@@blasteffect19 DEA is definitely the inflection point (especially compared to CC and None), but I feel that Chaosphere is what made them Meshuggah and is their pinnacle even though they've had some really good releases since then.
They probably had absolutely no idea they were going to completely change the course of metal history lol. And have a massive influence on so much of it
In this episode : Tomas consumes approximately one and a half snare head a day Jens the mechanic is repairing a lemon... also featuring : Marten "I was thinking about flowers" Hagstrom Psycho Fred and a Bass player named Gustaf
It was my intro album when it came out...the only issue is that the mix on the album the volume is so fricken low for some reason compared to others...and it's definitely their most aggressive album.
Watching this is like watching a demo band record 30 years ago with pocket change they earned over the summer - what a trip down memory lane and how much technology has gone ahead in terms of recording is mind boggling but man hearing those raw drum tracks... just pure brilliance of Haake... they were (and still are) at a whole new level of musicianship
0:30 love the cardboard wad. It's great to see the pros using quick-and-dirty solutions just like us garage guys did. I played with a guy that had the usual pillow in the kick, but he also attached a maxi pad to his batter head...
Indeed! One of the best tones, holy grail type shit! It’s funny cuz i got kind of close to it right before the pandemic hit hard with an amp profile in TH-U, one of the JP2C rig libraries. But Ola Englund’s recent video on that tone is probably the closest anyone of us can get to it, since he actually knows Fredrik and the gear they used. I just bought the IR he made with the cab for that video and it definitely sounds the part, paired with the TC Integrated Preamp and Rectifier in STL Tones Amphub plugin
They kinda get muddy in the mix. Same with the bass. And drums. if the actual production side of things wasn’t horribly rushed it would be even better. But From these videos in the studio all the guitar and drums sound ultra metal.
Been my favorite band for a while now, but back when this was recorded, "Ghetto Superstar" was probably my favorite song, so nice to hear it make an appearance at 5:08.
That's hilarious at 1:12 Tomas was practicing that super weird/difficult part from New Millenium Cyanide Christ right before recording it. That's probably one of their most annoying riffs to learn on drums.
@@nameunavailable3025 just be aware the last time they repeat the riff in the song the polyrhythm goes on for longer without repeating. It plays the same the rest of the song though.
Listening to The Exquisite Machinery here gives me a complete different understanding of the song without the vocals adding to the syncopation. Salute to you!
I can't believe that in those years everyone was dancing to ricky martin's "The cup of life" while these monsters were making some of the best albums in history.
Thanks for uploading! :) Very interesting to hear things that are not on the album like the guitar dissonances in 'The Exquisite Machinery of Torture' and the scream in 'New Millennium Cyanide Christ'. Regards :)
Same except I just turned 27. I remember unapologetically blasting this in school like no tomorrow; no fucks to give. I still do it but now in traffic and at work lol.
Heck, I had only really heard one or two songs when I saw them live years ago and I was amazed at their sound but wasn't sure I liked them. Upon listening further, they became one of my favorite bands, and I go see them live every time they're near me.
*This feels like watching a random episode of a weird soap opera about a bunch of Swedish Vikings that are obviously doing things that are way ahead of their time.*
This album is at the top for me, later for all the Catch 33 lovers. Then Nothing, then I have my list after that. The bassist Nordin had something that kept him from being in the band after this. You can't deny how they were thinking and what they were feeling here. It is about the dagone ONE. All day!!!! My favorite band on the planet!
It's even more ridiculous with the date on the screen. 1998 in Metal - Metallica wins a Grammy in the wake of releasing their seventh studio album [Checks notes] "Re - Load". Meanwhile, in Uppsala..
@@PleaseForgiveYourself 5150 with Mesa cab boosted by a Tube Screamer? Mixing screams and clean vocals? Breakdowns? And also in the case of Fear Factory, syncopated chugs synced to the kick?
@@juicebox4345 i have it, but you need that Marshall 1960 4x12 with T75s mic’ed with a Neumann TLM. Which Ola Englund happens to sell an IR of on his online store
This album is still way ahead of its time. I feel like the last two albums have definately been lacking since frederic didnt write anything. The album koloss i feel gets overlooked. That to me is easily one of their best. After this album would be that one for me
@@itsrajivrm yes, just solos on immutable and violent sleep of reason from Frederik. Everything else was dick and marten and tomas. He’s “allegedly” been working on solo material all this time
@@PleaseForgiveYourself I saw Meshuggah live last year and some knobhead yelled "Fredrik!!!!" directly to Mårten... crowd was like "wtf dude" and he just kinda shook his head lmao.
since it was 1998, they were most likely using a top of the line hardware sampler with drum samples they had recorded and loaded onto the sampler. And the sampler it being triggered by something that looks like an old version of Logic.
