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MESHUGGAHHHHHHH!!!

 Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 at 12:00pm by

Two bits of Meshuggah news today. First, an interview with the intrepid, strapping young lads of Metal Injection in which drummer Thomas Haake shares his thoughts on the cult status of the “Meshuggahhhhhhh!!!” chants at concerts, his blase attitude about the supposed complexity of the band’s music that most of us mere peons struggle to understand, and the fact that a U.S. headline tour is tentatively scheduled for November. Yes!

Next, we have a spine-tingling trailer for the upcoming music video for “Bleed.” Holy fuck.

Meshuggah – Bleed

-VN

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  • http://www.myspace.com/evilsammy Sammy

    How does a man from Sweden speak with such perfect English and absolutely no accent? He even threw in the hated “what-not” throwaway term.

  • http://www.myspace.com/evilsammy Sammy

    I am happy that the developmentally disabled can get interviewing jobs.

  • http://www.metalinjection.net RobInjection

    Its not a job if you don’t get paid.

  • http://www.myspace.com/evilsammy Sammy

    :) Good point Rob. As always, I was just kidding (aka, being a smart ass).

  • http://www.sithomeandrot.com/celebs/ manny

    I love Meshuggah, but the whole ‘they are mindboggling technical’ thing is quite overdone. I mean, they write songs in odd meters. That’s pretty much the extent of it. People have been doing that in music for over 500 years. I think it’s mostly cause most rock fans (of all it’s permutations) have gotten so accustomed to straight 4/4 time that an odd meter (other than 3/4) sounds mind boggling.
    Anyone who listens to Jazz and early 20th century classical has pretty much heard it all before.

  • http://www.Myspace.com/Miksha Fritz!

    Yeah! Looks like we’re geting a propper video from Meshuggah, i have been waiting for that for a long time. Not that i did’nt enjoy the funny self made ones, but it will be nice to see something more fiting to the feel of their music.
    And Manny, i really agree with you on the technical stuff. There is way to much focus on what’s hard to play, and not what sounds good. Don’t get me wrong, I can also get fascinated from time to time about what people can do on their instruments, but in the end it’s music we’re talking about, not sports! If you want technincal abilities the olympics are coming up pretty soon.

  • http://untilsheshines.blogspot.com/ Christopher

    Me and my friend were talking not to long ago about how Meshuggah have one of the best band names to yell.

  • Nick

    heres a band better than Meshuggay:

  • Nick