If you want the absolute pinnacle of their songwriting ability on this album, definitely check out phantoms. It's one of those songs where the more understanding you have of how to follow the tempo, it becomes even more insane.

Great album. It's a rhythmical masterpiece. Not their greatest album but still a chugfest of immense proportion.

The drummer has developed a problem with his hands (psoriasis iirc) and it’s affected how long he can play for. Impressive that he recorded the drums on this and has been playing live still. Guys a beast.

Ligature Marks from the same album is probably Meshuggah at their grooviest. So minimal at first but it keeps on giving and giving

You should react to Ligature Marks or Phantoms

Hell YEAH.... You still need to check out the album "I"....it's a mixture of gnarly ness....

Just saw them live last night in Worcester Mass. AMAZING show. If they are coming to your area, go see them. The light show itself is worth the price of admission.

i got obzen and catch 33 on vinyl I ended up liking them so much. I didnt "get it" at first but the groove got into me deep. i get that neck face going on everytime i listen to them.

DUDE perfect timing. T-minus 37 min until i leave to go to the Philly show. 🤘

That’s called Meshuggah stank face! Rocking out!

The ending of this music is just the most brilliant evidence of the uniqueness of these guys. They can do whatever they want with their sound. There are no similar bands to Meshuggah, they are in a league of their own!

Their last album is really good. They've been really consistent throughout the years. Great job, as always! Still here! Awwright!

Just saw them in Worcester at the first show of the NA tour, sold out show. I was up front, Jens Kidman right in front of me... insane fkn show.

I've been listening to this album everyday since it dropped 🔥💯🤘

Meshuggah- Dancers to a Discordant System (LIVE)

You should react to "I" by Meshuggah. It is the most mind-blowing piece of music you will ever hear!

Meshuggah just proving once more that they are consistently relevant! Try the song Combustion🤘🏼🤙🏻🌸

HELL YES!! Finally!! Please react to the whole album my man. Your reactions are the best on this platform by far

Metal will never die

Geebz is the absolute best! I love how he’s become a metal head

That music video is certainly one of the heavy metal music videos

Based. Meshuggah is the shit.

I appreciate you reviewing metal acts, especially Meshuggah. Thanks a lot for the content and I'm still here.

That album is awesome! Stand outs for me are Broken Cog, Abysmal eye, Phantoms, They move below, Kaleidoscope. Black Cathedral is kinda an intro to I am that thirst. Check them out together. The lyrics are pretty cool on this album too. The 9th string on those guitars - you ever gotten a filling at the dentist and they use the coarse drill to open up a cavity in order to fill it? I can feel these riffs deep in my teeth and right through my skull just like that drill.

If this song was 15 minutes long, I'd be lost in it for 15 minutes. This music video (of course the main feature is the song) is awesome, as I think it's the first time in music videos where I've ever seen one I call a sequel. This is definitely the sequel to The Abysmal Eye music video. You mention Meshuggah and their influence in music. Although bands may sample from them, there is no band even close to what Meshuggah does. They are on an island all by themselves. Tomas is a freaking genius. He is so incredible at back boning the offbeats to Meshuggah's music, which I think very few drummers could really do. One of the best drummers ever in the metal realm. Another new to me drummer to me is awesome, and that's Haruna from Lovebites. Power/Speed and not Djent, so really hard to compare. It's what they do to push the music is amazing I saw Meshuggah open for Tool back in 2002 at UMass Amherst. Funny combination, and it showed. Seeing Future Breed Machine live was incredible. The most comical thing though was when their set ended. The people were obviously there to see Tool, a different crowd than Meshuggah would pull in. The looks I saw when they played their last note made me laugh so hard. It was that slow clapping. blank stare, dumbfounded look of thinking what the hell did we just see. Blew Tool away for me.

I'm still here! Been listening to Meshuggah since '94 and they have yet to disappoint me!

Meshuggah 🤙 Geebz I'm seeing them live at the agora theater in Cleveland on the 24th next saturday. I've never seen them live before I'm super excited.

