Emmure's Josh Travis on Meshuggah's “Concatenation” | Hooked

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  • The thoughtful guitarist crowns 'Chaosphere' because of how the Swedes' pummeling polyrhythms and dynamically-heavy approach challenged his approach to playing.
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  • @premierguitar
    @premierguitar  2 ปีที่แล้ว

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  • @Hell_Inc
    @Hell_Inc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +81

    Chaosphere is an absolute classic. Great choice. Concatenation doesn’t get the praise it deserves.

    • @benmoon6104
      @benmoon6104 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Damn straight mate. Remember the day I bought it at a record store no longer here in Brisbane Australia, took it home and was sent into another dimension. This from a Suffocation, Pantera, Cannibal Corpse, LOG fan. Didn't fully understand what I was hearing at the time but it's taken a few years to fully appreciate Meshuggah, second to none.

    • @Hell_Inc
      @Hell_Inc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@benmoon6104 i remember when i first heard this song. at a friends record shop, instantly hooked. say no more this record is mine, i said.
      cheers to you down under meshuggah fan :)

    • @510SPINESPLITTA
      @510SPINESPLITTA 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Can you imagine being in the audience from the 90’s and hearing it for the first time. It still holds up well today.

    • @lunaspellman
      @lunaspellman 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Fr

    • @spoompls42069
      @spoompls42069 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      All members basically ditched the reins and unleashed their mechanical beasts on this record. Especially Tomas

  • @itypewithmykneecaps1
    @itypewithmykneecaps1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Love to see people giving Concatenation its due. I never heard anything like it when I first heard it, and I still haven’t since. Insanely ahead of it’s time and one of the first indicators that Meshuggah was a very different, very special band.

  • @tjbay13
    @tjbay13 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Absolutely. Game changing album. Nobody was ready for that at the time. Even us OG Meshuggah fans from before Chaosphere did not see that coming. So insane. Though they had already started redefining the cutting edge of metal... they decided to go ahead and reforrge the entire blade with Chaosphere. Unreal. Literally making their mark on the evolution of music theory itself and pushing sonic innovation into new frontiers. They are the 8 string pioneers who started it all - with a drummer who is not of this world.

  • @schwarg
    @schwarg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I like Chaosphere for the fact that it was before all the rampant computerization of the production. It sounds human while also having a mechanical aesthetic. SANEEEEEE! MEEEEEEE!

  • @mtmrob
    @mtmrob 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    100% agree about Chaosphere. It was my 1st introduction to Meshuggah and my favorite album by theirs.

  • @Flux799
    @Flux799 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    My favourite Meshuggah record. I remember trading a kid System of a Downs first record for Chaosphere in 8th grade.

  • @kadajtribal8532
    @kadajtribal8532 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You, sir, are in the company of guitarists who are my inspiration as to why I want to learn how to play. Much respect to you!

  • @theonlynontrollhere
    @theonlynontrollhere 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The best way I can describe concatenation is that it leans into the cage theme of the song really hard. It’s in 4/4, and the way they make the focus of the song the twisting, turning djenty lead, I get the image of a being in a small cage or cell, turning and turning and turning only to constantly be met with the next wall, frantically spinning and thrashing in the cage looking for a way to get out. It makes you frantic with it, the song behaves like a sonic cage, which is very thematically relevant

  • @BrandonBames
    @BrandonBames 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It's just incredible how low they make A# Standard sound. Pure masterpiece.

  • @mattwhite399
    @mattwhite399 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    This track gets no love, but it absolutely slays. It took my head off on first listen. The next track on the record is New Millennium Cyanide Christ. By the last breakdown riff of that song, music had been forever changed for me.

  • @johnarchibald6
    @johnarchibald6 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The breakdown in The Mouth licking what you've bled is 30 years ahead of its time

  • @JakobStrand
    @JakobStrand 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Concatenation is one of their most underrated songs. It´s an absolute killer track.

