TAKE A LEAK: MESHUGGAH, obZen
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 at 8:26am by Axl Rosenberg
Well well well. This new offering from Meshuggah has been heavily anticipated, to put it mildly, and now it’s out there in the world, albeit not in an ideal, high quality download. In any case, if you just can’t wait to hear this puppy – and really, who can? – head over to the cleverly titled Metal Music Download for the download. And once you’ve given it a listen, let us know: does it live up to the hype?
-AR
Already broken :(
couldn’t ever like their stuff after Destroy Erase Improve, which is a monster of an album. and still can’t. to my ears all other albums sound the same, uninteresting and pretty generic. listened to obZen and erased it already.
“tiagón Says:
January 22nd, 2008 at 12:05 pm
couldn’t ever like their stuff after Destroy Erase Improve, which is a monster of an album. and still can’t. to my ears all other albums sound the same, uninteresting and pretty generic. listened to obZen and erased it already.”
You, sir, are a prick.
i havent heard but im sure these masters of what they do will not dissapint over eager fans-it should be hella good
the quality is bad and i still think its fuckin awesome. imagine how hard that shit would be to play for a whole song?! and i’m pretty sure thomas haake is still god…
the dude who said meshuggah is genaric is musically retarted. BTW the new album is fucking insane
Rapidshare took it off.
I haven’t listened to Meshuggah in like a year. Nice to see they’re puttin out some new stuff, I gotta check this out.
screw rapidshare!!! naw but im sure it was them complaining about it…that sucks for them but i do wanna hear it
Damn man, reupload that shit.
It’s still up:
Meshuggah / ObZen
[Download]
password: killthemusica.blogspot.com
The guy who said Meshuggah is ‘generic’ probably likes Springsteen.
Anybody who’s a musician (I’m a drummer) knows this is THE SHIT.
Sort (fuck); that didn’t work…
try this:
http://synthesiz.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/download-ilegal-meshuggah-obzen/
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so far this doesn’t live up the great meshuggah releases (I, Chaosphere, D/E/I, Nothing), but it kills Catch 33 and some of the riffs just make me lose my shit. Definitely worthy.
Get it NOW
It won’t be up for long, as Nuclear Blast is blowing all the links!
And HEY! a shitty 160kbps MP3 will tie you over till it comes out for real.
What’s wrong with Springsteen, herrstatan? Not tr00 enough?
I LIED:
This ObZen rip is actually 320kbps.
Sorry; I think Springsteen is ‘generic’ (I wasn’t actually slagging him)
Being a musician/music-whore for more than 35 years, I can find something interesting or inspired from almost anybody, even if it’s just their gear, location, subject-matter, hairstyle or tits
There aren’t REALLY any bad artists out there; just idiots who think they’re GOD, as that’s how they are ‘hyped’ or by the media and/or the industry.
The only true god is Terry Bozzio……there, I’m an idiot too.(hahahaha)
So far;
My only complaint with the new album is the production/mastering is kinda thin; ala Chaosphere. What’s the point of using 8-string gits tuned to C#, pumped through 300watt Line6 VettaII’s if it doesn’t throw my bass drivers across the room?
The drums are nice though. I’ve always had a soft-spot for bouncy ‘basketball EQ’ sounding kik-drums. Not to mention Sonor bubinga wood drums are among the best available.
My 2 cents brought to you by Starbucks and Bensen-Hedges.
Tomas Haake is amazing on this album.
And I second your thoughts on the Sonor drum sound, herrsatan.
Well; I’ve listened to it ‘OCD-style’ (on repeat for hours) about 40 times:
I’m not bored yet.
Now that I’ve ‘learned it’, I can hopefully play along with it!
The cat will love that…..my Ayotte kit is set-up in the kitchen.
This Album is amazing to say the least. Meshuggah is more technical and pushes the limits of music more than any other band out there. The whole album is an onslaught of hand-tiring picking, brutal heaviness, and amazing sounding drums. You guys are stupid fucks to think that this album is anything but great.
Only 5 or 6 of us think this album is GENIUS? (almost Super-Genius)
Shane;
the world is full of ’stupid fucks’ who like stupid fuck music on their stupid fuck boom stereos, watch stupid fuck TV, rent stupid fuck movies, eat stupid fuck fast food and drive stupid fuck cars while wearing their stupid fuck clothing that accentuates the stupid fuck lifestyles they have.
