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History

Formation and early years (1987–1989)

Meshuggah has its roots in Umeå, Sweden in the band called Metallien formed in 1985 with frontman Roger Olofsson, Fredrik Thordendal and Peder Gustafsson on guitars, Janne Wiklund on bass and Örjan Lundmar on drums. After they recorded few demos, Metallien disbanded and Fredrik Thordendal continued the band with different band members under a different name.^[1] UmeÃ¥ (IPA:  ) is a city and municipality in the county of Västerbotten, Sweden. ... Fredrik Thordendal (born February 11, 1970) is the lead guitarist and a founding member of the Swedish metal band Meshuggah. ... For other uses, see demo. ...

Meshuggah was originally formed in 1987 with lineup including vocalist Jens Kidman, guitarist Johan Sjögren, bassist Jörgen Lindmark and drummer Per Sjögren. Meshuggah recorded several demos before Jens Kidman left the band, which broke up subsequently. Jens Kidman formed his new band Calipash, with guitarist Torbjörn Granström, bassist Peter Nordin and drummer Niclas Lundgren. Granström was soon replaced by Fredrik Thordendal on guitar.^[1] Kidman, who also played on guitar,^[2] and Thordendal decided to restore the name Meshuggah for the new band.^[1] In 1989 Meshuggah released a self-titled three-song LP Meshuggah,^[1][2] which is commonly known as Psykisk Testbild^[3] (that could be translated as "Psychological Test-Picture").^[1] This 12" vinyl EP has only 1000 copies, which have been released by local record store Garageland. On the back cover of the EP are the band members with cheese doodles on their faces. ^[3] Jens Kidman (born June 8, 1966) is the lead vocalist for the Swedish technical thrash metal band Meshuggah. ... Meshuggah, also known as Psykisk Testbild is the first recording released by Swedish experimental metal band Meshuggah. ...

According to Jens Kidman Umeå has a healthy rock scene and a lot of people involved in rock music "probably because there is not a lot to do".^[2] Mårten Hagström says that many of the session musicians in Stockholm are from Umeå.^[2] Marten Hagstrom is the rhythm guitarist for the Swedish death metal band Meshuggah. ... For other uses, see Stockholm (disambiguation). ...

Nuclear Blast and Contradictions Collapse (1990–1994)

New drummer Tomas Haake replaced Niclas Lundgren and Meshuggah signed to German heavy metal record label Nuclear Blast.^[1][2] Tomas Haake (born July 13, 1971) is the drummer for the metal band Meshuggah. ... For nuclear detonations, see nuclear explosion. ...

Meshuggah released their debut full-length album Contradictions Collapse in 1991.^[1][2] Originally the title "(All this because of) Greed" was intended before Contradictions Collapse.^[4] Nuclear Blast did not promote the album, which consequently sold badly.^[2] The frontman guitarist/singer Jens Kidman decided to concentrate on vocals^[2] and a new rhythm-guitarist Mårten Hagström, who had already played in a band with Tomas Haake when they were in the sixth grade, was recruited. The new line-up recorded the EP None in 1993, which had also a Japanese version with lyrics printed in Japanese.^[5] Subsequently Fredrik Thordendal, who worked as a carpenter, cut off the tip of his left middle finger when working and Tomas Haake injured his hand in a grinder accident;^[1][2] so the band could not perform for several months. Thordendal's fingertip was later sewn back on and he made a full recovery.^[2] The Selfcaged EP was recorded in April and May 1994 and delayed released later in 1995 because of the accidents.^[1][2] Contradictions Collapse is the first album by Swedish tech metal band Meshuggah. ... Jens Kidman (born June 8, 1966) is the lead vocalist for the Swedish technical thrash metal band Meshuggah. ... Marten Hagstrom is the rhythm guitarist for the Swedish death metal band Meshuggah. ... Tomas Haake (born July 13, 1971) is the drummer for the metal band Meshuggah. ... Selfcaged is an EP by Swedish metal band Meshuggah, released in 1995 through Nuclear Blast. ...

