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  • has he lived in America or England or something? He barely has an accent!

  • i tried to play this song on my drums. now i know why it is titled Bleed.

  • everyone talks about the drums on this track, but this is the most percussive guitar riff I have ever heard

  • Twelfth album? Nah....

  • The pattern is a hybrid rudiment called a "herta."

  • hahahah...lolzzz...i want too see him in fear factory...even dino can't catch up with him...the rest would just fail too see his vision.

    Even hoglan is a number too high for f-factory

  • 12th album?

  • What the fuck is that dumpster looking thing moving in the background?

  • @ChegzGT1EB guess its a boat..

  • haha that big eyed meditating guy at the end from the video is so scary yet so funny at the same time

  • Haake is a fucking machine and still fascinates me to this day! Keep it up sir :D

  • I broke my drumsticks and my hands trying to learn bleed...now I can't bandage my head wounds...

  • playing that part properly.....you can say that again and again! ur a beast!

  • I seriously think more about this song than about anything else during a day.. it's not just tones and sound I like, it makes me feel really great

  • Bleed is such an incredible song, but has such a HORRIBLE videoclip. I guess it's Nuclear Blast's commercial policy that caused it. At least I hope it is.

  • @titusbeertsen You think? I actually really really love the music video

  • @DaftCarrot95 Then I guess you're into gothic styles and sadomasochism? I find the video unworthy of Meshuggah's music and profound lyrics, it makes them look like the next nu-metal band trying to be angry or 'evil' with some disturbing images.

  • You haven't seen the last of me!  I'll get you Haakeman!! (:<

  • This song will surely become a metal anthem

  • I love this band, but are they satanic?

  • @NachoAmigo97 Satanic? haha nah they arent, but they do eat satanic bands for breakfast. 

  • @NachoAmigo97 Yes, they hail the leviathan of salvation.

  • @NachoAmigo97 are you retarded?surely are atheist if anything

  • @NachoAmigo97 their lyrical themes face much more complex subjects than god or satan.

  • This song doesn't stand out because of the drumming.This song is hard to play on every instrument the whole song stands out on it's own.

  • Thought about never touching my drumsticks again, but that gives new hope.

  • Stolt svensk.

  • Meshuggah is an extreme/experimental metal band.  Not progressive.

  • @SUnraveling69 its progressive... cunt

  • @SUnraveling69 its all the same

  • @SUnraveling69 I always saw Meshuggah as just Rhythmical Metal.

  • @SUnraveling69 Well, that's interesting. Why do you think they're not progressive?

  • @ZorroIX IDK, I just see it as a more technical extreme metal band. My image of progressive metal is more like Evergrey or Communic.

  • 0:30 done! That explains EVERYTHING!

  • even though i got A* at GCSE, his english is better than mine

  • The main thing I was surprised about, as lame as this sounds, is how clear his english in. For some reason I expected them all to be very heavily accented. I can't even be surprised about how fucking skilled he is because, come on, it's fucking Tomas Haake. Obviously the dude is easily one of the greatest drummers of all time, in metal at least.

  • well...fuck lol

  • "omg haake is inhuman"

    no he's not!!! yes he's a quality drummer!! maybe he practiced for hours on end instead of sitting with his thumb up his arse and whining saying "ill never be that good"!! guess what? all that practice has clearly fucking paid off so maybe if you do the same you may be just maybe be as good as or even better than haake!!!

  • @UKMarines Very well said.

  • @JoshFischl thank you.

  • Ha ha, he's pretending that he had to learn this song just so we can think he's human. Oh he's so modest

  • @frysmaktoff He needs to keep himself hidden amongst the crowds..

  • sick! meshuggah är feta

  • @mrMartinRbest Helt klart!

  • Twelth album? No....

  • @triviumftw Don't you ever fucking lump jordison and Lombardo together again... yes I left jordison uncapitalized on porpose

  • He pronounces english fucking great for being from Sweden, us Scandinavians always have that stereotypical accent...

  • BLEED is one of the greatest and most commanding metal song ever written imo...

  • My favourite word for this kind of stuff is Mathcore. Kind of sums it up.

