just hauling metal, what a way to start a new year.
I remember my mom being pregnant during this and I remember the urge to get out ASAP. I was supposed to make it to this gig
Its funny, now you say it i seem to recall my parents talking about having kids around this time. I was pretty stoked to say the least! A shame i didn't make it though 🤷♂️
I was in Baghdad before you were in your Dad's bag.
it only took 28 years but my first Meshuggah show will be this October since they don't come to the States alot. I think we were in the same Womb Pit
Haake is like some absurd, destructive yet totally controlled force of nature. Truly amazing.
Jens voice is so freakin good
Can't say the same for 2:38
@@smithyMcjoe 😂
may i correct you, excuse me..
FreeKing´ God.. freakin good is not, bad he is free king, god.. Lol
so ahead of their time, holy shit this is amazing!
Soul Burn is so fucking crushing. I can't imagine hearing that live in 94. Literally peering into the future of metal/hardcore music
Meshugga did not wait to have an additional H to be awesome!
This is so stupid but I love it so much lol
Fantastic seeing Peter again.
That guy's tone was ridonkulous.
0:00 - Gods of Rapture
5:02 - Cadaverous Mastication
12:04 - Humiliative
17:00 - Ritual
22:38 - Sickening
27:22 - Qualms of Reality
32:42 - Soul Burn
38:14 - Internal Evidence
They didn't release a Soul Burn demo on Selfcaged, but maybe they didn't record one. Goddamn what an early, ahead of its time, appearance that they were playing it even in 1993!
You are a god
What a set...
Some of my favorite songs to play guitar to. Especially Sickening.
After the heaviest intro ever this guy goes "Yay!" 12:31
It's almost hard to believe metal like this existed back then. The soft solo bit in Cadaverous Mastication is a really beautiful passage and he nails it live. Thanks for this upload.
So ahead of its time. Crazy.
true! there's some groundbreaking shit from the 90s that bends my mind. Demilich - Nespithe fills that category. next level.
How young are you kids? I was rocking this shit in ‘93 and “back then” seems like yesterday.
@@Kevin.Kelly. I was just growing out of shitting my pants at the time.
It’s not hard to believe guy, they have some Pantera grooves going for sure. His singing on the other hand, and Fredericks jazz leads have always been a signature for them.
Soul burn is one of the best metal songs ever......
Correct.
You are correct
God bless whoever filmed this
4:53 - Green shirt and his mate to the left. Minds blown...metal heads for life.
And this video is proof on why the Swedish audience is such a relaxed, unsurprised but still satisfied crowd whenever metal bands come out there to play shows. The villages have already witnessed the heaviest shit there is !
Scandinavia seems dope as fuck. Like, the most popular music amongst the general public is ridiculously heavy lol. That’s so fucking wild to me compared to the rest of Europe and the US.
@@elconijo sorr yto burst your bubble but in no way is the music of the general public ridiculously heavy, or just heavy, for that matter. It's a subculture as everywhere else. It might be a bigger subculture compared to many countries but it's still a subculture
@@elconijo yeah man it isn't like you'd think unfortunately
@@hazardeur all it is is more per capita
@@hazardeurI still think it’s way more common to see people (not posers) wearing metal band t-shirts.
I can´t imagine how confusing must have been to listen to this back then. Contradictions Collapse and Destroy are absolute masterpieces that have nothing in common with what came after.
They came to Italy about a year later, I went to see them almost randomly - I was there for Machine Head, who were headlining - and that night my life changed forever. I almost ignored MH after, that's how much I was astonished. I currently play in a band strongly influenced by them
I think people were confused by this difficult music back then. Rhythms were insane for year 94.
they were so ahead
I had a friend playing drums back then (1996) who told me they were the best thing that ever happened to metal after early metallica. It took me 10 years to stop being confused.
Yup i remembered I was. I loved the confusion and it changed how I listen to music forever.
Ah fuck people back then.
I also had musician friends around 95 (we were 14-15) telling me about different rythms and syncopes and what not. They abandoned their grunge gods for meshuga fairly quickly.
These guys are seriously the tightest and sickest metal band to ever grace the earth. I first found Meshuggah when Chaosphere came out and I was still in high school, ended up seeing them live around 2002 on the Nothing tour and they blew me away. Tomas Haake's drumming has influenced my playing style so much over the years I don't know where I'd be without Meshuggah lol.
Guest vocalist at 2:38 killed it 👌😩
😂😂
Rick Astley
Lold in public
Nobody was ready for metal this damn heavy back in 94 damn that's amazing
Tomas Haake: (at least) 26 years of an amazing consistency.
