3 reasons you’re my favorite reactor on youtube: 1. You pause at good times and not too frequently to enjoy the music properly on a first listen 2. You pick out things on a first listen that would take most people several listens 3. Your genuine love of music is apparent
It's nice to see a composer react right!? Go check out 'Ken Lavigne' if you like Metal reactions!I like this guy too,he's really getting in to this...! \m/
Meshuggah’s rhythms have the same satisfaction of dropping a cup of water but all the water falls perfectly back into the cup, it’s like anxiety and relief all at once
Meshuggah is just special. Idolized by many people and musicians, Influenced many modern bands and (partially) copied by many bands. But in my opinion they're in a league of their own. I love this band so much!
@iangillies711 they sometimes actually do, in a way, get heavier with repeats. When the repeat happens, the riff becomes syncopated in a different way from the previous syncopation. Sometimes, each syncopation that follows is more complex than the previous one, which makes each repeat more complex, more tense, and, therefore, more heavy
@@Ten_NE_Ten The influence is big and immediately obvious to anyone familiar with Holdsworth...and it's not like Fredrik himself makes any mystery out of this.
@@Exgrmbl I was more poking fun at the first commenter implying its only unique if you don't Know of Holdsworth, but the main comment itself mentions the genre, being "prog metal" in this case. I don't doubt Holdsworth's ability however I don't believe he was in Meshuggah style prog metal bands in his time lol.
@@hunter5028 why is it fucked up though? Don’t understand the drama? 🤣 I have a solo Industrial music project called Zero Face and this is my Soundcloud profile pic. Chill man
@@jordanbenson2980 I know how plausible deniability works. I still can't believe people just overlook this though! Because if you aren't aware the pic bares a strong resemblance to a certain historical figure that most in their right minds would find appalling. I find it appalling and abhorrent that you act so ignorant about the images you invoke.
Finally, someone admires Meshuggah beyond Bleed! My personal favorite is Catch Thirtythree, it has this hypnotic and disorienting flow, btw Dancers to a Discordant System has same vibes. Awesome.
Catch 33 as an album is one of the greatest music pieces I've ever heard. It feels like an intense movie score or something. Especially the quiet ominous ending of "In Death/Is Death" and how it abruptly explodes into the beginning of "Shed" with Jens screaming his head off....holy hell. The final track "Sum" is the most bone-chilling hopeless thing I've heard. Masterpiece. Pure masterpiece.
@@rmr5044 Man, I never see people talk about the ending of In Death - Is Death. That whole ambient section is one of the best musical moments I've ever come across. Words cannot express how it feels, it's just mind blowing. Of course the whole song/album is one of my favorites but I never see anyone else gushing about that part.
I've requested "I" on Patreon and he said he'd do it, that damn well better be the next one he does lol! But for real, Straws would be great but I'm gonna suggest "Closed Eye Visuals" because it's just a monstrous groove and the dead space is as loud and powerful as the riff is, if that makes any sense. I love the solo and the outro in that song. Meshuggah is my desert island band, I can never get bored with them so I'll tune in for any 'Shuggah reactions Geebz does 🤙
This album and band in general has had a huge impact on my life. I would recommend you listen to In Death - Is Life / In Death - Is Death by Meshuggah, its an incredible piece of music from an already incredible album
Yeah there is so much good shit in that album, it almost has to be lsitened to in 2-3 song chunks tho, as you have suggested with "In-Death". I like "the Paradoxical Spiral - Re-Inanimate - Entrapment"... that weird "octavy" groove at about 1 minute into Entrapment... holy fucking hell that shit is sweet lol.
Listening to Meshuggah is like trying to understand a language in which you just understand every other word. When concentrating, things dont add up but if you take a step back and relax things start to make sense and you get the large picture. Keep up the good work!!!
Oh my god, oh my god. Of all the songs, yes to this and whomever sent this request to you. THIS SONG. THAT ENDING UGHHH. Do clockworks for specifically the best riff ever, at 3:56 onward.
Please do straws pulled at random at some point. The first 3 minutes is straight djent in the best kind of way, with the lyrics describing someone experiencing the different stages of questioning and frustration from being "the straw pulled at random" selected for death by fate, while the last 2 or so minutes has one of if not their best all time solo that to me represents the person coming to accept their imminent passing and it is hauntingly beautiful.
10:10 "rhythmic, ceremonial, ritual riff composition" wow thats an amazing phrase! and dont forget 'therapeutic' riff composition. some of these meshuggah patterns are soooo... simply delicious to play on their own for minutes some times (if thats not already how the song goes lol). and its a good exercise in terms of endurance depending on the riff
This is one of my all-time favorite songs by Meshuggah. I absolutely love drowning in the polyrhythmic insanity that this song rips you open with and then the massive epic ending, and the lyrics... Everything is resonating so well with me. Such a great piece.
I sincerely appreciate the relationship between Martin and Fredrick, compositionally - Fred has such a unique sound and he's often just playing weird ambient patterns and drones, but it's a key feature of their sound
Geebz, something you may be interested in if you haven't heard it before would be the Meshuggah guitarist's solo project, "Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects". They made 1 album, "Sol Niger Within", mainly just Thordendal on guitar/synth with the (fucking AMAZIN'!)Swedish drummer, Morgan Agren on drums. It's so good!