All these people should D/L this album, proceed to 3:03 of track 5 at 100db(concert-level) and SUFFER!
fuckin awesome definatley gonna buy when this hits stores. I’m no musician but meshuggah has ruined metal for me. The only metal band i am able to listen to is Meshuggah
Anybody knows if these drums are all programmed as they did with Catch 33?
Just curious…
Despite people bashing Meshuggah for their “generic” and “uninteresting” sound, they have paved the way for band’s that write chuga chuga, polyrythmic, disorienting, and off beat “breakdowns”. Yet a lot of these hardcore, metal-core, whatever other genre of metal you can think of-core don’t have any idea who Meshuggah is. They were a prominent band in Sweden when most of these people were still sucking on mommy’s tit (circa 1988), or still a sperm in some dudes scrot. You may not like them, and that is fine because we are all entitled to our own opinions. But you should give credit where it is due, if it weren’t for Meshuggah the metal community would not even be near where it is today.
No, this CD is really Haake playing instead of dfh, which I might add is a genius piece of software.
i don’t understand fans that are like “D/E/I is the best and everything after that is shit.” This band are the pioneers of tech metal, and this album shows it perfectly. The opening track is like funk that wants to make you kill people. Again this band shows me how fun music can be to listen to! GET THIS ALBUM NOW!!!!
Fuckin brilliant album!! It has to be their best offering in years, Back to having more dynamics, light and shade, more shade tho haha!! and awesome arrangements!! It’s Haake playing kit alright, but is it not sampled with the DFH?? I think it is…. Incredible sound and some of Tomas’s best playin…. Strong fuckin album…
And I agree with that other guy I cannot listen to any other metal band other than Meshuggah, no-one else lives up to them!! Favourite track is no 2!! Classic….
Ryan, you’re a fucktard. If you think Meshuggah is unoriginal then you’re fucking moronic and a waste of space. Meshuggah is one of the most original bands out there.
@Lee: DFH is still Tomas playing. DFH works like this: He has to hit the drum still. Thing is, he can hit it so slightly and it can produce a loud sound. That’s about all it does. He still plays on C33.
I already listened this album, and tell you that it’s AMAZING, GREAT!
It is worth to be listened!
After dl’ing a leek last night to give this album a shot, I’m hooked. It’s got some really strange dynamics in the riffing and kind of keeps going up and down throughout the album. Honestly, I’m liking this more than Chaosphere and that could be considered blasphemy by some. To the people that can’t get over an old sound, get a life. Bands have to evolve into their own in order to sound good. I’m glad that these guys don’t sound like tech metallica anymore; it’s more of a face ripping experiance like Cephalic Carnage now.
dl’d the torrent of it,it’s the best of the old and the new,i must have one of those 8-strings now!!!
People should except that meshuggah are one of those bands that tries something new and different from each of their albums
For those of you who hold DEI so high, I have nothing but sympathy for you having been there myself. I can still remember when I bought it (complete impulse buy…I liked the cover but had pretty much given up hope on hearing anything really “different”..just trying something new to “me”), cracked it open in my car, slapped it into my CD player, and experienced something akin to a pre-frontal lobe extraction through my ears!!!!! I think I finally exhaled somewhere around Soul Burn. Inhaled, and then forgot to breathe again until the end of the album!
Very few releases (American or otherwise) had captured me like that, so instantly and completely. Anthrax-Persistence of Time, NIN-The Downward Spiral, Slayer-Reign in Blood. As a matter of fact I didn’t even like Chaosphere all that much until I REALLY listened to it. Suddenly it all made sense, and I then listened to it for months… Nothing wasn’t a disappointment, but it wasn’t my favorite album…again until I really LISTENED TO IT. I realized that, I was expecting another DEI, and this band just doesn’t do that, they break a wall down, and they keep on going! Most bands look back and say, “that worked, lets do that again on our next album”. Meshuggah says, “wow, that was cool, I am bored with it now, lets do something completely different and new and really fuck with their heads!!!”
Some would call it brainwashing oneself into liking something. Personally I see it as, I’d hear it, like it, listen to something else, find it so disappointing that I’d go back to Meshuggah, repeat, repeat, repeat until the next Meshuggah release!!! There are a very few bands I do this with, but not many. Meshuggah destroyed, erased, and (I think) improved my standards of what I can expect from a Metal band. Sometimes I wish they hadn’t, then I could listen to everyday radio without wanting to chuck my stereo on the way to work!
