MESHUGGAH’s anticipated new album Immutable is out TODAY on Atomic Fire! In celebration of the record’s release, the band has unveiled a new video for Immutable’s opening track “Broken Cog,” now playing on YouTube! Watch the video HERE.
[Credits for the visual team for “Broken Cog:” Acacia Visuals, Valentine Unix, Petr Boroda, Arkadiy Grigoryants, Sergey Unix, Alexander Rybashov, Luminokaya]
Immutable is available now on all streaming platforms and for purchase at:
https://meshuggah.afr.link/immutable
And don’t miss MESHUGGAH’s Exclusive LIVE listening party
– TODAY @ 3 pm EDT / 9 pm CET / 8 pm GMT –
Celebrate the release of Immutable and join the listening party!
Frank Godla of Metal Injection will be hosting the inaugural broadcast on https://www.stationhead.com/meshuggah, where he’ll take live questions and talk to drummer Tomas Haake while listening together to the new album. Tune in!
Mavericks. Pioneers. Unique. Immutable.
This year’s most significant lesson has been to expect the unexpected, which also applied to the release of the long-awaited MESHUGGAH album, Immutable, as the most anticipated album of 2022.
MESHUGGAH has always been way ahead of the game and plainly without peer. Six years on from the band’s most recent full-length, The Violent Sleep Of Reason, 2022 brings a fresh and fearsome revelation from the band. Shattering even the highest of expectations, the band’s ninth album, Immutable, showcases just how far ahead of the pack the band continues to be.
The album is a significant departure from the relentless riffing and monochrome churn of Koloss or The Violent Sleep Of Reason. With vocalist Jens Kidman recording his own vocals in his home studio and lead guitarist Fredrik Thordendal manifesting his solos at his own Studio 33, Immutable is a true team effort and another triumph of resourcefulness and meticulous attention to detail. MESHUGGAH had never felt more inspired when they found themselves in a new environment at Studio Sweetspot. “Dick pitched Sweetspot to us,” guitarist Mårten Hagström recalls. “They have lots of experience but mainly with other types of music. It was out in the sticks, in a big shed in the middle of a field! We had no tours going on and we rented a tour bus for cheap. We drove it down there and we lived in that. So basically, we went on tour to record the album [laughs], and we worked our brains into pieces! But it was also really free. We went for comfort and quality and a working situation where we didn’t feel stressed at all. That was awesome, and the strongest parts of this album are because of that.” As Hagström explains, fans should prepare themselves for the unexpected. “This album is more melodic. It’s longer, and in my opinion, it’s more dynamic than most of our albums,” he states.
Gifted with the opportunity to spend more time than ever on the fine details of their new material, the Swedes have effectively reconstructed their trademark sound on Immutable, imbuing every last moment of this epic record with irresistible power and ingenuity. “We wanted to go for air and for dynamics, and lo and behold, that actually makes it sound way more like a band, from my perspective,” says Hagström. Destined to be one of 2022’s most hailed and talked-about releases, Immutable once again showcases MESHUGGAH’s collective brilliance, including some of the most jaw-dropping ensemble performances they have ever executed.
Immutable. “The title fits perfectly for where we are as a band,” Hagström concludes. “Even though we’ve been experimenting all along, I also think we’ve been the same since day one. The way we approach things and why we still make new albums, and why we still sound the way we do, it’s immutable. Humanity is immutable, too. We commit the same mistakes over and over. And we are immutable. We do what we do and we don’t change.”
Immutable was recorded at Sweetspot Studios in Halmstad, Sweden, mixed by Rickard Bengtsson and Staffan Karlsson, and mastered by multiple Grammy award winner Vlado Meller (Metallica, Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, System Of A Down). Visionary artist Luminokaya once again created the record’s stunning cover art.
Immutable is avaiilable now on CD, exclusive vinyl variants, cassette, and digitally. Order the record and find additional merchandise at THIS LOCATION.
View the band’s epic video for “The Abysmal Eye” HERE.
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Immutable Track Listing:
1. Broken Cog
2. The Abysmal Eye
3. Light The Shortening Fuse
4. Phantoms
5. Ligature Marks
6. God He Sees In Mirrors
7. They Move Below
8. Kaleidoscope
9. Black Cathedral
10. I Am That Thirst
11. The Faultless
12. Armies Of The Preposterous
13. Past Tense
“Stomping tracks like ‘God He Sees in Mirrors,’ ‘I Am That Thirst,’ and recent single ‘Light the Shortening Fuse’ make brilliant use of the band’s signature ouroboros-like riff style, which bombards the would-be headbanger with complex rhythmic data while laying down an irresistible groove…” — Rolling Stone
“Haake remains one of the most unique players to ever step behind a drumkit. There are times where it seems impossible that it is all the work of one set of hands. Cerebral time signature changes and palm-muted chords are still staples of this band’s music.” — Metal Injection
“…gigantic, ophidian, undeniable. Probably the most important metal band on the planet.” — Knotfest
“…the band’s most adventurous, progressive, diverse and downright peculiar album to date. It is also their longest, at a generous and mind-expanding 67 minutes, and (as if to reassure the sizeable chunk of MESHUGGAH‘s audience that just wants riffs, and lots of them) frequently the heaviest and most brutal thing to ever bear their name. They may have nothing to prove, but MESHUGGAH are proving it anyway, possibly just because they can.” –Blabbermouth
MESHUGGAH:
Jens Kidman – vocals
Mårten Hagström – guitars
Dick Lövgren – bass
Fredrik Thordendal – guitars
Tomas Haake – drums
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