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“The basement where we rehearsed got flooded and some of our equipment we just had to throw away”: How Meshuggah foresaw the future of extreme metal with 1995’s Destroy Erase Improve

Despite floods and two horrific hand accidents, the Swedes drew the blueprint for what heavy music would become in the 21st century

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“The guitar tone ripped my face off!” When Machine Head's Robb Flynn met Meshuggah

Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn is a Meshuggah mega-fan – so we asked him to interview metal’s most complex band

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"I could feel the power behind me and it was like being in front of a locomotive." The Swedish metal icons whose biggest hit was so confusing even Metallica's Kirk Hammett struggled to keep up

It's safe to day that even the most patient music teacher struggle to explain the polyrhythms that provide the backbone of this Meshuggah classic

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“I was living a couch, with no food and no money, just hoping the band would come through this”: The epic story of Meshuggah’s rise from thrash metal wannabes to tech metal giants

How Meshuggah inspired a generation of tech metal bands

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Ozzy Osbourne, Lacuna Coil and Lordi lead this week's best new metal songs

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Watch masked enigmas Imperial Triumphant become the first metal band to play New York’s iconic Chrysler Building

They achieve the feat in the video for disorienting new single Lexington Delirium, which features spoken-word narration from Meshuggah’s Tomas Haake

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Watch this Catholic priest perfectly play Bleed by Meshuggah on drums

Father Hyacinth Marie Cordell has gone viral by nailing one of the most difficult drum parts in all of heavy metal

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“Some say our music has polyrhythm, but it’s simply 4/4. I guess it confuses anyone who hears it for the first time”: How Peter Nordin navigated a 172bpm maze of nightmarish polymetric riffs on Meshuggah’s Future Breed Machine

Original Meshuggah bassist Peter Nordin breaks down the tech-metal trailblazers’ 1995 underground classic

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“People think we get our calculators out and work out some kind of complex mathematical formula”: how Meshuggah redefined tech metal for the 21st century

With 2008’s landmark obZen album, Meshuggah were streets ahead of the competition – and the kings of punking other bands

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10 heavy metal stars who should have solo careers

From James Hetfield to Randy Blythe, we’d love to see what these heavy metal heroes can do by themselves

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10 drummers who could replace Jay Weinberg in Slipknot

From Adrian Erlandsson to Gene Hoglan, these drumming dynamos all have the skills needed to join The Nine

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Meshuggah review – mechanical Swedish metallers in need of human frailty

Effectively summoning moods of burning heat and freezing cold, the djent pioneers’ machine-like precision can be tiring

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