Building a Solid Metal Collection: Part 5 of 25

Meshuggah is on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine!!! Albeit its the Indian version, they still made the cover. I love how every country in the world respects metal except the United States. I'm not saying that heavy metal isn't relevant in the states, it just doesn't get the same amount of coverage as pop, hip hop and indie music. I get that tastes vary and usually are very trend oriented, but throw the little guys a bone once and a while. I'm glad Meshuggah is getting some recognition though. They've have been at it for a very long time.

Destroy, Erase, Improve was their second full length album and it was released in 1995. They've only released 7 albums since 1987 so you can see what kind of care and detail they put into writing their material. I would recommend all of them. Meshuggah is known as an extreme progressive metal band. Progressive metal is a hybrid of metal and progressive music like jazz fusion and classical. Meshuggah takes like offbeat drumming, odd time signatures and complex song structures and adds a huge does of brutality. These swedes create a very unique sound, that rarely gets replicated. You can say that they recently spawned a genre known as "djent," but their sound differs from everyone who imitates them.

Key tracks: No. 1 - Future Breed Machine, No. 6 - Acrid Placidity, and No. 9 - Suffer in Truth.

Album cover provided by amazon.com.