So who else is rather excited for the release on Friday?

Meshuggah is absolutely one of my favourite bands.  If anyone's tired of listening to the same ol' stuff, then Meshuggah is a must.  Here's a little tidbit from wikipedia:

"For example, the main riff of the song "New Millennium Cyanide Christ," from their 1998 album Chaosphere, follows the first aforementioned blueprint. Haake beats a rather slow 4/4 rhythm with his hands, while the bass drums and guitars play a repetitive 23/16 rhythm pattern on top of it. As the subdivided pattern is repeated, the pattern's accents shift to different beats on each repetition. After repeating the 23/16 pattern five times, a shorter 13/16 pattern is played once. These patterns sum up to 128 16th notes which equals exactly 8 measures in 4/4 meter. This, however, makes it a syncope, not a polyrhythm."

F*** yeah.

WTF.

I am so unaware of metal releases these days. Hell, it was only by chance that I found out about Bloodbath's new EP; oddly enough while visiting RPGFan.

I can't wait to pick a copy of this now, thanks for the heads up!

No prob.  Once I actually go get the CD, I'll throw up a .rar for ya.  I know you have dial up, but maybe...

And thanks for the reply.  Here I thought that no one cared for metal.  *sniff*

As promised.  Everyone, prepare for an aural delight.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NI0W2EDP

Enjoy!  "Bleed" is a good track to start off, but really, if you have about an hour to spare, just lie down, put on some headphones, close your eyes, and let the music penetrate your mind.  There's nothing quite like it.

-Allyourbaseare

I heard this in my buddy's car this weekend. Total headtrip. Trying to keep up with some of the rhythmic patterns is quite a chore to say the least, hahaha. Great stuff, though.

110 MBs, you trying to kill me?! Heh, I suppose I could try and download it overnight.

Kinda sucks I made the trip to go pick this up and they we're already out of stock (its a VERY small record store). I did pick up Heaven Shall Burn's Iconoclast and Nasum's Doombringer so its all good. HSB's new one kicks ass on so many levels.

I ripped the album at the highest quality possible (for an mp3 anyway).  Just count your lucky stars I didn't go FLAC

It's definetly growing on me:  Bleed and Combustion are the two early favourites.  I say early because most Meshuggah albums take more than a few listens to appreciate, and tracks that I don't necessarily take much notice the first time usually seep into my subconscious in the subsequent listenings.

I'm not familiar with the band, but the name is cute. "Meshuggah" is Hebrew for crazy. I'm amused

cheers,

-avatar!

The upload's still there for a few more days.  Avatar! ~ I'd love it if you gave it a listen.  Wikipedia groups them under "experimental metal", which is technically correct.  Although I'd much prefer to categorize them under the "technical/thrash/groove/death metal" category.