Comments on: TAKE A LEAK: MESHUGGAH, obZen

By: peter frampton

peter frampton — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 09:27:59 +0000

Obzen is bad as fuck….one of their best. Way better than catch 33

By: Yup

Yup — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:35:28 +0000

lol wut

By: Mr-Yellow

Mr-Yellow — Thu, 08 May 2008 03:58:40 +0000

Panultimate Meshuggah

Classic Album up there with Stevie Wonder – Songs in the Key of Life :-)

By: who the fuck cares

who the fuck cares — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:31:39 +0000

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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By: Krap

Krap — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:36:38 +0000

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

By: Paul W

Paul W — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:34:19 +0000

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?

By: stupid poop

stupid poop — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:34:18 +0000

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

By: m@dm@x

m@dm@x — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:41:40 +0000

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.

By: m@dm@x

m@dm@x — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 01:35:45 +0000

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

By: chris_tsst

chris_tsst — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:58:53 +0000

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

By: futurebreedmachine

futurebreedmachine — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:38:35 +0000

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

By: thewall2813

thewall2813 — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:26:40 +0000

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.
:)

By: Bobjones

Bobjones — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 07:37:35 +0000

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.

By: CrowBar

CrowBar — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:56:38 +0000

Ozlanthos! You took the words from my mouth! Simply the best formulated description of a bands history.

By: herrsatan

herrsatan — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 07:13:00 +0000

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

By: BloodCore

BloodCore — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:00:09 +0000

Meshuggah’s new album is amazing! Bleed, the free single, is just insane. buy obZen.

By: Ozlanthos

Ozlanthos — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 21:35:05 +0000

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

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:10:40 +0000

People should except that meshuggah are one of those bands that tries something new and different from each of their albums

By: harrymanbach

harrymanbach — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:41:21 +0000

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!!!

By: knaustalgia

knaustalgia — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:48:32 +0000

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.