That look at 15:08. It’s so nice to see someone listen to meshuggah and understand. That look at 15:08 is what meshuggah does to most musicians and it’s so satisfying. Great video!
"This is so hypnotic" Obzen. Obscenely zen. It's supposed to be hypnotic. Listen to the album from start to finish and that's the way it feels the entire way through.
*looks at video title* Damn, Geebz, you're not effing around 😂 this may be my singular favorite Meshuggah song, and not one I'd have seen any TH-cam reactor making a video for, but here we are 😃 awesome choice
Oh my God! He actually analyzed this! I've been waiting for someone to do this amazing piece of music. One of the most powerful songs I've ever heard. Meshuggahs pinnacle, in my humble opinion. Thanks Geebz
I know that I'm not alone at all in saying this track, this album, and this group are very much from my soundtrack of life, and are very near and dear to my heart. And as wonderful as it is you watch you cover new and different bands, and help us discover new sounds, it is hard to describe how wonderful a feeling it is to see this track grab a hold of you. As always, thank you Geebz! we love you man! Keep up the great work! Cant wait to see what another year brings us! 👍👍👍
Favorite song by favorite band ever. Been following you since damn near the beginning. Keep killing it! This is regarded by many fans as Meshuggahs Magnum Opus, musically and lyrically. Go back and listen to this one day and read the lyrics. Truly amazing piece of music.
6:02 in unison, indeed. as far as i know the bass player literally plays the same exact (not an octave lower) notes clean on some songs since theyre already so low in terms of tuning on those tracks.
Yes! I’ve been waiting for you to cover this one for a while! This has got to be my favorite Meshuggah song. That outro riff is really one of heaviest, yet grooviest riffs ever written.
Over 20 years ago a mate of mine got some tickets for a gig- did not tell me who was playing and found later it was Meshuggah- not only did they blow my socks off!! But at the time i knew i had not heard anything like them before!! Love at first sight!! Great album, has my favourite song of theirs Combustion!! Aloha🤙🏻
Your reaction during and immediately after that ridiculously bonkers guitar solo sums up this entire sonic workout...the song is so beautiful at the same time beats you down...
Fun fact: saw Meshuggah in Charlotte NC in maybe 2014-2015 or so. First time seeing them live. Darkest Hour was opener followed by Animals As Leaders(which tripped me out seeing a bunch of metal heads standing like stone in a trance-like state during their performance) and then Meshuggah. Meshuggah was waaay late for some reason and the reason was Jens was sick and couldn’t perform live. So instead of cancelling altogether, the band agreed to play live back a backing vocal track to substitute an absent Jens. So imagine seeing Meshuggah doing Meshuggah stuff live on stage but “Jens” was a Mike stand dressed in a Meshuggah shirt with a haphazardly attached cut out of Jens face on the stand head 😂 P.S.: If I recall correctly(herb😬), they closed with this song and it was the ABSOLUTE BALLS. 🖤
Watching this at 3am in bed on the laptop through the small tinny speakers, and I HAD to get up, stark naked, and put this track on through my good quality headphones for a fresh listen.
This song is a fookin' metal masterpiece. The two takeaways I always get from this song: 1. I love how the loose, soft crash cymbal keeping the 4/4 sounds like an old steam locomotive chugging along 2. THAT outro... has being bludgeoned by a metaphorical war hammer ever sounded/felt so good?!
2:40 lol i love the faces you make... its everything from "wow, what is that?" to "wow i cant believe they did that" to "oh i should have known" to straight up "hell yeah" metal faces 😎😎😎
13:49 the 1 2 1 3 is such a classic, then the long lamentation slide that are abit ahead abit late.. hard to not be traumatised positively for years. (they often do it.. make it solid viceral angry anxious(as you said) and egypthian weirndess alien solo) phrygian scale ( i call it egpyth) desert dry
Is so interesting this comment you had in 15:45. Definitely true. Theres a song by Meshuggah called Spasm. The solo in that song gives me the exact same vibe!
Listening to Dancers to a discordant system, looking up at the sky, the deep dark, the lights, black holes crushing space-time, those riffs and melodies are the Universe.
I can't say enough how I enjoy the way you capture and describe nuances of the songs you are listening for the first time with single right-on-the-spot words like DISSONANT @ 5:14 and HYPNOTIC @ 18:51
Your reactions to Meshuggah have been the best I have seen in TH-cam. As a huge fan of their music and ideas, your reactions have made me experience their music anew
So glad you did this track, it’s my all time favourite, and I believe this is Meshuggah’s greatest piece. Which is saying a lot. Please do more Meshuggah and if you’re interested scroll through some lyrics. Just like the music, the lyrics are complex and have lots of layers to deconstruct. However often cynical, they are beautiful, poetic, and thought provoking. Keep up the great content 🤙
What a great breakdown. As always. I agree very much about Meshuggah being hypnotic. That is one of the ways I describe their music to people who haven’t heard them.
One of their best songs, an almost perfect bookend to the Obzen album, and one of the best "last songs on the album" ever. Great choice and great insight -- I never caught that the high guitar in the refrain was a modulation of the intro! Your 30-day countdown listening MUST include the song "Nude" by Radiohead. Just ...trust me.
