Meshuggah discography
Meshuggah performing live in 2008
Studio albums9
Live albums2
Compilation albums1
Music videos12
EPs6

Meshuggah is a Swedish extreme metal band formed in 1987 in Umeå. Meshuggah is known for its use of extended polymetric passages, complex time signatures, dissonant guitar riffs, and harsh vocals. As of 2008, the band consists of vocalist Jens Kidman, guitarists Fredrik Thordendal and Mårten Hagström, bassist Dick Lövgren and drummer Tomas Haake.

Meshuggah's first release was a 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 were released by local record store Garageland in Umeå.[2] After signing to German heavy metal record label Nuclear Blast, Meshuggah released its debut album Contradictions Collapse in 1991. Meshuggah's second album, Destroy Erase Improve, was released in 1995.

Thordendal's side project's album, Sol Niger Within, was released in 1997, as was the next Meshuggah EP, The True Human Design. These were followed by the next full-length album, Chaosphere, in 1998.

A collection of demos (from Meshuggah) and rare recordings were released as the Rare Trax album in 2001.[3] In 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 that features the band's appearance at the Download 2005 festival, along with the official music videos for "Rational Gaze", "Shed" and "New Millennium Cyanide Christ".[5] Meshuggah released I in 2004, a single 21-minute track,[6] and in 2005 the band released the next full-length album, Catch Thirtythree, a 47-minute song divided up into 13 movements,[7][8] the only album with programmed drums.[9] In 2008, Meshuggah released obZen, followed by Koloss in 2012[1] and The Violent Sleep of Reason in 2016. Their newest album, Immutable, was released in 2022.

Studio albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales
SWE
[10]		 FIN
[11]		 FRA
[12]		 GER
[13]		 JPN
[14]		 NOR
[15]		 SWI
[16]		 UK
[17]		 US
[18]		 US
Ind.
[18]
Contradictions Collapse — — — — — — — — — —
Destroy Erase Improve
  • Released: May 12, 1995
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL
 43 — — — — — — — — —
Chaosphere
  • Released: November 9, 1998
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL
 — — — — — — — — — —
Nothing
  • Released: August 6, 2002
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL
 41 — — — — — — — 165 10
Catch Thirtythree
  • Released: May 31, 2005
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, LP, DL
 12 — 41 — — — — — 170 13
obZen
  • Released: March 7, 2008
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, LP, DL
 16 21 23 — 177 — 11 151 59 —
Koloss
  • Released: March 27, 2012
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, LP, DL
 12 7 20 48 88 19 39 93 17 2
The Violent Sleep of Reason
  • Released: October 7, 2016
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, LP, DL
 17 11 75
[24]		 18 79 — 21 32 17 3
Immutable
  • Released: April 1, 2022
  • Label: Atomic Fire
  • Formats: CD, LP, DL
 3
[25]		 6
[26]		 74
[27]		 6 106 — 6 38 115
[28]		 15
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Live albums

Title Album details Peak chart positions Sales
SWE
[10]		 FRA
[12]		 GRC
[29]
Alive
  • Released: February 5, 2010
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, LP, DVD, DL
 43 149 25
The Ophidian Trek
  • Released: September 26, 2014
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, DVD, BD
 — — —
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Compilation albums

Title Album details
Rare Trax
  • Released: August 21, 2001
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, DL

EPs

Title EP details Peak chart positions
SWE
[10]
Meshuggah
  • Released: February 1989
  • Label: Garageland
 —
None
  • Released: November 8, 1994
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
 —
Selfcaged
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
 —
The True Human Design
  • Released: August 19, 1997
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
 —
I 33
Pitch Black —
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart.

