Saw Meshuggah in New Orleans early this Summer. After the show I ran into a guy at a Pinkberry right outside the venue. It was both his first Meshuggah concert and his first time listening to Meshuggah (lucky bastard). He looked like he had experienced some deep spiritual and emotional rearrangement. I asked how he liked the show. He said, "I've just never experienced anything like this...this was my first time listening to Meshuggah. It was like....a grenade went off every 5 minutes. Oh my god....im not sure what I was feeling...they are amazing." Me and the guy next in line just laughed and welcomed him to the Meshuggah experience. Incredible human beings, those guys from Meshuggah.
Think Meshuggah is one of the fewest bands around that can claim the best known part of it is the skills of the drummer. Not that the rest are bad, but the drumming is just somewhere else.
The secret to Meshuggah is that there is one constant 4/4 type of backbeat going on with the drums most of the time. either a hi-hat or snare or cymbal. Listen, and you'll find that thing and just nod your head to it. All the crazy madness that may be going on around it, that's your center. And it's fantastic. New album is pretty good. The last album, Koloss, is okay. High points are "Do Not Look Down" and "Demiurge" in my opinion. 2 albums ago, Obzen, is my fav from top to bottom. So fucking good.
OH, and some interesting trivia in case you haven't heard before. Tomas Haake, drummer for Meshuggah, helped develop the Drumkit from Hell software by Toontrack. DFH and the latter Superior Drummer are used in so much popular music and metal for drum samples and programming. Meshuggah is also attributed to be the founders of the 8-string staccato "djent" music style used by everyone now a days like Periphery, Animals as Leaders, After the Burial, Born of Osiris, etc.
Generally speaking, I'm a fan of most remasters. Some are better than others (Death - Human, for example). Being a drummer, I think those sound better in the remaster but the guitar tone not so much.
I feel the guitars sound more dirty on the original, so I feel they fit the original album. Yet the overall sound and production on the remaster is better IMO, so I feel that trumps the guitar tone.
@@SriramulaKishore If you want growls listen to death metal, my personal favorites are Cannibal Corpse, Nile, Cattle Decapitation, Dying Fetus, Immolation, Hate Eternal, and Suffocation.
*You know it happens that you play a game and after some time you get so good at it that you just know you can beat any player. THEN there is this guy who is "NATURALLY" so good at it that you just know with all the conviction in you that no matter what you do, what you eat, what you learn and what you conspire, you CANNOT beat this guy. You. Just. Can't.* MESHUGGAH is that guy.
They are a band that knows who they are, what they are, and who plays their strength at 200%! Allagaeon shows similar self confidence in their music. I LOVE bands like that. \mXm/
When I first heard this song I lost my mind at the part that plays at 4:50. My god, what a powerful feeling. Meshuggah is is the sound that plays in Goku's head when he is doing some ridiculous powerup I am pretty sure.
I genuinely can't get over how masterfully Meshuggah crafts their songs to make those parts really BANG. The entire song leading up to that point is pure tension-building; giving that pulse of 4 but it not *feeling* right with little hints of release that don't satiate. Then the introduction of that riff with the drum and atmospheric build-up, finally with that massive break and then it DROPS. FUCK! So perfect!
My Dad is a drummer and appreciates this music. He was explaining to me their style of play and one of the things he said is they play around with different time signatures. based on what he said , I would describe them as Math Metal, if there were such a thing.
Have to agree with everyone else, "Bleed" is pretty much a must at this point. Personally I'd also recommend "Dancers To A Discordant System", probably my favourite Meshuggah song.
If you're into the rhythmic variations, pay attention to the vocal rhythm. The melody of the vocals really doesn't change much, but the vox usually play a part over the top of everything else, like the 4:3 polyrhythm of the vox in Bleed on top of the hertas
mikkimacdoogle When you really examine what they do, it really isn't complicated. They take riffs that aren't 4/4, and make them fit over a 4/4 time signature.
@@rut-barbrorigmorsson1301 there IS a consistency in this organized chaos that you can follow for a relatively steady headbeat/bang. It's obscure as FUCK, buried deep within everything, but it is there. In the beginning, picture a somewhat generic techno beat at ~0.5 second per beat. It IS there haha
I discovered your channel with your reactions of Animals as Leaders and now you got the Meshuggah reactions and all these other great reactions. You got me. Hoping you get to do 'Bleed' by Meshuggah next as others have requested. If you liked Clockworks, ooooh boy.