Everyone raves about Bleed from Obzen, but this, Pineal Gland Optics and the title track are the standouts from this album for me. Also! Yogev Gabay has also done a video about this song too, so if you wanna learn more about the rhythms, go check out his video! EDIT: Lastly, just wanna say congratulations on doing this for a year! You're definitely one of my favourites. Can't wait to hear more of your 7-string experimentation ;)
I'd like to see Geebz react to older 'Shuggah like Future Breed machine or Soul Burn, or something off of the None ep like Humiliative or Sickening or something from Contradictions like Erroneous Manipulation, Greed or Cadaverous Mastication. There's this old like 27 page essay written by some person for a music school thesis about Meshuggah's method for writing music, from way back before Chaosphere came out, I think it focuses on Future Breed Machine but I don't remember really.
Maybe in a month or two, after some more Meshuggah tracks, you could listen to Catch Thirty-Three, their album that is more like a traditional symphony than a collection of tracks. The overall composition and use of motifs and atmospherics is nothing short of genius. I'm sure as a composer you'll be foaming at the mouth with excitement when it all comes together in the final act. Don't miss it!
@@hamsandwich6685 same here, most if not all of my absolute favourite parts of the whole thing come after some kind of break (paradoxical spiral, in death is life/in death) and they just don't have that oomph if not listened fully it's so good it's crack in music form
Every Meshuggah song is a puzzle for the ears. While the same can be said for other progressive bands, Meshuggah's are just super elegant and geometric, fitting perfectly in that 4/4 square box.
Meshuggah was a gateway to auditory annihilation for me, they showed me how incredible metal truly is. In all these different forms and styles, I’ve come to appreciate it all very deeply.
This...i cant think of any other song in ny life. I can listen to this on repeat time and time again. This song accentuates and articulates my feelings of aggression and everything that makes me feel centered and calm. Specifically near the end when the riff repeats...my favorite zone out moment ever.
Love your channel, love meshuggah love lots of your picks to decompose, for the month i hope you got some more igorrr, faith no more, mr. Bungle, deftones, animals as leaders, a perfect circle, those have been my favorites you touched on
Love how you react to this. Even after countless listens, I still make the same facial expressions. Every time. Every listen. Ha ha! Maybe make a video of you trying to air drum to this...!
Hello dear Man! This is my favourite meshuggah song and one of the loveliest songs in my life. Thank you for Your effort! Its so encouraging to see your reaction. APPRECIATE THIS!
Your videos are the best because you preserve the sound quality of the original track and, well, your knowledge and language speaks to the composition in ways that [simply] reactionary youtoobers can't comprehend. Much respect.
Anyone who hasn't yet had the chance to witness Meshuggah live should really look up if they're coming somewhere near you, it's an incredible experience
best of Meshuggah is, I have seen them three times Live, they are still technically perfect and with that little bit "live" glance it rape your ears very vividly there :) love these guys
dude you rock! just came across your page and i must say you're a vibe! 🤙 not sure about how into metal you are outside of these reviews but i love your analysis of Meshuggah - a band that is so near and dear to my heart. Would love to see you review the mouth licking what you've bled from these guys!
This song is just 🤌🤌🤌 on all levels. I would love to see another Vildhjarta reaction, they just had a new album come out recently as well, so there's that. One of the few reactors to do a reactors to the band that I've seen, and DEFINITELY one of the best You're the man, Geebz 🤘🤙
Hey GEEBZ, Disembodied Hand here with a new nick on the 'Tube, I'm so fuckin stoked you did this track because this was DEFINITELY on my list, although I suppose this means I won't see your reaction to "I" for a good long while but I'm excited for that too! Meshuggah in my mind is one of the most COHESIVE units in all of music. Like you were talking about at the end, they don't let go of those riffs. They ride those waves fucking HARD. You really can't go wrong with anything by this band, imo they haven't written a bad song... ever? It all just kills, and especially since the release of the 2002 album "Nothing" they have really hit their stride and found their sound and they just keep expanding and expanding upon it with each release. Supposedly a new album before year's end, going to see them live in March and I can't wait. As always, thanks for everything you do! Keep it up brother! AWWWWWWWRIGHT 👊👊👊
I absolutely love your reaction to this. Meshuggah is my most favourite band, next to Tool of course hahah. Love your face when you are lost for words Please do more Meshuugah!!
Thank you for reacting to this sir, it was awesome to watch! One of my personal favorite Meshuggah songs of all time! Take care and shout out from South Africa!
Hi Geebz, thanks for your content. You have provided me a fellow industry ear and perspective who has moved out of LA. Appreciate your take on songs and discussion.
I absolutely love you tackled this monster of a song(my personal favorite of meshuggah). This is really the song they use some really weird strong melody post the 4:30 mark. Also that riff from the chorus that turns into the solo riff....just Jesus, that might be the most melodic and nasty riff theses dudes ever wrote. Seriously play it at home and just realize how fucking heavy that riff is.
Glad someone did a react to this one! Hardly anyone looks at this song on youtube even though it has so much cool stuff in it. This song in particular had a huge influence on the way I thought about musical architecture. I'd been introduced to Meshuggah in the early 2000s by a guy in one of my music theory classes, so I wasn't new to the band, but this song was a big deal to me. It still has one of the best intros and outros of any song, period.
