plaid I FINALLY found a metal band that I F***in love

Yeah, so after asking people time and time and time again on here about trying to get into metal (dont get me wrong, I got a ton of great recommendations but they usually only had a track or two that I liked..Gorgoroth and some 80s metal in particular), but GODDAMN is Meshuggah not the most IDM metal ever? FUCKING AWESOME

 

[youtubehd]qc98u-eGzlc[/youtubehd]

Check out this song and its idmness manifests in various ways:

 

 

1) The guitar part sounds like its being played like a fucking satanic sitar

2) The rhythms are constantly changing (listen carefully to the progression of the bass triplets)

3) The lyrics are incredibly abstract and usually have either scientific references or even more abstract religious references

4) The Drummer is. Fucking. Amazing.

5)The end sounds like something off of a Plaid album.

6) The bass triplets sound like a rhythm line from an old Aphex Twin track (the hardcore techno stuff, 92-95)

 

 

Goddamnit posted before I could finish...but the best part is that this isn't even near their best track (but definitely impressive. They even have jazzy solo sections.

Edited April 19, 2012 by Smettingham Rutherford IV

i was never blown away by meshuggah, sure its technical but sometimes i miss the soul

check out Nile - In their darkened shrines, that album destroys everything and has everything u want

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH-EEy6ZKh8&feature=player_detailpage

meshuggah are the dog's fuckin bollocks. proper IDM metal.

also i thought messhugah drums are programmed?

  On 4/19/2012 at 10:47 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

also i thought messhugah drums are programmed?

 

Only on Catch Thirtythree

if they are programmed thats further evidence of the IDMness, but I saw a live clip and it looked like the guy was actually footing those triplets. I could be wrong though. It does seem inhuman to maintain a beat that rigid.

  On 4/19/2012 at 10:53 PM, baph said:

  On 4/19/2012 at 10:47 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

also i thought messhugah drums are programmed?

 

Only on Catch Thirtythree

Ah there you have it, well its the only album i have lol

  On 4/19/2012 at 10:45 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

i was never blown away by meshuggah, sure its technical but sometimes i miss the soul

check out Nile - In their darkened shrines, that album destroys everything and has everything u want

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH-EEy6ZKh8&feature=player_detailpage

 

i was with this, diggin it really hard until the vocals came in..that guy sounds too much like cookie monster...i dunno...certain elements of metal really turn me off if they dont hit a very, very specific feel.

 

Meshuggah's singer is understandable and has just the right amount of fury? i spose.

i love this, just frederik and morgan

 

 

INSANE mastery of time signatures

one of the tracks off of the album that dropped last month:

 

[youtubehd]CUuXiAsV7BQ[/youtubehd]

 

 

man i love the mathyness of it all. Ive never heard a metal band so self-aware of the rhythmic progressions in their songs.

Don't like this band at all... BOOORING

  On 4/19/2012 at 11:01 PM, kaini said:

i love this, just frederik and morgan

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5-t377P7Qg

 

INSANE mastery of time signatures

 

holy shit i just blew a load all over my brain

  On 4/19/2012 at 10:55 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

  On 4/19/2012 at 10:53 PM, baph said:

  On 4/19/2012 at 10:47 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

also i thought messhugah drums are programmed?

 

Only on Catch Thirtythree

Ah there you have it, well its the only album i have lol

And imo, it's they're worst album. No wonder they haven't blown you away. I appreciate what they were going for, but it's just so monotonous. A couple cool parts here and there don't make up for the whole.

 

BTW Smettingham, I'm always glad to hear of someone new getting into Meshuggah. They're first album had some epic jazzy/groove elements:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac0KV9kJqlI

  On 4/19/2012 at 10:38 PM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

1) The guitar part sounds like its being played like a fucking satanic sitar

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzhblNVJq1I

 

This has nothing to do with Meshuggah, of course

Edited April 19, 2012 by baph

YESS

 

I fucking love their first two albums so far...havent moved through the whole discog yet.

 

@ Frank Poole

Edited April 19, 2012 by Smettingham Rutherford IV

there is so much good metal music out there, there should be an Intelligent Death Metal thread

  On 4/19/2012 at 11:06 PM, baph said:

  On 4/19/2012 at 10:38 PM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

1) The guitar part sounds like its being played like a fucking satanic sitar

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzhblNVJq1I

 

This has nothing to do with Meshuggah, of course

 

This has me a little interested

 

Ivan, is Meshuggah Death Metal? Ive never been totally clear on the sub genre thing. I have a very basic understanding of it.

  On 4/19/2012 at 11:04 PM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

  On 4/19/2012 at 11:01 PM, kaini said:

i love this, just frederik and morgan

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5-t377P7Qg

 

INSANE mastery of time signatures

 

holy shit i just blew a load all over my brain

 

they make it look easy.

i also love the fact that they look like they're having an absolute blast doing this.

Edited April 19, 2012 by kaini

http://forum.watmm.com/topic/72808-squarepusher-and-prog-rockmetal-fans/ Edited April 19, 2012 by THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON

  On 4/19/2012 at 11:13 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

lol

 

[youtubehd]lMjI-Vsv0o8[/youtubehd]

 

yup. this is fucking badass too.

 

wow. yeah this is fucking amazing stuff.

 

*adds another to the list*

Edited April 19, 2012 by Smettingham Rutherford IV

Thomas Haake is a beast on drums. The whole thing is basically composed by Fredrik Thordendal. Fockin' proper math metal. The vocalist is also one of the most brutal I've heard. I hate when they sound like cookie monsters :/

 

Koloss is amazing. They never cease to impress me... I was really preparing for a disappointment.

 

Animals as leaders is great. Periphery is also great (minus vocals... instrumentals are available). Glad you found some good metal.

 

Oh... They've cited Squarepusher as an inspiration.

Edited April 19, 2012 by CraniumXII

  On 4/19/2012 at 10:59 PM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

  On 4/19/2012 at 10:45 PM, Ivan Ooze said:

i was never blown away by meshuggah, sure its technical but sometimes i miss the soul

check out Nile - In their darkened shrines, that album destroys everything and has everything u want

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH-EEy6ZKh8&feature=player_detailpage

 

i was with this, diggin it really hard until the vocals came in..that guy sounds too much like cookie monster...i dunno...certain elements of metal really turn me off if they dont hit a very, very specific feel.

 

Meshuggah's singer is understandable and has just the right amount of fury? i spose.

The vocals are the breath of egyptian wargods or a mumie that just woke pissed up, you can understand everything they say if you read the lyrics once and they are fucking great, Nile is all aboot egyptian mythology

This album destroys everything and I really recommand it to everyone who loves music

  On 4/19/2012 at 11:09 PM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

  On 4/19/2012 at 11:06 PM, baph said:

  On 4/19/2012 at 10:38 PM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

1) The guitar part sounds like its being played like a fucking satanic sitar

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzhblNVJq1I

 

This has nothing to do with Meshuggah, of course

 

This has me a little interested

 

 

Please buy that album. There are only two "metal" songs on it. It has everything.

 

 

 

 

Sorry, I'll spam anything with SC3. Will stop.

meshuggah are boring. never understood how people seem to think they are the greatest metal band on earth.

http://youtu.be/Igrx-5seCG8

 

One of my favorite Periphery tracks...

 

Sorry, why do people come into threads, take a piss n' leave... At least offer some alternatives

Edited April 19, 2012 by CraniumXII