Music videos

Song Year Director(s)
"Abnegating Cecity" 1991 Meshuggah
"Transfixion" 1995
"Terminal Illusions"
"New Millennium Cyanide Christ" 1999
"Rational Gaze" 2002 Torbjorn Oyervold
"Shed" 2005 Matthias Haase
"Rational Gaze"
(Mr. Kidman Delirium Version)		 2006 Jens Kidman
"Bleed" 2008 Ian McFarland
Mike Pecci
"Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion" 2012 Owe Lingvall
"Demiurge" Anthony Dubois[31]
"I Am Colossus" 2013 Magnus Jonsson[32]
"Clockworks" 2016 Julius Horsthuis[33]
"The Abysmal Eye" 2022 Scott Hansen
"I Am That Thirst"

References

  1. 1 2 3 Ankeny, Jason; Torreano, Bradley. "Meshuggah Biography". AllMusic. Retrieved May 11, 2008.
  2. 1 2 "Meshuggah - 1989". www.meshuggah.net. Archived from the original on April 21, 2008. Retrieved May 11, 2008.
  3. ↑ Espn. "A short biography". meshuggah.net. Archived from the original on May 13, 2007. Retrieved May 16, 2007.
  4. ↑ Adrien Begrand. "Nothing (Special Edition)". PopMatters. Retrieved June 10, 2008.
  5. ↑ "MESHUGGAH: 'Nothing' Re-Release Track Listing Revealed". Blabbermouth.net. Archived from the original on December 26, 2008. Retrieved June 8, 2008.
  6. ↑ "I - 2004". www.meshuggah.net. Retrieved May 11, 2008.
  7. ↑ Bowar, Chad. "Meshuggah - ObZen". About.com: Heavy Metal. Archived from the original on March 18, 2008. Retrieved October 9, 2007.
  8. ↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Catch Thirty-Three review". Allmusic. Retrieved June 10, 2008.
  9. ↑ "Meshuggah". Nuclear Blast. Archived from the original on May 10, 2008. Retrieved June 10, 2008.
  10. 1 2 3 "Discography Meshuggah". Hung Medien. Retrieved June 6, 2008.
  11. ↑ "Discography Meshuggah". Hung Medien. Retrieved June 6, 2008.
  12. 1 2 "Discography Meshuggah" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved June 6, 2008.
  13. ↑ "Discographie von Meshuggah". offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved 7 April 2022.
  14. ↑ "Oricon: Meshuggah CD". Oricon. Retrieved April 20, 2022.
    "Oricon: Meshuggah DVD". Oricon. Retrieved April 20, 2022.
  15. ↑ "Discography Meshuggah". Hung Medien. Archived from the original on September 27, 2016. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
  16. ↑ "Discography Meshuggah". Hung Medien. Retrieved June 6, 2008.
  17. ↑ Peak chart positions for albums in the UK
  18. 1 2 Peak chart positions in the United States:
  19. ↑ "Sludge Scans For September 2002". www.metalsludge.tv. Archived from the original on July 29, 2014. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
  20. ↑ "Metal/Hard Rock Album Sales In The US As Reported By SoundScan". Blabbermouth.net. 30 April 2002. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
  21. 1 2 "MESHUGGAH: 'Shed' Video Posted Online". Blabbermouth.net. 28 June 2005. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
  22. ↑ "MESHUGGAH - Announce Vinyl Reissues!". www.nuclearblast.com. Retrieved 2022-12-24.
  23. ↑ "Meshuggah: Northa American 2013 Tour Announced". axisofmetal.com. Archived from the original on July 26, 2014. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
  24. ↑ "Le Top de la semaine : Top Albums Fusionnes - SNEP (Week 41, 2016)" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. 10 June 2013. Retrieved October 18, 2016.
  25. ↑ "Veckolista Album, vecka 14". Sverigetopplistan. Retrieved April 8, 2022.
  26. ↑ "Albumit 14/2022" (in Finnish). Musiikkituottajat. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
  27. ↑ "Top Albums (Week 14, 2022)" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
  28. ↑ @billboardcharts (April 11, 2022). "Debuts on this week's #Billboard200:..." (Tweet). Retrieved April 12, 2022 – via Twitter.
  29. ↑ "Discography Meshuggah". Hung Medien. Archived from the original on January 24, 2013. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
  30. ↑ "MESHUGGAH DVD Director Interviewed; Audio Available". Blabbermouth.net. 28 February 2010. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
  31. ↑ "MESHUGGAH: 'Demiurge' Video Released". Blabbermouth.net. 22 October 2012. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
  32. ↑ "MESHUGGAH: 'I Am Colossus' Video Released". Blabbermouth.net. 4 April 2013. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
  33. ↑ "MESHUGGAH - Clockworks (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)". Nuclear Blast Records. Retrieved October 7, 2016.

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