The only time Meshuggah played ritual live, its such an underrated song
To think I was not even a year old at this point, yet I'd go on to see Meshuggah play live at least 7 times later in life as a teenager and adult.
always be flexin'
I was still in the Womb. now I'm getting to see them for the first time this October. to see Meshuggah is on my Bucket list then I can die happy . 😁
Jens advice to his younger self. “Change nothing, it all works out just fine”.
💯
Man. Thats the meshuggah I loved. Remember hearing this back in the mid 1990s and totally fell in love with it. Hearing a band this tight with this kind of sound live was so refreshing.
None EP from 1994 was quite influential to this set list. I remember being quite stunned when it was released, maybe their best release ever.
Also happy to see that they still played Cadaverous Mastication, which was a big hit in Umeå, Sweden back in the days 👴🏼
That was a hit??
that voiiiiiice goddamn, crazy to think he can still talk now with that power he continously delivers
This enormous mechanical colossus starts walking down the path,off-balance,inhaling delusions,exhaling cyanide,shredding everything and everyone to pure nothingness and then surrendering to the bliss of chaos by deconstructing itself..thats meshuggah
Dear god this is the most amazing thing on earth. Look at the energy... Look at the harmony.. A spectical
I wish Fred would go back to this guitar tone
He has been using the impulse response from the Chaosphere album lately
Not really a good video to comment on/analyze the tone given the audio quality of the recording. Hard to tell what's actually the "tone" and what's just the sound being altered from VHS transfer and audio compression, as well as a slightly clipping mic, lol. And yes, I know it's from 1994, but that's sort of my whole point, not a counter/rebuttal to my point.
Find me a Valve state VS100 stack, that's the easy part for rhythm and clean tones. Yes you can use an impulse for the lead, but if you want the old school way use a Mesa Mark II/III + a few rack processors (including a power attenuator)... basically whatever Allan Holdsworth used in the 90s, that would work too LOL.
I agree. The contradictions tone is amazing. The whole production in general actually
They were the pinnacle, the peak of metal at the date of infancy. Still to this day, it is metal in it's entirety. Since the early 90's, still one of my favorite bands.
They were already so far above almost any other metal band way back then, tighter and more professional, nowadays they are like the best production for live shows and records out there.
I hope people haven't forgotten how bad ass Meshuggah was as a 'thrash(y)' metal band, in the Contradictions - None era and before that, early '90s. They were so much tighter than Metallica or any of the other thrash bands. They added the odd time signatures and polyrhythms, 7 string guitars, and 'jazzy' parts to the crunchy, chunky, shreddy, tight palm muted guitar riffs with the double kick drums locked to the picking of the gtars. The guitarists are never really 'shredding', but 'shred' guitar players have always had much respect for Thordendal and co. He adds that jazzy element to the solos, then the drums play off that with the super odd groovy jazzy sections of songs. Also meshuggah's bass sounded tight and fuckin' awesome, better than most of the bigger thrash bands at the time. They were considered in the thrash genre at the time, early '90s. Then there was a time when, in Hit Parader or one of those old metal magazines Meshuggah members referred to themselves as 'black metal', from my memory. They are now called 'djent' too, so I don't fuckin' know.
Agreed, the rare case where live is far better than the album
@@jameschauvet3140 IMO the albums sounded great for the time, the None EP was recorded in 1993 - '94 and sounded more like modern metal productions than most other "bigger" bands' records did at that time.
imagine being this good this early
I hate that they don't play any of these songs anymore live.
the style of their new stuff is so different, it wouldnt really fit. like first playing clockworks and suddenly erroneous manipulation pops out, it would be kinda odd
They decided to play only shit live and keep the good songs of their Djent-less past in the trash bin.
Knochenbrigade
God I hate people who get butthurt when bands progress. Fuck off, loser. It’s not about you.
They played a bunch of old stuff on the 25th anniversary tour and honestly you can see why they don't play them regularly. The older songs are cool but they don't have a constant flow of energy like post DEP era. Songs like rational gaze just translate better live
I think they all mix well together. I mean if they didn't want people to Hear these albums why go through all the trouble of rereleasing them?
I still love them and will continue to go see them live every time they come near me but personally I feel that the music And artwork is getting a little redundant.
I can't wait to hear the new music!!!
That Soulburn solo! WOW! :)
Yo Mikael whats up dude ? I remembered your name from the old Meshuggah FTP days. Is the FTP down for good now ? Cheers!
Jens is such a beast
That holdsworth esque solo during Soul Burn, Holly shit!
I wasn’t even born when this show took place. I’m 27 now and they are still going strong.
Great upload. Love seeing the crowd confused on how to headbang to it lol. I think alot of us might have had that problem with meshuggah at first. But once it clicks and you get it, its master strokes of genius.
