Koloss is such a groovy, phat, big open sounding record that once again shows some amazing song writing by Tomas Haake and the band!

Album: Nothing (Nuclear Blast; 2006) Artist: Meshuggah. All rights to Meshuggah & Nuclear Blast Records.

Meshuggah The Official Meshuggah Site. Brand new, eighth studio album, THE VIOLENT SLEEP OF REASON, out worldwide on October 7, 2016 via Nuclear Blast Records.

Meshuggah (/məˈʃʊɡə/) is a Swedish extreme metal band from Umeå, formed in 1987. Meshuggah's line-up consists of founding members vocalist Jens Kidman and lead guitarist Fredrik Thordendal, drummer Tomas Haake, who joined in 1990, rhythm guitarist Mårten Hagström, who joined in 1993 and bassist Dick Lövgren since 2004.

Meshuggah is a Swedish experimental metal and death metal quintet 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.

Tomas Haake says that fans shouldn't expect to see a new MESHUGGAH studio album from before "2020 at the earliest. The experimental Swedish metal group's last disc, "The Violent Sleep Of Reason", came out in 2016 and resulted in a "Best Metal Performance" Grammy nomination for the song "Clockworks"

Brand new, eighth album, The Violent Sleep of Reason, out worldwide via Nuclear Blast Records.

Such is Meshuggah's standard, that an album as monolithic as Koloss doesn't even crack their top five. All of the band's enviable qualities were there for all to see on Koloss, while the hulking Demiurge and sinister Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion saw them still striving to push metal further into new realms.

Meshuggah (1989) by Meshuggah. Genres: Thrash Metal. Songs: Cadaverous Mastication, Sovereignes Morbidity, The Debt of Nature. Members: Jens Kidman, Fredrik Thordendal, Peter Nordin, Niklas Lundgren.

MESHUGGAH have carved out their own niche as one of the most innovative and challenging extreme acts of our generation. Proudly cold and emotionless, this concept album without a concept with seemingly ess vocals had the feel of a philosophical journey through life and death, not excluding the soul-gutting ponderations. Again, the praise was incessant.