History Music / Meshuggah

* StylisticSuck: The music video for "New Millennium Cyanide Christ," a song about a man who sacrifices his humanity to become a [[ClarkesThirdLaw sufficiently advanced cyborg]], and seeks to reshape the whole world in his hellish image, consists of Hagstrom, Thordendal and Hielm air-guitaring, Haake air-drumming, and Kidman lip-synching(badly) into an ink pen, all while wearing ridiculous sunglasses on their tour bus. They reportedly were extremely drunk at the time.
** The "Mr. Kidman Delirium Version" music video for "Rational Gaze" which is just a handicam of Jens Kidman performing as his bandmates, with the help of different wigs, including a FunnyAfro. The shots focusing on him singing make gratuitous usage of JitterCam too.

* RuleOfFunny: The music video for "New Millennium Cyanide Christ," a song about a man who sacrifices his humanity to become a [[ClarkesThirdLaw sufficiently advanced cyborg]], and seeks to reshape the whole world in his hellish image, which has a music video consisting of Hagstrom, Thordendal and Hielm air-guitaring, Haake air-drumming, and Kidman lip-synching(badly) into an ink pen, all while wearing ridiculous sunglasses on their tour bus. They reportedly were extremely drunk at the time.

* ButtMonkey: Jens Kidman. Being a walking embodiment of NarmCharm and CrazyAwesome, his fans and even his bandmates naturally tend towards poking fun at him to the point of turning him into a living, breathing heavy metal MemeticMutation.

* EpicRocking: Plenty of songs, especially more recent ones.
** ''Catch Thirtythree'' and the ''I'' EP are the longest songs, the former being split into multiple segments
* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Jens
** TheLancer: Mårten
** TheSmartGuy: Fredrik
** TheBigGuy: Tomas
** [[SixthRanger Fifth Ranger]]: Dick

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Usually at 10-11. Sometimes crosses into 9 territory.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gy7SlJMWn_s The aptly named "Mayhem" version of Future Breed Machine]] may be the hardest song they've ever made, at a very hard 11. This is thanks to the much sludgier feel of the song compared to the original, along with the heavy industrial elements and of course, Jens' constant throat-shredding shrieks.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Jens is 50 years old, but minus the bald head, could pass for his mid or late 20's.

* RuleOfFunny / ThrowItIn:
** The music video for "New Millennium Cyanide Christ," a song about a man who sacrifices his humanity to become a [[ClarkesThirdLaw sufficiently advanced cyborg]], and seeks to reshape the whole world in his hellish image, which has a music video consisting of Hagstrom, Thordendal and Hielm air-guitaring, Haake air-drumming, and Kidman lip-synching(badly) into an ink pen, all while wearing ridiculous sunglasses on their tour bus. They reportedly were extremely drunk at the time.
** The Mr. Kidman Delirium version of music video for "Rational Gaze" [[MemeticMutation speaks for itself]].

* [[Music/ScarSymmetry Per Nilsson) - lead guitar (2017-present)

* Fredrik Thordendal – lead guitar, backing vocals (1987–present), lead vocals (1987-1992)

* StepUpToTheMicrophone: played straight with Haake's spoken-word parts, {{Averted|Thrope}} with Kirk Hammett's guest solo on one of the live performances of "Bleed".

* StepUpToTheMicrophone: played straight with Haake's spoken-word parts, {{Averted|Thrope}} with Kirk Hammet's guest solo on one of the live performances of "Bleed".

** ''Catch Thirtythree'' and the ''I'' EP are the longest songs, the former being split into multiple segments

* Fredrik Thordendal – guitars, backing vocals (1987–present), lead vocals (1987-1992)

* Mårten Hagström – guitars, backing vocals (1993–present)
* Dick Lövgren – bass guitar (2004–present)

* Peter Nordin – bass guitar (1987–1995)
* Gustaf Hielm – bass guitar (1995–2001)

* JustForFun/XMeetsY: Music/{{Pantera}} meets Music/DreamTheater or Music/{{Nevermore}} meets Music/{{Converge}}, depending on the song.

* BreatherEpisode: Each album except ''Chaosphere'' has at least one of these, whether it's a full song, or just part of a song.

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'''Meshuggah'''[[note]]taken from ''meshuga'', the Yiddish and Hebrew word for "crazy"[[/note]] is a Swedish metal band formed in 1987. They are well-known for their signature musical style, which involves [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth lots of chugging]], [[UncommonTime complex, polymetered song structures]], loud, [[EpicRiff savage, bass-heavy riffing]], [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly unusual compositions]] and precise musicianship. Meshuggah has found little mainstream success as yet, but is a significant act in extreme underground music and has received significant critical acclaim.

