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Meshuggah Ranked By # Of Riffs

A riff is defined as the guitar repeating in a way that's heavy and sounds good and isn't just chugging that solely exists to pad runtime. Riffs are allowed to consist of chugging, but not all meandering chugging constitutes a riff. This list simply keeps track of how many unique riffs show up in each album, not how good the riffs are, nor how much of the length they take up.

1

Meshuggah
Contradictions Collapse

26 Riffs - A riff first appears once every 2 minute & 11 seconds on average.

2

Meshuggah
Destroy Erase Improve

15 Riffs - A riff first appears once every 3 minutes & 6 seconds on average.

3

Meshuggah
Nothing

16.25 Riffs - A riff first appears once every 3 minutes & 14 seconds on average.

4

Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects
Sol Niger Within

13 Riffs - A riff first appears once every 3 minutes & 20 seconds on average.

5

Meshuggah
None

7.25 Riffs - Discounting the silence at the end of the record, a riff first appears once every 3 minutes & 54 seconds on average.

6

Meshuggah
Koloss

13.5 Riffs - A riff first appears once every 4 minutes & 3 seconds on average.

7

Meshuggah
obZen

10 Riffs - A riff first appears once every 5 minutes & 15 seconds on average.

8

Meshuggah
I

3.5 Riffs - A riff first appears once every 6 minutes on average.

9

Meshuggah
The Violent Sleep of Reason

9.5 Riffs - A riff first appears once every 6 minutes & 12 seconds on average.

10

Meshuggah
Catch Thirtythree

7 Riffs - A riff first appears once every 6 minutes & 45 seconds on average.

11

Meshuggah
Chaosphere

6.75 Riffs - A riff first appears once every 7 minutes & 29 seconds on average.

12

Meshuggah
Immutable

4 Riffs - A riff first appears once every 16 Minutes & 41 seconds on average.

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Deez 04.14.23	hahaha
Trifolium 04.14.23	I'm surprised by Chaosphere sitting where it is!
FrozenFirebug 04.14.23	me too i thought the ones with the cool album covers would riff more
Trifolium 04.14.23	I thought their faster, early efforts would be up there, which is true for CC and DEI. Did you count all of Elastic?
FrozenFirebug 04.14.23	yeah, it's never truly silent so i gotta factor in the whole thing also had to go back and redo chaosphere because of the japanese bonus track (which does not riff)
combustion07 04.14.23	Wild stuff lmao
BAT 04.15.23	yeahhh chaosphere got snubbed thats arguably the busiest shuggah album
evilford 04.15.23	Dndndndnd dndndnd dood dooo dndn
PotsyTater 04.15.23	this is extremely good content
DarkSideOfLucca 04.15.23	Lmfao I love this list
AlexKzillion 04.15.23	surprised anything is below chaosphere that album feels like all chuggs
artiswar 04.15.23	You have autism Harry
Assemblage 04.15.23	What even is the order of this list.
FrozenFirebug 04.15.23	If it were ranked purely by number, then shorter releases would get shafted, so record length had to be factored into the equation as well. Contradictions Collapse and Chaosphere both had a single unique bonus track which counts toward their runtime/riff amount. I could've said "ranked by density of riffs", but that may be confusing, as some of the riffs are dense, and others are not.
TheSonomaDude 04.15.23	djunt transcends all riffage to be fair you need a high IQ to understand them
artiswar 04.16.23	when I jam Mesh discog I find myself subdividing everything by percentages of riffs as well. We are peas in a pod, very good list Frozen
FrozenFirebug 04.16.23	i had to do it i hate chugging so much it eats at my soul every day prior to making this list i would wake up and say "meshuggah is riffless garbage" in my head 30 times as a mantra and it was ruining my life i needed to confront it as a form of exposure therapy, i needed to count the riffs, i needed to know now i am sated, knowing that meshuggah /sometimes/ riffs eases the pain

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