  • @joseph-zoramcbride4029
    @joseph-zoramcbride4029 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Not a huge Emmure fan but this is fantastic! One of the best metal albums from what I consider to be the greatest metal band. Thanks for the recommend, hope people take it up!

    • @guitarplayer222333
      @guitarplayer222333 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I would look into Josh's other projects also, emmure is the most tame and simple band he's ever been a part of

    • @Dillon6479
      @Dillon6479 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well you should be now that Josh has taken over! They are a different band and they are WAY more talented all around.

    • @plynwithfire
      @plynwithfire ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Listen to THE TONY DANZA TAPDANCE EXTRAVAGANZA. Specifically DANZA IIII :THE ALPHA

  • @anonymouskirbyfeet5457
    @anonymouskirbyfeet5457 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I can relate so much to hearing the album and then a lot of things I used to think were the best weren't . And I just heard it after like 20 years of heavy music.

  • @gabrielchavezmusic4973
    @gabrielchavezmusic4973 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    My favorite song played by josh Travis, it is all good

  • @samuelrisenhoover409
    @samuelrisenhoover409 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I remember around 20 or more years ago seeing the music video Rational Gaze and hearing Meshuggah for the first time. It honestly, for me, added a whole new way of looking at music entirely. They had just released Nothing at that time so the next logical step was to back track to Chaosphere. Never looked back. DEI had it's moments but Chaosphere was PERFECT. Along with any project Josh Travis touches.

  • @disco4535
    @disco4535 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I like he started with the remix version from their Rare Trax album. Way heavier and more groove imo.

    • @Ragnarockalypse
      @Ragnarockalypse ปีที่แล้ว +8

      The remix from Rare Trax is groovier and easier to grasp, but listening to the original is like being stuck in a giant tumble dryer with a bunch of angry cats while spinning into a black hole.

    • @disco4535
      @disco4535 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Ragnarockalypse Lmao exactly. Both have to exist

  • @alexandrdemidov4372
    @alexandrdemidov4372 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Josh! The Man ✊

  • @ChaosPootato
    @ChaosPootato 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Concatenation fucking SLAPS. I think it's my favorite off this album

  • @TristanJCumpole
    @TristanJCumpole 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video, thanks for putting it out there Josh! There's a big lesson here which I hope a lot of people take home....dancing with your palm mute rather than just hammering it on/off is something that isn't possible to spend too much time practicing on, whether it's for this style of music or any other. If you can feel it, you're working _with_ the music as part of it instead of simply carrying out a recital.

  • @TunnelJumper
    @TunnelJumper 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This song is actually insane on drums. The guitar solo section has straight quarter note crash (as intuitive as it is to match it to the kick) and eighth note pedal hat while the kick and snare are flailing around. My brain feels like it’s melting every time I play it.

  • @triola_3
    @triola_3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    that right hand is smooth as buttttah

  • @Onamorata
    @Onamorata 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Corridor of chameleons beatdown riff at like 2:40 was so ahead of its time… so many hardcore bands play that exact riff nowadays. It’s amazing.
    Chaosphere Is my favorite album behind ObZen

    • @kylelyons6088
      @kylelyons6088 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      This! It's become the generic super heavy breakdown but corridor of chameleons is undefeated. CRUSHING

    • @harrymanbach
      @harrymanbach 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Jens with an almost rap flow his vocals and that double downbeat before the dissonant breakdowns hit...this is favorite Meshuggah song ever. So far ahead of anyone else.

    • @032clayman21
      @032clayman21 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      This, that breakdown it's brutal, way head of 1998

  • @laurelhardymarx
    @laurelhardymarx 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Josh is probably the most underrated guitar player on the planet. His solo stuff (th-cam.com/video/LU_ihd1VEUM/w-d-xo.html) and Danza IIII (th-cam.com/video/P8ki6DlMM90/w-d-xo.html) is just ridiculous.