Destroy Erase Improve (1995–1997)

Meshuggah returned to the public in January 1995 in a short European tour organized by the Nuclear Blast.^[2] After the tour the band returned back to studio to record the album Destroy Erase Improve, which was released at the same year.^[1][2] Short after Meshuggah was on a European tour supporting the American band Machine Head for two months. During the tour bassist Peter Nordin became ill and had problems with his balance nerve in his inner ear. He had to leave the tour and go to Sweden because he was chronically dizzy, and constantly felt like he was falling. The bassist of Machine Head offered to help out, but Meshuggah decided to play as a four-man band. Thordendal at times played the bass. Other times, the band performed just with two guitars with Hagström playing through a pitch shifter, shifted one octave down.^[2] Destroy Erase Improve is the second album by Swedish tech metal band Meshuggah. ... This article is about the band. ... Pitch shift is a sound recording technique, in which the normal pitch or tone of a sound is altered (shifted), for effect or for other purposes. ...

Destroy Erase Improve was released in May 1995, with better marketing by the record label^[2] and positive response by the critics for the "heady tempos and abstract approach".^[1] In mid-1995 Meshuggah had a short tour with a Swedish band Clawfinger in Scandinavia and Germany. Peter Nordin had to leave the band after few shows and was replaced by the bassist Gustaf Hielm since the show in Hamburg. In the late 1995 Meshuggah was also on a month-long tour with Hypocrisy^[2] Clawfinger is an industrial rap-metal band from Sweden and was one of the earliest bands to adopt this sound. ... For other uses, see Scandinavia (disambiguation). ... Hypocrisy is a death metal band from Sweden. ...

During 1996 and 1997 Frederik worked on his solo album Sol Niger Within, which was released in March 1997 in Scandinavia and in April in Japan. He also hosted on the debut of Mats & Morgan Band. In 1997 Messhuggah recorded a demo, which was never released and made an occasional tour and few concerts in their hometown Umeå. Swedish Television recorded one show in February and broadcasted one song in the next week. In May, Meshuggah moved to Stockholm,capitol of Sweden, to be neared to their management and to the record industry in general. A new EP The True Human Design was recorded and released in late 1997 after numerous delays from the record-label. It contains one new song called "Sane" and one live and two alternate versions of the Destroy Erase Improve's opening track "Future Breed Machine" ^[2][6] Frederik's solo album Sol Niger Within was released in USA simultaneously and Meshuggah started to plan their new album in the end of the year.^[2] Sol Niger Within is the first and only solo release by Meshuggah guitarist Fredrik Thordendal. ... Mats/Morgan Band (formerly Hot Rats and Zappsteetoot) features Morgan Ã…gren and Mats Öberg. ... UmeÃ¥ (IPA:  ) is a city and municipality in the county of Västerbotten, Sweden. ... For other uses, see Stockholm (disambiguation). ... The True Human Design is an EP by Swedish metal band Meshuggah, released through Nuclear Blast on August 19, 1997 in Europe and later in the United States on November 25, 1997. ...

Chaosphere and Nothing (1998–2002)

Gustaf Hielm joined the band officially in January of 1998 after after more than two years as a session member. Peter Stöckli from Switzerland started a fan club and released a 36-page booklet with photos and info on the band. The fan club died due to financial problems. Nuclear Blast re-released Contradictions Collapse with addition of the songs from None EP. The title of the new album Chaosphere was reported in May 1998, when the recording started. After the record was ready, Meshuggah went for a short tour in USA and the album was released in November 1998. Afterwards the band was on tour in Scandinavia with Entombed.^[2] Chaosphere is the third album by Swedish tech metal band Meshuggah. ... Entombed is a Swedish metal band which formed in 1987 (see 1987 in music) under the name of Nihilist. ...

1999 continued with a USA tour with thrash metal pioneers Slayer. Through both the new album and the live performances Meshuggah won lot of a good press in the USA as "guitar, drum and metal mags".^[2] In mid-1999 Meshuggah made several concerts in Sweden. The band started to write some new material but reported in mid-2000 that "songwriting isn't that dramatic, but we're getting there slowly."^[2] While fans were waiting for the next album, a collection of demos (from Psykisk Testbild EP) and rare recordings was released as Rare Trax album.^[2] For other uses, see Slayer (disambiguation). ... Rare Trax is a compilation album of rare songs by the Swedish tech metal band Meshuggah. ...

