Meshuggah
Chaosphere

THE REVIEW

It is said that this album is the result of a long study lasting six months, during which the band members seem to have locked themselves in a "den" without ever leaving... It's obvious that after incessant months of voluntary imprisonment, the result could only be a deadly, brutal album, a true cathartic process... the expression and purification of man from his inner discomfort.
Chaosphere is disorder, violence, rage... the metric schemes developed by our guys are, however, studied in the finest detail.

Meshuggah manage to produce an "experimental" thrash - death, whose sounds in some ways are reminiscent of Carcass, in others of Fear Factory, yet present a much more evolved version, characterized by extremely distorted guitars, creators of lightning-fast and monolithic riffs, often accompanied by fusion solos that give a "cybernetic - futuristic" atmosphere to the whole. The drums seem like a crazy machine that churns out, as if nothing, mind-blowing tempo changes. The bass is devastating, Pantera style.
What to say about the singer…singer?!? Certainly, before entering the music world, he must have taken a trip to the Paleolithic (just to learn to scream like only our ancestors knew how to do..)

Concatenation is the first sonic assault on our eardrums; New Millennium Cyanide Christ continues the violence of the first track, leaving the listener speechless; Neurotica is surely the most assimilable piece of all: well-marked notes that immediately get into your head; Sane best encapsulates the musical attitudes of the five: an ejaculation of textbook riffs interspersed with fine jazz – fusion touches; The Exquisite Machinery Of Torture is the most innovative and particular track of the album. Elastic, track number eight, closes the work by presenting itself as a kind of collage of the previous pieces.

There wouldn't be anything else to add... except that a band named Metallica has literally gone crazy for the style of these musicians: Kirk Hammet has indeed revealed that he drew inspiration from them for the development of some riffs… Danny Carey (drums) of Tool has recently stated that he considers Meshuggah a true source of inspiration since the first time he listened to them. He then added that they manage to change the way of composing music every time.
Undoubtedly, this band represents an important reference in the metal landscape of the last ten years!!

Away with the chatter, all that's left is for you to listen to this Chaosphere: claustrophobic, futuristic, unsettling.
Preferably isolate yourself in your room, close doors, windows, and crank up the volume… I assure you, you'll go mad! Don't expect melodic parts... Meshuggah are the number one enemies of melody.
Not recommended for the faint-hearted...and the faint-eared!