Meshuggah

Meshuggah
Meshuggah performing live
Background information
Origin	Umeå, Sweden
Genres	Experimental metal
Years active	1987–present
Labels	Nuclear Blast Fractured Transmitter
Website	www.meshuggah.net
Members	Jens Kidman Fredrik Thordendal Mårten Hagström Tomas Haake Dick Lövgren
Past members	Johan Sjögren Jörgen Lindmark Per Sjögren Torbjörn Granström Niklas Lundgren Peter Nordin Gustaf Hielm

Meshuggah is an experimental metal band from Umeå in Sweden. They have been playing since 1987. Meshuggah are famous for using 8-string guitars in their last albums. Meshuggah's musical style contains the use of differing time signatures, however when most of the band, guitars, bass, vocals and bass drum, the other drums remain in common time, i.e. 1-2-3-4-1-2-3-4 etc. All allbums after Nothing were in the Billboard 200.

Discography

• 1991: Contradictions Collapse
• 1995: Destroy Erase Improve
• 1998: Chaosphere
• 2002: Nothing
• 2005: Catch Thirtythree
• 2008: obZen

Other websites

• Meshuggah's official website
• Meshuggah at MySpace
• Meshuggah at Allmusic