    Djent is a word used to describe a sound.

    i.e. Djent-Djent-Djent-Djent 

  • @cougarcartel it's not mathcore... converge and botch are mathcore... the only thing you could call this other than djent is tech death, and meshuggah sounds next to nothing like other tech death bands.... they truly did create their own sound...

  • @punkrockdrummer I'm so sick of listening to people placing them in this or that genre. Find any band that sounds like Meshuggah and you have a genre but you won't. Math metal? lol most beats go in 4/4 core. Its all the other shit like jazz elements and Haakes independence that makes people confused.

  • Is the bald guy at 4:05 ben kingsley?

  • @ Justice4AllOne

    Yea, makes u feel better to know that even the best drummers and percussionists have to practice at it just like the rest of us. I must say though, I like how Haake explains his practicing techniques in this interview, because that is EXACTLY how I had to change my bass drum technique when first learning advanced double bass patterns, I struggled getting it down for a while because it would always seem like my left foot couldn't keep up with my right since it had more experienc

  • The fact that Tomas Haake, of all people, had trouble with a drum beat shows how hard it really is.

  • THE BEST OBZEN SONG

  • Hearing him talk about how difficult it was learning the pattern makes me want to kill myself less

  • @Giveupthegh0st he's only this good because he spends every second thinking about it or doing it.

  • LMAO : 3:23 - BASIC PATTERN? :L Is he high? :L If that's a basic pattern, then Hitler basically killed five people. Space is basically 2 feet wide. The speed of light is basically slow. George Bush is basically a smart character.

  • @MJJAexperiance LOL he meant basic as in the base pattern of the song lol, it would be kind of contradictory to call the pattern simple and then proclaim how difficult it was for him to master playing it.

  • my favourite is still Dancers to a Discordant System

  • listen to New Millenium Cyanide Christ and tell me if this is not djent!

  • @MrSwac31 Meshuggah are considered the fathers of Djent

  • @Jimihendrix6699 i know but a guy was saying it's a progressive metal band and it wasn't Djent so, i just forget the @nameoftheguy.

  • @MrSwac31 they are Progressive Metal. its kind of like how Black Sabbath is considered stoner metal.

  • @Jimihendrix6699 experimental if you want but not progressive.

  • @MrSwac31 "I’ve also learned a lot from Meshuggah. They’re not so much about polyrhythms as they are about trying different things together and seeing where they meet. They may play in three, then in five, then in four in one progression of riffs; if the drummer is playing over that in four, they’ll see where the rhythms meet up. It’s so exciting. Meshuggah are modern prog-rock as far as I’m concerned." excerpt from an Adam Jones interview.

  • @Jimihendrix6699 what you're describing is experimental metal not progressive metal, progressive metal is a sub genre of HEAVY METAL inspire by heavy metal, jazz fusion, and classical music it's a really, really melodic kind of music and not agressive at all. The progressive metal isn't links with any kind of extreme metal like is Meshuggah, in progressive metal u'll never gona ear a Chords the all song is a shred! the only comon point with the experimental is the use of odd time signatures,...

  • @Jimihendrix6699 Meshuggah is a really extreme metal band they praticly never use shred they use death glows for the singer, really big 8 strings guitars, double pedal (extreme metal only) and the big part of the music research is around the tempo, the weird sounding stuff, chaotic sound, not about speed melodic songs, progressive is near with power metal!

  • @MrSwac31 being "prog" is taking whatever the previous standard is to a new level musically. in this case, Meshuggah has taken metal and added crazy time signature changes, crazy guitars (8 strings ect.), and just a unique take on metal. much like bands like Dream Theater and Tool and Opeth. but each band does their own unique thing. much like bands back in the 70's did it. (Yes, Rush, Genesis, King Crimson)

  • @Jimihendrix6699 yes prog is : "taking whatever the previous standard is to a new level musically" but Meshuggah didn't take any previous standard to a new level they created one the Djent: speed Chords palm muted with wierd time signature (prog use big, long time signature not weird ) and with a death metal sounding and atmosphere !