@@apoplexiamusic Looks like they were recording the kit and using it for samples (as seen with the red triggers around the rim of each drum head at 4:23) and also by judging the sound of the mixed drums which sound just like when Tomas is practicing at the beginning. Those samples would have then been used for the mix as seen in the midi keys at 5:50.
8:59 "I can't play guitar ANYMORE!!!" hahahaha so good. I think we can all relate to that feeling.
I certainly can, course I never could play to begin with, so there's that lol
this was after his constrction finger injury :((
Chaosphere I think is where this band completely seperated themselves from their influences.
True. They MUST have realised at some point that they had basically invented a completely different realm of metal.
Hmmm me personally I think they already did it on DEA
@@blasteffect19 DEA is definitely the inflection point (especially compared to CC and None), but I feel that Chaosphere is what made them Meshuggah and is their pinnacle even though they've had some really good releases since then.
It's obviously on *"Destroy Erase Improve"* is you ask me.
You're right.
They probably had absolutely no idea they were going to completely change the course of metal history lol. And have a massive influence on so much of it
I always felt like that was their GOAL.
Totally, and probably weren't even thinking about it in the slightest
at that time probably no
In this episode :
Tomas consumes approximately one and a half snare head a day
Jens the mechanic is repairing a lemon...
also featuring :
Marten "I was thinking about flowers" Hagstrom
Psycho Fred
and a Bass player named Gustaf
While the drums for Concatenation were demo'd on June 13, 1998, I was celebrating my seventh birthday with my new Playstation.
Twisted Metal, Jet Moto, Riiiidge Racer!!
The album sounds like it's from 2998.
These people are aliens disguised as humans, observing human activity while testing our musical technology
@@carlrune204 Nah, just swedes.
Correct.
These rhythms are from the future
Indeed my man! Way ahead
of its time!
Best meshuggah album hands down. Said it back in 1998. Stand by it today.
These guys are good. Hopefully they make it big one day.
😂
😂😂😂
Idk haven’t heard of them since
My god that bass tone is so good
(10:37)
Gustaf
yeah, holy crap... how did they get that tone?!
@@apoplexiamusic marshall valvestate 8100 chuck shuldiner guitar amp
wild that they recorded the bass parts on a stingray bass. i assumed they used the btb bass or that rgb bass gustav always had on tour.
@@h34dyl4m4rr Dang I didn’t know it was a stingray. I might have to buy one some time.
Update: I got the exact bass
Chaosphere is still my favorite Meshuggah album. it's just glorious.
It was my intro album when it came out...the only issue is that the mix on the album the volume is so fricken low for some reason compared to others...and it's definitely their most aggressive album.
I am so happy this exists.When Chaosphere came out it changed everything.Such a ferocious and alien sounding album.Cool to see behind the scenes.
8:50 the outro for the mouth licking what you've bled is still amongst my favorites
Filmed by me in 2008 as part of an interview I did with Tomas and Mårten.
th-cam.com/video/YCe_qJsw1L0/w-d-xo.html
2:38 as a metalhead and former car enthusiast this was extremely cathartic than Jens too hates wrenching 😂😂
11:51 awesome to see Aphex Twin on the bass :D
I was wondering if anyone thought the same thing!
Holy shit, he does look like Richard...
13:41 - OMG, imagine if that made it onto the album.
seriously! as if it wasn't insane enough
go listen to aztec two step
@an_ethos finally someone remembered it
It’s new millennium cyanide christ
@@cash3371 they mean what if NMCC had THAT vocal take over that part.
Watching this is like watching a demo band record 30 years ago with pocket change they earned over the summer - what a trip down memory lane and how much technology has gone ahead in terms of recording is mind boggling but man hearing those raw drum tracks... just pure brilliance of Haake... they were (and still are) at a whole new level of musicianship
0:30 love the cardboard wad. It's great to see the pros using quick-and-dirty solutions just like us garage guys did. I played with a guy that had the usual pillow in the kick, but he also attached a maxi pad to his batter head...
Damn. Those are DDrum triggers, right? Is the cardboard wad because of threading/the trigger bouncing around on the hoop?
Way way way ahead of it's time.
best snare tone ever...
When this CD came out, it was the only thing I listened to for at least a year straight.
That guitar tone is so fucking massive
Indeed! One of the best tones, holy grail type shit! It’s funny cuz i got kind of close to it right before the pandemic hit hard with an amp profile in TH-U, one of the JP2C rig libraries.
But Ola Englund’s recent video on that tone is probably the closest anyone of us can get to it, since he actually knows Fredrik and the gear they used.
