Chaosphere

Chaosphere
Studio album by Meshuggah
Released 9 November 1998[1]
Recorded Dug-Out, Uppsala, Sweden
Area 51 and Uae-Function studio, Stockholm, Sweden
Genre Extreme metal, progressive metal, avant-garde metal
Length 47:27
Label Nuclear Blast
Producer Daniel Bergstrand, Fredrik Thordendal
Meshuggah chronology
The True Human Design
(1997)		 Chaosphere
(1998)		 Rare Trax
(2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[2]
Pitchfork8.6/10[3]

Chaosphere is the third album by Swedish metal band Meshuggah. It was released on 9 November 1998 by Nuclear Blast, and is the only studio album to feature bassist Gustaf Hielm. Chaosphere's sound is an almost complete departure from the thrash style of the band's previous releases, instead focusing on the technical, polyrhythmic, groove-oriented sound they would continue to explore on subsequent albums. A video was made for "New Millennium Cyanide Christ".

The Japanese version of the album contains a bonus song, titled "Unanything", as track 9. This song was also included on the promotional card-sleeve CD as track 6. At the end of the track 8, all the songs from the album are played at once.

The "Reloaded" re-release features four of the five tracks from The True Human Design EP.

Track listing

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Concatenation"HaakeThordendal4:17
2."New Millennium Cyanide Christ"HaakeThordendal, Hagström5:36
3."Corridor of Chameleons"HaakeThordendal5:02
4."Neurotica"HagströmHagström5:20
5."The Mouth Licking What You've Bled"HaakeThordendal3:57
6."Sane"HaakeKidman, Hagström3:49
7."The Exquisite Machinery of Torture"HaakeHaake, Thordendal3:56
8."Elastic"HaakeHagström15:30
9."Unanything" (Japanese bonus track)(Instrumental)Meshuggah3:01
Re-release bonus tracks
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
10."Sane" (demo version)HaakeKidman, Hagström4:07
11."Future Breed Machine" (Mayhem version)HaakeMeshuggah8:11
12."Futile Bread Machine" (Campfire version)HaakeMeshuggah3:29
13."Future Breed Machine" (Quant's Quantastical Quantasm)HaakeMeshuggah7:30
14."Future Breed Machine" (Remix)HaakeMeshuggah6:46

Personnel

Meshuggah

Production

  • Daniel Bergstrand – recording, mixdown
  • Fredrik Thordendal – recording, mixdown
  • Peter in de Betou – mastering (at Cutting Room, Stockholm, Sweden)
  • Tomas Haake – artwork, design
  • Meshuggah – art direction
  • John Norhager – band photo

References

  1. ↑ Nuclear Blast - Meshuggah - Chaosphere Retrieved 11 November 2017
  2. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/chaosphere-mw0000045351
  3. ↑ Reyes-Kulkarni, Saby (August 1, 2016). "Meshuggah - 25 Years of Musical Deviance". Pitchfork.com. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
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