  • @MrSwac31you obviously don't know what you're talking about. in Tool's Rosetta Stoned they switch time signatures over 15 times and use signatures like 5/8, 5/4, 9/8, 7/4, 11/8, 6/4, 15/4, 7/8. im not even going to argue this with you if you're going to throw bands into genres with minor differences. its really a testament to how much nonsense all these little sub-genres are.

  • @Jimihendrix6699 did i say the opposite? i never said that prog don't use difficult time signature i was speaking about the reason why they use difficult time signature, one is searching to take a music genre to an highter level of technicity (prog) an other is trying to creat something that 's gona disturb you, make u feel weird (experimental ,djent, math metal,mathcore). Experimental and Prog are similar (technics music genre) but the idea behind is different!

  • @MrSwac31 i don't know, i mean i know what you're saying but "trying to create something that's going to disturb you and make you feel weird" is a common theme in metal. metal is metal because its raw, nasty and in your face. to me, bands like Tool and Meshuggah are progressive because they shed that property and take it to a higher, more orderly level. to me, being experimental is a means of being progressive. i just can't say experimental is its own genre. thats why their prog to me.

  • @Jimihendrix6699 the big difference is that one improve something and the other try (by using some of the old things) something that's gona be completly new ( and mostly shit ). Experimental is a like a : u are nothing now caus u are trying too find something new so i put u in experimental! Prog search the rigor and the complexity, until experimental search the chaos by the use of the complexity! It's to point of view and i respect it and like : The Human Abstract, protest the hero c'est la vie

  • @MrSwac31 and as you can probably tell, im not a big sub-sub genre guy. i don't really like to be all technical with genres and classifications. i apologize for being a tad bit harsh and insulting earlier.

  • @Jimihendrix6699 it's no big deal, what if now we just listen to music?

  • @MrSwac31 prog is taking the previous standard to a whole new level musically. this means stepping out of 4/4 time and simple tempo changes. Meshuggah has done exactly that, just as bands like Dream Theater, Tool, and Opeth have done. and they have done it just like bands like Yes, Genesis, Rush, King Crimson did in the 70's. how can you call something Prog METAL and then say its not aggressive? that defeats the whole purpose of metal.

  • @Jimihendrix6699 Meshuggah can only go in 3 boxes : 1 experimental metal ( creating conplex music like never been done before, Jimi Hendrix was a experental rock artist for some songs!)  2 Math metal ( death metal + weird time signature+ really fat sound ) 3 Djent ( a genre they created who's about chords mostly with fat big sound and weird time signature )

    and maybe if u really want progressive metal but for me it's not true

  • @MrSwac31 You're a moron

  • @sp6541 and u are douchebag so STFU by the way your comment u can put it in ur A*s. Come back when you'll know how to use argument and not insult!

  • and you sir, are a moron

  • @sp6541 and u a bouchebag

  • The Internet has been key to the development and distribution of djent music, with websites such as got-djent , SoundCloud and the guitar forum sevenstring playing a large part in creating fanbases for many more popular djent bands such as Periphery.

  • THEY ARE NOT PROGRESSIVE, it's Djent (a genre they've created without knowing) and a math metal band, not progressive band at ALL! it's experimental if u want, not progressive!

  • @MrSwac31 Djent is a specific power chord, not a genre, ask any of the so-called "Djent" bands out there, they'll tell you the same. Math Metal is progressive, therefore it's Progressive Metal.

  • @CalculatingInfinity6 Djent is a genre in the underground metal scene. The word "djent" is an onomatopoeia for a heavily palm-muted, distorted guitar chord. It is generally considered to have been made popular by Fredrik Thordendal of Meshuggah.

  • @CalculatingInfinity6 Typically, the word is used to refer to music that makes use of this sound, to the sound itself, or to the scene that revolves around it. Its meaning is the subject of much debate, and there is some controversy in regards to its classification as a new subgenre.

  • I think these guys have made huge strides between albums, the vocals changed, the concepts are obviously different and the music sounds different, the polyrhythmic nature is whats makes them meshuggah, I whole-heartedly disagree.

  • am i the only one who dosent want to suck these guys dicks for shoving the same crap out for 12 fucking albums?

