Interview with drummer Tomas Haake

Joel Parent from ABORT Magazine conducted an interview with drummer Tomas Haake in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on February 8.
You find it here:
http://abortmag.com/?p=4076

(Intervista al batterista dei Meshuggah Haake.)

Meshuggah Alive an kickin'!! Live video coming soon

Swedish metallers Meshuggah will publish their first official LIVE video on the next February 5, 2010 (Europe) and February 9, 2010 (North America). The title of the product (DVD+CD) is "Alive!"

This is the announced tracklist:

Video DVD
01. Begin
02. Perpetual Black Second (Tokyo)
03. Twenty Two Hours
04. Pravus (Tokyo)
05. Dissemination
06. Bleed (NYC)
07. Ritual
08. New Millenium Cyanide Christ (Montreal)
09. Cleanse
10. Stengah (Montreal)
11. The Mouth Licking What You've Bled (Montreal)
12. Machine
13. Electric Red (Tokyo)
14. Solidarius
15. Rational Gaze (Tokyo)
16. Moment
17. Lethargica (Toronto)
18. Communicate
19. Combustion (Toronto)
21. Straws Pulled At Random (Toronto)
20. Humiliative (Montreal)
22. Straws Pulled At Random (Toronto)
23. End

Bonus:
01. "Bleed" Music Video
02. The Making Of "Bleed"
03. Micha's Guitar Tour
04. Tomas Haake's Drum Tour


Live Audio CD:
01. Perpetual Black Second
02. Electric Red
03. Rational Gaze
04. Pravus
05. Lethargica
06. Combustion
07. Straws Pulled At Random
08. New Millenium Cyanide Christ
09. Stengah
10. The Mouth Licking What You've Bled
11. Humiliative
12. Bleed

Non conosci i Meshuggah? Comincia da qui

Una veloce ed efficace presentazione della musica dei Meshuggah, utile per introdurre alla musica della grand band svedese. In Italiano.

http://people.accordo.it/journals/lorenzof/2009/12/29004/musica-colta-per-extreme-people-pt-v-fredrick-thordendal-e-i-meshuggah.html

Meshuggah guitar lessons

Check these out!! Yeaaahhh!

Meshuggah Metal Riff Lesson Part 1

 

Meshuggah Metal Riff Lesson Part 2

 

Meshuggah Metal Riff Lesson Part 3

 

Meshuggah Metal Riff Lesson Part 4

Grandi.

"Obzen now at extremely low price"

Nuclear Blast news: buy Obzen now at extremely low price

Buy Obzen at 1.99 dollars, HERE

Meshuggah plans for near future

Original interview here: MESHUGGAH Guitarist: No New Album Before 2011

Guitarist Mårten Hagström of of Swedish experimental extreme metallers MESHUGGAH was recently interviewed for the Sonisphere web site. A few excerpts from the chat follow below.

Q: You were just discussing your new music with Robert Trujillo from METALLICA. Can you tell us a bit more about it?

Hagström: We never write as such while we're on the road. What we've got is some leftovers from the last album that we could work on and pick up again. We're playing around with some loose ideas and I've got a couple that I'll start to work on when I get back home. But as far of really getting into it and just mashing away, that's going to happen in late August.

Q: How many tracks do you reckon you've got?

Hagström: I'd say right now we have one track that needs to be remodelled and then it's good to go. Apart from that, it's just bits and pieces right now.

Q: How long will it be before we get to hear the new stuff?

Hagström: Well, we're a really slow band. A lot of times there're four years between albums. Sometimes it has to do with the writing process itself, sometimes it's to do with the technical stuff, like how to go about the recording it. This one I'm thinking will be another two years — hopefully it's shorter.

Q: You've had a lot of critical acclaim in underground circles, but haven't quite crossed over into the mainstream yet. Are you planning to make the next album a little more accessible?

Hagström: No. There's very little consciousness involved in our song writing. What I mean by that is that we're very aware of what we do musically, but we're trying to cater to our own tastes. We're trying to keep our selves interested and listen to whatever comes up in our heads. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Whenever we get asked that question it's like how do we go about breathing. I do it, but I don't really know how or where it comes from. But, no, I don't think the next album is going to be more mainstream or accessible.

Q: You have a penchant for making new instruments and on "Catch Thirtythree" used a drum machine instead of a kit. Should we expect new instruments on the next album?

Hagström: For this one I don't think they'll be any. It's always been something that has come up because we needed to get something out of something else. For instance, with the eight-string guitars, people are like, "That's a lot of strings, why do you have them?" In reality, we've got the old guitar six-string setting on there because we need to play old stuff and so we have more ground to cover. But what we wanted was a longer scale and a baritone kind of approach to an electric guitar for the tone to get real down low and still have consistency. It was something we were lacking in our sound that we couldn't really find, so we were trying with some other guys that build guitars to find ways that would make it work, so it would sound correct.

"MESHUGGAH - OBZEN CRACKS THE 50K MARK IN THE USA!"

Official news from Meshuggah
Thursday, October 16, 2008 at 11:57pm

Six months after their debut at #59 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart in March, MESHUGGAH’s obZen - hailed as “a thundershower of hammers raining from the sky” by Guitar World, “undeniably brilliant,” by Decibel, and “math-metal’s undisputed champions” by Revolver - has cracked the 50,000 mark this week with 50,392 album copies sold in the U.S. according to Nielsen SoundScan.
A GIANT THANK YOU TO ALL THE FANS FOR THE SUPPORT!

MESHUGGAH drummer Tomas Haake was voted “2008’s Best Drummer” by Blender Magazine and #1 metal drummer in Modern Drummer’s 2008 Readers Poll (July issue). A riff lesson featuring Guitar World’s #35 ranked “Greatest Metal Guitarists” Fredrik Thordendal and Mårten Hagström can be viewed on MetalKult.com."

"MÅRTEN HAGSTRÖM INTERVIEW", by Guitarmessenger

Marten Gagstrom in un tenero abbraccio con Gene l'Immenso.

Una nuova, bella intervista a Marten Hagstrom, chitarrista dei Meshuggah, da /www.guitarmessenger.com. Check THIS out!

E per chi volesse leggerne una in italiano, per non stressarsi troppo: QUI ce n'è un'altra datata 2002, sempre ad Hagstrom. Più o meno, tanto, ripete sempre le stesse cose ;-)

WTF?! Calculus Thrash VS Calculated Trash

Meshuggah-Nuns?!

28_06_2008. Meshuggah @ Gods of Metal - photo report

28_06_08. Meshuggah's act @ G.O.M. (Bologna, Arena Parco Nord) has been GREAT, but the intesity of the show has been weakened a little by the hot weather, and by some technical problems to Hagström's equipment. However, fans are still headbanging. Thank you, Meshuggah.

Click on images to enlarge 'em.
Or click here for a collection of videos (youtube).


sound checking


something going wrong with Martin's equipment


the show begins


and fans already singin'


the adrenaline runs


too hot for a svedish ;-)

Jens' trance


earthquake


Thomas Haake, a true biomechanoid