Meshuggah

Sweden's experimental metal band, Meshuggah play a complex hybrid music of their own design. They combine sweeping math rock, prog, syncopated polyrhythms, and chromatic harmonies drawn from jazz and technical death metal in polymetered compositions. They are both celebrated and maligned for the creation of the "djent" metal sound. Early on, the term "intellectual death metal," was used to describe their more thrash-oriented albums. Meshuggah's 1991 debut Contradictions Collapse changed the course of the genre. A touring juggernaut, they record sporadically. Only two more albu...