Album Rating: 3.5

"They go for completely different vibes and put emphasis on different things. Periphery will always be riffier/"flashier" while Tesseract has always been more atmospheric."



while true i think stranger things and dracul gras are both very much in the same vein as most tesseract material and both better than all tesseract material

Album Rating: 3.5

Try this. Good as place as any to start

Album Rating: 5.0

Word, spinning right now

Album Rating: 4.5

Long time ago I used to think every Meshuggah song sounded very similar. I had heard so much praise that I was scratching my head. Sure I immediately recognized the technical ability and tempos wizardry and stuff but I didn't enjoy them past that. Then, and I remember this perfectly, one day I was watching a video about the drummer hard struggles while trying to get certain songs right (to the point of making him cry or something like that). I saw some music scores of the drumming patterns and it all started to unravel. It was like doing a 200% zoom on an ininteligible collage to appreciate every little detail and subtle change. Then the guitars started to produce different melodies each song backed by crazy and intricate rhythms. It started to make sense and I rapidly became a Messhugah djentleman.

Venin said closer was their best, but I'm not hearing anything Seven Names level, just quirky time signatures. I like how Dan has been channeling his inner Seal though.

Album Rating: 4.5

I can write instrumental melodies as good as 90% of what's on this album by just sitting here and going DUNN DAAAAA BWAAAAAAAA...DADUNNNNN. BAAAA DUNNN BADUNN BOWWW BAAAA just picking notes at random being all bombastic and dramatic and minor and dark sounding and it'd be hard to convince me that's not how half of this album was written while they spent 90% of their energy making some fkn VR game.

Album Rating: 5.0

I'm fanboying a little but the fact that DarkNoctus, who created one of the best black metal releases of 2021, is loving this gives me life.

Album Rating: 5.0

periphery should write more songs like tesseract bc stranger things and dracul gras are also better than all but like 3 periphery songs

Album Rating: 2.5

periphery sucks, shit band

Absolutely amazing album.

Album Rating: 3.5

Did Acle use AI for the riffs and lyrics too or just the artwork?

Album Rating: 4.5

@Frost: I'm definitely at that early stage then I guess. I think it's just how...cold all their music feels. and yeah that's the point. but i generally get more out of other styles that achieve that same goal...like funeral doom's complete bleakness.

Album Rating: 4.5

Bumping this now. I’ve heard their first single War of Being which I thought was pretty cool, but I’ve always preferred the more raw sound of One.

Album Rating: 3.5

can we get a contrib or staff review on this please

Album Rating: 4.5

@veninblazer I get your point, although I would argue that Meshuggah's djent coldness evoke emotionless, machine/robot world, dystopian feelings, which is an accomplishment on itself because their lyrics are close to that path most times. They even have some tracks/passages that are like atmospheric/subjective descriptions of the "ravaged" lands in the world they paint in their albums (The Last Vigil, closer of Koloss being a prime example of this).



Funeral Doom on the other hand feels more like human desolation/grieving or torturous, cavernous philosophical reflections upon death. Those are cold topics but from very different angle.

Meshuggah's music can get you easily pumped, because the constant speed, rhythms and overall machine like riffs are far from human nature and there is something inside you that rebels against it. You're facing a physical menace so the blood rate goes up. Funeral Doom on the other hand is about human, unavoidable suffering (unless you're a Buddhist or something like that) so it gets reflective or depressive more than anything, but it doesn't pump you up most times. The only times Funeral Doom may get you pumped are during the summit of crescendo passages, which are cathartic moments of realization (akin to watching the cross of crucifixion after completing the Via Dolorosa)

Could be their best yet maybe. Glad they got ambitious after the rather uneventful last two albums. Though they were pretty decent admittedly

@Titan definetly worth it. I saw them 2016 and they were great, and since then Dan got so much better, especially live

Album Rating: 3.5

On this they delve into their usual autopilot more often than not, while sometimes going off the beaten path. It's not substantially better than the previous two but it's going in the right direction.

Album Rating: 3.5

Meshuggah is bread and butter, it's boring, but gets the job done. They are the most basic form of the djent sound, they are overrated and only have a few good songs. Technical ability =/= good music.

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

Will give this one or two more spins, but I guess I'll check Night Verses and Aviations instead