Gustaf Hielm left the band in July of 2001. The reason is not very clear, but he is still in contact with the band, so it was probably more problem of a technicality rather than he was kicked out. Meshuggah joined Tool on a huge tour, playing for more than 100,000 persons in total.^[2] Tool is an American rock band that was formed in 1990 in Los Angeles, California. ...

In March 2002 Meshuggah recorded in their home studios three tracks-demos with programmed drums, which were based on Haake's sample Drumkit from Hell. Those showed the next level in Meshuggah's evolution. The album was recorded in 5 to 6 weeks in May and Meshuggah went again immediately after finishing the recording on a tour to USA, this time with the Ozzfest festival. Fans and also the bands on the tour were impressed.^[2] Ozzfest is an annual tour of the United States (and in some years, Europe) featuring performances by many heavy metal and hard rock musical groups. ...

The album Nothing was released in August 2002 and "displayed a very mature and convincing Meshuggah, now focusing on groove and sound".^[2] In the end of 2002 the bad went on tour in USA with Tool again.^[2] Nothing is the fourth album by Swedish tech metal band Meshuggah. ...

Catch Thirtythree and obZen (2003–present)

After a small break, Meshuggah released I EP in 2004, which contains one single 21-minute track.^[1][7] Catch Thirtythree, the only album where programmed drums have been used, was released in the following year and in late 2005,^[8] Meshuggah were nominated for a Swedish Grammy for that album.^[9] Remastered Nothing was released in 2006 with a bonus DVD. In the same year Meshuggah returned to the studio to record their latest album obZen which was released in March of 2008. This is currently followed by a world tour, which started in USA and follows in Europe, Asia, and Australia.^[1] I is a song and EP by Swedish tech metal band, Meshuggah. ... Catch Thirtythree is the fifth full-length studio album by Swedish metal band, Meshuggah. ... A Boss DR-202 Drum Machine A drum machine is an electronic musical instrument designed to imitate the sound of drums and/or other percussion instruments. ... Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music... Singles from obZen Released: January 13, 2008 obZen is the sixth full-length studio album by Swedish metal band Meshuggah. ...

Genre and influences

The level of experimentation^[10] and the stylistic variations during Meshuggah's career have made their music difficult to describe. Their music mixes elements and influences from a wide variety of genres such as thrash metal,^[11] death metal,^[12][10] jazz fusion,^[13] and math rock.^[11] This has made them difficult to categorize, prompting the press to describe them with several different genre handles, among them Avant-garde metal,^[14] extreme metal,^[15] post-thrash metal,^[15] progressive metal,^[16] math metal^[16] and technical death metal.^[14][17][18] Thrash metal is a subgenre of heavy metal music, one of the extreme metal subgenres that is characterised by high speed riffing and aggression. ... This article is about the musical genre. ... Jazz fusion (or jazz-rock fusion or fusion) is a musical genre that merges elements of jazz with other styles of music, particularly pop, rock, folk, reggae, funk, metal, country, R&B, hip hop, electronic music and world music. ... This article is about the style of music. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Avant-garde metal or experimental metal is generally regarded as a cross-genre reference to metal bands or more exactly as a stylistic adjunction with specific traits (just like Progressive-, Symphonic-, Viking-, Pagan-, Folk-, Industrial-). It is characterized by large amounts of experimentation and by non-standard sounds, instruments, and... Extreme metal is an umbrella term, somewhat loosely defined, for a number of related heavy metal subgenres that have developed since the 1980s. ... Groove metal, often associated with neo-thrash/post-thrash and power groove, is a term sometimes used to describe a derivative of thrash metal which took its current form during the early 1990s. ... Progressive metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music which blends the powerful, guitar-driven sound of metal with the complex compositional structures, odd time signatures, and intricate instrumental playing of progressive rock. ... Progressive metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music which blends the powerful, guitar-driven sound of metal with the complex compositional structures, odd time signatures, and intricate instrumental playing of progressive rock. ... Technical death metal, or tech death for short, is a term used to describe bands in the subgenre death metal. ...

