Destroy Erase Improve
Studio album by Meshuggah
Released	July 25, 1995
Recorded	Soundfront Studios, Uppsala, Sweden
Genre	tech/Extreme metal
Length	46:31
Label	Nuclear Blast
Producer(s)	Danne Bergstrand and Meshuggah
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link
Meshuggah chronology
None (1994)	Destroy Erase Improve (1995)	Chaosphere (1998)

Destroy Erase Improve is the second album by Swedish tech metal band Meshuggah. It is generally considered to be Meshuggah's best work and contains the fan favorite Future Breed Machine, often used as a closer to their live performances. Image File history File links This image is the cover of an album or single. ... A Studio Album is an album of regular studio recordings. ... Meshuggah, whose name is taken from the Hebrew and Yiddish word for crazy, is a four-piece technical thrash metal band from Umeå, Sweden who use extended polymetric passages, complex drum patterns, odd time signatures, angular, dissonant guitar riffs, and harsh, atonal vocals. ... July 25 is the 206th day (207th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 159 days remaining. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Uppsala (older spelling Upsala) is a Swedish City in central Sweden, located about 70 km north of Stockholm. ... A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Extreme metal is a broad term for metal subgenres of a more aggressive style than traditional heavy metal. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Nuclear Blast is an independent record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. ... In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the performers, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ... Meshuggah, whose name is taken from the Hebrew and Yiddish word for crazy, is a four-piece technical thrash metal band from Umeå, Sweden who use extended polymetric passages, complex drum patterns, odd time signatures, angular, dissonant guitar riffs, and harsh, atonal vocals. ... The All Music Guide (AMG) is a metadata database about music, owned by All Media Guide. ... Image File history File links 4. ... Meshuggah, whose name is taken from the Hebrew and Yiddish word for crazy, is a four-piece technical thrash metal band from Umeå, Sweden who use extended polymetric passages, complex drum patterns, odd time signatures, angular, dissonant guitar riffs, and harsh, atonal vocals. ... Chaosphere is the third album by Swedish tech metal band Meshuggah. ... This article or section is in need of attention from an expert on the subject. ... Meshuggah, whose name is taken from the Hebrew and Yiddish word for crazy, is a four-piece technical thrash metal band from Umeå, Sweden who use extended polymetric passages, complex drum patterns, odd time signatures, angular, dissonant guitar riffs, and harsh, atonal vocals. ...

Many critics credit this album as being one of the best and most influential metal albums of the 90's. Destroy Erase Improve was groundbreaking in its use of polyrhythm and off-time thrash beats, and established these elements as instantly recognizable trademarks of Meshuggah's music. Some jazz fusion elements are present in some songs such as Future Breed Machine, Acrid Placidity, and Sublevels. Heavy metals, in chemistry, are chemical elements of a particular range of atomic weights. ... Polyrhythm is the simultaneous sounding of two or more independent rhythms. ... Bitches Brew (1970) by Miles Davis is considered the most influential early fusion album. ...

Track listing

1. "Future Breed Machine" – 5:48
2. "Beneath" – 5:07
3. "Soul Burn" – 5:17
4. "Transfixion" – 3:33
5. "Vanished" – 5:04
6. "Acrid Placidity" – 3:15
7. "Inside What's Within Behind" – 4:30
8. "Terminal Illusions" – 3:47
9. "Suffer in Truth" – 4:19
10. "Sublevels" – 5:14

Personnal

• Jens Kidman - Vocals
• Fredrik Thordendal - Lead/Rythm Guitar/Bass (Fredrik covered bass guitar after Peter Nordin left the band. Fredrik would play his lead guitar parts on the bass as well.)
• Marten Hagstrom - Guitar
• Peter Nordin - Bass(dropped out of the band during a tour.)
• Tomas Haake - Drums/Spoken Vocals