  • @dopefiend138

    I guess you haven't heard any of their albums.

  • The guy is a genious, the song turned out to be one of the most awesome things humanity has ever heard.

  • They would be from sweden, wouldn't they..

  • @MrMct95 they are from sweden

  • i have nothing more to say from that great fucking kind of meshuggah's masterpiece..hail to them..!!!being a drummer as i am is an honor to mentoring that cool guy like tomas haake...!!!!!

  • @mebemetal thats fuckin awesome

  • when they say 12th album, do they mean all the EPs too? wikipedia only lists six ._.

  • He revealed the biggest issue all the drummers have and the correction is this..."Just lean back" while playing bleed on the drums!

    Hmmm...So we had Aztec "two step"..and now "Lean back" lol Please Meshuggah..never change your ways into the mindless self destructing nonsense people call RAP...Aka..Retards attempting Poetry.

    This band..in the past 2 months..has taken a spot next to my favorite band of all time..that being TOOL. Rock on bitches!!

  • Anurism?...more like Anal-rism...haha

  • THIS IS THE HEAVIEST FUCKING METAL SONG I VE EVER HEARD... I DONT CARE WHAT OTHERS THINK

  • damn this is thier 12th album?!?!?!?!??!

  • @TruthTheSpeaker wtf no

  • thomas is a machine 

  • It was indeed inspiring and refreshing to know that someone who is at the top of their game still needs to "train" and "practice"....that they just can't sit down and bang stuff like this out without a herculean effort. He is an amazing drummer, and deserves our respect!

  • what the hell is moving behind him in the interview!?!??

  • @rootveeld a fucking trees branches!

  • @rootveeld I think it's a small boat.

  • get that flo shit outta here. for real.

  • It's very refreshing to hear that even Tomas Haake struggled with Bleed. Maintaining balance on the throne while leading with both feet at high speed for an extended time is very very tough. I love when really incredible drummers reveal that they had to practice something for a long time, as Chris Adler has discussed as well. How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice.

  • wonder what crawled up spininflames ass and died

  • he can literally sit there like, "yeah i own the drumming community"

  • Every time I look for a drummer to jam with they are always like...yea I play double bass really well. Then I'm like... K later. Double bass isn't an instrument. If you want to play anytype of metal, you need to know how to use the whole drum kit (double kick included) I made the mistake of jamming with this kid who said that once, and DAMN. He wasn't lying. But thats all he could do. Constant double bass. No cymbals at all. No hihat. No snare. He didn't even have skins on the toms.

  • @plosilae Should jam to Stengah, another song by Meshuggah, barely any double bass at all, but a groovy beat.

  • Cheer up people. Even Tomas Haake couldn't play it at first.

  • DAMN YOU POLYRHYTHMIC PICKING, DAMN YOU!!!! 

  • bloody hell. i couldnt even do his bloody hand-tapping at 2:28 -.-

  • wtf the back is moving

  • Tomas is a badass but all you Neil Peart haters need to go jump off a fucking cliff. That's like saying jimmy page sucks. Legends don't suck.

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  • Im glad he made it. This is by far their best song for me.

  • @Chinafarmerz :S Their best song?... No way.

  • HE couldn't do it, how the hell am i supposed to...damn you haake :D

  • My favourite thing about Bleed is that it's Haake has got way harder songs out there.

  • I challenge anyone to find a video, in the genre of music we call metal, that doesn't have two dickheads arguing about some really benign point.

  • @Jammey90 That's true, but look up any music besides more 'classy' music (opera, classical, jazz, etc.) and it's a dickfest everywhere. Young, angry, and anonymous.

  • @Jammey90

    impossible lol

  • @Jammey90 You can call me pedantic, but I don't really think "benign" is the right word.

  • @MrMike0113 Yeah, you're right, completely got the wrong definition for that haha

  • @Jammey90 I was a little confused at first; I actually ended up double and triple-checking the definition myself.

  • @Jammey90 challenge accepted. check out my vids. noone arguing there (yet -.-)

  • @Jammey90 Metal isn't really a genre. Heavy metal is the real genre... all the other "...metal" sorts (genre if you so want to) are based on heavy metal!