If you ever get ‘lost’, default to the layering. Once you hear the one-and-two-and, you’ve got it. That’s what makes the feel so special. It grows on you.

i love the tuttis at the end

Geebz you absolutely HAVE To hear Vildhjarta. They are among the best bands that have expanded on this sound.

I love the Meshuggah you cover, great reaction Geebz we love you!

This song has one of the greatest outros of all time

I’ve been a loyal Meshuggah fan since the late 90s if you really want to understand the background of their rhythmic minds listen to catch 33’s album

Great to hear you breakdown the new Meshuggah again. Seeing them tomorrow night, I'll keep my eye on Tomas on this (and probably most tracks)

Incredible power. Every listen gets better. KEEP LISTENING!!

dude! This vid completely eradicates all that is music...Love it! But how it winds back to the "on the 1"?? Purely artistic!!! Love ur reactions & even more ur creepy vibes on that Halloween mix... A thing of beauty, bro...

Great video. I just saw them last night. Absolutely amazing

Alrigh! The best decomposer breaking down the best decomposed breakdowns! Love it! MESHUGGAH is A#1

Please react to Phantoms by Meshuggah! Incredible songwriting and a hell of a jam.

loving the new setups youre trying out. Honestly the dolls kinda creeped me out. haha

I recommend the Stifled by Meshuggah, its amazing

Thanks for the content. I think you would enjoy doing a bit of a deep-dive into Meshuggah. They reinvented rhythm in "guitars and drum" music and are worth fully understanding. And I think it would be recieved well by your audience and result in more die-hard faithfuls. Keep it up, Geebz!

Thank you Geebz

Namaste

Catching them tonight in NY! Can't wait!

I'm still here!

Meshuggah are such a crazy band. Just reading the comments on this video, I think i saw close to every song on the new album mentioned by someone.

Hello from Sweden This makes me very happy

Enjoyed this video as per usual when watching your takes on music. On a side note, your "Bleed" video flashed by in a Swedish documentary about Swedish metal a while back during the segment on Meshuggah.

Got to see them earlier in June and they played this song. Just insane!

I’m still here, and I love this song

Meshuggah is innnnnsaaaane live

Aloha from Cleveland!

Yay meshuggah!

This is not a new track, it's been out with the rest of the album since spring this year.

I think geebs secretly listens to meshuggah all day 😁

cant deny you know what your getting with meshuggah

I love the solo in this one. He just rips it up.

I have never really been a metal head. Meshuggah, Slayer, Opeth, Iron Maiden and a few others always have held a place in my heart and mind though. And metal fans have always been so chill in general. Throughout my entire life. Edit: shoutout to Metalocalypse and Brendan Small. That is one of the coolest animated shows of all time. And the music is fire.

I'm still here. Enjoy the surf Geebz!

Fantastic album! So fn sick! I’m going to see them tomorrow night. So pumped it’s ridiculous 🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘

Daaaaang buddy 😢 Hope you are doing well. Sending you some positive energy. Much love brother

Geebz just gets it.

going to see them live tomorrow night 🤘🏻 will be the 6th time for me

Totally agree man (BTW FUCKING *LOVE* THEIR NEW ALBUM ITS *INSANE* ) and i totally dig you saying what you said about the cymbals. They really are a lot less pronounced and clear than usual. I think personally this is a very conscious choice for them. They have started leaning a lot more into not giving away the rhythmic signature/feel of the song or passage or what not. Broken Cog is a fantastic example, where it keeps you in a space between feeling 4/4 and feeling a 3 over 4 feeling (if i am not mistaken). Its not necessarily that they keep ramping up the complexity with their new material, in regards to intrinsic measure/meter/rhythmic stuff, but they have started shedding away at what they reveal to you. I think the cymbals being kinda whited out is intentional to promote this motion. Also i have had a feeling through the last two records and especially this one, that Thomas has started going a lot more loosely on keeping time with the cymbals. Tracks like nostrum and clockworks on the last record almost keep the groove locked in the snare rolls. Very interesting stuff.

It sounds like the end of something with all the harmonizing.

