Destroy Erase Improve
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1995 |
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10 |
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46:31 |
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Daniel Bergstrand |
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Destroy Erase Improve is the third album by progressive metal band Meshuggah , released on July 25, 1995 on Nuclear Blast .
Emergence
The album was the follow-up to their debut Contradictions Collapse from 1991. It was recorded in February 1995 at the Swedish Soundfront Studios in Uppsala and mixed there by Fredrik Thordendal . The album was produced by Daniel Bergstrand. The sound carrier was then mastered by Peter In de Betou in the Stockholm Cutting Room.
Track list
- Future Breed Machine - 5:48
- Beneath - 5:38
- Soul Burn - 5:17
- Transfixion - 3:33
- Vanished - 5:04
- Acrid Placidity - 3:16
- Inside What's Within Behind - 3:47
- Terminal Illusions - 3:44
- Suffer in Truth - 4:20
- Sublevels - 5:14
Bonus songs
The following bonus songs have been added to the re-release on August 25, 2008 via Nuclear Blast:
- Vanished (demo) - 5:34
- Suffer in Truth (Demo) - 4:27
- Inside What's Within Behind (Demo) - 4:11
- Gods of Rapture (Live) - 4:54
- Aztec Two Step - 10:44
Music style and lyrics
The polyrhythmics used in the songs are particularly characteristic . The technically demanding guitars soli Thordendal, which are described as unusual, are also formative. The songs have an aggressive sound, with each song being " underlaid with disturbing-hallucinatory (Beneath, Suffer in Truth) to brutal-neck-breaking (Future Breed Machine, Vanished) riffing ". The playing of the drums, which juggles with the scurrying, crooked and rectangular bars, is also technically demanding . In addition to the usual guttural singing , Kidman uses spoken singing in songs such as sublevel . Lyrically, the songs deal with “godlike science and inner unrest up to media terrorism” or futuristic topics such as the integration of machines into the human organism as the next, logical evolutionary step. Siggy Zielinski from Baby Blue Pages compares the songs with the “most aggressive, thrashiest Metallica pieces”, whereby Meshuggah's works are “a lot more tricky and varied”. The singing is compared to that of Phil Anselmo from Pantera . The songs are also interspersed with "relaxed, ballad-like or atmospheric - with all of this of course still guitar-oriented - instrumental fragments". Gabe compared the song structures to those of Watchtower and Cynic . Allmusic's John Serba compared Thorndal's guitar playing with Allan Holdsworth's and found that the band had used different genres such as fusion , thrash metal, math metal and hardcore punk .
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Lasse Rosenberger from powermetal.de found that the band had created classics in terms of brutality and songwriting. Siggy Zielinski from Babyblaue Seiten particularly praised the technically clean interplay of the instruments and describes it as “impressive, with what ease the Meshuggah drummer can, for example, replay the chord progressions of the rhythm guitar with a slight delay, or like the highly complicated, precisely defined for the rhythm guitars and drums Rhythm changes make the band's irrepressible energy appear even more concentrated ”. The album achieved a rating of 11 out of 15 possible points. Gabe from The Metal Observer speaks of a personal classic and especially emphasized the technically demanding playing of the instruments and above all the good implementation of the polyrhythm and awarded 9.5 out of 10 possible points. John Serba from Allmusic also praised the previous points, whereby Fear Factory tried to make similar music, but Meshuggah outclassed it. Serba continues to refer to the album as a classic of the 1990s and awarded 4.5 out of a possible 5 points. Oliver Recker from Metal Hammer wrote that the songs are "miles away from what is generally known as easily accessible", so that "the listener is also driven to the [brim] of a nervous breakdown". The pieces are "'just' amazingly great in one minute, insanely annoying in the other". He also wrote that if you added a keyboardist to the cast, "the five exceptional talents in terms of instrument mastery would be the dream theater of the ultra-tough". Recker awarded 6 out of 7 possible points. In June 2015, the renowned trade journal Rolling Stone voted the album at number 42 of the 50 best progressive rock albums of all time .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d John Serba: Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve , accessed July 13, 2013.
- ^ Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve , accessed July 13, 2013.
- ^ Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve , accessed July 13, 2013.
- ↑ a b Lasse Rosenberger: Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve , accessed on July 13, 2013.
- ^ A b Siggy Zielinski: Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve , accessed July 13, 2013.
- ↑ a b Gabe: Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve , accessed July 13, 2013.
- ↑ swedishcharts.com: Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve , accessed July 13, 2013.
- ↑ Oliver Recker: Meshuggah . Destroy Erase Improve . In: Metal Hammer , June 1995, p. 52.
- ↑ Brandon Geist: 50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time - Meshuggah, 'Destroy Erase Improve' (1995). In: Rolling Stone . Wenner Media, June 17, 2015, accessed on September 30, 2015 .