Album Rating: 3.0

Gonna start this in 10 minutes :3

Album Rating: 3.0

Damn Clockworks is pretty mental.

Album Rating: 3.5

According to wiki, Thordendal didn't write any of the music for this album? How do you have a guitarist ranked no. 35 out of 100 greatest metal guitarist by guitar world (thanks again wiki) and not have him write any songs?!

Album Rating: 4.0

More to the point, look how much Lövgren pitched in, sweet!

Album Rating: 4.0

Not necessarily 'writing' the songs themselves doesn't mean he didn't contribute to them, from what I know (not much, based on a Loudwire interview) Haake is the/a main writer and makes like demos and then the band come together and do their thing.

Album Rating: 3.0

Getting Catch 33 vibes from the t/t, this pleases me.

Album Rating: 4.0

As someone who wouldn't really call themselves a 'fan' of Meshuggah's sound, this is straight-up awesome

Album Rating: 3.0

I'm surprised about how positive the reception for this tbh, I expected people to like it more than Koloss but people calling it their 2nd maybe fav God damn.

Album Rating: 4.5

u need to let it grow calc

its great but i dont see how it could overtake dei, chaos or nothing for me

Album Rating: 3.0

All Meshuggah does but I didn't want them to go in this direction. Mixing more of their chaotic work with 'live' production isn't something I particularly wanted them to do but some stuff on here grooves hard.

Album Rating: 3.5

"Mixing more of their chaotic work with 'live' production isn't something I particularly wanted them to do"



I dunno man if anything it solidifies how ahead of the game they are by showing that they don't need studio magic and can bust this shit out no problem like kings. like the stuff on here is easily some of their most chaotic material and they recorded it live? umm yes please

Album Rating: 2.5

Pretty crazy how they can groove this hard and still sound like machines live.

Album Rating: 3.0

"I dunno man if anything it solidifies how ahead of the game they are by showing that they don't need studio magic and can bust this shit out no problem like kings. like the stuff on here is easily some of their most chaotic material and they recorded it live? umm yes please"



But did they really need to prove this though? Alive showed they are as air tight as the hype believe to be and has production which is so much better here. In my opinion live and studio tendencies and thoughts for bands should be kept separate, they're different mediums of expression and things get lost in translation.

Album Rating: 2.5

But this still sounds like a studio recording imo.

Album Rating: 3.0

It does but the idea of a more 'live' sound his influenced their sound here.

Album Rating: 4.0

I agree and that's partly why I think I enjoy this so much, it feels really alive. Also the production is top-notch.

Album Rating: 3.5

"But did they really need to prove this though?"



I honestly feel like it was a subconscious idea brought on as a response to all the copy-cat djent bands, but who knows haha

Album Rating: 4.0

Production is great. I've it on in the car atm with subwoofer. Sounds monstrocity

Album Rating: 5.0

calcinf I think you're overthinking what they were thinking