Yeah easily one of the coolest songs of this century. Man please do more of the Dillinger Escape plan. Farewell mona lisa, gold teeth on a bum, when i lost my bet etc... so many good songs..
Probably the best meshuggah song, incorporare all of their trademark and have that feeling only meshuggah can give you, the music is soo heavy but at the same time feel like you are meditating.
MESHUGGAH is the band that makes me gasp for air after listening to one of their albums! Always leaves me pounded into dust! Pulverized! FKN demolished! This track you have just pulled apart is epic! Heavy with so much depth and pulsating rhythms, damn! Goosebumps! I will keep on suggesting this; MESHUGGAH - i (A 21 minute track) Awwwwwright Geebz! You have a killer day too.
Oh yeah, please do keep suggesting "I"... seems like lots of people haven't even heard that one and there's really some great shit in there, i love how there's sections that are each built around a main riff/beat/"melody" idea but they never ever ever repeat any pattern, each "measure" is unique... well there are no measures really..
3 reasons you’re my favorite reactor on youtube:
1. You pause at good times and not too frequently to enjoy the music properly on a first listen
2. You pick out things on a first listen that would take most people several listens
3. Your genuine love of music is apparent
It's nice to see a composer react right!? Go check out 'Ken Lavigne' if you like Metal reactions!I like this guy too,he's really getting in to this...! \m/
He may pause at good times, but the ads certainly don't
You just know when someone finds Meshuggah and doesn't immediately shut down - they'll be coming back for more
Couldn't have said it better myself, such a great channel!
people see ads on youtube?
Meshuggah’s rhythms have the same satisfaction of dropping a cup of water but all the water falls perfectly back into the cup, it’s like anxiety and relief all at once
That's a seriously great way of describing it, I feel it like the anxiety of falling almost but with the relief element
exactly 8:00
Nice
Meshuggah is just special. Idolized by many people and musicians, Influenced many modern bands and (partially) copied by many bands. But in my opinion they're in a league of their own. I love this band so much!
I definitely hear their influence in a lot of my favorite bands. Jinjer, Spiritbox, and Twelve Foot Ninja to name a few.
I'd also put The Dillinger Escape Plan along side them as co-authors of the genre.
i totally get what you are saying, i think they are one of the greatest most influential metal bands of the modern era, maybe even THE.
As Devin Townsend sang, “We all rip off Meshuggah” lol
Just getting into to them. Any songs similar to this?
Every meshuggah song gives you the feeling that it can’t get any heavier and then the riff changes and it’s somehow heavier…
They almost get heavier the more they repeat. Super friggin hypnotic
This song has 3 different contenders for “Heaviest riff of all time” in the same song
@@Packinthemjawnsdude, the breakdown in Lethargica is the sound of black holes colliding in space. Crushingly heavy!
@iangillies711 they sometimes actually do, in a way, get heavier with repeats. When the repeat happens, the riff becomes syncopated in a different way from the previous syncopation. Sometimes, each syncopation that follows is more complex than the previous one, which makes each repeat more complex, more tense, and, therefore, more heavy
Fredrik Thordendal has some of the most unique sounding solo's in the genre. Combustion is one of my favorites.
Unique.. if you've never heard Allan Holdsworth.
@@MrTubularBalls I wasnt aware jazz and rock musician Allan Holdsworth was also a prog metal guitarist...
@@Ten_NE_Ten Yeah! Try out U.K.'s first album. A real treat!
Thordendahl does attribute Holdsworth as a big inspiration!
@@Ten_NE_Ten
The influence is big and immediately obvious to anyone familiar with Holdsworth...and it's not like Fredrik himself makes any mystery out of this.
@@Exgrmbl I was more poking fun at the first commenter implying its only unique if you don't Know of Holdsworth, but the main comment itself mentions the genre, being "prog metal" in this case. I don't doubt Holdsworth's ability however I don't believe he was in Meshuggah style prog metal bands in his time lol.
Also, this is in my Opinion one of the finest examples of heavy progressive Metal. A monumental metal album
....so no ones gonna call you out for that fucked up profile pic?
We're just going to let this slide?
What’s the issue lad?
@@jordanbenson2980 ...not even going to go there bub. You know what the deal is.
@@hunter5028 why is it fucked up though? Don’t understand the drama? 🤣 I have a solo Industrial music project called Zero Face and this is my Soundcloud profile pic. Chill man
@@jordanbenson2980 I know how plausible deniability works. I still can't believe people just overlook this though! Because if you aren't aware the pic bares a strong resemblance to a certain historical figure that most in their right minds would find appalling.
I find it appalling and abhorrent that you act so ignorant about the images you invoke.
"Dissonant and catchy" is the perfect definition of what Meshuggah is
Finally, someone admires Meshuggah beyond Bleed! My personal favorite is Catch Thirtythree, it has this hypnotic and disorienting flow, btw Dancers to a Discordant System has same vibes. Awesome.
Catch Thirty-three is class, one of my favourite albums of any genre. Feels like a factory became self aware and wrote an album.
Catch 33 as an album is one of the greatest music pieces I've ever heard. It feels like an intense movie score or something. Especially the quiet ominous ending of "In Death/Is Death" and how it abruptly explodes into the beginning of "Shed" with Jens screaming his head off....holy hell. The final track "Sum" is the most bone-chilling hopeless thing I've heard. Masterpiece. Pure masterpiece.