You're a lucky man, discovering Meshuggah has been amazing, and it definitely gets better the more you listen to it, since you start to get it more and more with time. Definitely check out their previous albums, they're extremely consistent and putting out great material. Entire catch 33 + Mouth Licking What You've Bled + Concatenation are probably my favorites.
Clockworks is a very hard song to get into, especially if you're new to Meshuggah. You took it with stride. Well done, welcome to the world of Meshuggah.
I saw them live for the first time in NYC this past summer with a good friend who knows Meshuggah much better than me (he introduced me to them), and I would describe it as an extreme progressive metal rave. Perfectly synchronized kick drum and strobe. Brutal musicianship. Mosh pit. No politics. Just pure power. Amazing experience!
Sir you definitely earned a new subscriber! I love the way you're being so honest, and I'm not blaming you that you never listened to Meshuggah before. For me personally it is a favourite band and i absolutely love the way it was like some sort of epiphany for you. Plus you definitely know what you're talking about. I wish more people would appreciate being 'different' and still enjoying it. Looking forward for new stuff! Take care dude :)
His reaction to this is almost exactly how I reacted back when Destroy Erase Improve came out and I heard Future Breed Machine for the first time. Hard to believe that was 22 years ago already. I've been hooked ever since.
This. THIS(!) is how I like a dude to react to hearing Meshuggah for the first time! Absolutely gobsmacked and blown away! You got a new sub on this reaction alone. (And to get you on your way when you finally digest 'The Violent Sleep of Reason', go ahead and grab 'Destroy. Erase. Improve.' which is my, and many others, their magnus opus)
Arguably the best song they have written . it's unreal how at almost 50 years old and 30 years of writing this type of music that they can make it sound so fresh. The really awesome thing is they recorded this album live so they will sound really similar when they play this stuff live.
If this is truly his first exposure to meshuggah then i can appreciate the reaction. It might be reminiscent to the first time i heard them on the heavy shift- channel v. All those years ago
You need something relaxing like Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Give Them Motion or Demiurge by Meshuggah. Or New Millenium Cyanide Christ. Definitely New Millenium.
gotta love that moment in the intro when you're feeling it and trying to headbang and then realize you can't get the rythm down and you look at the camera like wait what? thats meshuggah lmao. half the fun is trying to find the patterns
When Meshuggah came to the states in the 90s, the hardcore scene in New York was in uproar. There still isn't a band like them till this day. Gojira is also another great band who's sound is very unique as well.
React to Catch-33 by Meshuggah...it is the greatest musical (and mathematical) composition ever created. It is what artists such as Mozart would have created if they were alive today.
It'a really cool to watch someone check into the deeper reaches of music with an open mind and see what they think. A band I'd recommend to check out is a group called Astronoid, they mix the instrumentation of black metal/death metal with shogaze/dream pop vocals and a brighter sound overall. Very cool stuff, may be a good band to look into if you want some great musicianship but a more melodic vocals. For a song, i'd say check out Up and Atom, it's off their most recent album.
Listen to Unexpect - Particularly The Quantum Symphony. They have all kinds of influences going on. Violins, female singer, male singer, shouts. Lots to like!
It was really awesome to see your reaction to meshuggah, having never heard them before :) as far as I’m concerned they are an acquired taste. Once acquired, however, hard to kick! Honestly I don’t go more than a day or two without listening to at least one of their tracks. They have some very thought provoking stuff and interesting lyrics. Glad you enjoyed it!
If you have great Speakers, I recommend Marrow from Meshuggah.... off the Koloss Album. They were way more intense on their Destroy Erase Improve album. Because of your reaction I am subscribing. You are reacting the way I did when I first heard them back in 1995.
Haha. Yeah, when I first saw this video, it was also the first I've heard of this band, I was entranced. It was sleepy time but I couldn't stop watching and listening to this over and over. I finally did make myself stop. It makes me want to play drums.
