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Meshuggah discography
Fredrik Thordendal playing his eight-string guitar with Meshuggah in Stockholm, Sweden on May 20, 2005.
Studio albums6
Compilation albums1
Music videos5
EPs5
Soundtrack albums3

Meshuggah is a five-piece experimental metal band formed in 1987 on Umeå, Sweden. The band is known for their use of extended polymetric passages, complex time signatures, dissonant guitar riffs, and harsh vocals. Currently the band consists of Jens Kidman (vocals), Fredrik Thordendal (lead guitar), Mårten Hagström (rhythm guitar), Dick Lövgren (bass) and Tomas Haake (drums). Meshuggah has released six studio albums, one compilation album and five extended plays. This list does not include material performed by members of Meshuggah that was recorded with Charta 77, Last Tribe, Armageddon, Time Requiem, Non-Human Level, Cromlech and Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects.

Meshuggah's first release was self-titled three-song 12" vinyl EP Meshuggah, which is commonly known as Psykisk Testbild, although that title is not printed anywhere.[1][2] Only 1000 copies have been released by local record store Garageland in Umeå.[2] After signing to German heavy metal record label Nuclear Blast, Meshuggah released their debut album Contradictions Collapse in 1991. Their second album Destroy Erase Improve appeared in 1995. Thordendal's sideproject's album Sol Niger Within was released in 1997, as well as the next EP The True Human Design, which was followed by the next full-length album Chaosphere in 1998.

A collection of demos (from the Psykisk Testbild EP) and rare recordings were released as the Rare Trax album in 2001.[3] In summer 2002 the band released their next album Nothing.[1] Meshuggah was not satisfied with the production of the album and later re-recorded the guitars for the re-release in 2006,[4] which also includes a bonus DVD featuring the band's appearance at the Download 2005 festival and the official music videos of "Rational Gaze", "Shed" and "New Millennium Cyanide Christ".[5] In 2004 Meshuggah released I EP, one single 21-minute track[6] and in 2005 the next full-length album Catch Thirtythree, one 47-minute song divided up into 13 sections,[7][8] the only album with programmed drums.[9] Meshuggah's last release is 2008's obZen.[1]

Studio albums

Year Album details Peak chart positions
SWE
[10] 		FIN
[11] 		FRA
[12] 		SWI
[13] 		US
[14] 		US Heat.
[14] 		US Ind.
[14]
1991 Contradictions Collapse — — — — — — —
1995 Destroy Erase Improve
  • Released: 25 July 1995
  • Label: Nuclear Blast (NB #121-2)
  • Format: CD, LP
 43 — — — — — —
1998 Chaosphere — — — — — — —
2002 Nothing 41 — — — 165 — 10
2005 Catch Thirtythree
  • Released: 16 May 2005
  • Label: Nuclear Blast (NB #1311-2)
  • Format: CD
 12 — 124 — 170 7 13
2008 obZen
  • Released: 7 March 2008
  • Label: Nuclear Blast (NB #1937-2)
  • Format: CD
 16 21 123 99 59 — —
"—" denotes a release that did not chart.

Compilations

Year Album details
2001 Rare Trax
  • Released: 21 August 2001
  • Label: Nuclear Blast (NB #605-2)
  • Format: CD

Extended plays

Year Album details
1989 Psykisk Testbild
  • Released: 1989
  • Label: Garageland (BF #634)
  • Format: LP
1994 None
1995 Selfcaged
  • Released: 1995
  • Label: Nuclear Blast (NB #132-2)
  • Format: CD
1997 The True Human Design
  • Released: 19 August 1997
  • Label: Nuclear Blast (NB #268-2)
  • Format: CD
2004 I[I]
  • Released: 13 July 2004
  • Label: Fractured Transmitter (FTRCD #001)
  • Format: CD

^ I Appeared on the Swedish charts at #33.[10]

Music videos

Year Title Director(s)
1995 "Terminal Illusions" Meshuggah
1999 "New Millennium Cyanide Christ" Meshuggah
2002 "Rational Gaze" Torbjorn Oyervold
2005 "Shed" Matthias Haase
2008 "Bleed" Mike Pecci, Ian McFarland

Soundtracks

Year Song Soundtrack
2003 "Rational Gaze"[15] The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Album
2005 "Rational Gaze"[16] Alone in the Dark
2006 "Shed"[17] Saw III

References

  1. ^ a b c Jason Ankeny and Bradley Torreano. "Meshuggah Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-05-11.
  2. ^ a b "Meshuggah - 1989". www.meshuggah.net. Retrieved 2008-05-11. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  3. ^ Espn. "A short biography". www.meshuggah.net. Retrieved 2007-05-16. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  4. ^ Adrien Begrand. "Nothing (Special Edition)". PopMatters. Retrieved 2008-06-10.
  5. ^ "MESHUGGAH: 'Nothing' Re-Release Track Listing Revealed". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved 2008-06-08.
  6. ^ "I - 2004". www.meshuggah.net. Retrieved 2008-05-11. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  7. ^ Chad Bowar. "Meshuggah - ObZen". About.com:Heavy Metal. Retrieved 2007-10-09.
  8. ^ Eduardo Rivadavia. "Catch Thirty-Three review". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-06-10.
  9. ^ "Meshuggah". Nuclear Blast. Retrieved 2008-06-10.
  10. ^ a b "Discography Meshuggah" (in Swedish). Swedish charts. Retrieved 2008-06-06.
  11. ^ "Discography Meshuggah" (in Finnish). Finnish charts. Retrieved 2008-06-06.
  12. ^ "Discography Meshuggah" (in French). French charts. Retrieved 2008-06-06.
  13. ^ "Discography Meshuggah" (in German). Swiss charts. Retrieved 2008-06-06.
  14. ^ a b c "Artist Chart History - Meshuggah". Billboard charts. Retrieved 2008-06-06.
  15. ^ "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Album (Original Soundtrack)". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-07-03.
  16. ^ "Alone in the Dark (Original Soundtrack)". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-07-03.
  17. ^ "Saw 3 (Original Soundtrack)". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-07-03.
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