Wrong, this album is their best. It's their most diverse and has the best variety of songs on any record they've done. Like, I've only listened twice and I can actually remember the main riffs of all the songs. That's never happened for me for any Meshuggah album. I mean, Nothing and DEI are great albums and all, but they tend to blend together. This one doesn't. All the songs are unique and awesome.
You've listened twice and you think it's their best album. Right. It's great that you can remember all the riffs, but that's kind of my point. That's all this album seems to consist off: a steady thrumming of constant Meshuggah riffing. Yeah, it's good, no disagreement. But diverse? No way. The song in Death, Is Death is more diverse than this entire album is. Hell, the atonal melodic passage in that song is unlike anything I've heard before from any musical entity (well, until Kayo Dot kinda did a similar sound in Coyote, but nowhere near as well). They sum up variety in the 20-minute I better than this album does. Then there's that song on Nothing that features an instrumental bridge & solo in a major key, which has to be one of the most brilliantly conceived out-of-place moments in their discography. Or the slow droning finale in Obsidian. I'll also add that being able to remember the music after two listens doesn't make it good music. You could probably extract all there is to offer out of a Nickelback album in two listens, but that doesn't make it good. If anything, I'd place more value in the albums that take longer to digest, especially when we're talking about technically proficient music.
pretty much after 7 listens, I just don't think I'll listen to it from start to finish for a long time
I think it succeeds in being different from most other Meshuggah albums, as much as any of their previous efforts at least. I think it's better than Chaosphere, Contradictions Collapse and Obzen. Maybe even Nothing. I really think it is an amazing album from start to finish. It grooves really hard, and the songs don't blend into each other. They do feel like proper distinct songs, even if they are generally similar in feel. I've heard it 6 or 7 times and I feel I know it inside and out, but I still feel the urge to listen to it more than any albums from 2012, except maybe the Anathema album. It's a great album by its own right, and while it's certainly not their best, it's still very much Meshuggah at the top of their game.
This album has replaced obZen as my favorite Meshuggah album along with C33. C33 is something completely different to what they've ever done, so I always put it in a special place. But out of the 'regular' albums, Koloss is the best-sounding, most memorable and heaviest one they've ever done. I can't help but glee with joy when I listen to tracks like Do Not Look Down, Marrow, Swarm, Break Those Bones or Demiurge. The others are fantastic, too, but these songs are pure brilliance from start to finish.
It's kinda ho-hum during the verses. But then comes the riff at 2:05 and completely fucks you up. It's glorious.
I Am Colossus is my favorite now. It's just pulverising, and Jens' best performance on the album by far.
I am colossus is probably my least favorite if I had to pick. I still can't pick a favorite. Also the last vigil is pretty cool.
If Meshuggah announced that they were making a video game for Nintendo Joe would lose every last sperm
It starts really awkwardly, and I think it's probably the weakest way to start out the album. There are decent parts of the song, but I really want to re-arrange the song order.
this album is fucking unreal. i'm really happy that meshuggah can still release an album of this quality this late in their career but especially after the first wave of djent bands have released their take on the meshuggah sound. koloss is meshuggah being like, 'bitch please... this is how it's done'.
FUCK They destroyed tonight, opened with Demiurge and didn't let up. So much better than when I last saw them, gotta be one of the best metal gigs I've been to.
Holy shit what a setlist! I've seen them three times so far, and every time they didn't play more than 60 minutes, and closed with the (by now) fucking boring FBM. Dancers is one of my absolute favourite songs by them, ffffuuuuuuuuu
yeah, unreal setlist. and you actually got encores. for some reason metal gigs in Australia never seem to have encores. pretty sure the venues are shitty like that.
same here but those were the most intense 60 minutes of my entire life and I was exhauseted. It was perfect. P good setlist.
last time i saw them i was fucked afterwards. pretty glad devin came on and had a really chill set. i don't think anyone would have been able to start a mosh pit had devin angled for it.
I've listened to it twice (I am kahless' alt). I'm gonna give it a 3rd spin, but so far I really like this. I only know C33 from this band, though, but I remember loving that album.
After 8 spins I pronounce this album 2nd only to C33. Great stuff, best of the year so far without a doubt.
Just got this in the mail. ...does it get any better after the first 4 tracks? I listened to DEI on a couple hour drive back today and that album is so fucking immense. I don't know what this one is trying to do but it's pretty normal sounding.
This is not true. I'm a very clever person with a variety of quirks. I just hit Demiurge. This better be THE ONE like everyone said. In the mean time you guys should listen to THTFY and try not to imagine small midgety men running around in clown makeup smashing into stuff
Demiurge has the gnomey guys from The Wizard Of Oz pretending to be ominous near the end. I can see that fat fucker right now doing his proto pop and lock shit
aww manbient, i'm sad you don't like it. i think it's a great release from meshuggah. initially i thought it was one of their best. i'm probably cooling off to it a little bit now but i still think it's a really good release from them.
Dunno why everyone hyped this so bad. I'm pretty sure I just heard the old Meshuggah bag of tricks with all of it done worse than before. Production is too smooth too, I don't hear the Terminator anymore.
