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| Artist: Meshuggah
Label: Nuclear Blast America
Category: Music
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Rating:  54 reviews
Sales Rank: 10958
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 11937
UPC: 727361193720
EAN: 0727361193720
ASIN: B0012E6R3M
Release Date: March 11, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Combustion | | • | Electric Red | | • | Bleed | | • | Lethargica | | • | Obzen | | • | This Spiteful Snake | | • | Pineal Gland Optics | | • | Pravus | | • | Dancers to a Discordant System |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 49 more reviews...
 My first Meshuggah album August 27, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've browsed their reviews in guitar mags. Something intigued me. So I bought their newest album. As you can tell, I'm coming to this review without any knowledge of previous output or fan favourites. But I have been listening to Opeth, Tool, Mastodon, The Fall Of Troy, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Mars Volta, Joy Division very recently.
First impressions? A dense record, full-on all the way through. A bit of a cacophony.
Later impressions? It's a grower. I'm getting to understand the seperate songs. Getting to hum along to the riffs and bits. It's still an awful racket, though! But I like that.
I'm an older music fan, and have been listening to King Crimson since they started (well, second album). And I'm amazed how influential their sound and playing has been on new metal music. I thought I was the only person listening to KC as they continually reinvented themselves. Evidently not.
This album has some blistering guitar playing on it that clearly owes an influence to KC's duo of Adrian Belew and Robert Fripp who were making new sonic worlds in the 90s and Naughties.
I like it! As Mr. Belew once said.
 What is the big fuss? August 27, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
I don't know guys. This is my first experience with this band. I have heard that they were this phenomenal metal band, so I bought this when it first came out for $9. My first listen, I was disappointed. There are no real songs...it just seems like wankin'. And the production was terrible. So I put it on my shelf for a few months and just tried to listen to it again a week ago. Yeah, it still sucks.
Now this truly is a classic. August 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I'm a brand new fan of this band so I admit that they may have released some better records prior to this...I wouldn't know. All I know is that this is the absolute best death metal record I have ever heard asside from maybe only one other (by the band Death). I love this album...it is so dark, serious, and genuinely technical. These guys are real muscians. Wow!!!! I'm addicted to this album. Incredible muscianship!!!!
Meshuggah out does them-selves yet again July 28, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This record it the most brutal thing i have ever heard in my life. Most reviews say it's a step backwards to Meshuggah's old sounds and they are kinda right, but more wrong lol. Let me explain, upon first listen it feels like Chaosphere or Destroy Erase Improve, but after each listen you realize this is the most interesting, challenging and heaviest record they have ever made. Imagine taking Destroy Erase Improve and multiplying it by Catch 33 and that's kinda what you have, but with a pinch of something new.
Combustion and Pravus are the heaviest songs on the record, and the song Bleed makes my feet hurt just thinking about being able to keep up with the double bass of drummer Tomas Haake, who also provides all of the amazing lyrics to the record, "Ripples ascend to the surface of my eyes; their red pens drawing at random, at will; a myriad pain begotten in their wake; the bastard spawn of a mutinous self.
Overall, this record is Meshuggah at their finest. Where in the past their music seems to attack you on three dimensions, Obzen adds a fourth. It may take a listen or two to grasp the full concept being that there is just so much happening at all times, but trust me, this record is worth it.
One of their best and most surreal outings July 25, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
If you think DEI can't be topped than you might be wrong after popping in ObZen by Meshuggah. This surpasses all techincal limits the band ever faced. Now toiling in the chaotic realm of eight string guitars Meshuggah will allow you to enter the most abstract and surreal auditory landscapes with ObZen. I remember being out of my mind high listening to Chaosphere for the first time and finally accepting the unbridled mayhem that IS Meshuggah. I must not lie and admit upon first purchasing Chaosphere back in early '99 I was unable to understand the polyrythmic artistry and threw the album aside to dig into my Deftones records. Now I can say I listen to Meshuggah more than the Deftones and any other bands I have been into from the past. Meshuggah is not only for the metal heads when I saw them live their audience attracted a diverse lot people who probably weren't into extreme metal. If you want to check this band out for the first time ObZen is entry level yet advanced for any music listener. A standout track off this album which is almost the fastest song they've written is "Pravus", check it out I saw them play it live.
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