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Swedish excessive tech-metal pioneers MESHUGGAH have launched “I Am That Thirst”, the second single from their upcoming ninth studio album, “Immutable”.
Due on April 1 through Atomic Fireplace, the follow-up to 2016’s “The Violent Sleep Of Cause” was recorded at Sweetspot Studios in Halmstad, Sweden; blended by Rickard Bengtsson and Staffan Karlsson; and mastered by a number of Grammy Award winner Vlado Meller (METALLICA, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, SYSTEM OF A DOWN). Visionary artist Luminokaya as soon as once more created the gorgeous cowl art work.
Stuffed with surprises and but immediately recognizable because the work of steel’s most idiosyncratic pressure, “Immutable” redefines and redesigns the MESHUGGAH sound throughout greater than an hour of essentially the most stimulating and absorbing music the band has ever made. Regardless of the challenges of the final couple of years, the progressive ideas which have at all times knowledgeable their inventive efforts stay as cherished as ever. As we spiral in the direction of a dystopian future, MESHUGGAH nonetheless stand alone.
For guitarist Mårten Hagström, the duty of embarking on one other unprecedented tech-metal odyssey was unattainable to withstand. “For us, it wasn’t all that clear that we have been making a brand new album,” he mentioned. “We knew we may do it, however did we need to do it? We needed to determine, are we doing this or what else are we doing? After an extended, lengthy dialogue, we agreed on sure issues. We might make an album with as few restraints as doable. We might go in and attempt to make as cool an album as doable, don’t have any nervousness about it and see it as a possibility. How can we make this a problem that we really feel like accepting and rising as much as? Fairly rapidly we had a place to begin. All people began to jot down, the ball began rolling and immediately we have been sitting there, discussing what number of songs we have been going to have to chop.”
Concerning the “Immutable” title, Hagström mentioned: “The title matches completely for the place we’re as a band. We’re older now. Most of us are in our fifties now, and we have settled into who we’re. Though we have been experimenting all alongside, I additionally assume we have been the identical since day one. The way in which we method issues and why we nonetheless make new albums, and why we nonetheless sound the best way we do, it is immutable. Humanity is immutable, too. We commit the identical errors time and again. And we’re immutable. We do what we do, and we do not change.”
Essentially the most ingenious and inventive steel band of the final 30 years and one of the extensively revered, MESHUGGAH has been normal bearers for forward-thinking creativity in heavy music all through their illustrious careers. Over the course of greater than 30 years and eight studio albums, Sweden’s extensively worshipped progressive professionals have persistently redefined what it means to be heavy, whereas exhibiting a ferocious intelligence that belies the crushing weight of their riffs. From the ground-breaking savagery of 1995’s “Destroy Erase Enhance” to the psychedelic tech-splorations of “CatchyThirtyThree”, and on to the streamlined grotesquery of “ObZen” and “Koloss”, MESHUGGAH has at all times been means forward of the sport and plainly with out peer.
In October 2020, MESHUGGAH drummer Tomas Haake confirmed to Knotfest.com‘s “Mosh Talks With Beez” that the band had spent a lot of the downtime throughout the COVID-19 pandemic engaged on recent materials.
Concerning the musical path of the brand new MESHUGGAH songs, Tomas mentioned: “After all, now we have a sure framework that we nonetheless wanna sound like MESHUGGAH, we wanna have that signature sound, we would like folks to have the ability to — even when they have not heard the music [before] — within the best-case state of affairs, it is, like, ‘Oh, that is gotta be MESHUGGAH,’ even when it is a model new factor. So hopefully that is one thing we’re aiming at. However with that mentioned, so far as the music goes, we attempt to [do] sort of the alternative of what AC/DC has been doing for 40 years. So we’re not attempting to jot down the identical album time and again. And whether or not we succeed with that or not, that is extra as much as our followers and different folks, however that is positively the intention. We strive our greatest to sort of discover new grips throughout the framework of what we’re imagined to be, I suppose. ‘Trigger we do not wanna actually step out of that both. We’re not trying to be one other band unexpectedly or one thing that we have not been or that’s not true to sort of what we’re doing.”
“Immutable” monitor itemizing:
01. Damaged Cog
02. The Abysmal Eye
03. Gentle The Shortening Fuse
04. Phantoms
05. Ligature Marks
06. God He Sees In Mirrors
07. They Transfer Under
08. Kaleidoscope
09. Black Cathedral
10. I Am That Thirst
11. The Faultless
12. Armies Of The Preposterous
13. Previous Tense
MESHUGGAH is:
Jens Kidman – Vocals
Mårten Hagström – Guitars
Dick Lövgren – Bass
Fredrik Thordendal – Guitars
Tomas Haake – Drums
