As the old guy, my first thought was how lame the crowd is just standing there while they're being pummeled by a thunderous freight train of punishing sound instead losing their fucking minds in an insane pit....and then I remembered this was 2016 and not 1996. Them Swedes are just as ferocious as they were when I first heard them back then.
Meshuggah is one of those few bands where their longest lived, earliest, OG, "true" fans, from way back in the late 80's early 90's, these fans do NOT, as fans of other metal bands usually do, say things like "man, Meshuggah lost their edge", "latest album is uninspired/not heavy enough/thrown together", "'Shuggah sold out!", or just "I like the old shit but the new stuff is too this or that". They have gotten so much better at crafting their brutal artworks with EVERY album, no question. Well that's my opinion, people of course will have their favorites and I believe Obzen is considered #1 and some older shit is considered their most popular or best selling after that, DEI being 2n'd, then Nothing and Chaosphere, but I don't know anyone who was an early fan who thinks Meshuggah went in a "wrong direction" or "got less heavy/brutal/metal/pussyfied, etc" in any way, aside from one guy I know who was into 80's thrash since way back, like early Exodus and shit, who liked all Meshuggah's albums up through Chaosphere. He told me around the time right after Nothing came out, he thought the guitars were "muddy and slimy sounding, and it's too slow maaan", he didn't get it, said the guitars were "like Korn/nu metal", "too slow and odd timed", "no fast double kick drums" "etc etc etc". There are plenty of people who don't like the new shit I'm sure but it's not like with some other bands from way back in the day that put out new music that just seems to have lost that "magic" that the band once had. Meshuggah has fine tuned their magic and continues to do so.
My favourite album is destroy erase improve. Cause his voice was not so destroyed like nowadays. Did you see this little old meshuggah in the studio video, when he was screaming in the mic like he was possesd... And thats what he is fucking doing in the song soul burn. Really intense... But im also completly fine like they sound now and yeah i love "nothing" and "violent sleep of reason" also. I'am trully a fan... And i will see them this year in december here in Berlin Germany. I've never felt so much anticipation in my life befor. Also for the coming album. Cause you know they cannot completly fail with it... like you said.
@@xxxSpite1xxx Haha yeah I saw that vid clip of Jens screaming his head off. He's such a god damn legend lol. DEI might be my fav record of theirs, it's hard to judge, it changes. Can't wait to hear the new one.
It's true, Meshuggah definitely changed a lot. But instead of being a watered down version of their old sound they just created something totally new and equally badass.
Jens is definitely better some shows more than others. I notice sometimes he does his more monotone screams, other times hes practically singing but with vocal distortion. The Japanese show from the Alive DVD is the best example of him at his best. I guess that shit is impossible to keep up night after night
Okay smartass. So why don't you prescribe a vocal style that more fits this band's instrumentals, hmm? Prescribe a vocal style that works in tandem with each of their songs as another rythmic instrument *BUT DOESN'T* "outshine" the other instruments themselves, i.e making IT the focus rather than the song. And should I remind you, Jens is pushing *PAST* his *mid-50s* , the guy's still belting it out like a beast even after suffering massive damage to his vocal cords (2016), to the point that he couldn't even whisper, and arguably this makes him now much more awe-inspiring than any other vocalists out there.
@@horseradish4046 no the lights are actually played in real time by a guy. There are a couple of videos about him on youtube. Even a couple of fuckups during older live shows
I think about that a lot lol. I feel like there's a lot of metal bands that if i was thrown on stage i could fake my way through most of the songs. With this shit I wouldn't last 8 bars
