As we speak, Meshuggah‘s long-anticipated new album Immutable sees the sunshine of day. For a lot of, the discharge is a large musical occasion, marking the band’s first new studio album in some six years (alas, our reviewer didn’t see it that approach). Now, the band have dropped an animated video for his or her new monitor “Damaged Cog,” which you’ll watch under.
Greater than something, the “Damaged Cog” video is a testomony to how a lot is being put behind Meshuggah today. The animation is beautiful — particularly for an excessive steel band’s video — and was clearly tailor-made to match the monitor excellently. That is the type of music video {that a} steel band 20 years in the past might solely have dreamed of, and right here feels easy in its coolness. It’s simply fascinating to see which bands have survived this lengthy, and are capable of play out so many steel acts’ goals in 2022.
Take a look at “Damaged Cog” under:
Meshuggah’s Immutable is out right now on Atomic Fireplace, and is accessible for buy.
Based on guitarist Mårten Hagström:
“The title matches completely for the place we’re as a band. We’re older now. Most of us are in our fifties now, and we’ve settled into who we’re. Though we’ve been experimenting all alongside, I additionally suppose we’ve been the identical since day one. The way in which we strategy issues and why we nonetheless make new albums, and why we nonetheless sound the best way we do, it’s immutable. Humanity is immutable, too. We commit the identical errors time and again. And we’re immutable. We do what we do, and we don’t change.”
Meshuggah’s Immutable:
1. Damaged Cog
2. The Abysmal Eye
3. Gentle The Shortening Fuse
4. Phantoms
5. Ligature Marks
6. God He Sees In Mirrors
7. They Transfer Under
8. Kaleidoscope
9. Black Cathedral
10. I Am That Thirst
11. The Faultless
12. Armies Of The Preposterous
13. Previous Tense
