Kevin Zetina is a passionate performer, composer, and arranger of all things contemporary whether it be performing seminal works of the last century, premiering or writing brand new works, or arranging popular music for contemporary classical ensembles. As a percussionist, he has performed with members of Eighth Blackbird, Ensemble Signal, the JACK Quartet, and the Bang on a Can All-Stars. Kevin currently serves as Lecturer of Percussion at the University of Tennessee Knoxville where he teaches applied lessons, Percussion Methods, and directs the UT Chamber Percussion Ensemble. He champions a diverse array of contemporary music through his position by programming everything from Caroline Shaw to Animal Collective. Kevin holds a BM from the Eastman School of Music with the Howard Hanson Scholarship where he studied with Michael Burritt, and he earned his MM and MMA degrees from Yale University as a Havemeyer Scholarship recipient under Robert van Sice.
This brings out the meditative aspect of Meshuggah's music. I could imagine this being played in a temple in Java somewhere. Incredible cover! Such devotion.
Meshuggah is not a metal band. Meshuggah is a avantgarde jazz camouflaged as metal. Hearing jazz musicians playing Meshuggah simply just sounds like straight up jazz. I love it!
the three guys in the front all look like me with different amounts of beard and it's weirding me out lol, i wish i was as good at mallets as any of them though
This is one of the most authentic Meshuggah cover I ever heard. 5:44 gave me goosebumps and solo part what was an impressive interpretation is that 🤯 and after that 7:50 I couldn’t hold myself to headbang. Outro was amazing also. How talented you are guys, I wish I was there. I would be very glad to see more Meshuggah cover from you. Just hats off 👏🏻
This is one of my all-time favourite videos on RU-vid. Such an incredible cover, and when the piano kicks in at 7 minutes you can see this palpable air of 'we did it'. Very inspiring - I hope everyone in that room felt proud of what they achieved, this is an amazing accomplishment.
I suspect that Kevin is the original Meshuggah fan here, but it would be fun to know if any of the others like the band, song or even gave it a listen :P Very impressive!