This is honestly one of the best Meshuggah albums for me, in terms of liking every song a lot. So many great grooves. If I had to listen to just this and the new Spawn of Possession for all of 2012, I'd probably be ok with that... This is shaping up to be one helluva year for metal.
I definitely love the overall feel of this album. The whole thing feels more organic and less quantized. OMGZ all those djent bands will now actually record with real drums.
The drums sound real to me. I can always hear Superior Drummer a million miles away. The inconsistencies in some of hits lead me to that conclusion. Would be a shame if he used programmed drums again.
sorry man I was referring to the post prior to yours with reference to yours, - ofcourse the drums are programmed, but why on earth should that mean they aren't real?
nah they're probably not programmed, that was just a reference to my favourite movie - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
by compare I meant put in the same level this "new" meshuggah album is the same rehashed, repetitive, monotonous bullshit they've been spewing out for the last 10 years the new sop is a masterpiece in craft, musicianship, composition and brutality
It's ok, you're still young and new to music you've got a lot of years of listening to look forward to! You've got a lot of time for your ears to really grow up and mature and understand, I can start giving you music theory lessons if you want?
I'm 99.9% certain that Lars is at least partially quantised, even if he isn't being snapped directly to a grid.
Didn't Trivium do an album with no quantising or digital anything as part of their attempt to live in the 1980s?
Listening now, urge to kick furniture over approaching climax. I dig the production...sounds like a SYL album.
Picked this up at Best Buy today. The packaging is phenomenal ... so nice to see a band/label still care about that sort of thing. Apparently Hagstrom wrote a bunch of music/lyrics on this one. I thought Haake always did the lyrics?
really hope mine comes in today. pre-ordering is pretty lame if you can walk in to a store the day it comes out and get it quicker. " class=
Damn Demiurge...just...damn...that song...damn. Grooves your head right off your neck if you're not careful.
Demiurge just might be my favorite...together with Do Not Look Down. But it's so hard to tell, they're all fucking fantastic. This is my favorite Meshuggah album.
Bad news, it likely kicked your house over by now. You shoulda done signature confirmation so you could have maintained control of it (or at least tried).
this album is so good, fuck like, FUCK It feels like this relentless behemoth, trampling down everything in its way...
beautifully dark and ominous. do wish there was at least one wide shot of the full band, maybe slowed down, just rocking the fuck out
Well, it's perfect for the direction the band has taken with this album at least. If I were to nitpick, I don't like it when the video of a performance goes out of sync with the audio, but I guess not everyone likes the 'play at twice the speed and slow it down' thing.
Probably not going to be a popular opinion (didn't read thread) but I think this album is probably their weakest release so far. I think this band is officially on a decline. Although, it's still pretty damned good, it's just becoming painfully clear they are never going to hit either the creative brilliance of Catch 33 again, nor will they recapture the perfect jarring riffs of Destroy Erase Improve. If you asked me what generic Meshuggah would sound like, this album is it. Again, it's still good, because even generic Meshuggah is a good thing. 4/5
