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Meshuggah - The Violent Sleep of Reason


modey

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fucking hell. Listening now; the mixing is a bit strange but this sounds like it's possibly the heaviest thing they've ever recorded..

 

That wail on the end of the solo at 2:48 of Monstrocity is fkn amazing lol

 

 

edit: alright, the mixing was just weird on the first track, either that or I'm getting used to it..

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Yeah I just thought the drums were too loud in the first track.. especially that "chorus" where there is an actual chord progression going on underneath.

 

Overall it is a total unrelenting monster though. Gonna have to give it a few more listens before it stops being just a blur of angular riffs but it's very solid!

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I found the riffs and grooves to be a bit more easily comprehensible this time around... but I was also going through their discography in the weeks leading up to the release, so my brain may have just acclimatized.

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yeah it takes a little while for things to sink in for me.. probably because I do most of my music listening at work where I tend to be concentrating on other things.. that said, there were some moments of such beauty on this album where I just had to stop and admire the crushing riffs.. haha

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I do sometimes wish that Jens had more melody to his vocals like in the first few albums (even a few tracks on Destroy Erase Improve had some melody in the vocals).. but there's a certain postmodern quality to them these days haha.

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Yeah, he's got a pretty wicked harsh Hetfield thing going on when he chooses to sing... way back when.  I wonder why they never incorporate that now.  Seems like such an obvious thing that could add so much depth to their music.  

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Have to admit I lolled at the Monstrocity track. Cheesy af when the 'chorus' kicks in. It's like a nu-metal track gone dissonant/djent.

I love it :D

 

I love how there are some nice long instrumental sections without a high register solo, but instead feels like the guitar riffs are the solo and rhythm at the same time

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do you guys like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UUBShPhuLA

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any recommendation in this genre?

Hmm, there's plenty I think, but I'm not sure how easily I can recommend because my tastes are a bit more broad, so I tend to lean more towards bands who incorporate melody/clean vocals as well.. I don't listen to a lot of the more straightforward screamy stuff really (except for bands like Meshuggah but they're hardly straightforward!).

I could recommend bands like Scar Symmetry but despite sometimes having similar energy/pace, most of their songs get kinda proggy/power metal haha.

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Have to admit I lolled at the Monstrocity track. Cheesy af when the 'chorus' kicks in. It's like a nu-metal track gone dissonant/djent.

I love it :D

 

I love how there are some nice long instrumental sections without a high register solo, but instead feels like the guitar riffs are the solo and rhythm at the same time

 

 

Haha yeah def. I use 'chorus' because despite sounding like one, structure of track is still cray af

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I used to love love love meshuggah but now I just cant get past the vocals for some reason

yeah I would listen the fuck out of this and go to their concerts and shit but the nu-metallness of the voice triggers me too hard.. and when I listen to this, I make suuuure nobody else hears it.....

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Huh, I don't really hear any nu-metal connection in the vocals. Maybe a bit in the pace of the music, but the riffs are way more dissonant than anything even Korn could come up with.

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yeah dunno, not Korn, more Slipknot, Mudvayne stuff like that.. granted I haven't heard any of that for a long while so my memory might be playing games.. but there is something unironically pubescent-aggressive and one-dimensional in the vocals which I simply can't get over.. At the same time I can't deny that the screaming works well as a counterpoint to the musical proceedings, but still I really, really wish they would release all their jazz as instrumental versions in parallel.

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I would love for them to do an instrumental album, Not because I hate the vocals  (but get why people have an issue with them) but more because I think it would drive them to make even more out there music and bring out our their jazz tendency's for some full on free-form metal madness, 

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