First video of yours I watch. Love your reactions and joy towards metal and new and strange styles of music. Your openness to new styles of music. Subbed :)
This is a cool reaction video. I'm very very new to this band too and my reaction to this song and some others was almost the exact same way. I've been listening to metal since I was little, in the mid 80s, and I find this band to be absolutely crazy and intense and interesting.
Great reaction video. Pretty much how i felt when i first heard Meshuggah. Listen to their Nothing and Catch 33 albums..heck, listen to their whole back catalogue lol
..so, I'm guessing, there are five guys in the band. It's interesting that you say this is music you have to sit and listen to and think about. I recently heard someone say that about Beethoven's 9th symphony. Cool vid as always dude !
They go real hard, I was never really a fan of stuff like this but Meshuggah is an exception. Their songs are so chaotic and aggressive that it's like they're just beating them into your head.
If you liked this you should definitely listen to Sikth - Riddles of Humanity. Very similar off-time kinda song and Sikth were around since the early Meshuggah days
"I'm gonna have to get me some of this!" Haha! That was my reaction when I first heard their song 'Future Breed Machine' and I've loved every album since then.
It does look like a genuine first reaction to Meshuggah. The first time I heard them, I didn't know whether to headbang or listen carefully, think and absorb.
_"This fuckin' off-time shit is CRAZY!" "I've never heard anything like this!"_ Has has has been exposed in the odd-ness of the 'shuggah. He is changed now and will never be the same. Soon he will be one of us. Rejoice.
Meshuggah is pretty much fucking unique if you ask me. The next closest thing are bands that mix the style Meshuggah itself has with more melodic stuff. A new genre called Djent. But Djent has clean vocals as well and has a lot of variety. It's not for everyone, but pretty interesting nonetheless.
One of the best bands ever in metal. So technical. Genius!! Check out Don't Look Down and Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion if you haven't already.
"I never heard anything like this."
That's what EVERYONE says when they first listen to Meshuggah.
John Michael and it _never,_ *Ever* gets old! :D
Because the genre is Meshugga
Saw Meshuggah in New Orleans early this Summer. After the show I ran into a guy at a Pinkberry right outside the venue. It was both his first Meshuggah concert and his first time listening to Meshuggah (lucky bastard). He looked like he had experienced some deep spiritual and emotional rearrangement. I asked how he liked the show. He said, "I've just never experienced anything like this...this was my first time listening to Meshuggah. It was like....a grenade went off every 5 minutes. Oh my god....im not sure what I was feeling...they are amazing." Me and the guy next in line just laughed and welcomed him to the Meshuggah experience. Incredible human beings, those guys from Meshuggah.
That is the perfect reaction to Meshuggah lol.
7:49 Pretty much most peoples reaction to meshuggah virgins
Hahahahaha that's a fucking true man!
Tomas Haake is a monster on the drums!
Think Meshuggah is one of the fewest bands around that can claim the best known part of it is the skills of the drummer. Not that the rest are bad, but the drumming is just somewhere else.
@@Outside85 Agreed. Their patterns make them special, but the vocalist is not good
Can you hear the jazzyness?!
The secret to Meshuggah is that there is one constant 4/4 type of backbeat going on with the drums most of the time. either a hi-hat or snare or cymbal. Listen, and you'll find that thing and just nod your head to it. All the crazy madness that may be going on around it, that's your center. And it's fantastic.
New album is pretty good. The last album, Koloss, is okay. High points are "Do Not Look Down" and "Demiurge" in my opinion. 2 albums ago, Obzen, is my fav from top to bottom. So fucking good.
OH, and some interesting trivia in case you haven't heard before. Tomas Haake, drummer for Meshuggah, helped develop the Drumkit from Hell software by Toontrack. DFH and the latter Superior Drummer are used in so much popular music and metal for drum samples and programming.
Meshuggah is also attributed to be the founders of the 8-string staccato "djent" music style used by everyone now a days like Periphery, Animals as Leaders, After the Burial, Born of Osiris, etc.
onewaydown yeah dude, Obzen is mind-blowingly good. all the songs are fucking sick.
onewaydown what are your thoughts on Nothing tho, prefer the remaster or the original version?
Generally speaking, I'm a fan of most remasters. Some are better than others (Death - Human, for example). Being a drummer, I think those sound better in the remaster but the guitar tone not so much.