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'''Meshuggah'''[[note]]from the hebrew word for "crazy"[[/note]] is a Swedish metal band formed in 1987. They are well-known for their signature musical style, which involves [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth lots of chugging]], [[UncommonTime complex, polymetered song structures]], loud, [[EpicRiff savage, bass-heavy riffing]], [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly unusual compositions]] and precise musicianship. Meshuggah has found little mainstream success as yet, but is a significant act in extreme underground music and has received significant critical acclaim.

'''Meshuggah'''[[note]]from the hebrew word for "crazy"[[/note]]is a Swedish metal band formed in 1987. They are well-known for their signature musical style, which involves [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth lots of chugging]], [[UncommonTime complex, polymetered song structures]], loud, [[EpicRiff savage, bass-heavy riffing]], [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly unusual compositions]] and precise musicianship. Meshuggah has found little mainstream success as yet, but is a significant act in extreme underground music and has received significant critical acclaim.

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Meshuggah is a Swedish metal band formed in 1987. They are well-known for their signature musical style, which involves [[ThreeChordsAndTheTruth lots of chugging]], [[UncommonTime complex, polymetered song structures]], loud, [[EpicRiff savage, bass-heavy riffing]], [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly unusual compositions]] and precise musicianship. Meshuggah has found little mainstream success as yet, but is a significant act in extreme underground music and has received significant critical acclaim.

* TitleTrack: "obZen" is their only proper title track.

** The Mr. Kidman Delirium version of music video for "Rational Gaze" speaks for itself.
* ScaryMusicianHarmlessMusic: {{Inverted|Trope}}; aside from the weird faces they make in pictures sometimes, they overall seem like pretty harmless, down-to-earth guys, and [[HumansAreBastards despite]] their lyrics, they do have a sense of humor and a highly positive outlook. But their music is dark, crushing, and almost inhuman.

* SignatureStyle: Metalheads frequently cite the band as the TropeMaker for djent; the genre's name itself being derived from the sound of their signature palm-muted and heavily-bent guitar riffs. The band, however, has done everything from slow and heavy GrooveMetal with sparse beats akin to Music/{{Pantera}}'s slower material and arrythmic, discordant and extremely noisy metal with loads of chugging and atonal leadwork.

* FollowTheLeader[=/=]FountainOfExpies - Revered and worshiped by the likes of Music/{{Deftones}}, Music/{{Gojira}}, Music/LambOfGod, Music/{{Periphery}} and Music/{{Tool}}, and subsequently copied by legions of {{Djent}} bands.

* OlderThanTheyLook: Jens is 46 years old, but, minus the bald head, could pass for his mid or late 20's.

** However, "Spasm" was written in 7/4.

* XMeetsY: Music/{{Pantera}} meets Music/DreamTheater or Music/{{Nevermore}} meets Music/{{Converge}}, depending on the song.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly[=/=]GenreBusting: Aside from just "metal", the band's genre causes quite a lot of confusion. DeathMetal? ThrashMetal? GrooveMetal? ProgressiveMetal? Djent? They've also been referred to as "math metal" and even "{{avant garde metal}}". Guitarist Martin Hagstrom and drummer Tomas Haake are known to prefer the label "experimental metal".

* FollowTheLeader[=/=]FountainOfExpies - Revered and worshiped by the likes of Music/{{Deftones}}, Music/{{Gojira}}, Music/LambOfGod, Music/{{Periphery}} and Music/{{Tool}}, and subsequently copied by legions of Music/{{Djent}} bands.

* TropeMaker: For Music/{{Djent}}

* FollowTheLeader[=/=]FountainOfExpies - Revered and worshiped by the likes of Music/{{Deftones}}, Music/{{Gojira}}, Music/LambOfGod, Music/{{Periphery}} and Music/{{Tool}}, and subsequently copied by legions of underground "[[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Djent&defid=4604597 djent]]" bands.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly[=/=]GenreBusting: Aside from just "metal", the band's genre causes quite a lot of confusion. DeathMetal? ThrashMetal? GrooveMetal? ProgressiveMetal? They've also been referred to as "math metal" and even "{{avant garde metal}}". Guitarist Martin Hagstrom and drummer Tomas Haake are known to prefer the label "experimental metal".