mathprodigy if you think it's one of the hardest tracks of all time then you need to listen to more music.

He said strong, not hard. It was such a HUGE track to drop. This band really set the bar high and kinda paved the way for new bands in this genre. This song especially influenced many metal musicians. I would define that as a STRONG track

mathprodigy for sure. The amount of ghost notes played with his left hand while playing almost constant 16th notes in groupes of 3 while playing the kick pattern of 16/32 displaced bass note herta is absolutely fucking incredible. A true legend right there, for sure set the bar higher.

Scott Bowers basically started djent lol

and now kids call Meshuggah a Djent band..which makes me lol..

N O B O D Y C A R E S A B O U T Y O U R O P I N I O N

well it seems like a few people did including you.....

WHA -T-ABO-U-TAL-L-THE-W-EIR-D-WRI-T-ING ?

Hey man, some songs ARE hard for musicians who write them, he just accomplished what Vinnie Paul couldn’t even do.

Hes the creator. A good artist will always challenge himself. Ofcourse it was hard when he was making it. Now he does it with his eyes closed and half asleep.

+Efe Öztürk same

+Efe Öztürk 7 dakıka olunca bıraz sıkıyor be hacı

Efe Öztürk I agree when I heard the song I was just Blown Away Big Time being a drummer and knowing what he's doing with his feet and the guitars and bassist are following on those rhythmic patterns it's just unbelievable when I work out and I'm doing heavy squats and I need a lot of anger to push a lot of weight that's the song I go to and it works every time, what a freaking drummer and what a band!!!!

Good comment, Efe. I love comments like this because it shows your open mind. Those moments where we realize we're open to something we never believed we'd be open to are magical and life-altering moments because THAT is when we grow. Kudos to you for being open to something most who repel from extreme metal would ever consider. Pretty cool!

Likewise🙌🏽🔥🤘🏽

every time they play live i think hahah

It's pretty freaking awesome live! Saw them live earlier this year and they played Demiurge then straight into Bleed (done masterfully)

Or like running for your life continuously.

I get out breath and winded just watching him play this

At this point it must have become second nature, people DEMAND this song and they have to include it in every setlist, there have been countless playthroughs and events where he had to play it, it's their main staple. I'm almost annoyed at how much people default to Bleed when it comes to Meshuggah. Yes it's incredible but they have better stuff.

You nailed it

"Huge" is the best word to describe it. Nicely put indeed

It's doesn't sound Huge it Sounds Colossal

Inspirational

That's how you know he's a great musician!

Sean Cannon Naah, he's great, but he's no Thomas Haake.

The Swedish Jantelag at effect! "don't be better than anyone else, don't be excessively proud of yourself, don't brag and remember that you're actually nothing really special" lol :(((

in Norway it is called "janteloven" which is the same haha.

And the author is actually Danish so we both lost this one...

I remember reading about this in a book when I was thinking of visiting the country. Quite something. Humble is fantastic but I think that takes it too far, to almost shame yourself as a person. It's debatable though. I see the point.

what's the name of the species that's nesting on your scalp jared

Gary White its more then just learling

It really is dude,I'm so good at having a massive shlong it hurts.Not me.... the ladies😁

A lot of drummers can be that good it's about patience and persistence but yes, even if you get that good at playing this song, Thomas Haake was that good First!

@Gary White he just stated that it must be cool to be that good He didn't say he was born like that

+DomSchu You are fascinated with his legs aren't you, in almost all Haake's vids i've seen, you are talking beauty and lovely sexual things about the "southern part of his body" Ha ha ha. i spotted you. I hope you are a girl, so no problem you naughty.... My english sucks i know but you catch my idea

Tracker lol, I'm a dude, and I'm not gay. I just think it't incredible that he can keep up this beat for 5+ minutes. And I did happen to play along with it as a joke on another thread.

+DomSchu I can barely do it for 10 seconds, it's amazing!

+Shining Armor That's because you're a horse

DomSchu I feel ya. His stamina is awesome.

swiftyrocks08 They're world renown for their education there, and I assume they realize that English is starting to become a more popular language, so that's probably why I'm guessing they teach it.