I feel the guitars sound more dirty on the original, so I feel they fit the original album. Yet the overall sound and production on the remaster is better IMO, so I feel that trumps the guitar tone.
Groove metal
Thrash metal
Death metal
Djent
Meshuggah is the UNDISPUTED *_KING_* of Metal! And Have been for the 30+ years they have been around!
" Ive never heard anything like this" - always the best phrase for a first time Meshuggah experience.
optimus
clockworks is probably their best song since bleed
True!
I liked their album Koloss more but agreed nonetheless !
nostrum though...
Ivory Tower is easily the strongest tune from the album for me, which I'd say is pretty weak overall
Zämi wow you think clockwork suck, must be something wrong with you :)
"Not a big fan of scream vocal". When you get deeper into the metal you will learn to appreciate the power of the growl my young padawan.
ShadeO EWALD any particular bands you d like to talk about.. I wana get into metal..
Sriramula Kishore early meshuggah, pantera, gojira and maybe even some opeth could help get you into screaming/growling.
tarmac557 thanks mate rockon
Sriramula Kishore turmion kätilöt warmed me to growling & screaming
@@SriramulaKishore If you want growls listen to death metal, my personal favorites are Cannibal Corpse, Nile, Cattle Decapitation, Dying Fetus, Immolation, Hate Eternal, and Suffocation.
you HAVE to react to bleed by Meshuggah
RaulM HIS MIND WILL BLOWING
Ael thats what i want hahahaha
Never skip leg day, if you wanne play that song, on drums.
ooo fuck yeaaahh
YES PLEASE.
*You know it happens that you play a game and after some time you get so good at it that you just know you can beat any player. THEN there is this guy who is "NATURALLY" so good at it that you just know with all the conviction in you that no matter what you do, what you eat, what you learn and what you conspire, you CANNOT beat this guy. You. Just. Can't.*
MESHUGGAH is that guy.
They are a band that knows who they are, what they are, and who plays their strength at 200%!
Allagaeon shows similar self confidence in their music. I LOVE bands like that. \mXm/
When I first heard this song I lost my mind at the part that plays at 4:50. My god, what a powerful feeling. Meshuggah is is the sound that plays in Goku's head when he is doing some ridiculous powerup I am pretty sure.
Dassa Besso I got here from a DBZ clip lol
Yeah dude that part is the ultimate power
I genuinely can't get over how masterfully Meshuggah crafts their songs to make those parts really BANG. The entire song leading up to that point is pure tension-building; giving that pulse of 4 but it not *feeling* right with little hints of release that don't satiate. Then the introduction of that riff with the drum and atmospheric build-up, finally with that massive break and then it DROPS. FUCK! So perfect!
That's my favorite part in the song.
"I Am Colossus" from the album Koloss, and "Bleed" from obZen are pretty good jingles. You should have listen sometime.
hooxll I was just thinking about those 2 songs when I saw this
hooxll Honourable mentions to Demiurge, Lethargica, Pravus etc.
I Am Colossus is perfection
Why nobody suggest the true Meshuggah masterpieces like "Nothing" and "Catch 33"?
Might as well go back to "Chaosphere" if that's the case.
My Dad is a drummer and appreciates this music. He was explaining to me their style of play and one of the things he said is they play around with different time signatures. based on what he said , I would describe them as Math Metal, if there were such a thing.
3:35 And another Metal head is born. Metal is loud as fuck, but we are silent by nature. Welcome to the family
So true man.
im not silent wahtsoever!
i've listen to metal all my life :3 i can take being insane tho
"Tranquil as a forest
But on fire within"
\m/
Their last album is HUGE
Have to agree with everyone else, "Bleed" is pretty much a must at this point. Personally I'd also recommend "Dancers To A Discordant System", probably my favourite Meshuggah song.
my all time favourite song of any genre of music
He should review Stengah
Reanitheory1 best meshuggah song easy. Good call.
THANKS A LOT FOR THIS REVIEW GALACTICRIMINAL !!! I WANTED IT SO MUUUCH !!! ;-)
Oh yeah. Saw ur comment literally minutes after upload. Shoutout to you
Haha, you totally made my day !