-Oz
Meshuggah’s new album is amazing! Bleed, the free single, is just insane. buy obZen.
I finally remastered the last album I recorded.
It’s Instrumental Progressive Metal
(sorta like Melvins/Meshuggah/Pelican/Isis)
GRK – 2 Brains Of The Goat(2004)RM FLAC 214.9mb.rar
Link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/w1a3lz
Ozlanthos! You took the words from my mouth! Simply the best formulated description of a bands history.
Been listening to the stream from the band’s myspace page.
I honestly think anybody who doesn’t think ObZen is a masterpiece has something wrong with them. It’s fucking brilliant.
The album is amazing. It’s nice reflection of past albums with a dose of some pretty heavy yet melodic characteristics. I’m glad Tomas is back on the kit, since Catch 33, where the used “the drumkit from hell” program.
Pick it up.
And grow some.
:)
absolutely killer. go out and buy the cd and crank “Bleed” through your sub – more effective than a pot of hot coffee in the morning
Meshuggah is my favorite band, I’m excited to see them for the first time on April 18th in Houston, Texas. I may be goin by myself which sucks, cause I don’t know or have friends that listen to the same type of music as me, partly cause imma black dude and all my friends are black. I think i need some white friends, lol. the new album is fuckin awesome nonetheless. if there is anyone from Houston that is goin to tha concert who needs someone to go wit or would like to include me hit me up, http://www.myspace.com/chris_tsst
I just picked this up at the local music store on Friday. I’ve honestly listened to it for 20 hours over the weekend. I can’t put the Ipod down, I can’t sleep and my family has probably put out a search part for me.
I’ve just starting listening to MESHUGGAH
Sorry, clicked on the submit button to early. Anyway, I really just started listening to MESHUGGAH about a half a year ago. In 2001 I was able to see them live at a TOOL concert. I really wish I would have investigated these guys back then. With that said, this album is freaking amazing. I can’t bring the words out of my tired blown mind right now to describe it. The only thing I can really honestly say is that I’m very grateful these guys are putting out awesome music that gives me ear-orgasims every time I listen to their music.
I, being a drummer myself, find more often then not that drummers appreciate meshuggah more so then guitarists. This albums amazing they’ve gone outside there normal parameters but kept it true to themselves. They’ve really mastered their genre. The fact that they speed things up a bit like the song “bleed”, very reminiscent of “war”, 7 minutes of all out brutal speed and control, really appeals to the new wave of death and tech metal thats 250 bpm + and rising. Sure the stuff sounds like previous albums but thats there niche keeping it the same but so very different.
i personally love this album i recommend it to fans but is till think destroy erase improve is a great introduction there “steeze” great album 9 out of 10
trilogique,
Have you ever used or seen DKFH?
Sure theyre samples of Haake’s Sonar kit but its not him playing.
Go open grooves and see for yourself, open the piano roll window and create your own! That is what DKFH is. Not what you think: (hitting the drums softly and then turning up the velocity later.. whats the point in that? Haake;s neighbors gettin mad at the noise? If he were to use DKFH now, and play it physically, it would be done on an electric kit with the sounds patched in, like the Morgan Agren dvd excerpt.
Anyways, im still lookin for a link to an official Meshuggah site or somethin stating it is Haake plying drums on this album. I know he CAN but why would he when the ultimate tool is right there in front of him thats worked so well in the past?
why do people keep moaning about dfh on catch 33?? If nobody told you, you wouldn’t know any different – it sounds exactly like a drumkit
I used to hate c33, but it is without doubt their finest album. I didn’t listen to it for about 7 months, but thought I’d give it another go. Listen to its entirety a couple of times and the insaneness of the riffs will twist your head.
People who continuously go on about DEI – it was a great album, but Meshuggah’s song writing has evolved so much since those days.
As for this album, every song is different from the last, showcasing their songwriting more than their technical ability, even though it reduces all other bands to ineffective pointlessness
i have to say that this album is fucking awesome. if you are a real metal head, you will appreciate this. perhaps all you losers who trash this band should find a new style of music to listen to like boy/girl bands like Brittany fucking spears.
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Panultimate Meshuggah
Classic Album up there with Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life :-)
lol wut
Obzen is bad as fuck….one of their best. Way better than catch 33