Meshuggah is a Swedish extreme metal band from Umeå, formed in 1987. The band has released eight studio albums, six EPs and eight music videos. Their latest studio album, The Violent Sleep of Reason, was released on 7 October 2016. The current lineup consists of founding members lead vocalist Jens Kidman and lead guitarist Fredrik Thordendal.
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Meshuggah is a Swedish extreme metal band from Umeå, formed in 1987. The band has released eight studio albums, six EPs and eight music videos. Their latest studio album, The Violent Sleep of Reason, was released on 7 October 2016. Meshuggah rose to fame as a significant act in extreme underground music, became an influence for modern metal bands, and gained a cult following. In 2018, the band was nominated for a Grammy Award for their song \”Clockworks\” under the \”Best Metal Performance\” category. They have performed in various international festivals, including Ozzfest and Download, and embarked on the obZen world tour from 2008 to 2010, and also the \”Ophidian Trek\”. The band was labelled as one of the ten most important hard rock and heavy metal bands by Rolling Stone and as the most important band in metal by Alternative Press. In the late 2000s, the group was an inspiration for the djent subgenre. The current lineup consists of founding members lead vocalist Jens Kidman and lead guitarist Fredrik Thordendal, drummer Tomas Haake since 1990, rhythm guitarist Mårten Hagström since 1993 and bassist Dick Lövgren since 2004. The group has been nominated for two Swedish Grammis Awards, for Catch Thirtythree and obZen, respectively, in 2006 and 2009. They were also nominated for one Swedish Grammy Award in 2009 for their albums Catch Thirty33 and ob Zen, respectively.
In 2010, Meshuggh was nominated again for a Swedish Grammy award for their album Catch Thirty23, this time for the album obZen. In 2011, they were nominated for another Swedish Grammy for the song Catch Thirty73, for the record Catch Thirty43, again for obZen and for the single Catch Thirty32. The album CatchThirtythree was released in 2012. The last two albums were released in 2013 and 2014, and the band has been on a European tour ever since. In 2013, the album was re-released with a bonus DVD, The Selfcaged, which was recorded in April and May 1994, but its release was delayed to later in 1995 due to the release of The Destroy Erase Erase. The self-titled, three-song EP Meshugga, which is commonly known as Psykisk Testbild, had only 1,000 copies released, sold by local record store Garageland. The EP’s back cover features the band members with cheese doodles on their faces. It was also released in a Japanese version, including lyrics printed in Japanese, and sold by a Japanese record store. In 2014, the EP was released again, with the release later in the year, with a short release in Uppsala, Sweden, with Daniel Bergstrand as a producer. In 2015, they released the EP None at Tonteknik Recordings in U meå, for release later that year. In 2016, they recorded the album Destroy Erases Erase, with bassist Peter Nordin and drummer Niklas Lundgren as producers.
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