If you're into the rhythmic variations, pay attention to the vocal rhythm. The melody of the vocals really doesn't change much, but the vox usually play a part over the top of everything else, like the 4:3 polyrhythm of the vox in Bleed on top of the hertas
Meshuggah is just pure math
Correction, Meshuggah is just pure groove!
Certainly agreed.
To some professor-dude, who really deciphered and asked them how they did it, Haake said: 'it's not that complicated; if you can count to four". lol.
Negative, meshuggah is pure calculus and quadratic equations.
mikkimacdoogle When you really examine what they do, it really isn't complicated.
They take riffs that aren't 4/4, and make them fit over a 4/4 time signature.
3:52 Meshuggah in a fucking nutshell.
Rational gaze IS meshuggah
John Boutwell New Millenium Cyanide Christ is Meshuggah
RaulM just checked it out and....Fuck yeah!
Future Breed Machine is Meshuggah :)
The entire Catch 33 album is Meshuggah.
I is Meshuggah
I'm Glad you liked it, I'm a huge fan of them
i've seen them live 3 times. And i met their drummer once, awesome guy!
His reaction at the end was how I tried to explain seeing them live.
You had to fix your headbang rhythm a lot .. AHAHA
So true. I love when a band throws me off.
How do you even headbang to M? Watch rytm do you follow😂?
@@rut-barbrorigmorsson1301 I've been told the snare drum
@@rut-barbrorigmorsson1301 there IS a consistency in this organized chaos that you can follow for a relatively steady headbeat/bang.
It's obscure as FUCK, buried deep within everything, but it is there.
In the beginning, picture a somewhat generic techno beat at ~0.5 second per beat.
It IS there haha
There's a 4/4 in there, in time you will learn to pick it out. It's completely doable to headbang to :) Where it is differs between the songs too
They are elite..
Oh, and check out Morphogenesis and The Illusionist by Scar Symmetry and Rejection Role by Soilwork :D
I discovered your channel with your reactions of Animals as Leaders and now you got the Meshuggah reactions and all these other great reactions. You got me.
Hoping you get to do 'Bleed' by Meshuggah next as others have requested. If you liked Clockworks, ooooh boy.
You're a lucky man, discovering Meshuggah has been amazing, and it definitely gets better the more you listen to it, since you start to get it more and more with time. Definitely check out their previous albums, they're extremely consistent and putting out great material. Entire catch 33 + Mouth Licking What You've Bled + Concatenation are probably my favorites.
This is the best reaction video going around! I love how gobsmacked and speechless he is at the end!
Wow!! I know that feeling you had just there in the end of it and after it quited. I was stunned. I was so lost in thought.
Clockworks is a very hard song to get into, especially if you're new to Meshuggah. You took it with stride. Well done, welcome to the world of Meshuggah.
Its such chaos that its perfectly well timed and synchronized its a symphonies of counter rhythms
7:48 this is exactly the reaction I wanted to see.
As a long time Meshuggah fan, this brought me great joy to see your mind being blown :)
I saw them live for the first time in NYC this past summer with a good friend who knows Meshuggah much better than me (he introduced me to them), and I would describe it as an extreme progressive metal rave. Perfectly synchronized kick drum and strobe. Brutal musicianship. Mosh pit. No politics. Just pure power. Amazing experience!
Sir you definitely earned a new subscriber! I love the way you're being so honest, and I'm not blaming you that you never listened to Meshuggah before. For me personally it is a favourite band and i absolutely love the way it was like some sort of epiphany for you. Plus you definitely know what you're talking about. I wish more people would appreciate being 'different' and still enjoying it. Looking forward for new stuff! Take care dude :)
Watching his bewildered face as he tried to figure out what was happening, priceless!
My favorite thing on the internet today!
I always love seeing people discover Meshuggah!
I first got into Meshuggah back in 1997. One of my favs.
Haze Anderson crazy to think that was 21 years ago, isn't it?
Same here..The none album..
I lucked into them back then as well. Great to see people in the present day discovering them and being blown away
An awesome thing about the video is how the lightning reflects the instrument of whichever band member's "head" you're in at the time.
