Future Breed Machine

Meshuggah. Live. I was there. Need I say more?

Maybe a little more. These Swedish gods had chosen House of Blues on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles to descend unto Earth and dazzle their admirers with a complex, yet monotonous and grinding polymetric wall of sound. Supported by the well known industrial rock band Ministry (that some of the less enlightened may have perceived as the actual headliner) and the lesser metalcore band Hemlock from Las Vegas.

Meshuggah seemed to have found their style since about the Nothing album. and consequently played mostly stuff from 2002 and later. A slight drawback for me since I like their 1998 album Chaosphere best. Slight because all their stuff is great, as one would expect from gods like these. And hey, they played the song that gave this post it’s name and which is undoubtedly one of the greatest metal songs ever. I was completely exhausted after their gig and even today I can still feel my neck twitching lightly in seven-eigths time.