even gods can be tired

A lot of songs have parts like that in them. Is there a guitar solo after the first chorus and before the verse? That's probably there to give the singer a short break. The glockenspiel part of Closer to the Heart was added so Alex Lifeson would have time to switch from his acoustic to an electric.

@S Yeah, and Gargantuans are known for their feats I think.

@@zzz-mf5yz tf

@@q6ou hp

I'm fucking done haha

Funniest thing I've heard all day

I laughed quite a bit

@@PearlDrummerFTW ok

With no shoes on

correct

That fucking bass dive at 1:40 speaks to my soul.

@@j.alvarado7629 Sorry, but you are a complete moron if you actually believe that the guitars/bass isn't that hard. Yeah, playing the main riff at full speed a couple of times isn't maybe the hardest thing, but this song is over 7 minutes. It's quite a big challenge and exercise in rhythm and stamina to play this song perfectly from start to finish. Any guitar player that actually tried to play this song would tell you the same.

​@@j.alvarado7629 If you had basic reading comprehension skills you'd understand that my point wasn't about what technique to use to play this song. But rather that you claimed it isn't that hard or an easy song to play on guitar/bass which is just ridiculous. "Not that hard" and easy songs is something a beginner/intermediate player could learn pretty fast with some practice. No way a guitarist of that caliber ever learns how to play this song flawlessly from beginning to finish. Period. And besides, your so called "argument" could be applied to the drums also. Haake plays the same patterns on drums with his feet as the guitars do and it's all about technique and movement economy for the drums as well. Still doesn't make it an easy song in any shape or form.

@@j.alvarado7629 Yes, you did. Did I say something else? How is that basic reading comprehension going for you? Drums play same pattern as guitar. Both guitar and drums require technique, stamina and movement economy to play properly (specially if you are gonna play it TIGHT for 7 minutes). Still you say that the guitar is easy and the drums are hard. That makes no sense. Overall, the drums are probably harder, yes, but the guitar is by no means "easy". You know what's easy? Smells like teen spirit or shit like that. Do you now understand my point or do I have explain myself so even a child would understand? And no, most guitar players would not play the whole song from beginning to end properly after two years. And you keep bringing up and assuming my skill of guitar like it is relevant. It isn't. But since I can actually play it properly I know it's not an easy song. But let me guess, you are that player that's been playing for 2 years and thinks you pull off Bleed flawlessly but it sounds like shit but you don't realize it? Yeah, we've all been there... thinking we were good but then you realize after you've been playing for 5-10 or even 20 years that you were complete garbage and that you still have a lot to learn.

Underrated comment.

Lucas Moreira Dias love it!!

LOL I DIED WITH THIS COMMENT SO GOOD

lol

You're so right champ. 🤘☠️🤘

No need for coffee

@@LardyMongusHunnter Agreed but with coffee watch out lol .

Who needs coffee ☕️

So that's you? 😂

Lol, now I cant unheard that shit hahahahaha

god dammit why

+penssmell997 seriously man. Can't hear anything else there now 😂

It's crap, my crap in your spagetti.. It's an often misheard lyric.

i can unheart it anymore .. FUCK YOU XD

a majority of bands use triggers now days. Its not for cheating its for consistent sound.

i wasn't blaming, i was informing the ones who don't know. We share the same idea my friend

TheLazyOne00 See what happens when you don't read the whole thread.

Not even Haake could play this according to what he said in an interview he gave some years back. He said that he really had to learn a whole different way of playing the drums to master this.

uxmannen He sacrificed his legs for the sake of a masterpiece which he created with the band.Damn.

Piece of shit Haake. That's the answer.

Practice and drum triggers so the bass drum hits don't sound so muddy and you can hear each note with clarity

I've heard that the only triggers he use live are to control guitars, bass and vocals effects. No more pedalboard on stage^^

Hell Gino I meant drum triggers on the kick. They were only using it for bleed but now they use them for every song

20-30 years of experience helps lol

Bro this type of music and exercising makes me feel SUPERHUMAN

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooolder than "darude" nd "did he died(ed)"

i got lost the very first second, this is badass wow

Sam Y I think the main riff is triplets with a 16th note at the end.

