Our robot overlords return bearing gifts

Meshuggah - obZen
Posted by Laila Hanson on 05-Jun-08 @ 11:38 AM

[4/5]
Meshuggah are a terrifying machine with but one purpose: To build the perfect Meshuggah track ("song" seems far too soft and human a word for the sound-sequences they assemble). Like Autechre, some of their best music sounds like what computers would compose if other computers were the target audience. With obZen (a terrible pun, probably thought up by vocalist Jens Kidman, whose stage patter's as fascinatingly off-kilter as the band's riffs), drummer Tomas Haake returns to work, having let computers take over on their last album, 2005's Catch Thirtythree. The rhythms are no more friendly this time, of course; though prominent basslines on the first two tracks betray a mild Tool influence, Meshuggah have not become some kind of bullshit hippy jam-metal band. They're still crisp and cold--kind of like the Terminator--but somehow, unlike Ahnuld, it's possible to hear a human heart beating within the steel. (NUCLEAR BLAST) Phil Freeman


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