While both releases might seem like willfully antagonistic efforts to skirt the djent craze, Meshuggah denies any such motivation. “With Catchthirtythree-- especially that very idea of doing a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Meshuggah’s Summer Breeze set was part of a summer European festival tour that also saw the Swedes perform at Arctangent in the UK ...

You know you've got something unique on your hands when it takes the rest of the world well over a decade to latch onto your style. Imitation is the highest form of flattery as the old adage goes and ...

Few bands can legitimately claim to have spearheaded an entire movement in music, let alone a genre all its own. Meshuggah can. If you enjoy bands such as Periphery or Tesseract, Animals As Leaders or ...

Meshuggah have developed an approach to progressive death metal so distinctive and compelling that it’s spawned an entire subgenre of imitators. And right from its title, the Swedish band’s ninth ...

Meshuggah perform at Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2023 at Catton Hall on August 12, 2023 in Derby, England. CREDIT: Katja Ogrin/Redferns/Getty Meshuggah have been announced as the first headliner for ...

Meshuggah guitarist Mårten Hagström was quoted back in 2018 as apologizing for creating djent, and said the term came from fellow guitarist Fredrik Thordendal being drunk. "First of all, we're very ...

The title of Meshuggah‘s second salvo, 1995’s Destroy Erase Improve, promised a permanent paradigm shift — a common enough boast, but no idle one in this case. Nor were they content with subsequent ...

Godfathers of djent and stank face riffs Meshuggah have teamed up with Fortin Amps for a namesake signature pre-amp and distortion pedal for “unrelenting and aggressive tones” aplenty. Crafted in ...

MESHUGGAH accepted, and the race was on to complete the new album. After pushing the limits of heaviness with Chaosphere, there was only one place left to go: even heavier. Thordendal & Hagström made ...