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MESHUGGAH – IMMUTABLE MESHUGGAH – IMMUTABLE
MESHUGGAH sind einzigartig kreativ. Das beweisen die Schweden aufs Neue mit ihrem neuen Album „Immutable“.   MESHUGGAH – IMMUTABLE

MESHUGGAH sind einzigartig kreativ. Das beweisen die Schweden aufs Neue mit ihrem neuen Album „Immutable“.  

Seit 30 Jahren sprühen MESHUGGAH nur so vor wilder Kreativität, riff-getriebener Intensität und progressiver Heavyness. Das ändert sich auch auf dem neuen Album der Schweden „Immutable“ nicht. Mit ihrer Fusion aus unvorhersehbarem Tech-Metal und brutalen Riff-Gewittern befriedigen MESHUGGAH mal wieder ganz locker auch die höchsten Erwartungen. Dabei war der Start des mittlerweile neunten Werks, laut Gitarrist Mårten Hagström, gar nicht klar: “For us, it wasn’t all that clear that we were making a new album. We knew we could do it, but did we want to do it?,” sagt er. “We had to decide, are we doing this or what else are we doing? After a long, long discussion, we agreed on certain things. We would make an album with as few restraints as possible. We would go in and try to make as cool an album as possible, have no anxiety about it and see it as an opportunity. How do we make this a challenge that we feel like accepting and rising up to? Pretty quickly we had a starting point. Everybody started to write, the ball started rolling and suddenly we were sitting there, discussing how many songs we were going to have to cut!

MESHUGGAH hämmern sich aber nicht nur detailverliebt in die Gehirnwindungen, sondern setzen auch mal wieder Standards in Sachen Kreativität, was das Werk durchaus von den Vorgängern „Koloss“ und „The Violent Sleep Of Reason“ unterscheidet. Dabei waren die Aufnahmen zu „Immutable“ eine wahre Teamarbeit. Der größte Teil des Albums wurde in den Sweetspot Studios in Halmstad, Schweden aufgenommen. Jens Kidman dagegen nahm seine Vocals in seinem Heimstudio auf und Gitarrist Frederik Thordendal nutzte sein Studio 33. Diese neue Umgebung bot den Schweden neue Inspiration. Mårten erzählte dazu: “Dick pitched Sweetspot to us, being an old friend of Rickard. They have lots of experience but mainly with other types of music. It was out in the sticks, in a big shed in the middle of a field! We had no tours going on and we rented a tour bus for cheap. We drove it down there and we lived in that. So basically we went on tour to record the album [Laughs] and we worked our brains into pieces! But it was also really free. We went for comfort and quality and a working situation where we didn’t feel stressed at all. That was awesome and the strongest parts of this album are because of that.”

Die Inspiration brachte MESHUGGAH durchaus auf neue Wege, wie Mårten warnt: “This album is more melodic. It’s longer and in my opinion it’s more dynamic than most of
our albums. Put it this way, we have put 13 tracks together, in an order that makes the album flow in a natural way. Some parts are really slow and mellow. It has got a lot more of the stuff that we feel has become important as we’ve grown older. The kind of stuff that ties music together. Okay, so ‘Chaosphere’ is awesome, it’s frantic, it’s erratic and it’s aggressive, but it’s nothing else. That’s what it is. This album has frantic and aggressive stuff, there’s plenty, but it also has lots of other stuff.” So haben MESHUGGAH hart daran gearbeitet, sich in gewisser Weise neu zu erfinden. “We wanted to go for air, and for dynamics, and lo and behold, that actually makes it sound way more like a band, from my perspective. Mårten. We wanted this to sound like we were on the road, on the eighth tour for the album, more relaxed.

Songtechnisch bieten MESHUGGAH auf „Immutable“ die volle Bandbreite ihres Könnens – vom schnellen, aggressiven „The Abymal Eye“ über das progressiv groovende „Ligature Marks“, das experimentelle „Black Cathedral“ hin zu MESHUGGAH-Trademarks wie „Broken Cog“. Insgesamt schaffen es MESHUGGAH auf diese Weise auf ihrer neunten Scheibe den Spannungsbogen zwischen akzentuierten Melodien und kreativer Progressivität hoch zu halten. Und das über die vollen 66 Minuten. Mit „Immutable“ beweisen die Schweden einmal mehr, dass sie einfach begnadete Musiker sind.

Anspieltipps: The Abysmal Eye, Ligature Marks, I am that thirst

Tracks:
01. Broken Cog
02. The Abysmal Eye
03. Light The Shortening Fuse
04. Phantoms
05. Ligature Marks
06. God He Sees In Mirrors
07. They Move Below
08. Kaleidoscope
09. Black Cathedral
10. I Am That Thirst
11. The Faultless
12. Armies Of The Preposterous
13. Past Tense

 

Line up:

Jens Kidman I Vocals
Mårten Hagström | Guitars
Dick Lövgren | Bass
Fredrik Thordendal | Guitars
Tomas Haake | Drums

 

Review: Michael Glaeser

 

Veröffentlichungstermin: 01.04.2022

 

Label: Atomic Fire Records

 

Video auf Youtube von „Broken Cog“:

 

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