MESHUGGAH Releases New Single ‘I Am That Thirst’
Swedish extreme tech-metal pioneers MESHUGGAH have launched “I Am That Thirst”, the second single from their upcoming ninth studio album, “Immutable”. – Commercial – Due on April 1 by Atomic Fire, the follow-up to 2016’s “The Violent Sleep Of Trigger” was recorded at Sweetspot Studios in Halmstad, Sweden; blended by Rickard Bengtsson and Staffan Karlsson;…
Swedish extreme tech-metal pioneers MESHUGGAH have launched “I Am That Thirst”, the second single from their upcoming ninth studio album, “Immutable”.
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Due on April 1 by Atomic Fire, the follow-up to 2016’s “The Violent Sleep Of Trigger” was recorded at Sweetspot Studios in Halmstad, Sweden; blended by Rickard Bengtsson and Staffan Karlsson; and mastered by a variety of Grammy Award winner Vlado Meller (METALLICA, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, SYSTEM OF A DOWN). Visionary artist Luminokaya as quickly as as soon as extra created the attractive cowl artwork work.
Filled with surprises and however instantly recognizable as a result of the work of metal’s most idiosyncratic strain, “Immutable” redefines and redesigns the MESHUGGAH sound all through higher than an hour of basically essentially the most stimulating and absorbing music the band has ever made. Whatever the challenges of the ultimate couple of years, the progressive concepts which have always educated their ingenious efforts keep as cherished as ever. As we spiral within the course of a dystopian future, MESHUGGAH nonetheless stand alone.
For guitarist Mårten Hagström, the obligation of embarking on one different unprecedented tech-metal odyssey was unattainable to resist. “For us, it wasn’t all that clear that we have now been making a model new album,” he talked about. “We knew we could do it, nevertheless did we have to do it? We would have liked to find out, are we doing this or what else are we doing? After an prolonged, prolonged dialogue, we agreed on certain points. We would make an album with as few restraints as doable. We would go in and try and make as cool an album as doable, don’t have any nervousness about it and see it as a chance. How can we make this an issue that we actually really feel like accepting and rising as a lot as? Pretty quickly we had a kick off point. All folks started to jot down, the ball started rolling and instantly we have now been sitting there, discussing what variety of songs we have now been going to have to cut.”
Regarding the “Immutable” title, Hagström talked about: “The title matches utterly for the place we’re as a band. We’re older now. Most of us are in our fifties now, and we have now settled into who we’re. Although we have now been experimenting all alongside, I moreover assume we have now been the equivalent since day one. The best way wherein we methodology points and why we nonetheless make new albums, and why we nonetheless sound the easiest way we do, it’s immutable. Humanity is immutable, too. We commit the equivalent errors repeatedly. And we’re immutable. We do what we do, and we don’t change.”
Primarily essentially the most ingenious and ingenious metal band of the ultimate 30 years and one of many extensively revered, MESHUGGAH has been regular bearers for forward-thinking creativity in heavy music all by their illustrious careers. Over the course of higher 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 Improve” to the psychedelic tech-splorations of “CatchyThirtyThree”, and on to the streamlined grotesquery of “ObZen” and “Koloss”, MESHUGGAH has always been means ahead of the game 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 loads of the downtime all through the COVID-19 pandemic engaged on latest supplies.
Regarding the musical path of the model new MESHUGGAH songs, Tomas talked about: “In any case, now we have now a certain framework that we nonetheless wanna sound like MESHUGGAH, we wanna have that signature sound, we wish of us to have the power to — even after they haven’t heard the music [before] — inside the best-case state of affairs, it’s, like, ‘Oh, that’s gotta be MESHUGGAH,’ even when it’s a mannequin new issue. So hopefully that’s one factor we’re aiming at. Nevertheless with that talked about, as far as the music goes, we try and [do] kind of the choice of what AC/DC has been doing for 40 years. So we’re not trying to jot down the equivalent album repeatedly. And whether or not or not we succeed with that or not, that’s further as a lot as our followers and totally different of us, nevertheless that’s positively the intention. We try our biggest to kind of uncover new grips all through the framework of what we’re imagined to be, I suppose. ‘Set off we don’t wanna really step out of that each. We’re not making an attempt to be one different band unexpectedly or one factor that we have now not been or that’s not true to kind of what we’re doing.”
“Immutable” monitor itemizing:
01. Broken Cog
02. The Abysmal Eye
03. Mild The Shortening Fuse
04. Phantoms
05. Ligature Marks
06. God He Sees In Mirrors
07. They Switch Below
08. Kaleidoscope
09. Black Cathedral
10. I Am That Thirst
11. The Faultless
12. Armies Of The Preposterous
13. Earlier Tense
MESHUGGAH is:
Jens Kidman – Vocals
Mårten Hagström – Guitars
Dick Lövgren – Bass
Fredrik Thordendal – Guitars
Tomas Haake – Drums