Album Rating: 5.0

Also if you don't like dark themes it's also understandable. The lyrics of this album match perfectly to how fucked up it is sonically.

Album Rating: 3.5

honestly I feel like this is an album I SHOULD like due to the darker tone but everything's played so robotically that it all blends in with itself.

Album Rating: 5.0

The roboticness pretty much represents insanity, like an insanity simulator as an album. Though I recall that's what the word Meshuggah is supposed to mean but they go an extra step in that direction for this.

Album Rating: 3.0

Album Rating: 3.5

and even then, when I think classic, I think something I can literally come back to at almost any mindset and still feel it. if I can't enjoy say, my "workout music" in a completely different setting, that's a negative point.

Album Rating: 5.0

The mental imprint that happens then can recall itself in other contexts. Maybe not as much but there is a difference. But yes the full enjoyment still needs the right context which is part of why I don't listen to certain bands as much.

Album Rating: 3.5

that makes sense. tbh i often feel like I've failed some sacred oath when my rating doesnt fall in line with the averages on super acclaimed releases.

Album Rating: 5.0

It's alright, I gave GYBE ten shots over multiple years and couldn't find a single moment I actually enjoyed any of it. Some music you just don't like even if this website does.



I still remember most of the key moments I listened to each album from Meshuggah.



The first time I was playing Minecraft around 2013 when I first heard Koloss after I had seen a meme of Leo D Cap singing with Meshuggah in the background and was interested in hearing the band. I wasn't super impressed at first but I was interested in hearing more.



Then I checked out most of their discog on my walks around school or to and from the library. I became acquainted with everything up to Koloss in about a month.



At the time I would bike to work and there happened to be a decent pedestrian path that spanded about 3 miles along a river which gave plenty of time to listen to music. Eventually my bike got stolen when I was at a McDonalds so I started using my skateboard. It was during the skateboarding era that I first really appreciated CatchThirtyThree and somewhat ObZen. I wasn't too interested in Nothing yet.



I heard None a little bit later and it was during a time I used a train at night time. I don't 100% remember what the train ride was for but I occasionally needed to get to certain far away stores and Frys Electronics was one of them. So I remember the exact moments I first heard None and hearing songs like God of Rapture.



It wasn't until maybe a few years ago I cared somewhat about Nothing. Then Violent Sleep of Reason came out and I saw them live with my brother. Someone stood in front of us the entire show but the music was still sick. There was a surfer guy head banging the entire show! Most people didn't have ear plugs but I did because that shit was way too loud and would cause week long ear ringing even with them IN.



Immutable came out recently and I listened to it mainly in the car and really enjoyed it. I consider it kind of like a spiritual successor to C33 and Obzen but with a lot of influence from their recent albums.

Album Rating: 3.5

I recalled liking The Violent Sleep of Reason more due to a more natural "live recorded" feeling I got.

Album Rating: 5.0

That was one of the things I liked at first but strangely I now enjoy their more sterile sound that peaked with C33 and see the live sound as a misstep. I feel like they self corrected in that direction with Immutable possibly because they also realized that the magic owes somewhat to it.

Album Rating: 3.5

i suppose it's the point but a lot of their discog just feels empty. like, MISSING something kind of empty.

Album Rating: 5.0

It takes bravery to choose a weird mix and style and make that your signature sound for decades worth of albums. To be a concept band.

Album Rating: 3.5

I'll give them that. It is weird and unusual.

Album Rating: 5.0

Not all music needs melody [33]

Album Rating: 5.0

"if Jens only wrote lyrics about his mom venin would love it"



Nah i see what he's looking for, but it's pretty obvious he won't find it in this band



I was also pretty unenthusiastic the first time i heard this, but it clicked eventually, big time, i think it just happens or just doesn't, it's a hard sale after all

Album Rating: 3.0

not all music needs riffs but this album could use more than 7

Album Rating: 5.0

Album is one song

Album Rating: 3.5

"I was also pretty unenthusiastic the first time i heard this, but it clicked eventually, big time, i think it just happens or just doesn't, it's a hard sale after all" I think the reason it's annoying especially is the fact that they influenced so much of my taste yet their style on their own doesn't do much for me. I feel like I should understand the undying love for them considering without them, some of my favorites wouldn't sound the way they do. But those bands add stuff that I like more in the mix to make this more of a backdrop than the entire sound.

Also she*

Album Rating: 4.5

Holy wall of text batman

Album Rating: 4.2

"honestly I feel like this is an album I SHOULD like due to the darker tone but everything's played so robotically that it all blends in with itself."



lol, you sound like me when I dropped that 1.5 Obzen review back in 2013