MESHUGGAH

Chaosphere ATOMIC FIRE

JK

Djent pioneers’ pivotal third album turned up to 11 for its 25th anniversary. Meshuggah were never a basic metal band. The signs for polyrhythmic development and their approach to vocals and guitars from a different angle were apparent in debut album (1991) and its follow-up released in 1995. But in 1998, their third record plotted a new curve, along lines of progressive hardcore, industrial music and jazz fusion, shifting slightly away from their death and thrash influences. Whether it was conscious or not, they hit upon grid. On each song, every instrument in the group – and Jens Kidman’s barked vocal – adhered to a pattern, locked into a mathematical mesh where subtle, telepathic compositional changes seemed to occur more frequently, and confidently, than before. These changes bound them happily…

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