Meshuggah have pushed the boundaries of modern metal music on all fronts so even if they make an auto-pilot album like Immutable, they've already done far more than what was expected of them.

Jens sounds like an absolute demon on this album!

Album Rating: 4.5

That's the longer version that I didn't feel like typing out

Album Rating: 3.0

eh. this album and a lot of their big stuff is way too amelodic. they start feeling unmemorable outside of stuff like Bleed pretty easily because i often feel like I'm hearing the same thing over and over. it's cold, mechanical, i'm pretty sure that's the point admittedly but it's just another case where the foundation they laid was done better imo by the bands that followed.

Vildhjarta more fully realizes the dark atmosphere with a haunting ambience that i don't hear as well in these albums. Periphery/TesseracT/the rest infuse a little something called melody into the style, with good emotional vocals. so i respect these guys for the foundation but i never find myself liking a lot of the ideas bc it often feels like they've got the start of it meanwhile the bands that followed them have the full picture - the ambience, the little things, the melodic segments to break the cold, mechanical vibe.

Album Rating: 3.5

yeah critiquing Meshuggah for being amelodic is like critiquing a shark for swimming. It's all they do but it's what they were born to do.

Album Rating: 4.0

Mechanical vibes are cool if that's what you're in to.

Album Rating: 3.5

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It took me a while for Meshuggah to click, but once it did I was enamored. Gotta love the 'Shugg

Album Rating: 5.0

Easily meshuggah’s most heartfelt album tbh

Album Rating: 3.0

easily meshuggah's most homogeneous album tbh

Album Rating: 5.0

Pika i had no idea you didn’t like this record!

Album Rating: 3.5

album is kinda meh.. shuggah

Album Rating: 5.0

heh. now that's some good content. take notes pika you're starting to sound like venin : /

Album Rating: 3.0

hey I ain't the one looking for emotions in metal to feed my daddy issue demons

Album Rating: 5.0

don't have to look for it, just have to listen ; )

Album Rating: 3.0

okay I will listen to the better meshuggah albums



like tvsor and nothing

Album Rating: 3.5

if you aren't moved to tears by Shed then idk what to tell you. Literally shedding so many tears over here.

Album Rating: 3.0

"yeah critiquing Meshuggah for being amelodic is like critiquing a shark for swimming. It's all they do but it's what they were born to do."

well it still makes their discog blend in with itself. I know exactly what I'm going to get. I feel like even Funeral Doom albums like Mirror Reaper have more for me. This feels robotic in comparison and I typically don't like that.

@pika: hey i don't exactly appreciate the "daddy issues" comment because if you knew what my father was up to behind the scenes you'd hate him too.

Album Rating: 3.0

'if you aren't moved to tears by Shed then idk what to tell you. Literally shedding so many tears over here.'



rational gaze literally makes me weep



what a rollercoaster of feels

Album Rating: 5.0

"treacherous, this deceit"

Album Rating: 5.0

“but once it did I was enamored” [2]



Trance like



Not all music needs melody. Also, lol at everything gets unmemorable except for stuff like Bleed. That song is literally 7 minutes of hertas

Album Rating: 3.0

Bleed's main riff is like the only thing I ever routinely remember from this band. And melody helps break the robotic monotony here tbh