@@Breadcups lol, I love that simile
@@rmr5044 IDIL/IDID is one of my personal favourites
@@rmr5044 Man, I never see people talk about the ending of In Death - Is Death. That whole ambient section is one of the best musical moments I've ever come across. Words cannot express how it feels, it's just mind blowing. Of course the whole song/album is one of my favorites but I never see anyone else gushing about that part.
11:32 God, that fucking riff is one of the best metal riffs drops of all time. That and the riff 6.5 mins into Opeth's "The Grand Conjuration".
Also - 8:20 into The Last Baron - Mastodon
Don't forget 3:51 of Instinct by Decapitated. One of my favorite riffs!
@@chriscoote2690 The last baron is definitely one of my favorite songs!!
Or 2:27 of Demiurge
@@Major_Fuzzz My favorite running song.
The next song you do of theirs needs to be "Straw's Pulled at Random". Musically in my opinion, it's their greatest composition. Dark and beautiful.
And the solo is just… * chefs kiss *
That's a good one. The second half is beautiful. The lyrics are incredible.
I've requested "I" on Patreon and he said he'd do it, that damn well better be the next one he does lol! But for real, Straws would be great but I'm gonna suggest "Closed Eye Visuals" because it's just a monstrous groove and the dead space is as loud and powerful as the riff is, if that makes any sense. I love the solo and the outro in that song. Meshuggah is my desert island band, I can never get bored with them so I'll tune in for any 'Shuggah reactions Geebz does 🤙
The wild video edited live performance with the Snickers banner is the best - great tune
yes
I see Meshuggah, I CLICK. Let's GO!
This is a excellent track
In fact the best song ever
ADAM!! :)
Seeing them play this live is practically a religious experience.
All their music makes me feel like I'm walking through an H.R. Giger painting.
This album and band in general has had a huge impact on my life. I would recommend you listen to In Death - Is Life / In Death - Is Death by Meshuggah, its an incredible piece of music from an already incredible album
Great suggestion !!!
Yeah there is so much good shit in that album, it almost has to be lsitened to in 2-3 song chunks tho, as you have suggested with "In-Death".
I like "the Paradoxical Spiral - Re-Inanimate - Entrapment"... that weird "octavy" groove at about 1 minute into Entrapment... holy fucking hell that shit is sweet lol.
Catch 33 is a masterpiece change my mind
@@Chimera420 easily their best album, one of the greatest albums ever written imo
@@iMaelstromX And the struggle to free myself from restraints is still my very shackles to this day
Could NOT have picked a better song to start of these 30 days!!!!
Listening to Meshuggah is like trying to understand a language in which you just understand every other word. When concentrating, things dont add up but if you take a step back and relax things start to make sense and you get the large picture. Keep up the good work!!!
Oh my god, oh my god. Of all the songs, yes to this and whomever sent this request to you.
THIS SONG. THAT ENDING UGHHH.
Do clockworks for specifically the best riff ever, at 3:56 onward.
Damnit, remembered you did to the drum video of Tomas
I am very proud indeed i suggested this, i usually dont care but my ego is fanboying over it. ITS JUST TOO GREAT.
@@matteomuscas7060 Same, I felt obliged to suggest this song.
he alr did clockworks watching the haake drum sesh
I have suggested this a few times and i am excited to see geebz chose it! Definitely my favourite meshuggah track i would have to say.
Please do straws pulled at random at some point. The first 3 minutes is straight djent in the best kind of way, with the lyrics describing someone experiencing the different stages of questioning and frustration from being "the straw pulled at random" selected for death by fate, while the last 2 or so minutes has one of if not their best all time solo that to me represents the person coming to accept their imminent passing and it is hauntingly beautiful.
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Closed eye visuals is also a good one
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@@Salomon_G ? lmao
@@Salomon_G plz daddy tell me what it is
10:10 "rhythmic, ceremonial, ritual riff composition" wow thats an amazing phrase! and dont forget 'therapeutic' riff composition. some of these meshuggah patterns are soooo... simply delicious to play on their own for minutes some times (if thats not already how the song goes lol). and its a good exercise in terms of endurance depending on the riff
This is one of my all-time favorite songs by Meshuggah. I absolutely love drowning in the polyrhythmic insanity that this song rips you open with and then the massive epic ending, and the lyrics... Everything is resonating so well with me. Such a great piece.
It's definitely in my top 5 of them too. IT'S MINDBENDING.
I sincerely appreciate the relationship between Martin and Fredrick, compositionally - Fred has such a unique sound and he's often just playing weird ambient patterns and drones, but it's a key feature of their sound
Meshuggah=click! So many good tracks. You should check out Straws Pulled at Random!
The solo in that song is like a hawk soaring above a bombed-out town.
Quite possibly my favorite Meshuggah song. The groove, the patterns... so good!
Geebz, something you may be interested in if you haven't heard it before would be the Meshuggah guitarist's solo project, "Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects".
They made 1 album, "Sol Niger Within", mainly just Thordendal on guitar/synth with the (fucking AMAZIN'!)Swedish drummer, Morgan Agren on drums.
It's so good!
Yes its like jaco patostorius' solo album. A masterpiece. No matter the genre.