Absolutely groundbreaking and under appreciated by the broader metal audience at the time. Looking back, they belong among the upper echelon of metal greats.
Nice to know the best band in the world play back at 94, I was 7 years old. But first heard them 10 years later
This band was on fire even then!
Crickey...
Everything in this is awesome.
...especially Fredrik's solos!!
Little did anyone know but Meshuggah themselves maybe that MESHUGGAH would be the biggest, baddest, heaviest and best metal band of all time. There legendary and true metal Gods. They'll never be topped. Not even in a thousand years 💯
Meshugahh had a time machine, that they used to write music like that...
They travel 30 plus years in their own future ,and they copy themselves!!!
There's no other explanation for this kind of metal back then.
Forever respect.
One of my top 5 metal band ever. Period.
jens’ fucking scream. all i hear is rage and ruthlessness.
Man these guys were so ahead of their time, been getting these old vids from the 90s in my feed... Watching Jens with hair is strange hahah
Jesus christ what I wouldn't give to be there. Kidman is just a phenomenon.
I was 6 years away from finding out there was a literal best band in the world at this point.
Soul burn is so badass on here! One of my favorites along with Ritual, thanks for the upload!!!!
You can hear a lot of Alan Holdsworth influence.
I hear a little Myles Davis too...
In the sleeve booklet of Destroy Erase Improve they mention Allan Holdsworth. It’s actually the first place I ever saw the name, changed my musical life, thank you Meshuggah! They also wrote other influences like Bjork, Terminator and X-files hahaha I totally hear the ominous dissonant 90’s synthesizers xfiles musical influence, soo rad
@@MaXaNoMaLoUs I wonder if they mentioned Vinnie Colaiuta lol
@@MaXaNoMaLoUs and the very first influence was Earth Wind and Fire. Holdsworth is formidable, Frederik has a rhythmic gift, and his melodic stuff is def coming out of Holdsworth. I believe Forest Gump is listed in the influences as well, lol.
@@andym28Tomas did! He said Vinnie Colaiuta is one of his favourite drummers and influences when Chris Kontos from Machine Head interviewed him back in '95
THE MISSPELLING AT THE BEGINNING IS SO CUTE
I was being born during this show.
Jävlar big ups för den som filmade det här! Plus den som laddade upp!
Svensk historia❤
Calories burned by headbanging during performance: 1,239,468,224.
I always wondered if others bands like Meshuggah existed in those days or if they were the only band with this crushing music. In terms of sound, of course.
I don't think so because it takes an unbelievable amount of time to practise for that style, let alone learn to write for that style/music. Seven string guitars were extremely rare and also expensive at the time, maybe was a factor that nobody wanted to move away from the standard sixer.
I think they were actually pretty close to Machine-Head in this era. They drifted way apart after this of course, but back then - not too dissimilar, they even toured together!
And Pantera of course.
Eske Knas There's an unspoken detail that Pantera influenced Meshuggah after 92/93, unless they always were influenced by them.
Strapping Young Lad, Cynic, Coroner, Death, Fear Factory etc were all active in 1994 with a similar sound to Meshuggah. I agree that Meshuggah were definitely one of the heaviest band during that period though. 1994 feels like recent history to me, being old and that.
The mid-90s were when death metal because its heaviest!!! Pre-nu metal and screamo.
Cannibal Corpse and Messhugah came about the same time.
Bolt Thrower is great. ua-cam.com/video/JgRbPe4ezCw/v-deo.html
The band Living Sacrifice is incredibly heavy and started around 1992. ua-cam.com/video/iOomiaua5Oc/v-deo.html
So many more. They were not alone!
Awesome! Wayyy ahead of their times.
A couple weeks before I was born. It would take me 16 years to discover this band. Still a fan 10 years later.
Man I was 18. Im so happy I was a kid and a young person during the 80s and 90s... the best times in rock and metal
Real music
Yeah. Stasik, is it you, dear?
@@DenEz_TV no
The best thing ever recorded and posted on UA-cam. EVER!!!!
Imagine hearing this at that time, how insanely new it would of been, I got into Meshuggah in the early 2000s but there first two records especially contradictions collapse are fucking so impactful.
I was 2 when this happened. I wish I discovered meshuggah earlier in life. Found them around 08'ish.
thank you for this recording , there are no words to arrange in a sentence to describe how important this is
Jens had that killer voice already as far as back as 1994. Hurricane cat. 5 in a throat!
So raw and amazing. Hate that I missed them back in high school when I craved more metal. All worked out, though, and had the privilege of seeing them live for the first time in September!
Very popular haircut - Jens Kidman, Devin Townsend , Maynard Keenan etc...
