Album Rating: 5.0

I like things more eventful….



Do you Even stank face bro

Album Rating: 2.5

lol whatever you say man, I have no idea why those are rated cause I’ve never even listened to a live album from them, but I’ll give you that and remove the ratings. I do find it amusing though that every metal band with a 7 or 8 string is a copycat of this band. Djent bands today sound hardly anything like Meshuggah and they didn’t even create the sound, they just mainstreamed it. Agree to disagree I guess!

Album Rating: 4.0

This shit rules! Replay value is very nice and I honestly should probably have already bumped to a 4.5

Album Rating: 3.7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX4GOltUDdA

Album Rating: 4.5

yea that’s the best thing I saw yesterday

Album Rating: 3.5

Haake doing a drum cover of Nostrum with his Spongbob slippers on lives rent free in my head, I love these guys.

Album Rating: 4.5

Love these guys [2]

Phantoms goes hard.

Album Rating: 5.0

^ hell yeah. I'm trying to figure out the pattern for Phantoms right now, song is fun AF

Album Rating: 4.0

I do kinda agree tho that if you're calling tesseract, AAL, etc. Meshuggah copycats it pretty much confirms you've never listened to those bands before

Well all I can say is that Meshuggah might be one of the worst bands with whom to do a full discography run. Similar problem to when I did it with Every Time I Die – everything just starts sounding homogenous after a while, which is troublesome when you aren't too big on the core dynamic to begin with.

Their debut LP is the best tbh. Basically the only release that isn't djent lol.

ｆｉｌｔｅｒｅｄ

Album Rating: 4.5

Hard disagree about that tec but I'm a Meshuggah addict so perhaps that's the difference. Agreed about how good CC is though, love it dearly, a truly underappreciated album.

Lol djent

BRB heading to the thread for three 6 mafia’s mystic stylez to call it ‘cloud rap’

whether you want to accept or the deny with the existence of 'djent' as a distinct genre is one thing, but there's no way to objectively reject the fact that Meshuggah's debut sounds drastically different than every single album thereafter, all of which share very similar dynamic, tonal, and structural qualities. call it what you want but the delineation between "Contradictions Collapse-Meshuggah" and "everything else-Meshuggah" is clear. (At best, "Destroy Erase Improve" could be labeled as the stepping stone between the two styles, but is still far more in lockstep with everything thereafter than the debut.)

Whatever name you wanna slap on it, shit all sounds the same after a while man.

You said call it what you want like 3x brother i get it

I’m saying don’t

Their debut not sounding like the follow ups doesn’t make their music djent. It does make your classification inaccurate which was my point, which is true regardless of any gymnastics you want to do about their distinct sound. Don’t really mind that you dislike their discography however, that is a matter of taste

And I'm not rejecting [whatever-you-want-to-call-it] outright. I thought DESTORY ERASE IMPROVE, NOTHING, and I (EP) were all good. But the rest are just remarkably boring. My opinion of course. Like I said, I already got flanked for making the same accusations about Every Time I Die's general homogeneity. 🤷‍♂️

Then I'm genuinely curious what is it? And what *is* Djent, if anything? I know it often dissolves into a hotbox of pedantic wankery, but the general consensus of RYM which is far more "genre-divergent" than e.g. Sput consider every release aside from CC as "djent" primarily. Even the wikipedia entry for "djent" leads off with the following sentence:

"Fredrik Thordendal, lead guitarist of Swedish band Meshuggah, is considered the originator of the djent technique.[6] However, the band did not coin the term itself; the djent scene developed from an online community of bedroom musicians, including Misha Mansoor, whose success with Periphery brought djent "from the virtual world into the real one"."

I'm not trying to be argumentative or whatever here, I just don't understand if you're saying "djent exists but Meshuggah are not djent" or "djent is not a real thing, period."

You’re good man

I’m saying the former. Djent exists but meshuggah are not djent. They influenced djent. Just like cloud rap exists but three 6 mafia are not cloud rap. They did however influence it. To call three 6 mafia cloud rap could indicate a shallow engagement with their sound/approach, and so….