Christ encounter of the fourth kind babyyy
Check out Mats och Morgan.
Morgan Agren is a prodigy on the kit.
@@ChimpFromSpaceHell yes he is, insanity..
I imagine this as Melkors song from the J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion. Organized chaos.
That look at 15:08. It’s so nice to see someone listen to meshuggah and understand. That look at 15:08 is what meshuggah does to most musicians and it’s so satisfying. Great video!
"This is so hypnotic"
Obzen. Obscenely zen. It's supposed to be hypnotic. Listen to the album from start to finish and that's the way it feels the entire way through.
The clean guitar at ~12:00 of this video are 5 descending quarter note tones, moves the start ahead 1 quarter each time :D
Nostrum is such a unique song from Meshuggah, and sooo impressive as always. No-one else does it like them.
*looks at video title*
Damn, Geebz, you're not effing around 😂 this may be my singular favorite Meshuggah song, and not one I'd have seen any TH-cam reactor making a video for, but here we are 😃 awesome choice
Oh my God! He actually analyzed this! I've been waiting for someone to do this amazing piece of music. One of the most powerful songs I've ever heard. Meshuggahs pinnacle, in my humble opinion.
Thanks Geebz
I know that I'm not alone at all in saying this track, this album, and this group are very much from my soundtrack of life, and are very near and dear to my heart. And as wonderful as it is you watch you cover new and different bands, and help us discover new sounds, it is hard to describe how wonderful a feeling it is to see this track grab a hold of you. As always, thank you Geebz! we love you man! Keep up the great work! Cant wait to see what another year brings us! 👍👍👍
Yeap.
Meshuggah's awesomeness isent fully realized until your in the front of one of their shows. It really is a wonder
Indeed.
Favorite song by favorite band ever. Been following you since damn near the beginning. Keep killing it! This is regarded by many fans as Meshuggahs Magnum Opus, musically and lyrically. Go back and listen to this one day and read the lyrics. Truly amazing piece of music.
When Meshuggah includes a brief moment of respite, the rest is so heavy, that it's like the ultimate respite. It hits differently. Hard to describe!
6:02 in unison, indeed. as far as i know the bass player literally plays the same exact (not an octave lower) notes clean on some songs since theyre already so low in terms of tuning on those tracks.
Yes! I’ve been waiting for you to cover this one for a while! This has got to be my favorite Meshuggah song. That outro riff is really one of heaviest, yet grooviest riffs ever written.
My favorite Meshuggah song. I always get chills from that last chorus and ending.
Over 20 years ago a mate of mine got some tickets for a gig- did not tell me who was playing and found later it was Meshuggah- not only did they blow my socks off!! But at the time i knew i had not heard anything like them before!! Love at first sight!! Great album, has my favourite song of theirs Combustion!! Aloha🤙🏻
Your reaction during and immediately after that ridiculously bonkers guitar solo sums up this entire sonic workout...the song is so beautiful at the same time beats you down...
You’re a legend Geebz, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise
Fun fact: saw Meshuggah in Charlotte NC in maybe 2014-2015 or so. First time seeing them live. Darkest Hour was opener followed by Animals As Leaders(which tripped me out seeing a bunch of metal heads standing like stone in a trance-like state during their performance) and then Meshuggah. Meshuggah was waaay late for some reason and the reason was Jens was sick and couldn’t perform live. So instead of cancelling altogether, the band agreed to play live back a backing vocal track to substitute an absent Jens. So imagine seeing Meshuggah doing Meshuggah stuff live on stage but “Jens” was a Mike stand dressed in a Meshuggah shirt with a haphazardly attached cut out of Jens face on the stand head 😂
P.S.: If I recall correctly(herb😬), they closed with this song and it was the ABSOLUTE BALLS. 🖤
Watching this at 3am in bed on the laptop through the small tinny speakers, and I HAD to get up, stark naked, and put this track on through my good quality headphones for a fresh listen.
This song is a fookin' metal masterpiece.
The two takeaways I always get from this song:
1. I love how the loose, soft crash cymbal keeping the 4/4 sounds like an old steam locomotive chugging along
2. THAT outro... has being bludgeoned by a metaphorical war hammer ever sounded/felt so good?!
2:40 lol i love the faces you make... its everything from "wow, what is that?" to "wow i cant believe they did that" to "oh i should have known" to straight up "hell yeah" metal faces 😎😎😎
13:49 the 1 2 1 3 is such a classic, then the long lamentation slide that are abit ahead abit late.. hard to not be traumatised positively for years.
(they often do it.. make it solid viceral angry anxious(as you said) and egypthian weirndess alien solo)
phrygian scale ( i call it egpyth) desert dry
Thanks for the decomposition Geebz! Watching you try to digest this carnage is always enjoyable! 😆
If you ever get a chance, go to a Meshuggah concert. It will change your life
Is so interesting this comment you had in 15:45. Definitely true. Theres a song by Meshuggah called Spasm. The solo in that song gives me the exact same vibe!
Listening to Dancers to a discordant system, looking up at the sky, the deep dark, the lights, black holes crushing space-time, those riffs and melodies are the Universe.