I just bought the IR he made with the cab for that video and it definitely sounds the part, paired with the TC Integrated Preamp and Rectifier in STL Tones Amphub plugin
They kinda get muddy in the mix. Same with the bass. And drums. if the actual production side of things wasn’t horribly rushed it would be even better. But From these videos in the studio all the guitar and drums sound ultra metal.
Been my favorite band for a while now, but back when this was recorded, "Ghetto Superstar" was probably my favorite song, so nice to hear it make an appearance at 5:08.
It's so fun to watch this when you understand swedish
Was thinking the same and hilarious actually 😅🤘
1:12 it relieves me a bit to know that Tomas also had a little trouble learning to play this part. I don't feel so miserable now
Lmao but he's learning it the day of recording -
@@azhaz578 haha he likes to live dangerously
Sooo.....a machine/alien/deity CAN make mistakes.....from time to time! 😡 Bassards
That part its fckng hard to play, love the groove of the rhythm section
BEST GUITAR TONE!
That's hilarious at 1:12 Tomas was practicing that super weird/difficult part from New Millenium Cyanide Christ right before recording it. That's probably one of their most annoying riffs to learn on drums.
Im glad he played it slowed down at first so now I can really nail it when I practice it now
@@nameunavailable3025 just be aware the last time they repeat the riff in the song the polyrhythm goes on for longer without repeating. It plays the same the rest of the song though.
The way it's slowed down makes it alot easier to learn. I love this video because it has it
So wild seeing a VCR atop spaceship Djent technology.
Tomas is such a beast of a drummer. The band itself are already legends. 🔥🤘🏽
Shit! now I have to go listen to this album for the 1000th time
This is gold material right here for the ages. Meshuggah changed the game for the entire world 🔥
Listening to The Exquisite Machinery here gives me a complete different understanding of the song without the vocals adding to the syncopation. Salute to you!
I can't believe that in those years everyone was dancing to ricky martin's "The cup of life" while these monsters were making some of the best albums in history.
Ah, the classic Alesis A-DATs. We had several of those in your school studio in high school. At the time, top of the line. :D
Beautiful. I can't believe this was all going on when I was an infant. Their imprint is everywhere in metal now, all these years later.
EPIC album
Is that how the guitar sounded before processing?!?
Holy sh*t
I would like to hear from fredrik in a real and long interview about meshuggah.
This is one of the best albums ever. No joke.
I miss this meshuggah
Thanks for uploading! :)
Very interesting to hear things that are not on the album like the guitar dissonances in 'The Exquisite Machinery of Torture' and the scream in 'New Millennium Cyanide Christ'.
Regards :)
1:04 if you practice you can do anything 💯💯
hahah that part Haake was "practicing" was exactly the same riff I had a problem with but on guitar in NMCC
When I finally figured out what they were doing there I was like "aha! You bastards!"
6:37 *F-BOMB!!*
This is gold. I spent so much time as a teenager studying this album... Thank you. 🙏
I was just one year old in 1998
You guys are amazing always love you guys 🤘🏻🤘🏻🫂
Probably my favorite Meshuggah album. So weird, yet so catchy!
This is still my most favourite album by Meshuggah
Best meshuggah album ever made!
They stumbled onto something with None and DEI, but perfected it with Chaosphere.
as a teenager when I first found meshuggah, this was my least favorite meshuggah album… as a 28 year old adult, this is my favorite meshuggah album.
I don't blame you. I heard new millennium cyanide christ back in 09 and was hooked from then on
Same except I just turned 27. I remember unapologetically blasting this in school like no tomorrow; no fucks to give. I still do it but now in traffic and at work lol.
Heck, I had only really heard one or two songs when I saw them live years ago and I was amazed at their sound but wasn't sure I liked them. Upon listening further, they became one of my favorite bands, and I go see them live every time they're near me.
What a fkn album!
*This feels like watching a random episode of a weird soap opera about a bunch of Swedish Vikings that are obviously doing things that are way ahead of their time.*
legends at work....abba to meshuggah...thank you SWEDEN.........
Wonderful!
God that tone is so unreal
wow meshuggah is so ahead of their time they even had axe fxs 8 years before they were released!
Where you can see it?
There were with line six first
Man the clarity is great, I misheard so many drum parts growing up because the mix was the way it was.
This is amazing! Thank you!
My fave MESSY-HUGGER album.
Still sounds so good.
I Love You, Thank you so much for posting this ♥♥♥
Amazing footage
Incredible
Been nice to see subtitles lol
Hit the CC button
What riffmachines...
Personally, that guitar tone’s some of the best I’ve heard right next to Demanufacture, Burn My Eyes and Vulgar Display Of Power.
I like solid state. Tubes are gay
SOOOO FUUUUCKIIING GOOOOD !!!
Hit "CC" for translations!
The perfect thumbnail doesn't exi....
