Monday, 3 February 2014

Meshuggah to celebrate a quarter century of deviance


Influential Swedish metallers Meshuggah have hinted at plans for some special releases and events to celebrate their 25th Anniversary... 'You try to wrap your head around it but comprehension fails - it's been twenty five years since the first official MESHUGGAH release!!! The self-titled (though often referred to as 'Psykisk testbild') EP came out on theInfluential Swedish metallers Meshuggah have hinted at plans for some special releases and events to celebrate their 25th Anniversary… 'You try to wrap your head around it but comprehension fails – it's been twenty five years since the first official MESHUGGAH release!!! The self-titled (though often referred to as 'Psykisk testbild') EP came out on the small local Umeå label Garageland Records in 1989, making 2014 the big TWO FIVE for the band!! Holy s**t!! Who would have thought huh!?  – That our small group of young guys would get to – not only write and record our own quirky, deviant style of metal – but that we would still be doing it a quarter century later, making our living off of what we love to do!! Now in our forties we can't but look back at it jaw dropped and baffled at the fact!!' comments Tomas Haake, Meshuggah. He continues; 'We always set out to do something new, something different from the music we heard around us – something that would be a challenge to ourselves to write, learn and perform. Something truly unique. Looking back at our career we feel that we have actually been successful in doing [...]

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