It's actually not triplets (although on the surface it does sound like that). If you're familiar with drum rudiments, the riff follows a "herta" pattern which can be thought of as 2 32nd notes followed by 2 16th notes. In total it takes up 3 sixteenth notes worth of time before it repeats which creates the over-the-bar-line polymeter feel of the song. Very cool tune and pattern.

Sam Y the whole first part is just 000-0 over and over again with a bend and it switches up here and there

Orgasmic

oh, damn. why isn't this on the actual track? i guess it's just so people can listen to it without having to worry about shattering windows and shit

That happened as I read your comment

That dive is what I live for

OMG. When I heard it, I had to see if anyone commented about it.

training...a lot...

I like your profile pic

Svartedauden They are aliens, mabey? Or robots?

Foxy Moto Gods.

+Svartedauden Inter-dimensional beings... illustrating what we are all capable of if we just believe... nah jk they fucking freaks.

qwertyuiop it’s a small heavy stage

qwertyuiop A black hole is now in the very spot this stage used to occupy

How can EARTH hold something so heavy!?

It defies science

Meshuggah are needed to balace the earth since the three gorges dam was built

manan dedhia hahahaha!!!!

Music that brutal and precise cannot be created by minds that are anywhere near true insanity. This performance is like the Blood Angels from Warhammer 40k took off their powered armor and decided to slay some ears for a change, lol.

Frederik thordendal bitch

@@jamaldorce it's been 11 months and I'm here to call you a nerd

That’s what whey are

it actually sounds a bit heavier I think. besides the lower voice, the slightly different notes of the guitar solo and the cheering, it's almost like a remix

M ind E xpanding S yncopated H eavy U nder G round G argantuan A ggressive H ypnosis

+mysterywhiteboy72 so close!

erpaloinen Oops! Fixed ty :P

It just means crazy in Hebrew.

With awesome bass slide

😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

Live is the best way to experience this band. Believe me, I couldn't handle it.

Nod TM I concur!.... Live is so much better and dare I say heavier!.... especially when they launch into Bleed without any intro or clue!....... Snap your spine moment!

***** Chugging under low F string is basically what they have been doing for past two decades, isn't it? Its just our personal opinion. And yes their will be moments in the set where you feel bored with odd time and heavy tone but am sure you will have the best brutal heavy djenty metal headbanging moshing experience.

***** Go wild

man i've seen them once, it is an experience you won't get with any other band,

Well he's been drumming since the 80s.

Still though it's INSANE!!

I've heard that he works out his legs a decent amount to enable him to play a show.

He's said that his shins and lower shins take the worst beating.

he doesnt have much control over his right leg watch the interview with loudwire

Mike Jordan shin muscles, I think you mean tibialis anterior

watch out we got a smartass

@@Isaac-eg3um Ooh Google what is the shin muscle? Ok let me show how smart I am to KZfaq comments.

@@justinwright1745 im pretty sure he meant calf muscles cause that's what hurts when I try to play this on drums hahaha

@@Hallowedpoint85 It's both for me.

Well put, if you get past the first impression of "this is just chaos" it actually makes a lot of sense. Many of their songs including Bleed are (mostly) 4/4.

word. it's something that's worth pointing out people bitch about repetition in their music as if repetition weren't a staple characteristic of music in general. their music isn't exactly intuitive, the repetition just gives you time to let it sink in, but more importantly, most of their riffs _need_ to be repeated a certain number of times for the rhythm to come back around and put them in an appropriate place to move on to the next riff. like, for the purpose of timing. their music is difficult enough without having to lop measures in half every time they progress to a new riff.

@@oddmushasmr The fact that this is 4/4 just makes it that much scarier to think about.

@Barry Oliver well bu your definition, it’s actually been done a bunch. Indian classical music for instance is devoid of western style harmony entirely, replaced by greater melodic and rhythmic intricacies.

@@pat8437 this is true; however this approach is new to western music which is why Meshuggah is so revolutionary. Add in the fact that they are from the sticks in sweden and self taught is truly genius. Apparently their biggest influences are actually electronic groups such as Autechre and Squarepusher, and it totally shows. They don't listen to other metal, which is why they sound incredibly unique.

Yes we did

Jens

Chills material

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l5yUqKl8lZjQpZs.html here he does a little warming on the vocal chords

yeahyeah, but did u hear the drums :D

100% agree! Love that song and always wonder how they manage to play live so clean and tight!

Ryan De Bowr Ive just discovered them and I can't stop listening to this song! It melts my brain in the best way!