Bands such as Metallica, Deftones, Dream Theater, God Forbid^[19], Gojira,^[20] Lacuna Coil, Lamb of God, Mushroomhead, Nevermore, Car Bomb, The Dillinger Escape Plan and Tool^[21][22] have cited Meshuggah as an influence. Metallica is a Grammy Award-winning American heavy metal/thrash metal band formed in 1981[1] and has become one of the most commercially successful musical acts of recent decades. ... Deftones is a rock band from Sacramento, California formed in 1988, consisting of Chino Moreno (lead vocals and rhythm guitar), Stephen Carpenter (lead guitar), Chi Cheng (bass guitar) Frank Delgado (keyboards and turntables) and Abe Cunningham (drums and percussion). ... Dream Theater is an American progressive metal band formed in 1985 under the name Majesty by John Myung, John Petrucci and Mike Portnoy while they attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, before they dropped out to support the band. ... God Forbid is a heavy metal quintet from East Brunswick, New Jersey, formed in 1998. ... Gojira is a French progressive death metal band. ... Lacuna Coil are a gothic metal band from Milan, Italy. ... Lamb of God is an American heavy metal band formed in 1990 in Richmond, Virginia. ... Mushroomhead is a band from Cleveland, Ohio. ... For the Queen song of the same name, see Nevermore (song) For the Edgar Allan Poe poem featuring the word, see The Raven Nevermore is an American metal band from Seattle, Washington assembled in 1991 from the ashes of the power metal band Sanctuary. ... Car Bomb is a progressive metal group from Long Island, NY that was initially formed in 2000. ... The Dillinger Escape Plan (often called DEP or TDEP) is an American mathcore band from Morris Plains, New Jersey. ... Tool is an American rock band that was formed in 1990 in Los Angeles, California. ...

In the insert booklet of Destroy Erase Improve, the band notes musical inspirations such as Metallica, Death, Cynic, Slayer, Megadeth but also non-metal artists like Tori Amos; Björk; Steely Dan; Earth, Wind & Fire; Nirvana; Karnivool; Rush; Primus and Mike Oldfield. Fredrik Thordendal cites Allan Holdsworth as a huge influence on his style, which is evident in his lead guitar work. Destroy Erase Improve is the second album by Swedish tech metal band Meshuggah. ... Metallica is a Grammy Award-winning American heavy metal/thrash metal band formed in 1981[1] and has become one of the most commercially successful musical acts of recent decades. ... Death was an influential American death metal band founded in 1983 by guitarist and vocalist Chuck Schuldiner, and dissolved in 2001. ... Cynic is a technical death metal/progressive metal band from Miami, Florida, United States. ... For other uses, see Slayer (disambiguation). ... Megadeth is an American thrash metal band led by founder, frontman, guitarist, and songwriter Dave Mustaine. ... Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos on August 22, 1963) is an American pianist and singer-songwriter. ... This article is about the musician. ... Steely Dan is a Grammy-Award winning American jazz rock band centered on core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen. ... For the elements, see classical elements. ... This article is about the American grunge band. ... Karnivool is a five-piece music group from Perth, Western Australia. ... Rush is a Canadian rock band originally formed in August 1968, in the Willowdale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario; presently comprised of bassist, keyboardist, and lead vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. ... Primus is an American rock band currently composed of singer and bassist Les Claypool, guitarist Larry Ler LaLonde, and drummer Tim Herb Alexander. ... Michael Gordon Oldfield (born May 15, 1953 in Reading, England) is a multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, working a style that blends progressive rock, folk, ethnic or world music, classical music, electronic music and more recently dance. ... Allan Holdsworth (born August 6, 1946 in Bradford, West Yorkshire) is a British jazz guitarist and composer. ...

Adam Dutkiewicz, producer and guitarist in Killswitch Engage, cites Destroy Erase Improve as one of his favorite albums. Adam Dutkiewicz (born April 4, 1977[1]) is best known as one of the guitarists (along with Joel Stroetzel) and backup vocalist from Massachusetts metalcore band Killswitch Engage. ... Killswitch Engage (often abbreviated as KSE or Killswitch) is a Grammy nominated metalcore band from Westfield, Massachusetts. ... Destroy Erase Improve is the second album by Swedish tech metal band Meshuggah. ...

A Life Once Lost cites Meshuggah's album "Nothing" as a great inspiration for their newest album, Iron Gag. A Life Once Lost is a metal band formed in 1999 in a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and are currently signed to Ferret Music. ...

