Album Rating: 3.5

^100% agree with this. Meshuggah always comes across as so... soulless with their music. I own two of their albums, I've tried listening to Destroy Erase Improve and I... but man I just can't return to their shit.

I truly feel sorry for people who don't get meshuggah

Album Rating: 3.5

Please feel sorry for me. If you want to donate to my gofundme so I can buy a nice set of speakers/ receiver for my record player that might help me appreciate them more.

Album Rating: 2.0

I do agree about the soulless and "riff salad" parts tbh, especially from Catch 33 onward

Album Rating: 1.0

"its not dynamic enough for me"



fuckin lol

Album Rating: 2.0

Spencer Sotelo almost singlehandedly drags this down to a 2

Album Rating: 2.5

his vocals suck but at least the instrumental ideas on here are pretty compelling. it's after they recycle them album after album that they get tiring



"car bomb and shuggah are the only djent i need"



car bomb is cool but their songwriting is pretty ass. I half agree with Tundra about Meshuggah bc I never "got" a whole lot of their material after DEI.

Album Rating: 2.5

djent as a whole is a pretty throwaway subgenre

Album Rating: 2.0

"djent as a whole is a pretty throwaway subgenre"



Yep, pretty much

Album Rating: 4.0

"fuckin lol"



Alright I'll entertain this whatever, what makes Meshuggah so dynamic then mate. And I do get Meshuggah, listen to the riff so much it starts to get better and you get hypnotized by it, yeah that's a load of bullcrap right there, Meshuggah fans are one of the most pretentious fanbases in metal. I dont get why Meshuggah fans feel the need to constantly pan bands who are influenced by them. Definitely some white supremacy parallels going on, "we are superior to you in every way", that's exactly how Meshuggah fans sound. Your opinion is surely not needed on X band Meshuggah fan I assure you, go back to listening to the same riff for 30 minutes straight.

"Definitely some white supremacy parallels going on, "we are superior to you in every way", that's exactly how Meshuggah fans sound."

Loooooooooooooooooooooool

Album Rating: 3.5

Tundra going into Baseline territory loooool

Album Rating: 2.0

except baseline was never serious, even back in the day

I love how Tundra and Walrus think shuggah is just riff salad and soullessness.

Clearly Periphery is soooooooooooo much better when you view it like that

i used to think Baseline was serious and then I saw the light when Baseline rec'd me the Ori ost

Album Rating: 4.0

Thing is, I dont even dislike Meshuggah or their music, that paragraph probably came off that way, their fans just give them a really bad reputation, and their music just doesnt resonate with me. Periphery's Racecar has a lot of emotive moments, to pick out a few more, the bridge on Have a blast, Erised, Absolomb, Lune, Its Only Smiles. Bands are utilizing djent in new and unique ways, inclusion of electronics etc give the music more dynamics, inclusion of math rock elements gives it more depth. Now, I know Meshuggah fans are extremely stubborn and theres no getting through to them, their loss.

Album Rating: 2.0

> their fans just give them a really bad reputation



im not sure how true this is these days but there was definitely a time when a lot of people were acting like its the smartest metal ever made and you just dont get it bro... while the band themselves were always giving interviews like "idk we just write what we think grooves nicely we don't try to be mathy"

Album Rating: 3.5

That criticism is true for so many popular bands tbf. Some communities might be worse than others, but ... Tool, Dream Theater, Meshuggah, even Steven Wilson and Opeth (looking down on bands like Dream Theater). This shit makes me hate fandoms tbh

Album Rating: 2.5

is this socialist djent I've been hearing so much about

Album Rating: 2.5

Talking shit on Meshuggah is fair game.

Talking shit on Meshuggah to build up Periphery is in the top-10 hilarious Tundra takes, no short list.