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Sunday, March 9th 2008
Meshuggah Tours North America With Ministry
It’s been three years since their last tour and last album, but with their highly-anticipated new masterpiece, obZen, slated for release in the U.S. and Canada on March 11th, a new Swedish My Space pre-listening promotion record for a ¼ of a million album streams, and Blender Magazine’s “Best Heavy Metal Drummer” & Guitar World’s #35 ranked “Greatest Metal Guitarists” in tow, Sweden’s MESHUGGAH are ready to bring their trademarked arrhythmia back to North America on Ministry’s “C-U-LaTour” Farewell Tour.
A truly lateral-thinking force genuinely dedicated to pushing the boundaries of extreme music, MESHUGGAH have spent the last twenty years developing and exploring their metric art. It’s never shocking to see some of the biggest names in metal standing in the wings at MESHUGGAH shows shaking their heads at the band’s (di)versions of standard 4/4 time. States Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter, “Through all these years, I’ve been waiting to hear someone that does something more pummeling, and it’s just not coming. Their stuff changed my life.” Not surprisingly, the band’s discography underwent scholarly analysis at the 34th Annual Meeting of The Music Theory Society of New York State in 2006, and the article, “Re-casting Metal: Rhythm & Meter in the Music of MESHUGGAH” was published in Music Theory Spectrum, the journal of The Society for Music Theory in the latter half of 2007.
With obZen primed to become another testament of MESHUGGAH’s importance to the fields of recording and performing arts, it’s safe to say that MESHUGGAH is to music what Sir Isaac Newton is to calculus.
Clear your schedule and come to one of the show dates below. An epiphany in music awaits you.· “MESHUGGAH’s most brutal installment yet, obZen is a thundershower of hammers raining from the sky.” – GUITAR WORLD
· “obZen recaptures the feeling and fury of the discs that made MESHUGGAH math-metal’s undisputed champions.” – REVOLVER
· “Undeniably brilliant.” – DECIBEL
· “The most important metal band in a 20-year generation.” – METAL MANIACS
· “With obZen, MESHUGGAH are far from done reinventing the metal wheel.” – ALTERNATIVE PRESS