Artist Name
Meshuggah

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2022 - Immutable
2016 - The Violent Sleep of Reason
2012 - Koloss
2008 - obZen
2005 - Catch Thirtythree
2002 - Nothing
1998 - Chaosphere
1995 - Destroy Erase Improve
1991 - Contradictions Collapse

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5 Male

Origin
Umeå, Sweden

Genre
Progressive Metal

Style
Metal

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Born

1987

Active
1987 to Present...

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4 users Meshuggah - Rational Gaze
4 users Meshuggah - Bleed
4 users Meshuggah - Combustion
4 users Meshuggah - obZen
4 users Meshuggah - Electric Red


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New Millennium Cyanide...	Stengah	I Am Colossus
The Abysmal Eye	Clockworks	Shed
Bleed	Break Those Bones Whos...	I Am That Thirst

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Meshuggah is a Swedish extreme metal band from Umeå, formed in 1987. Meshuggah's line-up has primarily consisted of founding members vocalist Jens Kidman and lead guitarist Fredrik Thordendal, drummer Tomas Haake, who joined in 1990, and rhythm guitarist Mårten Hagström, who joined in 1992. The band has gone through a number of bassists, with the position currently being held by Dick Lövgren since 2004.

Meshuggah first attracted international attention with the 1995 release Destroy Erase Improve for its fusion of fast-tempo death metal, thrash metal and progressive metal with jazz fusion elements. Since its 2002 album Nothing, Meshuggah has used downtuned eight-string guitars. Meshuggah has become known for their innovative musical style, complex, polymetered song structures and polyrhythms. Meshuggah was labeled 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 found little mainstream success as yet, but is a significant act in extreme underground music.

Since its formation, Meshuggah has released seven studio albums, seven EPs and eight music videos. The band has performed in various international festivals, including Ozzfest and Download, and embarked on the obZen world tour from 2008 to 2010. A new studio album, Koloss, was released on March 23, 2012. Nothing and the albums that followed have all charted on the Billboard 200. Meshuggah's most commercially successful album, Koloss, debuted at number 17 in the USA, with first week sales of 18,342 copies. In 2006 and 2009, the band was nominated for a Swedish Grammy Award.


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Last Edit by smudgie
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