His reaction to this is almost exactly how I reacted back when Destroy Erase Improve came out and I heard Future Breed Machine for the first time. Hard to believe that was 22 years ago already. I've been hooked ever since.
I enjoyed watching this. I wish I could go back in time and hear them for the first time again
If you think that song sounds amazing coming out of your headphones, go and see them live. The sound of that band live is incredible.
I could watch their live performance every night until I die and never get sick of them
This. THIS(!) is how I like a dude to react to hearing Meshuggah for the first time! Absolutely gobsmacked and blown away! You got a new sub on this reaction alone.
(And to get you on your way when you finally digest 'The Violent Sleep of Reason', go ahead and grab 'Destroy. Erase. Improve.' which is my, and many others, their magnus opus)
Haha, wonderful reactions! Now, go see them live, it is mindblowing seeing them on stage. The lighting show is something extraordinary.
Arguably the best song they have written . it's unreal how at almost 50 years old and 30 years of writing this type of music that they can make it sound so fresh. The really awesome thing is they recorded this album live so they will sound really similar when they play this stuff live.
If this is truly his first exposure to meshuggah then i can appreciate the reaction. It might be reminiscent to the first time i heard them on the heavy shift- channel v. All those years ago
pleeeease react to meshuggah - demiurge. i've seen this band live btw. it was fucking awesome
You need something relaxing like Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Give Them Motion or Demiurge by Meshuggah. Or New Millenium Cyanide Christ. Definitely New Millenium.
Super-Ultra lmao new millennium and demiurge aren’t relaxing in my opinion lol. Heavy ass groove on new millennium that just makes you wanna get down
@@xxDeathMaidenxx r/woosh
the riff at 2:05 is seriously the best riff in metal.
ever
BuT pAnTERa
gotta love that moment in the intro when you're feeling it and trying to headbang and then realize you can't get the rythm down and you look at the camera like wait what? thats meshuggah lmao. half the fun is trying to find the patterns
When Meshuggah came to the states in the 90s, the hardcore scene in New York was in uproar. There still isn't a band like them till this day. Gojira is also another great band who's sound is very unique as well.
F yeah bro. Down the meshuggah rabbit hole you go.
One of the most refined and well-polished metal songs of this generation for sure
I love how Jens doesn't need to distort his vocals. He just screams his fucking lungs out. Fits the music perfectly. Pure catharsis.
React to Catch-33 by Meshuggah...it is the greatest musical (and mathematical) composition ever created. It is what artists such as Mozart would have created if they were alive today.
It'a really cool to watch someone check into the deeper reaches of music with an open mind and see what they think.
A band I'd recommend to check out is a group called Astronoid, they mix the instrumentation of black metal/death metal with shogaze/dream pop vocals and a brighter sound overall. Very cool stuff, may be a good band to look into if you want some great musicianship but a more melodic vocals. For a song, i'd say check out Up and Atom, it's off their most recent album.
25 year meshuggah fan here. This video is 90% of new meshuggah fans. Welcome to the greatest band of ALL TIME
This is seriously the best reaction video I've ever seen, in every way
I laughed my ass off, and you can just see the amazement in his eyes lmao
Listen to Unexpect - Particularly The Quantum Symphony. They have all kinds of influences going on. Violins, female singer, male singer, shouts. Lots to like!
The Drumming mixed with the pummeling rhythmic riffs takes you places!! Meshuggah, Gojira, and Fear Factory have this effect!!!
*You say: I've never heard anything like that.* Amazing!
Quote of the year: Sorry your just sittin here watching me with my fricken mouth open. Haha
Lol at 0:32 he sounded like Bubbles from Trailer Park Boys
It was really awesome to see your reaction to meshuggah, having never heard them before :) as far as I’m concerned they are an acquired taste. Once acquired, however, hard to kick! Honestly I don’t go more than a day or two without listening to at least one of their tracks. They have some very thought provoking stuff and interesting lyrics. Glad you enjoyed it!
caught em at the house of blues here at home in Dallas last October. Been with them since Chaosphere. Good stuff
I literally feel such emotion every time I listen to this song.. And it isn't always positive.. But it's one of the best feelings in reality.
