Track Listing

1. Combustion
2. Electric Red
3. Bleed
4. Lethargica
5. Obzen
6. This Spiteful Snake
7. Pineal Gland Optics
8. Pravus
9. Dancers to a Discordant System

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2088 in Music
• Released on: 2008-03-11
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

My first Meshuggah album
I've browsed their reviews in guitar mags. Something intigued me. So I bought their newest album. As you can tell, I'm coming to this review without any knowledge of previous output or fan favourites. But I have been listening to Opeth, Tool, Mastodon, The Fall Of Troy, The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Mars Volta, Joy Division very recently.

First impressions? A dense record, full-on all the way through. A bit of a cacophony.

Later impressions? It's a grower. I'm getting to understand the seperate songs. Getting to hum along to the riffs and bits. It's still an awful racket, though! But I like that.

I'm an older music fan, and have been listening to King Crimson since they started (well, second album). And I'm amazed how influential their sound and playing has been on new metal music. I thought I was the only person listening to KC as they continually reinvented themselves. Evidently not.

This album has some blistering guitar playing on it that clearly owes an influence to KC's duo of Adrian Belew and Robert Fripp who were making new sonic worlds in the 90s and Naughties.

I like it! As Mr. Belew once said.

What is the big fuss?
I don't know guys. This is my first experience with this band. I have heard that they were this phenomenal metal band, so I bought this when it first came out for $9. My first listen, I was disappointed. There are no real songs...it just seems like wankin'. And the production was terrible. So I put it on my shelf for a few months and just tried to listen to it again a week ago. Yeah, it still sucks.

Now this truly is a classic.
I'm a brand new fan of this band so I admit that they may have released some better records prior to this...I wouldn't know. All I know is that this is the absolute best death metal record I have ever heard asside from maybe only one other (by the band Death). I love this album...it is so dark, serious, and genuinely technical. These guys are real muscians. Wow!!!! I'm addicted to this album. Incredible muscianship!!!!