Insane

The cymbal you were referring to is the China cymbal lol. But yeah this album is unbelievable. So happy to see you digging it. I saw them the other night in NYC and got to hang with the drummer for a bit afterwards. It's super impressive how near the end of this song they do fills that never repeat. And speaking of fills, the drums do this thing a few times on this album that I've never really heard before where he fills way all the way through and past the downbeat. Amazing stuff.

When you have a new reaction video, I'm so happening to listen to a song of the artist. So trippy bro

Achilles Last Stand, what a great reference!

btw catch 33 would be a great slow burn as the whole album is essentially one song .

The cymbals used may be chinas, and often mark the eighths here.

I'm still here

Great track from the shuggs.

It's hard to look away! Lol

Cool music video!

China cymbal is the one you're looking for :)

Edit: If you have to pick between the two do violent sleep of reason, for sure. I'm going to recommend God He Sees in mirrors in from their last album. It's a very interesting little song that uses basically the same rhythm the whole song but makes it sound different. I'd really recommend it. Outside of their newest album I'd also def recommend the song "the violent sleep of reason" (the song not the albm" which imo is also very interesting rhytmically.

regarding the reaction, faces and grooving along say it all. Meshuggah is basically unmatched. You're right about the mixing of the drums/guitar. I think Tomas even said in an interview they consciously brought the drums down a bit and guitars turned up for this album. Check out the original release of Nothing for a great raw drum mix. You can really hear Haake's ghost notes, foot hihat work and overall dynamics :) If you want to hear some great insight on Meshuggah's drumming and overall composition check out Tomas Haake's two interviews he did on "drumtalk" an excellent youtube channel interviewing top drummers. :D peace!

I'm totally with you that the overheads are quiet on this album. The drums are digital, as compared to Violent Sleep which was entirely "acoustic" (recorded live on amps in a studio).

No one escapes from stank face listening to MESHUGGAH. Pozdro666

To echo other comments... your take on "I" would be a great watch/listen!

Juicy

"Amazeballs " as always i leave with something I didn't know

Not a new track, a new musicvideo. 🤘

Just realized the headphones Geebz uses are what I have been using for vocal tracking the past few years and they are quite good. Beyerdynamic dt 770 pro are good too, especially for mixing if anyone is interested.

still here, enjoy the swells

I'm still here bro

Please consider reacting to Megadeth-Wake Up Dead. It's almost an instrumental, there are a couple of verses but it's mostly epic solos and riffage. I was listening to it today and it popped into my head that you would probably love it.

All bow to the heaviest band ever! Just saw them in orlando last week and they destroyed as usual. Pineal gland optics fully activated 🤘🤘💪🏻💪🏻

I was still there 😊

Idk much about drums but I think you might be looking for is the crash symbol? I have listened to this album, this would of not been the song I would of picked for another music video off their cd, but that's not my decision.

Try Straws Pulled at Random from Nothing, this is my favorite song by them.

Yogev Gabay has a whole video breaking down this track. I highly recommend checking it out.

Agreed with the overhead mic comment. Something I miss on this entire album is some of that 8th note or 4th note pulse on the cymbals to add to the groove. I think part of it is that he doesn't play it as often, and part mixing

Future breed machine by them is a must react please it was released in 1997 and was so ahead of its time it’s thrash djenty cause they tuned to f standard and just meshuggah before they created a genre

Love your vids, you do a bunch of like grunge and metal which is my home and its awesome BUT BUT just hear me out on this suggestion: ONE WINGED ANGEL (advent) choose any live orchestrated one or just the track 100% satisfaction or ur money back…also i want to hear what a classical composers minds eye sees when and has to say about it..curious

Taxing...... that's exactly how it is listening to meshuggah for extended periods of time. I fucking love them but there's so much going on it starts to make your head hurt after awhile trying to decipher it

I already said this on another video but you should react to some songs from the Guilty Gear Strive OST! It's the craziest and weirdest rock/metal you'll ever hear, their main theme, "Smell of The Game" is a good starting point, but if you're down for something crazy then I recommend "Drift - Happy Chaos Theme" or 'The Kiss of Death - Goldlewis theme" for something really heavy

I've been here from the beginning. Please play Riverside - Left Out. One of these days.