Fredrik Thordendal (born February 11, 1970) is the lead guitarist and a founding member of the Swedish metal band Meshuggah. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (400x613, 94 KB)Fredrik Thordendal playing at the Meshuggah gig at Mondo, Stockholm, Sweden on the 20th of May, 2005. ... February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ... Meshuggah, whose name is derived from the Yiddish word for crazy, is a five-piece tech metal band from Umeå, Sweden who use extended polymetric passages, complex drum patterns, odd time signatures, angular, dissonant guitar riffs, and harsh, atonal vocals. ...

Under the name Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects, Thordendal released a solo album in 1997 titled "Sol Niger Within" with Ultimate Audio Entertainment. The album was remixed and re-released by Ultimate Audio Entertainment and Relapse Records in 1999 under the title "Sol Niger Within version 3.33". The re-release contains two bonus tracks but omits several parts of the original version. Sol Niger Within is the first and only solo release by Meshuggah guitarist Fredrik Thordendal. ... Relapse Records is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based independent metal record label. ...

As a guitarist, Thordendal draws attention with his clean, flowing, jazz influenced lead playing and powerful, rhythmically complex rhythm playing, augmented by his use of low tuned eight string guitars. Most notable is the similarity between his solos and those of legendary jazz guitarist Allan Holdsworth. Allan Holdsworth (born August 6, 1946 in Bradford, West Yorkshire) is a British jazz guitarist and composer. ...

Thordendal is also a producer of some note, having produced all of Meshuggah's recent material and also releases for various other bands, France's Fragment among them. A fragment is a computer graphics term for all of the data necessary needed to generate a pixel in the frame buffer. ...

Discography

With Meshuggah

• Psykisk Testbild (EP, 1989)
• Contradictions Collapse (1991)
• None (EP, 1994)
• Selfcaged (USA version) (1995)
• Selfcaged (1995)
• Destroy Erase Improve (1995)
• Chaosphere (1998)
• Nothing (2002)
• I (EP, 2004)
• Catch Thirty-Three (2005)

Meshuggah, whose name is derived from the Yiddish word for crazy, is a five-piece tech metal band from Umeå, Sweden who use extended polymetric passages, complex drum patterns, odd time signatures, angular, dissonant guitar riffs, and harsh, atonal vocals. ... Contradictions Collapse is the first album by Swedish tech metal band Meshuggah. ... Destroy Erase Improve is the second album by Swedish tech metal band Meshuggah. ... Chaosphere is the third album by Swedish tech metal band Meshuggah. ... Nothing is the fourth album by Swedish tech metal band Meshuggah. ... I is a song and EP by Swedish tech metal band, Meshuggah. ... Catch Thirty-Three is the fifth album by Swedish tech metal band Meshuggah. ...

Solo

• Sol Niger Within (1999)

Sol Niger Within is the first and only solo release by Meshuggah guitarist Fredrik Thordendal. ...

External links

http://www.meshuggah.net

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