Meshuggah Posts "Alive" DVD Trailer Online
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Mårten Hagström, guitarist for Sweden’s technical extremists MESHUGGAH, checked in about the band’s first-ever DVD, "Alive," produced and directed by Ian McFarland of Killswitch Productions:
"So we finally got around to making a live DVD. People have been asking us to make one for ages it seems, so we guess it was about time. It was quite a different experience to have all those cameras around for those shows but in the end, we feel it really came out great in a ‘not so flashy but more toward the gritty’ type of way. More true to what we are about. Capturing what a MESHUGGAH show is like. For real... without the trimmings, so to speak... just the way both us and Ian wanted it. Enjoy!"
Check out the official trailer below:
"Alive" will be a 2-disc set with a DVD and audio CD, scheduled for release in the U.S. and Canada on February 9th, 2010. The DVD is comprised of live concert footage of the band performing tracks off their Billboard Top 200-charting 2008 release, "obZen," and their time-tested career staples shot during MESHUGGAH’s 2009 North American tour and 2008’s performance at the Loudpark Festival in Tokyo. The result is a visceral, visual abduction into the band’s metric insanity-in-action. Gracefully interlacing the live tracks are behind-the-scenes vignettes shot in black and white that give Alive a concert film feel that is unlike many of the live DVDs currently on the market.
Contents of the Alive concert film include:
DVD:
1. Begin
2. Perpetual Black Second (Tokyo)
3. Twenty Two Hours
4. Pravus (Tokyo)
5. Dissemination
6. Bleed (NYC)
7. Ritual
8. New Millenium Cyanide Christ (Montreal)
9. 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 MATERIAL
1. “Bleed” Music Video
2. “The Making Of ‘Bleed’”
3. Micha’s Guitar Tour
4. Tomas Haake’s Drum Tour
LIVE AUDIO CD:
1. Perpetual Black Second
2. Electric Red
3. Rational Gaze
4. Pravus
5. Lethargica
6. Combustion
7. Straws Pulled At Random
8. New Millenium Cyanide Christ
9. Stengah
10. The Mouth Licking What You’ve Bled
11. Humiliative
12. Bleed
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17 Comments on "Meshuggah Posts 'Alive' DVD Trailer Online"
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3. writes:
AWESOME!! ABSOLUTELY AWESOME. Meshuggah is definitely my favorite band overall and I´m absolutely stoked about this one.
The bottom line is, Meshuggah is the ONLY metal band out there that is capable to push the envelope, and for the future, most likely the only metal band that matters.
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7. writes:
Um...meshuggah is actually not even close to the ONLY band capable of pushing the envelope.
After The Burial, The Faceless, Dillinger Escape Plan, Starring Jamet Leigh, Cynic, Skeletonwitch, Brain Drill, Mastodon, Opeth...the list goes on. Good band, yes. Only band that pushes the envelope? hell no.
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8. writes:
F_A_N, I actually meant that Meshuggah sounds - to my ears anyway - pretty much like the only metal band who has actually "upgraded" metal. An album like Obzen sounds like metal 10 years from here, while many of the bands have simply broadened their sound/output, which is of course only a good thing (as long as they dont all start hiring DJs and wearing baseball caps )
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11. writes:
Well, wolf, not to be a hater or anything, but considering half the riffs on the new album were as simplistic as any mediocre deathcore band with a bad breakdown, I would have to say they downgraded themselves. The draw to Meshuggah in the first place for me was the fact that they could write complex riffs and maintain that riff while slightly altering it for seemingly forever. They were rhythm monsters. Tomas Haake is pretty much the only reason I even listen to the band anymore honestly.
I dont know, maybe I am just hating. My old drummer kindof ruined me liking the band, because all he did was talk about that band and soulfly and keep asking me to throw in clean singing so we could get popular. then he quit the band ten days before a show and ruined the entire band. So excuse me if I get a little pissy when somebody puts them on a pedestal lol
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12. writes:
Your old drummer sounds like a c*** FAN.
I understand what you're getting at WOLF, with the fact Meshuggah did come out with such a unique sound that nobody else was even close to sounding like at the time. But they're not the only one, case in point - Gorguts, "Obscura".
13. writes:
^the terrible thing was that he was the best drummer we knew lol. Now me and one of the guitarists are trying to do something, but it's damn near impossible to find another drummer of that caliber of skill that that guy was that isnt into deathcore. So we lose lol.
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14. writes:
F_A_N. I can see where you´re coming from. Some tracks on "Obzen" were a step back, I agree. Plus some of the new stuff is a bit tiring. Thank f-cking god they at least separated the tracks this time around (compared to Catch33. Having said that, it worked on that album)
But, tracks like "Bleed" are pretty f@cking awesome and to me, especially "Bleed" is one of those tracks that could be as I put it "metal 10years from here".
Cynic, Im not familiar with Gorguts, gotta check em out. Thanks for the tip.
As for Meshuggah, I think they´re a metal band with the most potential to come up with the next metal classic. Amazing sound(s), rhythmically they´re just awesome and whether you like them or not, they are pretty innovative. I can´t wait to hear new stuff from them ( I just hope it doesnt take until 2011 till we hear any)
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15. writes:
meshuggah and mastodon r BOTH bands that i personally don't listen to that much but i dig them when someone plays either of them around me. i would absolutely love meshuggah (kuz they're brutal and amazing in fact) if it just wasn't for them just overly stretching 1 song for no reason and like FAN said, "slightly altering" the rhythm of the song plus the vox getting tiring and annoying to hear, i just wished the vox would just change a lil bit. whenever i wanna hear that kinda brutal and sorta complex metal style, i just listen to gojira but that's just me.
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16. writes:
n0thighead, my thoughts exactly!
Jens Kidman´s all-around similar vocals are definitely one of Meshuggah´s major flaws.
Mastodon is actually my 2nd favorite band! I´ve have enough of Blood Mountain for now, but Leviathan and Crack The Skye are still on heavy rotation.
But, Meshuggah is always on constant rotation. I even like Fredik Thordendahl´s solo album (the Special defects... erm, whatever thing .. :)
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1. 50bmg writes:
Kick ass! Can't wait!