Meshuggah discography

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.

Meshuggah discography
Meshuggah performing live in 2008
Studio albums8
Live albums2
Compilation albums1
Music videos12
EPs6

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.

Studio albums
Year 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]
1991 Contradictions Collapse
  • Released: January 1, 1991
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL
 54 98 76 10 56 21 52 — — 24
1995 Destroy Erase Improve
  • Released: May 12, 1995
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL
 43 89 8 23 40 19 57 — — 1
1998 Chaosphere
  • Released: November 9, 1998
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL
 78 18 4 14 2 54 77 — — 14
2002 Nothing
  • Released: August 6, 2002
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, CS, LP, DL
 41 20 9 50 5 31 25 — 165 10
2005 Catch Thirtythree
  • Released: May 31, 2005
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, LP, DL
 12 44 41 5 55 14 73 — 170 8
2008 obZen
  • Released: March 11, 2008
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, LP, DL
 16 21 23 10 46 56 11 151 59 9
2012 Koloss
  • Released: March 27, 2012
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, LP, DL
 12 7 20 48 15 19 39 93 17 2
2016 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

Live albums
Year Album details Peak chart positions Sales
SWE
[10]		 FRA
[12]		 GRC
[25]		 JPN (DVD)
[14]
2010 Alive
  • Released: February 5, 2010
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, LP, DVD, DL
 43 51 25 79
2014 The Ophidian Trek
  • Released: September 26, 2014
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
  • Formats: CD, DVD, BD
 13 4 21 6

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

EPs
Year EP details Peak chart positions
SWE
[10]
1989 Meshuggah
  • Released: February 3, 1989
  • Label: Garageland
 67
1994 None
  • Released: November 8, 1994
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
 120
1995 Selfcaged
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
 12
1997 The True Human Design
  • Released: August 19, 1997
  • Label: Nuclear Blast
 4
2004 I 33
2013 Pitch Black 1

Music videos
Year Song Director(s)
1991 "Abnegating Cecity" Meshuggah
1995 "Transfixion"
"Terminal Illusions"
1999 "New Millennium Cyanide Christ"
2002 "Rational Gaze" Torbjorn Oyervold
2005 "Shed" Matthias Haase
2006 "Rational Gaze"
(Mr. Kidman Delirium Version)		 Jens Kidman
2008 "Bleed" Ian McFarland
Mike Pecci
2012 "Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion" Owe Lingvall
"Demiurge" Anthony Dubois[27]
2013 "I Am Colossus" Magnus Jonsson[28]
2016 "Clockworks" Julius Horsthuis[29]

References
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  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. 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. "Discography Meshuggah". Hung Medien. Retrieved June 6, 2008.
  11. "Discography Meshuggah". Hung Medien. Retrieved June 6, 2008.
  12. "Discography Meshuggah" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved June 6, 2008.
  13. "Chartverfolgung / Meshuggah / Longplay" (in German). PhonoNet. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved April 11, 2012.
  14. "Oricon: Meshuggah CD". www.oricon.co.jp. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
    "Oricon: Meshuggah DVD". www.oricon.co.jp. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
  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. Zywietz, Tobias. "Chart Log UK: M - My Vitriol". Zobbel. Retrieved January 16, 2011.
  18. 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. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
  21. "MESHUGGAH: 'Shed' Video Posted Online". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
  22. "MESHUGGAH's 'obZen' Cracks 50,000 U.S. Sales Mark". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
  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. Retrieved October 18, 2016.
  25. "Discography Meshuggah". Hung Medien. Archived from the original on January 24, 2013. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
  26. "MESHUGGAH DVD Director Interviewed; Audio Available". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
  27. "MESHUGGAH: 'Demiurge' Video Released". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
  28. "MESHUGGAH: 'I Am Colossus' Video Released". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved July 14, 2014.
  29. "MESHUGGAH - Clockworks (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)". Nuclear Blast Records. Retrieved October 7, 2016.

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