Album Rating: 3.0
Okay then, smart guy. Let's see some of those multiple time signature grooves notated out. How do you suppose you do that?
Fact: The intro to New Millenium Cyanide Christ (the drums anyway) is in 4/4. The bass notes are played over the bar, whereas the crash and snare stay in 4/4 the whole time.
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Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off
The bass drums and strings play 5 reps of 23/16 followed by a measure of 13/16 if you count only the bass drums and the strings. Without the hands, there's virtually no 4/4.
You can obviously only bar it one way at a time, but you have a choice; You can say 4/4 and I can say 23/16. We're both right.
Multiple time signatures on drums are just considering each limb a seperate instrument. A guitar can play in a different time signature than drums when transcribed seperately. Notes can be beamed across across bars to indicate polyrhythms (according to my DT Keyboard Anthology, at least).
Meshuggah writes riffs that can be interpreted in radically different ways. If you're going to make the assumption that "NMCC" is in 4/4 while only taking into account the snare and cymbol, then you'd have to make the assumption that the 5:40 section in "I" is in 4/4 b/c that's what each section adds up to with the cymbol; The thing is the bass drums don't do any pattern that hints at 4/4 and the snare just doesn't make sense in 4/4. Since it's possible to change time signatures in music, then there's nothing that makes it 4/4 other than that sum.
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Album Rating: 4.5
This EP is the sh*t! Never get enough of it.
Even though it's complex, it's so in your face.
Love the part where all hell breaks lose with the guitar tapping.
But my favorite part has to be at 7:46 right after the atonal solo in the middle song. Here Meshuggah sound so mean!;Like a soundtrack to Terminator, but even meaner.
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