I was 4 years old then. No wonder it took me until Obzen to discover them. I wish could go back in time and experience this then.
i wasnt even born
Crazy they have been around for such a crazy long time!
Jens Kidman with hair. That's something I thought I'd never see.
Incredibly tight performance
Amazing crowd, amazing band, amazing play
Holy shit Jens is killing it!
I wish they were playing Internal Evidence in the future. That riffs was groovy as feck!
Thanks for uploading all of these!
I saw them the day before, New Years Eve, Stockholm. Ended up drunk as as a skunk at their after-party 😆❤️
Way ahead of their time.....
dude at 19:53 is how this music is truly enjoyed
Glorious video, absolutely glorious video. It's like looking at the past while seeing the future. Crazy.
This is history. Thanks.
it cant be understated how important pantera and meshuggah were for metal
Just how does Pantera deserve credit in the same breath as Meshuggah? Listen, i like Pantera as much as the next guy, but they were just an opportunistic hairmetal glam band that discovered Slayer and Metallica by the same time as everybody else and rode their fame 🤷♂️ Aint nothing about them. Meshuggah wrote actual history. I know you are ashamed now. It's ok 🙂
Notable moments.
7:49 Jens headbangs so suddenly and hard that he almost passes out and falls into the drumset.
15:28: Nerdy looking guy jumps up stage to headbang with Jens.
16:24: Insane bonus scream
16:40 Nerdy guy cameo
27:05 Random pirate hoppin around
28:40 Girl stage dives into the void
31:25 Pirate guy body slamming unkown target.
Makes Korn look like Nsync lol
Korn are Nsync
What a gem!
Thanks for the upload. I love Meshuggah!
I remember way back in the day, someone, somewhere left a comment about having a VHS/camera recording of Meshuggah doing a live version of Ritual. I was looking for years. Sometimes things work out For the better. 🤓. This is probably my favorite concert video ever.
I remember dropping Meshuggah on all my metal head buddies back in the early 90s. They all flipped out on me!! In a good way though!!
Their response was, "WHY DIDNT YOU TELL US EARLIER!!!"...
😂😂😂😂
what a way to star a year!
Estos tipos siempre han sido brutales y su estilo es único en el metal extremo 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
This is such gem footage, thanks for uploading.
What a Gem! 1st djent band and still top in today's era
Fortunately they've played no Djent shit up to 2002. They were a real metal band.
Dude..."djent" is just the sound the guitars make, not an actual genre. As for Meshuggah, they have a very unique sound of their own but they've always been a metal band. They just play a very complex style of metal.
@@msw0322 It's viewed as a genre generally. It's also used as a genre description in the metal archives. Wouldn't have troops of other bands started to play in the same style and left Meshuggah alone playing like this, it probably wouldn't been looked at as a genre.
@@Knochenbrigade Yeah that's true. Well as they say...imitation is the highest form of flattery. I honestly think Meshuggah plays this style the best though. Some people don't like their newer material but I find it enjoyable.
@@msw0322 I don't like the newer style (which they play already for 18 years) because the albums sound too similar and a lot of songs are just grating and drag on for too long. Being technical doesn't automatically mean having written memorable or good songs. What once made them sound innovative just sound very repetetive today. For me after "Nothing" they've lost their spice.
they were ahead of everybody ... hardly believe it was in 94
Ritual sounds pretty sick live. I'm not sure they could pull it off live these days though cause Jen's voice dropped down a bit.
Its essentially behind the sun sorta but they could rock it I feel like they totally do so
Its not like behind the sun
@@THERAMMSTEINFAN490 I say it is because they start with a melodic riff and progress on to a more heavier track ot the end
Oddly enough it's the only Meshuggah song I know with clean vocals. One thing is for sure, Jens' voice is definitely not what it was 20+ years ago. It's cool though, I think his modern robotic guttural style fits their current style.
Anton When you try to “akshoolly” someone about something subjective lol
One of the most underrated bands of all time 🤘🏾
Fun fact: the main groove of "Ritual" is a straight forward 7/4.
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Please, guys, check it out... Holy fuck, I am so impressed ..
I probably did like 20 comments on this video, and deleted them, because i felt silly doing like 10 comments in a raw.. I am probably the biggest fan of of this clip, from 110k views I enjoy this the most ... I keep listening to this live performance, every week, sometimes 2-3 times in a raw..
I dont find anyone to share this expierence I make with watching these guys, shout out so fking nice... PURE EXPRESSION..
This sound, for me, honors all the people that have pain and suffer within their existance... SOUL BURN..
And the greatest thing about this video is... The fucking hardest sound I´ve ever heared.. But they all smile and have the most friendly faces I could ever imagin...
Music is my life. Life is music, and I wanna go heavy.. hard rock and roll..