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Meshuggah

Musical Group
Forlisteners into extreme/technical metal (and the curious who want to understand why people call this stuff "non-music").
19 Reviews 28 Definitions 13 Charts
Thrash Metal Techno Metal

The Profile

Meshuggah are a Swedish metal band formed in 1987 in Umeå, known for polyrhythmic, highly technical, rhythm-driven extreme metal featuring harsh vocals and heavily downtuned guitars.

Formed in 1987 in Umeå, Sweden. Members referenced in the reviews include vocalist Jens Kidman, drummer Tomas Haake, and guitarist Fredrik Thordendal (plus guitarist Mårten Hagström). Widely associated with polyrhythms and a highly recognizable, influential modern extreme-metal sound.

Across these reviews, Meshuggah are painted as a unique Swedish machine: polyrhythmic, atonal, claustrophobic, and technically punishing. Highlights repeatedly orbit around Tomas Haake’s drumming, Jens Kidman’s harsh vocals, and the cold precision of the guitar work. Albums like Destroy Erase Improve, Nothing, Catch Thirty-Three, and the 20+ minute single-track EP I are framed as milestones. A minority view calls early material more linear or less convincing, but the dominant verdict is awe and obsession.

Notable Quotes

❝ No one sounds like them: unique, formidable, and daunting.
❝ I consists of a single track that exceeds 20 minutes.
❝ If Warhol wanted to "become a machine," Meshuggah have come very close to fulfilling that wish, indeed, they sound like a machine.
❝ Meshuggah are the number one enemies of melody.
❝ Not categorizable in any of the existing genres, rejecting even the term djent,
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