Is he a robot? I consider myself a pretty good drummer with good timing, but this is like robotic precision. What the fuck. Is he even real?

Swiss: "we have the atomic clock, our timing is very precise" Sweden: "we have Thomas Haake" *mic drop*

Tomas, Tomas Hockey

@@RockinAfr0 👍👍

Concrete calves

I feel broken as a human, since they are so down to earth and fucking cool and humble. Love these guys!

Love comments like this ❤️

I'll take erotomania or the dance of eternity over this any day

Ticks and Leeches by Tool has better drums than this by a slight margin

Animals as leaders too

gregg Blankley as a drummer I can confirm that bleed is way more harder than erotomania and dance of Eternity

ticks and leeches, bleed, dance of eternity, angel of death, lateralus, new millennium cyanide christ, criminally insane, the enemy inside all stand out to me. ALSO DON'T EVER FORGET MÖTORHEAD

They sound heavier live than on record.... I have seen them live 3 times now, and every fuckin time they get my head reelin.....

manan dedhia agreed they always f*cking blow you away with their awesome songs xd

I hope you have seen them because Fredrik is on a break

I concur

@Nick i did eventually see them, i think a year after this comment lol. one of the best concerts i've ever seen, not even exaggerating.

When I saw them live, I was literally taken away, timing was so accurate. They just popped Bleed somewhere in Marrow outtro, not a single mistake.

Lance Jones I was worried when I was going to see Lamb of God live if they'd sound as good as they do in the studio. I had nothing to worry about, I found out they practice 5 days a week to keep their songs sounding tight live.

They are definitely this tight live. its unbelievable

Believe it bro.

Wobbly i saw them feb. un fukkin real. they have nailed HEAVY. they define it. go see them .

Pussies 😉

Or there your relatives

how old are you?

definitely NOT their simplest song... and that isnt really an oxymoron but hey I get ya :D mesmerizing at least, its sheer force is ground-breaking man I cant wait to see them live holy fucking shit

Proglove85 Please tell me which of there songs is the most complex in your opinion. Ive just discovered them.

@@troyh1969this one is

Actually the time signature is 4/4 but the rhythmical part which consists of 16th and 32th notes are fucked up.

Yeah as Mezei already mentioned, it's all in 4/4. As for the syncopated (a.k.a "choppy") subdivisions, most of it is based on what's called "the Herta", i.e. three 32nd notes followed by one 16th note. Granted, the Herta fits more naturally in other time signatures, 12/8 for example , but clearly it works here as well ;)

BackflipBeaver Thank you Mister BackflipBeaver for a better explanation! :D

lmfao 😂

Actually, Lars does the same thing, playing stuff that is not 4/4 over stuff that is 4/4. Not because he plans to, though...

Vincent McAulay I read somewhere that they spent 6 months on all the rest of the songs and 6 months on bleed.

Yup every record is a project. I have most of their current record memorized at the moment, but it took literally 3 years to figure it out all the way.

I read somewhere that it took Haake 6 months to learn this song...6 months to learn all the other songs on the album.

download guitar pro and you can totally do that

sheet music? just find a sharpie and scribble all over the staves until you can't see them anymore.

12 years too late but i agree im seeing them this december its gonna be so awesome

There are more "Crazy" or fucked up bands. But when it comes to pure heavyness and pure brutality... *Bleed*

lou2bozzy Me too! Love him even more now.

Hurrrda hurrrda hurrrda

@@readman010 correction.. it's Brrrda Brrrda brrrda

@@srivatsgopalan4308 he does both

Damn right

Дас ист гуд. 🙂

its supposed to :)

you made it that far? you're doing better than the rest of us!

2:33 is the biggest groove ever tbh

pariskotsaros psht, any child could play that :P lol

yurtpoh The moment it hits ,after the build-up, makes it very intense imo. I don't really care if it's difficult or not

haha, not with football but i prefer "I" as a warm up song or even some Brutal Death stuff

Manga DBZ I'd love to blast this in our locker room before games but I'm not sure how well it would go over...

98% percent of my football team listens to rap. They plug a phone into the aux cord that plays music through the big speakers in the locker room. I just put my phone in my locker and turn up this and listen to it on my own. This shit hypes me up way more than a motherfucker slapping some lazy ass rhymes together

Chase Commerton lol