Meshuggah has found little mainstream success as yet, but is a significant act in extreme underground music. Meshuggah was labelled as one of the ten most important hard rock and heavy metal bands by Rolling Stone and as the most important band in metal by Alternative Press.
Meshuggah has become known for their innovative musical style, complex, polymetered song structures and polyrhythms. Since its 2002 album Nothing, Meshuggah has switched from seven-string to downtuned eight-string guitars. If you like the idea of Meshuggah gone techno or are just an ardent completist, you might as well grab this it's pretty cheap in any major online storefronts and will give you a hell of a lot more enjoyment for your money than whatever Pelican crapped out last.Meshuggah first attracted international attention with the 1995 release Destroy Erase Improve for its fusion of fast- tempo death metal, thrash metal, progressive metal and jazz fusion elements. Only one of the tracks here really NEEDS to be heard (the 'Mayhem version' of course), so if you just want to hear the most essential item, download that off your favorite file-sharing service. It's surely not what most people are looking for on a Meshuggah release, but hell, I like them. The concluding two electronic tracks, though, are more substantial they're entirely unmetal, but they're surprisingly well composed and deep little dance numbers that can withstand multiple listens without seeming shallow or irritating. The last three are just fun little extras the acoustic version of, yet again, 'Future Breed Machine' is a cute novelty. This slowed-down version of 'Future Breed Machine' is laced with added electronic effects, and while I think this is just a slowed-down remix, not an actual re-recording, it's still a pretty phenomenal track and rivals the original, albeit in a very different way.
Things get more interesting from there on out the 'Mayhem version' of that same track is about as devastatingly heavy as other reviewers imply. Okay, so we've got a demo version of 'Sane', which unsurprisingly sounds just like it would on 'Chaosphere', and a live version of 'Future Breed Machine', which unsurprisingly sounds just like it does on 'Destroy Erase Improve' but with worse mixing. The super jewel box edition of 'Chaosphere' has the same tracks as are found on this, so if you have that, there's no real reason to pick this up, but for those without it, this is a nice little release to add to your Meshuggah collection. This is one of the lesser-known entries in Meshuggah's discography, and though it's entirely unnecessary, it's a nice little item for friends of the band.
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