This album is at the top for me, later for all the Catch 33 lovers. Then Nothing, then I have my list after that. The bassist Nordin had something that kept him from being in the band after this.
You can't deny how they were thinking and what they were feeling here. It is about the dagone ONE. All day!!!! My favorite band on the planet!
It's even more ridiculous with the date on the screen.
1998 in Metal - Metallica wins a Grammy in the wake of releasing their seventh studio album [Checks notes] "Re - Load".
Meanwhile, in Uppsala..
Masterpiece!
Thank you for uploading all these studio videos. I really enjoy them!
Great footage!
One of the greatest metal albums ever created!!
absolutely insane music 50 years ahead of its time
insane bass tone jesus christ
Did not think they were using a musicman to record the bass parts. That’s pretty cool
Amazing video!!!!!
THIS right there... is the birth of Djent. The true birth of modern metal. We owe it all to them. Well to Fear Factory and Machine Head too for sure!
Yeah, def rings a bit of archetype and all
Lol man's said *Machine Head*
@@PleaseForgiveYourself 5150 with Mesa cab boosted by a Tube Screamer?
Mixing screams and clean vocals?
Breakdowns?
And also in the case of Fear Factory, syncopated chugs synced to the kick?
@@apoplexiamusic oh yeah,and also Fear Factory had dirty+clean vocals Back in '92
@@soldadoryanbr7776 Who tf listens to fear factory?
TASCAM DA-88 was a game changer
Man... i would do a lot of things to get that guitar tone at 7:25 ... holy shit
now you just need fortin nameless!
@@juicebox4345 i have it, but you need that Marshall 1960 4x12 with T75s mic’ed with a Neumann TLM. Which Ola Englund happens to sell an IR of on his online store
@@apoplexiamusic I might have to get that then, wasn’t aware of this thank you.
It seems he's attacking the shit out the strings, so much of that sound is relying on pick attack
use as low gain as you can and boost it with an od
Now they can fit 50 large amplifiers into one small box which you can hold in your hand, Jens said.
Best album ever
Frederiks look whie playing bass is so good xD
This album is still way ahead of its time. I feel like the last two albums have definately been lacking since frederic didnt write anything. The album koloss i feel gets overlooked. That to me is easily one of their best. After this album would be that one for me
Did he really not write anything for the last two albums?
*Fredrik*
@@itsrajivrm yes, just solos on immutable and violent sleep of reason from Frederik. Everything else was dick and marten and tomas. He’s “allegedly” been working on solo material all this time
@@Creature1009 aahh that does explain it! I feel he added an extra layer of technicality
@@PleaseForgiveYourself I saw Meshuggah live last year and some knobhead yelled "Fredrik!!!!" directly to Mårten... crowd was like "wtf dude" and he just kinda shook his head lmao.
GOATS
The bass tone is nasty!
I hope they play some songs from it on the tour 2022, like concentation mouth licking what u bled and corridor of chameleons
the swedish language just has that goofy aczent to it...:D saw you a week ago in cologne. it was amazing!
Where is the making of Nothing and Catch 33?!
I don't think those exist sadly...
Still in my car, what a masterpiece!
I really liked None and Destroy erase improve BUT Chaosphere totally blew my mind in 1998 - and in 2024 it still does 🤘
🔥
Most powerful band in the universe
Jens repairing w114/115 mercedes is not what i expected😂
7:58
5:54 I wonder what kind of drum sampler they used for this Concatenation demo? If I'm not mistaken this is before DFH.
since it was 1998, they were most likely using a top of the line hardware sampler with drum samples they had recorded and loaded onto the sampler. And the sampler it being triggered by something that looks like an old version of Logic.
@@apoplexiamusic Thats 100% Cubase
@@jackdevanney1193 good to know. But do you think they’re sending midi to a sampler, or actually playing back audio in a plugin in Cubase?
@@apoplexiamusic Looks like they were recording the kit and using it for samples (as seen with the red triggers around the rim of each drum head at 4:23) and also by judging the sound of the mixed drums which sound just like when Tomas is practicing at the beginning. Those samples would have then been used for the mix as seen in the midi keys at 5:50.
@@CatchTwenty2 other than getting consistent sounds, what’s the point of triggering if your sampling acoustic drums?
Guys!! You really.....have....what appears...to be....a DYNAMITE sound....
Wait, what's that guitar tone at 6:37 ??? how that sound so f*king good ??
TC electronics integrated preamp into Mesa Dual Rectifier. I had a Fortin Grind and a DR, it does indeed sound bonkers.
@@mieszanesztuki, Dual or Triple Recto?
@@AUM_-po9sc a Dual.
@@AUM_-po9sc Dual, but doesn’t matter. I have a triple.
@@SoufianeELHALOUI, thanks!
05:50 Trigger