Meshuggah - I

[daz436]

anyone else kinda disappointed? so many people had told me how good this is.. yeh its pretty good but it mostly sounds like theyre trying too hard to play weird time sigs and rythmns.. anticlimax for me..

 

[Agalloch]

Get Catch 33. It's much better and much more complete.

 

[daz436]

thanks, ill look into that

 

[Nuk3m]

Yeh 33 is pretty sweet.

 

[wankerness]

Catch 33 is much worse in comparison. I hate how the first like 3 tracks are the same damn riff over and over again. It really doesn't even get good for about the first 5 tracks if i remember right. Then there are tons of long clean breaks that are just boring ass, like that whole vocoder bit in the middle. I is much faster and interesting and better...all the skippable material is at the end (unlike Catch 33 where it's all over the place). Catch 33 of course has plenty of great stuff on it, it's just got a LOT more crappy stuff in it.

 

[narcoleptic haze]

Then there are tons of long clean breaks that are just boring ass, like that whole vocoder bit in the middle.

I love that bit.

 

[Gunt Piddlesworth]

I kicks ass. the drums slaughter. catch 33 is about as repetitive as a meshuggah song can get, but meh...it's better than nothing

 

[Anarkissed]

I put Catch 33 near the top of my favourite Meshuggah albums. The repetitiveness is the highlight of the album, in my opinion.

 

[JoeVice]

...it's better than nothing

punny. i agree.

 

[Indrid Cold]

When I bought "I" I was expecting it to last longer than 21 minutes - oh well, I still enjoy it.

Catch 33 is by far my favorite Meshuggah album though

 

[x_OPETH_x]

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Crush the chains that hold you down and let yourself be filled with fire. Wake up and realize the dream you lived was set up by the liar.

nice to see another Extol fan around one of my favorite bands

 

[CF87]

OMG offbeat single notes.

MEHSHUGGAH

 

[Gunt Piddlesworth]

OMG offbeat single notes.

MEHSHUGGAH

yeah, i know, they need more power chords

 

[wankerness]

They've got plenty of power chords on pre-nothing albums.

 

[Braighs]

meh. Who am I to judge them technically. I just like to listen to them. Especially while playing video games.

 

[melvintillius]

I put Catch 33 near the top of my favourite Meshuggah albums. The repetitiveness is the highlight of the album, in my opinion.

I agree. The repetitiveness adds a very hypnotic environment to the music. They create such an atmosphere on that record. I love it!

 

[Indrid Cold]

nice to see another Extol fan around one of my favorite bands

YES!

So many people despise them around here, but they've remained great even with the line up changes and huge differences in sound from album to album.

Perhaps the nicest guys I've ever met too. Peter actually thanked me and my best friend for coming to see them in New Hampshire last year - perhaps the best show I've ever been to.

They've got a US tour sometime this year and possibly another CD! Greatly looking forward to it!

 

[Rødt_Og_Svart]

I love both "I" and "Catch 33". Both of them slay when you take them in context.

 

[wankerness]

I think Catch 33 REALLY takes too long to get going, by the end it's a complete monster of an album but it just takes about half its running time to get there. I'm looking forward to their new one. I'd rank their previous albums like this:

Chaosphere
I
Destroy Erase Improve
Nothing/Catch 33 (tie)
None
Contradictions Collapse

And of course Fredrik Thordendal's "Sol Niger Within" is better than all of them besides maybe Chaosphere.

 

[Alex78]

Chaosphere is my favourite too...it doesn't get old. it took a damn long time to get into though. the ending of Concatenation is one of the most aggressive things I've ever heard