I can't say enough how I enjoy the way you capture and describe nuances of the songs you are listening for the first time with single right-on-the-spot words like DISSONANT @ 5:14 and HYPNOTIC @ 18:51
Your reactions to Meshuggah have been the best I have seen in TH-cam. As a huge fan of their music and ideas, your reactions have made me experience their music anew
OMG, I'm a massive messhuggah nerd but I never noticed the quarter notes coming back at around 11:32. You have really good ears man!
Started off with a banger, 200k hype!
WOWOWOWOW!!! Yea, I just crossed over the hump! AWWWRIGHT!!
Oh man, I've been waiting for this one for a long time!
this is one of the best songs from meshuggah, I think its a true masterpiece.
So glad you did this track, it’s my all time favourite, and I believe this is Meshuggah’s greatest piece. Which is saying a lot.
Please do more Meshuggah and if you’re interested scroll through some lyrics. Just like the music, the lyrics are complex and have lots of layers to deconstruct. However often cynical, they are beautiful, poetic, and thought provoking.
Keep up the great content 🤙
What a great breakdown. As always. I agree very much about Meshuggah being hypnotic. That is one of the ways I describe their music to people who haven’t heard them.
Oh, one of their most badass solos imo is in Concatenation from the Chaosphere album. Insane!
HERE WE GO FELLAS. I’ve been waiting this for quite a long time. This and future breed machine are by far the best tunes Meshuggah has ever done.
One of their best songs, an almost perfect bookend to the Obzen album, and one of the best "last songs on the album" ever. Great choice and great insight -- I never caught that the high guitar in the refrain was a modulation of the intro!
Your 30-day countdown listening MUST include the song "Nude" by Radiohead. Just ...trust me.
Everyone raves about Bleed from Obzen, but this, Pineal Gland Optics and the title track are the standouts from this album for me.
Also! Yogev Gabay has also done a video about this song too, so if you wanna learn more about the rhythms, go check out his video!
EDIT: Lastly, just wanna say congratulations on doing this for a year! You're definitely one of my favourites. Can't wait to hear more of your 7-string experimentation ;)
Lethargica is my fav
Title track is GOAT
this one's always been my favorite of the album.
This spiteful snake. The last section is a fucking...
I'd like to see Geebz react to older 'Shuggah like Future Breed machine or Soul Burn, or something off of the None ep like Humiliative or Sickening or something from Contradictions like Erroneous Manipulation, Greed or Cadaverous Mastication.
There's this old like 27 page essay written by some person for a music school thesis about Meshuggah's method for writing music, from way back before Chaosphere came out, I think it focuses on Future Breed Machine but I don't remember really.
Maybe in a month or two, after some more Meshuggah tracks, you could listen to Catch Thirty-Three, their album that is more like a traditional symphony than a collection of tracks. The overall composition and use of motifs and atmospherics is nothing short of genius. I'm sure as a composer you'll be foaming at the mouth with excitement when it all comes together in the final act. Don't miss it!
Yes! I consider Catch 33 to be my favorite meshuggah song, you have to listen to it all the way through AT LEAST once as a fan!
Man! It's so special to my heart!
I love several parts of the album, but I have to listen to the whole thing as if it's one giant song or else I'm just left unsatisfied until I do.
@@hamsandwich6685 same here, most if not all of my absolute favourite parts of the whole thing come after some kind of break (paradoxical spiral, in death is life/in death) and they just don't have that oomph if not listened fully it's so good it's crack in music form
Amazing! Not sure I've ever seen a reaction to this one and it is one of my absolute favourite Meshuggah tracks
Every Meshuggah song is a puzzle for the ears. While the same can be said for other progressive bands, Meshuggah's are just super elegant and geometric, fitting perfectly in that 4/4 square box.
Geebz, you gotta watch Yogev Gabay's deconstruction of this song.
the level of detail he goes into is truly ridiculous
Meshuggah was a gateway to auditory annihilation for me, they showed me how incredible metal truly is. In all these different forms and styles, I’ve come to appreciate it all very deeply.
Gratz on the 200K Geebz! Always here mate.
🎉 Thank you!!!
YES! Thank you for doing this!!! Their best song and one of the best metal songs of all time period.
This...i cant think of any other song in ny life. I can listen to this on repeat time and time again. This song accentuates and articulates my feelings of aggression and everything that makes me feel centered and calm. Specifically near the end when the riff repeats...my favorite zone out moment ever.
Makes me feel anger and serenity at the same timr
Fast click to the video, anything Messhuggah dissected by you, is a must! My favourite track from the album! Awwright!
Love your channel, love meshuggah love lots of your picks to decompose, for the month i hope you got some more igorrr, faith no more, mr. Bungle, deftones, animals as leaders, a perfect circle, those have been my favorites you touched on
Couldn’t click this any faster! Such an epic song! Great reaction to the solo 🤘🏼(and the whole song of course).
I liked this video before I even watched it. Man, I swear you are monitoring my listening activity. From Karnivool to Meshuggah. Great work!
Love how you react to this.
Even after countless listens, I still make the same facial expressions. Every time. Every listen. Ha ha!
Maybe make a video of you trying to air drum to this...!
Right on bud! This is gonna be a fun ride!
Hello dear Man!
This is my favourite meshuggah song and one of the loveliest songs in my life.
Thank you for Your effort!
Its so encouraging to see your reaction.
