Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Moderators, Rollbackers
23,028
edits
Meshuggah: Difference between revisions
m
→top: Fixing links to disambiguation pages
m (Mass update links) |
Derivative (talk | contribs) m (→top: Fixing links to disambiguation pages) |
||
Line 2:
[[File:71_meshuggah_6221.jpg|frame]]
'''Meshuggah''' is a Swedish metal band formed in 1987. They are well-known for their signature musical style, which involves lots of chugging, complex, polymetered song structures, and precise musicianship. Meshuggah has found little mainstream success as yet, but is a significant act in extreme underground music and has received significant critical acclaim.
Since its formation, Meshuggah has released seven studio albums, five EPs and eight music videos. The band has performed in various international festivals, including Ozzfest and Download, and embarked on the ''obZen'' world tour in 2008.
Line 49:
* [[Older Than They Look]] - Jens [http://www.flickr.com/photos/devu/2647257116/ could easily pass for much younger than 45.]
* [[Rule of Funny]] / [[Throw It In]] - The music video for "New Millennium Cyanide Christ," a song about a man who sacrifices his humanity to become a [[Clarke's Third Law|sufficiently advanced cyborg]], and seeks to reshape the whole world in his hellish image, which has a music video consisting of {{spoiler|Hagstrom, Thordendal and Lovgren air-guitaring, Haake air-drumming, and Kidman lip-synching(badly) into an ink pen, all while wearing ridiculous sunglasses on their tour bus. They reportedly were extremely drunk at the time}}.
* [[Scary Musician, Harmless Music]] - [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]]; aside from the weird faces they make in pictures sometimes, they overall seem like pretty harmless, down-to-earth guys, and [[Humans Are
* [[Serial Escalation]]- Trying to follow the polyrhythms in many Meshuggah songs is extremely difficult. There was once an article written in ''Music Theory Spectrum'' magazine which dissected the structure of just the main riff of "Rational Gaze," and the first three minutes of "I." The article was over 20 pages long, and had almost a dozen diagrams.
* [[Spoken Word in Music]]: Drummer Tomas Haake dominates this trope in an unholy fashion. Some examples can be listened in songs like "Spasm", "The Exquisite Machinery of Torture" and "Dancers to a Discordant System".
| |||