Saw Meshuggah for the first time

JimmyPaeg · Post by **JimmyPaeg** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 4:07 pm

I'm not a religious person by any means, but it was a friggen spiritual experience

Jens had lost his voice and was unable to sing for the last couple of weeks so they had been playing instrumental sets with a cardboard cutout of him.

Fortunately he was feeling well enough to be able to perform, and even though his voice got a bit quieter as the show went on, I think the added rasp made up for it. In any case, he growled his guts out.

Listening to them on a record is awesome, but live the amount of power that's behind those low notes is incredible. You don't hear them, you feel them in your chest.

They're tight as fuck too. Literally not a single bad note. They have a great light show. I think they trigger the lights with Thomas' kick drum triggers so it's totally in synch.

Its unbelievable the way they craft a sound that is simultaneously very primitive and yet so machinelike and selfconsciously modern.

KCTigerChief · Post by **KCTigerChief** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 4:10 pm

JimmyPaeg wrote:I'm not a religious person by any means, but it was a friggen spiritual experience

Jens had lost his voice and was unable to sing for the last couple of weeks so they had been playing instrumental sets with a cardboard cutout of him.

Fortunately he was feeling well enough to be able to perform, and even though his voice got a bit quieter as the show went on, I think the added rasp made up for it. In any case, he growled his guts out.

Listening to them on a record is awesome, but live the amount of power that's behind those low notes is incredible. You don't hear them, you feel them in your chest.

They're tight as fuck too. Literally not a single bad note. They have a great light show. I think they trigger the lights with Thomas' kick drum triggers so it's totally in synch.

Its unbelievable the way they craft a sound that is simultaneously very primitive and yet so machinelike and selfconsciously modern.

I dig me some meshuggah...Rhythmically those guys are geniuses...Most of their songs would make fantastic right hand technique exercises.

I can only listen to a song or two of their albums at a time anymore though

thefyn · Post by **thefyn** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 4:17 pm

I had never heard of them and saw them at Ozfest yeeeeears ago. I was amazed...

Statutory Gape · Post by **Statutory Gape** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 4:18 pm

I remember when they toured with SYL.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA7Rk1UlXcg[/video]

Devin · Post by **Devin** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 5:11 pm

Statutory Gape wrote:I remember when they toured with SYL.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA7Rk1UlXcg[/video]

I saw that tour in San Antonio :love:

To this day it remains one of the best live shows I've ever seen. :rawk:

I got to meet all the dudes except Dev :cry:

I have a bunch of pics from that show

I like this one :lol:

Norton666 · Post by **Norton666** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 5:12 pm

I saw them live twice and both times they bored me to tears.

Yarbicus · Post by **Yarbicus** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 5:14 pm

I saw them on the Clash of the Titans tour with Alice in Chain, Anthrax, and Megadeth. Slayer blew everyone else away. Megadeth was on the Rust in Peace tour and were awesome but Slayer was more fun.

ovid9 · Post by **ovid9** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 5:28 pm

I caught them earlier this year in Chicago. They were pretty amazing live. Its mindcrushing the stuff they do for a WHOLE FREAKING SET not just a couple of songs.

I'm super glad I got to see them, but once was enough unless the bill is really good. I just get overwhelmed after a certain point.

Wookieslayer · Post by **Wookieslayer** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 5:54 pm

RaceU4her · Post by **RaceU4her** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 7:58 pm

they are among the best live bands ive ever seen.

FeelsGoodMan.jpg · Post by **FeelsGoodMan.jpg** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 8:37 pm

Saw them live with Decapitated, and Baroness. It was mind blowingly heavy. Raddest live band I have ever heard love. It was friggin sick, son.

Dave Lister · Post by **Dave Lister** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 8:47 pm

I've only seen them once opening for Ministry. HEAVY AS FUCK :rawk:

ovid9 · Post by **ovid9** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 8:49 pm

FeelsGoodMan.jpg wrote:Saw them live with Decapitated, and Baroness. It was mind blowingly heavy. Raddest live band I have ever heard love. It was friggin sick, son.

Did Decapitated suck for your show too? When I saw them in Chicago I thought Decapitated was pretty bad. Granted, I'd recently caught a couple awesome death metal shows and seeing death metal at the HOB isn't an ideal setting, but it wasn't very inspiring.

FeelsGoodMan.jpg · Post by **FeelsGoodMan.jpg** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 10:18 pm

ovid9 wrote:
FeelsGoodMan.jpg wrote:Saw them live with Decapitated, and Baroness. It was mind blowingly heavy. Raddest live band I have ever heard love. It was friggin sick, son.

Did Decapitated suck for your show too? When I saw them in Chicago I thought Decapitated was pretty bad. Granted, I'd recently caught a couple awesome death metal shows and seeing death metal at the HOB isn't an ideal setting, but it wasn't very inspiring.

Nah man, it was the first show of the tour for the North American tour in 2012, and they were awesome as well. Lot's of energy.

ovid9 · Post by **ovid9** » Thu Feb 21, 2013 10:19 pm

FeelsGoodMan.jpg wrote:
Nah man, it was the first show of the tour for the North American tour in 2012, and they were awesome as well. Lot's of energy.

Glad they were good for you! I was excited to see them and then let down.

Orbis_Ignis · Post by **Orbis_Ignis** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 11:57 am

Not to get off topic, but what is their must have album? I have the newest one and like it.

RaceU4her · Post by **RaceU4her** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 12:14 pm

Orbis_Mortis wrote:Not to get off topic, but what is their must have album? I have the newest one and like it.

chaosphere and obzen would be my choices id say, but they are all completely different. you may like one album and not like the next at all

Orbis_Ignis · Post by **Orbis_Ignis** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 12:23 pm

Cool, thanks.

Devin · Post by **Devin** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 12:24 pm

Orbis_Mortis wrote:Not to get off topic, but what is their must have album? I have the newest one and like it.

For me it's Destroy Erase Improve

Chaosphere was great too - after that everything got too samey, IMO

K-Bizzle · Post by **K-Bizzle** » Fri Feb 22, 2013 1:06 pm

Going tonight.
So stoked.

JimmyPaeg · Post by **JimmyPaeg** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 2:02 am

On a related note, now that I've seen Animals as Leaders who were the opener, I can well and truly say: MEH!!

Sure, Tosin can play, but the songs have absolutely no sense of going anywhere. I was pretty bored.

travis bickle · Post by **travis bickle** » Sat Feb 23, 2013 7:59 am

hands down the best live metal band alive. i've seen them everytime they hit US shores for the exception of ozzfest, and when they toured with tool.

TyroneBiggums · Post by **TyroneBiggums** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 3:48 am

JimmyPaeg wrote:the songs have absolutely no sense of going anywhere. I was pretty bored.

Wait wait wait. This was posted in a Meshuggah thread, and NOT directed towards Meshuggah?

ovid9 · Post by **ovid9** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 11:40 am

TyroneBiggums wrote:
JimmyPaeg wrote:the songs have absolutely no sense of going anywhere. I was pretty bored.

Wait wait wait. This was posted in a Meshuggah thread, and NOT directed towards Meshuggah?

exafro · Post by **exafro** » Sun Feb 24, 2013 12:24 pm

Orbis_Mortis wrote:Not to get off topic, but what is their must have album? I have the newest one and like it.

Destroy Erase Improve is my favorite. It doesn't get as fatiguing as the other albums. AND it has Future Breed Machine, quite likely the best metal song ever written.

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