Meshuggah

Swedish mathcore technicians Meshuggah have bought a studio in Sweden with industrial rockers Clawfinger, a band with quite the successful history, but very little exposure in North Amercia since their mid-‘90s heyday. Meshuggah drummer Tomas Haake spills the beans on his mates.

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"Yeah, definitely they’ve lost some momentum," explains Haake, "especially with their label going completely broke, MVG here in Sweden. They've completely lost everything, but they have a new label and they've had a record that's been finished for about a year and a half, which is really good."

Deaf Dumb Blind from ‘93 sold 400,000 copies didn't it?

"They had two like that, the first one and the second one. Both of those sold almost 500,000 copies each, which is so much, a tremendous amount. They sold really good in Europe. That was a big market for them. They have a total of three right now, and the one that is coming in the fall is the fourth one. For the third one, they completely dropped down to about 100,000. The fourth one is more like double drumbeats where they have straight heavy drumbeats on top and a lot of drum and bass influenced drumbeats in the background. It's really, really good."

"And Fredrik from our band, him and this other guy from Clawfinger, Jocke Skog, the sampler keyboard guy, they're doing some music for Quake 3, the videogame, so they're making music for a Swedish Quake 3 team that travels around the world and plays Quake."

Of course, Meshuggah have a new rarities album out right now called Rare Trax, and are hard at work on a long-awaited new studio album set for release in early to mid 2002.

Source: Bravewords