Like a nut
This is the only band that makes think about how to headbang while headbanging. That right hand on Mr. Haake is usually the one to head bang to.
your reaction to that long intro was hilarious LOL
If you have great Speakers, I recommend Marrow from Meshuggah.... off the Koloss Album. They were way more intense on their Destroy Erase Improve album. Because of your reaction I am subscribing. You are reacting the way I did when I first heard them back in 1995.
Haha. Yeah, when I first saw this video, it was also the first I've heard of this band, I was entranced. It was sleepy time but I couldn't stop watching and listening to this over and over. I finally did make myself stop. It makes me want to play drums.
This song fucking shreds! I love your videos man. Please react to Dark Tranquillity Misery's Crown!
Ill look into them
GALACTICRIMINAL You won't be disapointed. I know you love melodic metal so you'll love them.
ChopChan i love your profile pic. gengar is one of my favorite Pokemon.
React to Bleed by Meshuggah and Dagger by Vildhjarta, please!
thall
MrBIT thall
i just love that jazz band groove before the vocals kick in, just fucking dope
Future Breed Machine is a pretty dope song from them, another good reaction Brotha! I dig watchin you discover new bands
You got it bang on.
If you get into Meshuggah, their music puts you into an weird trance with all the kaos of the off beats.
Kings of the Poly-rhythm!! Timing is impeccable..
well, just found you recently...and if I hadn't already subscribed, that Strongbad parody intro would've dragged me into it
Wish I could have seen my face when I discovered them. Bleed was the first one I heard a few years ago. Omfg it blew me away
First video of yours I watch. Love your reactions and joy towards metal and new and strange styles of music. Your openness to new styles of music.
Subbed :)
Your constant look of confusion is priceless! :)
I love clockworks. the time signature changes over the same riffs make it sound hypnotic
Bleed is undoubtedly their most popular track and it is worth a reaction!
I love the reactions when they listen to meshuggah for the first time xD
This is a cool reaction video. I'm very very new to this band too and my reaction to this song and some others was almost the exact same way. I've been listening to metal since I was little, in the mid 80s, and I find this band to be absolutely crazy and intense and interesting.
Oh man you gotta do either Obzen or Bleed by them. It'll blow your mind man. Bleed is how I discovered Meshuggah
"That fucking off-time shit is CRAZY" - Literally the best overall description of Meshuggah I've ever heard.
Great reaction video. Pretty much how i felt when i first heard Meshuggah. Listen to their Nothing and Catch 33 albums..heck, listen to their whole back catalogue lol
I listen Meshuggah for many years, but I was overwhelmed by this "clockworks"...
I would love to lose my memory just to have your experience. hehehe
..so, I'm guessing, there are five guys in the band. It's interesting that you say this is music you have to sit and listen to and think about. I recently heard someone say that about Beethoven's 9th symphony. Cool vid as always dude !
They go real hard, I was never really a fan of stuff like this but Meshuggah is an exception. Their songs are so chaotic and aggressive that it's like they're just beating them into your head.
Check out ”break those bones whose sinews gave it motion” , heavy tune also! 🤘🏻 Cheers from the Swede 😎
If you liked this you should definitely listen to Sikth - Riddles of Humanity. Very similar off-time kinda song and Sikth were around since the early Meshuggah days
"I'm gonna have to get me some of this!"
Haha! That was my reaction when I first heard their song 'Future Breed Machine' and I've loved every album since then.
It does look like a genuine first reaction to Meshuggah. The first time I heard them, I didn't know whether to headbang or listen carefully, think and absorb.
_"This fuckin' off-time shit is CRAZY!" "I've never heard anything like this!"_
Has has has been exposed in the odd-ness of the 'shuggah.
He is changed now and will never be the same.
Soon he will be one of us.
Rejoice.
If I remember correctly this album was recorded live with very few fixes in post.
Meshuggah is pretty much fucking unique if you ask me. The next closest thing are bands that mix the style Meshuggah itself has with more melodic stuff. A new genre called Djent. But Djent has clean vocals as well and has a lot of variety. It's not for everyone, but pretty interesting nonetheless.
One of the best bands ever in metal. So technical. Genius!! Check out Don't Look Down and Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion if you haven't already.
Also check out "Straws pulled at random" or "Dancers to a discordant system" from them