Very true. I wish America could take notes from Scandinavian Countries and make the changes that our education system needs. But America is a very suborn country. And there are many hidden forces at work that keep things the way they are for reasons we may never understand. My theory is that education is such a low priority, so that America can get more people from other countries to do the advanced jobs, while normally educated Americans are forced to work at basic minimum wage jobs. Just imagine an America where the majority of people were highly educated. There would be a shortage of people willing to do the manual labor jobs and minimum wage work. And minimum wage work is the majority of work unfortunately. This country needs a serious increase in the minimum wage if we want the economy to ever fully rebound. And increased minimum wage would make a little dent in the wealth gap in this county. It wouldn't be much. But it would be better than where it is at now. The rich currently have all the money, while the poor are left struggling week to week and day to day. We live in an upside down system.

swiftyrocks08 Raising the minimum wage wouldn't even be necessary if the rich actually did more to help the poor. Lots do, don't get me wrong (Bill Gates is the best example) but others just roll in their money and keep it to themselves. Money corrupts, and corruption is the death of anything productive.

+swiftyrocks08 There's a couple of other reasons besides education. Our languages are pretty similar to English (probably more similar than German and Dutch, even though these are in the West Germanic family with English, and we're in the North Germanic family), so it's easier for us to learn. Also, we don't dub films and tv shows like many European countries do, and we consume a lot of American and British entertainment :)

+Frostliche Very true. It's why us Irish were able to take up the English language fairly easily, despite us not wanting anything to do with it at the time.

hahahhahahaha

It’s hiding from Thomas because it’s not worthy of being in his presence.

😂😂😂😂😂

SpOOky

MotoX Champ lmao

Alex Hammons absolutely

Indeed.

Yes that's right. It was the left foot that took me so long to get. Tomas does left heel up (as in the Wincent live video) but I found the floating rocking motion to fit better for me for both feet. Fuck it took forever to get though, over a year of regular work on it. I also found my shins took ages to build stamina, calves don't seem to cop it too much at all. Keep at it man, you'll get there for sure.

Sick shit!!

lol at stamina comment - i am a guitarist and i know that feeling in my wrist when i'm just too tired to push the frets down anymore. i can only begin to imagine drums exhaustion 😅

I just began trying to learn this song on drums and it’s a butt kicker, but in this song the left kick is so fast it forced me to work on my left foot speed which has really helped my double bass drumming.

Sick. This comment was 4 yrs ago. I hope by now you can play it in your sleep.

neoncat45 I think Rings of Saturn and Oceans ate Alaska have the hardest songs to play

ENTITY

@@floralfire then you prob havent been drumming that long or listening a lot to metal... I went and checked them out and they are pretty good, but nothing on this level and they def would not even have existed without bands and drummers like this.

Wow, I used to obsess over the nothing concept as a young child. It does make you feel quite mad.

While playing this song is quite the feat, understanding the rhythm is easier if you hear it 4 - the basic riff from the beginning is the main one. The rest of the song is a variation off of that main riff. That's what's happening in a lot of their music. If you can understand it in your head and in your body, that will help. The other way of doing it is break the basic riff into rhythms in different time signatures (that eventually all add up to 4/4). I like hearing their music in 4.

except triggers have nothing to do with ability and everything to do with sound

Every death metal drummer has triggers

Nah, just because the 4/4 groove stays constant, you HAVE to know the underlying patterns. The first is verse is really 6/8 (threes), the second verse is really 10/8 (fives) and i believe it's the guitar solo that is 27/8 (7-7-5-3-5). You don't just FEEL this stuff to perform it, you have learn it, and then after you master it, you can just FEEL it.

Tomas is BEYOND for sure. You said it. NEXT LEVEL

Hey!! All my 3 favourite drummers! 😃🤘 RIP Joey...

Same! Like a train-wreck. Albeit a tight, controlled one

GwilsonDrums The double bass NEVER STOPS at that song!

Where'd you hear this?

@@DanteLikesRock Source: dude trust me

Alessandro Mola It really isn't THAT hard to not be able to tap by hand :P

Well it's actually easy to tap it with your hands :P

Or you know, considering a herta is a thing in it's own right, just play a herta. ;)

Lol

Van Allen wrong

The guitarist programmed it first he created the druns

Rational gaze, straws pulled at random, and perpetual black second!! Including bleed, these are the best meshugah songs!