Meshuggah is now streaming their devastating new single "I Am That Thirst" off their new record Immutable due out on April 1. You can also check out our extensive track-by-track review of Immutable here.
Immutable was mixed by Rickard Bengtsson and Staffan Karlsson, mastered Vlado Meller (Metallica, Rage Against The Machine, System Of A Down), and given fairly creepy artwork by artist Luminokaya. Guitarist Mårten Hagström said the record is a great snapshot of where Meshuggah is at these days.
"With the years that we put in and still kind of the way I see it, we're still on this same lateral journey from what is mainstream metal, if there is such a thing in this day and age," said drummer Tomas Haake on what Meshuggah tried differently on Immutable in our recent interview. "So you do tend to kind of… you have this niche and you know you're gonna wanna stay in there. We want to keep sounding like Meshuggah.
"So obviously with each album, it gets a little harder to come up with stuff that intrigues us and that we all feel like 'wow! This is something new. We've never sounded exactly like this before.' It's, yeah… you have the ingredients that sound the same, and you have like, obviously [the songs] have the chugging, like that kind of power chord chugging, and stuff like that. That's obviously something that we have to reuse, and we still have bass drums and snares and cymbals, and we have to reuse them. There's only so much you can do.
"But we really try our best to kind of make every part hopefully… with this album, I feel that too. We really try to make every part and every track different than something we've ever done before. Even though maybe to outside people it may not seem that drastically different or anything, and it's not drastically different I guess, but at least it has to be something that we feel is new. 'I haven't heard us do this before.' So that's cool. Then you get a thumbs up, you know? If it's cool sounding overall. It can't just sound like crap but we haven't done it, and that's okay."