In the Contradictions Collapse booklet, the band thanks "all the music of the world for inspiration!" Contradictions Collapse is the first album by Swedish tech metal band Meshuggah. ...

Style

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Among the band's most recognizable qualities are lead guitar player Fredrik Thordendal's abrasive, chaotic and discordant solos, singer Jens Kidman's vocals, which resemble manic screams and shouts, the churning, dissonant rhythm guitars and the polymetric drum beats. In a typical Meshuggah song, there are two separate rhythms present: a standard 4/4 meter and a completely different metrical subdivision played by the guitars. Often, drummer Tomas Haake plays two separate rhythms: a standard 4/4 beat with his hands while following the different metrical subdivision of the guitars with his feet. However, this is not the only arrangement used. Sometimes Haake's cymbals will follow the steady 4/4 while his snare goes with the bass drum/guitars. Other times his snare will stay with the steady 4/4 while his cymbals follow the bass drum/guitars. Sometimes, Haake follows the guitar parts entirely (cymbals, snare, and drum) and the listener is left to follow the beat on their own. All this together creates an awkward but pulsating rhythmic pattern that works as the basis of Meshuggah's songs. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... For other uses, see Guitar (disambiguation). ... Fredrik Thordendal (born February 11, 1970) is the lead guitarist and a founding member of the Swedish metal band Meshuggah. ... Tomas Haake (born July 13, 1971) is the drummer for the metal band Meshuggah. ... For other uses, see Pattern (disambiguation). ...

For example, the main riff of the song "New Millennium Cyanide Christ," from their 1998 album Chaosphere, follows the first aforementioned blueprint. Haake beats a rather slow 4/4 rhythm with his hands, while the bass drums and guitars play a repetitive 23/16 rhythm pattern on top of it. As the subdivided pattern is repeated, the pattern's accents shift to different beats on each repetition. After repeating the 23/16 pattern five times, a shorter 13/16 pattern is played once. These patterns sum up to 128 16th notes which equals exactly 8 measures in 4/4 meter. This, however, makes it a syncope, not a polyrhythm. New Millennium Cyanide Christ is a song by the heavy metal group Meshuggah from the 1998 album Chaosphere. ... Chaosphere is the third album by Swedish tech metal band Meshuggah. ...

An example of when Haake's cymbals keep the steady 4/4 while his snare and bass drum follow the guitars would be the beginning of Stengah from their album Nothing up until the 1:44 mark. An example of when Haake's snare follow the steady 4/4 (in this case, on every 3) while his cymbals and bass drum follow the guitars come right after the last example, from 1:44-2:00 also on Stengah from their album Nothing. An example of when Haake follows the guitars entirely can be found from the beginning until the 2:00 mark of the song Concatenation from their album Chaosphere.

It is also notable that the band's songs rarely follow a verse-chorus structure. There is little repeating of lyrics and the lyrical passages can be considered very long verses or stanzas.

The band has evolved through a number of stylistic periods. Contradictions Collapse has a sound similar to Metallica's concurrent albums. None is embracing a more complex approach that would lay the grounds for their later style. Destroy Erase Improve and Chaosphere have a more distinct, off-time influence along with the thrash metal sound. Nothing and Catch Thirtythree have a sound close to the vein of groove metal, consisting of droning and slow grooves. 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. ... Catch Thirtythree is the fifth full-length studio album by Swedish metal band, Meshuggah. ... Groove metal, often associated with neo-thrash/post-thrash and power groove, is a term sometimes used to describe a derivative of thrash metal which took its current form during the early 1990s. ...

While live drums were obviously not abandoned, an unusual decision was made to use programmed drum patterns using Toontrack's "Drumkit from Hell Superior" (developed in co-operation with Tomas Haake and Morgan Ågren) sample library on their album, Catch Thirtythree, not only providing a more precise and mechanized drumscape, but also making drum beat creativity a more collaborative effort amongst all of the band members. It cemented the album as one of the band's most complex works to date. The band members have, however, stated in several interviews that the decision to use programmed drums was due to the lack of time given by their label to produce the record. Catch Thirtythree is the fifth full-length studio album by Swedish metal band, Meshuggah. ...