APPRECIATE THIS!
Meshuggah fuckin rules man. Like what a fuckin unique and awesome fucking band. I am so glad they blew up. The world needs them.
Your videos are the best because you preserve the sound quality of the original track and, well, your knowledge and language speaks to the composition in ways that [simply] reactionary youtoobers can't comprehend. Much respect.
Thanks! 😃
2:18 - 2:36
The typical reaction of a new meshuggah fan! :D
Love your videos, man! ❤
So glad you did this one- probably my favourite Meshuggah track if I had to pick one.
Anyone who hasn't yet had the chance to witness Meshuggah live should really look up if they're coming somewhere near you, it's an incredible experience
best of Meshuggah is, I have seen them three times Live, they are still technically perfect and with that little bit "live" glance it rape your ears very vividly there :) love these guys
The best Meshuggah song IMO!! Hearing this live was so amazing!! Glad to be one of those people who suggested this amazing song!!
My favorite Meshuggah guitar solo. So good and yes you nailed it with the middle eastern vide of it.
15:07 Your face after the solo is priceless :)
Fredrik Thordendal is the Allan Holdsworth of metal, in some way.
dude you rock! just came across your page and i must say you're a vibe! 🤙 not sure about how into metal you are outside of these reviews but i love your analysis of Meshuggah - a band that is so near and dear to my heart. Would love to see you review the mouth licking what you've bled from these guys!
If ever I run across a "try not to headbang" challenge that includes Meshuggah, there's a good chance I'll fail it
I saw these guys live having only heard a handful of songs, i couldnt wipe the smile off my face during the perf and for at least an hour afterwards
This song is just 🤌🤌🤌 on all levels. I would love to see another Vildhjarta reaction, they just had a new album come out recently as well, so there's that. One of the few reactors to do a reactors to the band that I've seen, and DEFINITELY one of the best
You're the man, Geebz 🤘🤙
Hey GEEBZ, Disembodied Hand here with a new nick on the 'Tube, I'm so fuckin stoked you did this track because this was DEFINITELY on my list, although I suppose this means I won't see your reaction to "I" for a good long while but I'm excited for that too! Meshuggah in my mind is one of the most COHESIVE units in all of music. Like you were talking about at the end, they don't let go of those riffs. They ride those waves fucking HARD. You really can't go wrong with anything by this band, imo they haven't written a bad song... ever? It all just kills, and especially since the release of the 2002 album "Nothing" they have really hit their stride and found their sound and they just keep expanding and expanding upon it with each release. Supposedly a new album before year's end, going to see them live in March and I can't wait. As always, thanks for everything you do! Keep it up brother! AWWWWWWWRIGHT 👊👊👊
I absolutely love your reaction to this. Meshuggah is my most favourite band, next to Tool of course hahah.
Love your face when you are lost for words
Please do more Meshuugah!!
Congrats on one year geebs!! Keep up the great work.
Thank you for reacting to this sir, it was awesome to watch! One of my personal favorite Meshuggah songs of all time! Take care and shout out from South Africa!
Hi Geebz, thanks for your content. You have provided me a fellow industry ear and perspective who has moved out of LA. Appreciate your take on songs and discussion.
Great choice!!! Thanks for the reaction. Meshuggah really are head and shoulders above most.
I absolutely love you tackled this monster of a song(my personal favorite of meshuggah). This is really the song they use some really weird strong melody post the 4:30 mark. Also that riff from the chorus that turns into the solo riff....just Jesus, that might be the most melodic and nasty riff theses dudes ever wrote. Seriously play it at home and just realize how fucking heavy that riff is.
Seriously, that solo backing riff is ssoooooo good. Like bleed is known from this album but this song should be known as the masterpiece.
Also, yes, it's phrygian scale but just made better though never finding the resolution note and making a backing riff that never finds it either
Glad someone did a react to this one! Hardly anyone looks at this song on youtube even though it has so much cool stuff in it. This song in particular had a huge influence on the way I thought about musical architecture. I'd been introduced to Meshuggah in the early 2000s by a guy in one of my music theory classes, so I wasn't new to the band, but this song was a big deal to me. It still has one of the best intros and outros of any song, period.
Yeah easily one of the coolest songs of this century. Man please do more of the Dillinger Escape plan. Farewell mona lisa, gold teeth on a bum, when i lost my bet etc... so many good songs..
Probably the best meshuggah song, incorporare all of their trademark and have that feeling only meshuggah can give you, the music is soo heavy but at the same time feel like you are meditating.
MESHUGGAH is the band that makes me gasp for air after listening to one of their albums! Always leaves me pounded into dust! Pulverized! FKN demolished!
This track you have just pulled apart is epic! Heavy with so much depth and pulsating rhythms, damn! Goosebumps!
I will keep on suggesting this;
MESHUGGAH - i (A 21 minute track)
Awwwwwright Geebz! You have a killer day too.
Oh yeah, please do keep suggesting "I"... seems like lots of people haven't even heard that one and there's really some great shit in there, i love how there's sections that are each built around a main riff/beat/"melody" idea but they never ever ever repeat any pattern, each "measure" is unique... well there are no measures really..
I is SIIIIIIIIICK.
Are you subtly suggesting Cannibal Corpse? Pounded Into Dust and Pulverized for the win!