Album Rating: 4.5

a lot of thrash and post-thrash bands took great inspiration from ajfa but none managed to take it into as interesting a direction as meshuggah did with cc

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

yes

Album Rating: 5.0

I guess I just really love their mechanical/quite over the top robotic vibe on the one hand, their mega organic feel on the other, and their tongue in cheek nature/not suffering from taking themselves too seriously, and a very welcome lack of arrogance or stuck-up-ness. Also they release fantastic album after fantastic album.



"Meshuggah do have a much broader appeal than one might imagine"

Absolutely true. In a way they're very accessible or catchy even, because they 100% focus on groove and that is something many people enjoy.

Album Rating: 4.5

I agree, but I feel like their mainstream popularity came with Bleed. Ask how many dudes "into Meshuggah" jam Chaosphere on the reg, or could sit through a listen of CC. I do feel like DEI is their most accessible album pre-Obzen.

Album Rating: 5.0

Absolutely, Bleed brought them many new fans (me included!).

Album Rating: 4.5

bleed is phenomenal tho

Album Rating: 4.5

oh for sure, when I first heard it, I stopped what I was doing got in my car and went to buy Obzen

Album Rating: 4.5

This is so funny to hear now, because Bleed is what almost swore me off Meshuggah forever. It wasn’t until I hear their earlier work that I started reevaluating them and enjoying the hell out of their music

Album Rating: 4.5

my first album was the Contradictions Collapse/NONE EP, and I was confused as hell when I bought it cause I had never heard polyrhythms and was like 14 lol. But I kept jamming it because it was so damn heavy and I loved the atmosphere despite it breaking my feeble brain

Album Rating: 4.5

my first shugg was nothing and I didn't look back. this band man

Album Rating: 3.0

My first was Chaosphere, I lived to tell the tale... just

Weirdly the only 'shug I'd actively want to revisit... also heard this, Nothing, I + Obzen.

I'm of the (somewhat rare?) opinion that they've aged incredibly - Koloss is an absolute monster of a record and Violent Sleep of Reason is probably my favorite at this point, but it's definitely an exhausting listen.

Album Rating: 4.5

hard

Album Rating: 5.0

That isn't at all an unusual opinion Cotton! Many people feel that way.

Album Rating: 3.0

Is my opinion rare? I JUST WANNA BE DIFFERENT

Album Rating: 5.0

Yes yours is. Certainly. 😮

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that’s a rating to get me not talk to you again 😂

Album Rating: 3.0

Let me know if it works.

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Album Rating: 5.0

Isn't that a difficult paradox with no way out Demon? Or was that your plan? Eeeek!