On their latest records (I, Catch Thirtythree, the re-release of Nothing, and obZen), guitarists Thordendal and Hagström use custom-made Nevborn, and custom Ibanez eight string guitars. These guitars add two low strings to allow the crushing, heavy riffs to be played in even lower registers. They currently use Line 6's Vetta II Amps. I is a song and EP by Swedish tech metal band, Meshuggah. ... Catch Thirtythree is the fifth full-length studio album by Swedish metal band, Meshuggah. ... Nothing is the fourth album by Swedish tech metal band Meshuggah. ... Singles from obZen Released: January 13, 2008 obZen is the sixth full-length studio album by Swedish metal band Meshuggah. ... This article is about the guitar manufacturer. ... LGM 8 string electric guitar An eight string guitar is a guitar with eight strings. ... For other uses, see 6 Line. ...

Lyrical themes

The main lyricist of Meshuggah is drummer Tomas Haake. Lyrical themes are abstract commentaries on the self, society, mendaciousness, contradictions, transhumanism, life / death duality, the human condition, and spatial/4th dimensional concepts. While Haake tends to write the majority of the lyrics, guitarist Mårten Hagstrom and vocalist Jens Kidman have also contributed to certain songs. Posthuman Future, an illustration by Michael Gibbs for The Chronicle of Higher Educations look at how biotechnology will change the human experience, has become one of the secular icons representing transhumanism. ...

Members

Current members

• Jens Kidman - lead vocals (1987–present), rhythm guitar (1987–1992, 2005), bass guitar (2005)
• Fredrik Thordendal - lead/rhythm guitar, synthesizers, backing vocals (1987–present)
• Mårten Hagström - rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1992–present)
• Tomas Haake - drums, spoken vocals (1989–present)
• Dick Lövgren - bass guitar (2004–present)

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Former members

• Peter Nordin - bass guitar, backing vocals (1987–1995)
• Niklas Lundgren - drums (1987–1989)
• Gustaf Hielm - bass guitar (1995–2001, live/session member 1995–1998)

Discography

Albums

• 1991: Contradictions Collapse
• 1995: Destroy Erase Improve
• 1998: Chaosphere
• 2002: Nothing
• 2005: Catch Thirtythree
• 2008: obZen

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EPs

• 1989: Psykisk Testbild
• 1994: None
• 1995: Selfcaged
• 1997: The True Human Design
• 2004: I

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Compilations

• 2001: Rare Trax

Rare Trax is a compilation album of rare songs by the Swedish tech metal band Meshuggah. ...

Trivia

• In 2005 they produced a remix of Rammstein's track "Benzin".
• A music video exists for the song "New Millennium Cyanide Christ" that takes place on the Meshuggah tour bus and showcases rampant headbanging, air drumming, Jens Kidman using a red ballpoint pen as a fake microphone, and Fredrik Thordendal playing the air guitar. The video can be found on the Rare Trax CD and on the DVD portion of the 2006 re-issue of Nothing.
• Jack Osbourne has cited Meshuggah as a favorite band. The beginning of the song "Soul Burn" was played in an episode of the MTV reality series The Osbournes, in which Jack played it loudly out of his window in an attempt to aggravate his neighbors (but labeled the band mistakenly as "death metal from Norway").
• On July 11, 2007, the band was traveling through Hungary on their way to Serbia to the EXIT festival, and they stopped in Budapest to recharge their tourbus and have a night out. When drum tech Henka Johansson called a friend (András Vörös of Superbutt), he asked the band whether they want to play a show, and Meshuggah eventually performed in front of merely 500 people, selling out the club Kultiplex on a 24 hour's notice. ^{[23] [24]}
• Mårten and Tomas previously had a band in Örnsköldsvik called Barophobia, which played a gig with Meshuggah in Nolaskolans auditorium in 1989. Some months after that gig Tomas joined them.

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References

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External links

• Meshuggah at MySpace
• Official website
• Official Meshuggah Forum
• Meshuggah discography at MusicBrainz
• Meshuggah at Encyclopaedia Metallum
• New Millennium Cyanide Christ video at Google Video
• Live performance of "In Death - Is Death" at YouTube
• Interview with Meshuggah at ME Metalhour