  • @i_want_my_shuggah
    @i_want_my_shuggah 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    One of the most confusing patterns (at first listen). But then knowing how to play it becomes addictive.

  • @MartianDust415
    @MartianDust415 ปีที่แล้ว

    New Millennium Cyanide Christ is my favourite of that album and probably amongst my top 3 Meshuggah songs, along with Future Breed Machine and Stengah.

  • @EATPLATSSAVETHEPLANET
    @EATPLATSSAVETHEPLANET ปีที่แล้ว

    It truely is the holy grale!

  • @zelim9367
    @zelim9367 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Concatenation is their rawest track

  • @mwicks1968
    @mwicks1968 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Meshuggah are from another planet … !!!

  • @Julian66666666666666
    @Julian66666666666666 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    he's correct about the dynamics part tho, backing off on the palm mutes

  • @theradu123
    @theradu123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    do you guys reckon he might be a meshuggah fan?

  • @SpokenFlesh
    @SpokenFlesh 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    When Josh Goes Travis x3

  • @TheTurbobond
    @TheTurbobond ปีที่แล้ว

    I feel for this guy. Describing Chaosphere is not easy. “Bananas” just about sums it up though.

  • @draleigh8881
    @draleigh8881 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    dang! that Kiesel tho.

  • @goner.9989
    @goner.9989 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    this comments section contains no GORF... wtf?

  • @boglot
    @boglot ปีที่แล้ว

    Check out Josh’s meshuggah playthroughs for a better picture of Josh’s sick tones. His tone here is being thinned out by the camera mic.

  • @CrzyWzrd4L
    @CrzyWzrd4L ปีที่แล้ว

    Bruh I’m like 75% sure that’s the Kiesel build I spec’d out and had to cancel! Was going for a Jon Deiley-inspired baritone tele, and it’s super sick to see someone like Josh get a hold of it.

  • @k5elevencinc0
    @k5elevencinc0 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    More JT!!

  • @claudiasolomon1123
    @claudiasolomon1123 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Chaosphere, Catch33, then Nothing are in my opinion the Unholy Metal Trinity❤🤟

  • @Alidorne
    @Alidorne 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Yeah, I'd say he's played that just a few times, huh?

  • @justicia8393
    @justicia8393 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    ….the Holy Grail of Meshuggah for me is the record "Destroy Erase Improve"….

    • @joseph-zoramcbride4029
      @joseph-zoramcbride4029 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hard to pick a fave, but suuuper under-rated, that one. Just listen to beneath! Or vanishing, I think that's the one with layered soft spoken word with rhythms that play counterpoint to the metal versess.

  • @joerondorf926
    @joerondorf926 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wish your recording sound was better. Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza

  • @officialrhythmicthoughts
    @officialrhythmicthoughts 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    JT my man

  • @HaroldnolikeGerald
    @HaroldnolikeGerald ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Corridor of chameleons makes me want to eat bugs for breakfast

  • @kimsushiii
    @kimsushiii 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    WHAT A HOT MAN

  • @OriginalGaucho
    @OriginalGaucho 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I hate Emmure but this is awesome! Fukkkin MESHUGGAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

  • @EliPorterMahn
    @EliPorterMahn 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Who the hell mic'd the stack lol sounds awful and too quiet

  • @d-mack7053
    @d-mack7053 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Enter Gwen Stefani ITS BANANAS B! A N A N A S!!!!!!!!@

  • @Julian66666666666666
    @Julian66666666666666 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    except concatenation is played all downpicked

  • @Alfredo78666
    @Alfredo78666 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "You know you can play riffs with 2 strings, I mean 2 strings, can you believe that shit!":-7

  • @deadbeatwilliam
    @deadbeatwilliam 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Who??

  • @strat0871
    @strat0871 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This sounds like a 2 stroke engine with ignition problem to me...

  • @TJjjjjjjjjjj
    @TJjjjjjjjjjj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That sounded trash