pupil wrote:
As an aside: What do people here make of Meshuggah? I saw them back in 1995 supporting Machine Head, seen the ridiculous fanaticism they attract in the last decade (I know a guy with their logo tattooed across his shoulders FFS), but never got what the big deal was. They're good at playing poly-rhythms... errmmm.. I don't see much else there of interest though.
I agree with you. I remember Rolling Stone magazine of all places bigging them up in 1998 (in an Essential Metal spesh which included Soilent Green, Metallica... dunno. Maybe Today Is The Day, but I could be making that up). Anwyay, bigged up there, I hard a tune on a Terrrrzer Cd that i liked, then eventualy found out all their songs sounded like that one. I bought the most recent one on vinyl on account of everyone on another board was going nutso over it and I got about two songs in. Obv gonna give it another shot or two, but they are pretty flat.
And dated, post-Noisecore.