Fredrik Thordendal and Morgan Ågren

I'm 1000% sure ;)
I just know cause I've been a Meshuggah fanboy for years. But check their disco on their site, it says drums - Tomas Haake for Nothing. For C33 they openly say it's programmed.

Anyways.. I recorded myself playing drums along to 'The Mouth Licking What You've Bled' on my electronic kit a few months ago..

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=C7D1AE782FE22EDD

:D

I did 3 takes. This is all 1 take except the middle crazy tom bit which (is fucking hard) I pasted in from another take. Still made a bit of a mess of it.

(what I recorded was the module audio outs btw.. not midi to samples)
 
Thomas:We never had the kind of money to indulge in that kind of.. enhancing the studio to suit us better. We've never had really long stretches in the studio, this time around, we did it in 3 places. The drums first, that was 9 days, alone. Then into Frederik's home studio guitars were additional 8 or 9 days.. then vocals in a home studio.
....It would be nice, for one time if we could go into the studio and have actual studio time.. use the best microphones and stuff like that. We've never done that.
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I really find it hard to believe that NB wouldn't gladly pay for Meshuggah to go into a great studio for a couple of months. Seriously. They are a huge band and they record the same way my band does.

I absolutely love that band but production-wise I definitely miss the Bergstrand Days.
 
Great video, but the sound is awful. I saw a minute of it with better sound and I have to tell you can't hear the half of his hits on youtube video.
 
The 'Sol Niger Within' album is one of my favourite releases of all time. It's fantastic to see a metal guitarist think so outside the box in terms of composition, and I'd say the major Holdsworth influence furthers that.

I think what metal needs more of is people willing to lay it on the line, take a risk and do something new and interesting for once. There's only so much rehashing the genre can take.
 
SOL NIGER WITHIN and the same period of Meshuggah albums (97-2001) are fast becoming a huge influence on my approach and the size of the box I write within. I think it is fantastic that the albums/ep's they create are one entity and live is an entirely different beast. The amount of times I played with bands or seen a band whose album is great and the live show is exactly the same (i.e fear factory) and I've left feeling cheated. Meshuggah, Textures and similar bands are example of great musicians taking you on a unique journey that was worth the ever increasing ticket price to see. This is why at festivals sooooooooooo many bands dissapoint whilst Meshuggah and the like continually blow artists and fans alike away. Showing off and fret board wanking is fine but truly on top of their game and ego-less musicians are a joy to experience.

I see the next ten years as being the time when artist rely on live shows for income and albums as mear publicity tools. Which means we all benifit from the cream rising to the top and truly great artist enjoying the stages they deserve. In theory at least.
 
I cant imagine "I" was all played live. Chopped up and edited to hell, I'd reckon..
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Tomas is a flawless live drummer though, so there's no reason he couldn't pull the song off especially in 12 takes. I think he mostly wasn't happy with how he played some part, or wanted to change something a little.
 
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