  • @epicKiipa metal is the genre, heavy is a subgenre. if you say metal, you mean heavy, death, black, doom, power, prog.... if you say heavy metal, you mean black sabbath, motörhead, iron maiden and stuff like that.

  • I honestly had no idea he struggled on this track it sounds so effortless.It's testament to how incredible a drummer he is! Meshuggah are the greatest technicians on the planet in a league of their own. 1st 2mins of I prove the guitarists are untouchable,Chaosphere has the greatest drumming ever and Bleed is truly impossible to cover lol! Rush are cool but this is beyond anyone.

  • this very well may be the best drummer on the planet...

  • @sipinflames - ever heard of neil peart?

  • @joaosimpson99 nope, but he probably plays for a gay band called Rush or something. Seriously though, Neil is a machine, I just think it takes more tallent to write something like this. I'm a guitarist though, so I have no idea what I'm talking about.

  • @sipinflames - lolwut? YYZ or La villa stangiata are WAAAAAAAAAAAAAY harder than bleed... Neil peart is much more talented than this guy, like him or not, it's a fact.

  • @joaosimpson99 can you not read? I DONT CARE. fuck off and go listen to rush you tool.

  • @sipinflames wow xD you should quit music you dont know shit about it... Go learn something faggot

  • @joaosimpson99 haha obviously you're the one that doesn't know shit about music because its subjective, and in my opinion Rush is fuckin gay. But you like the Simpson's too so you're probably 15 or retarded.

  • @sipinflames You can't use absolute terms to describe something that varies from person to person. And you're obviously a Neil fanboy, so gtfo, this is Thomas Haake country

  • @TheFearAsylum wtf are you talking about assclown i hate rush. fuck off you gay bitch

  • @sipinflames Im not a fan of Rush, but being a musician, I respect them for who they are.

  • @gordonmontford that's cool not

  • @gordonmontford You can respect something without liking it. If Rush walked into my house right now of course I would ask for an autograph, but not because I like their music.

  • @sipinflames If Rush walked into your house right now, you've probably got bigger problems to worry about.

  • @Kapr1Sun Honestly I think that would be sweet and I hate their music....

  • @joaosimpson99 being a drummer bleed is alot harder than yyz. YYZ i learned about 4 -5 years ago, bleed is still fucking impossible

  • @gordonmontford the only hard part that i see about it is the bass, that's insane :/

  • @joaosimpson99 It doesnt sound hard but playing that for 4 + minutes is absolute death on your legs

  • Monster.

  • the drummer i've been tudoring had been feeling cocky lately. so i gave him this song as homework. told him to take it 1 minute at a time

    week one: came back with a chip on his shoulder

    week two: came back frustrated, but after i showed him that it would be easier to carry the upbeat by switching his drive from his right to his left foot, walked out with a new chip on his shoulder

    week three: came in with tears in his eyes. "i can't do it. i just can't....."

  • @mebemetal lol awsome

  • @mebemetal Thankfully I skipped directly to week three and avoided the first two steps.

  • @mebemetal Great teachers challenge their students. Good to hear you're doing that.

  • @TheTerrorUforgot Yes but they don't terrorize the fuck outta them

  • did he ever live in the US or something? his english is so perfect

  • Damn his English is perfect, he speaks with like a Midwestern American accent haha

  • Bleed's Awesome

  • 12 albums?

    i only have 8

  • I in no way am trying to come off as in the same league as Tomas Haake, I'm only saying this to take some of the mystery away from what he is playing from those reading this that may not be aware of what is going on with the kick drum pattern. Haake is a drum god and my favorite drummer in the metal genre. The kick pattern is based on a herta...a triplet within a triplet. Say you play a triplet RRL...throw a left between the two rights like this RLR. L..

  • @elnovakaine Ya, that's the easiest way to do that initial pattern. RLR L RLR L RLR L And I can't tell just from a quick listen but you can also do things like RLR L R LRL R L RLR in which you left foot leads every other triplet. The tempo is so fast that I can't even tell if he does that or not. These kinds of patterns take insane amounts of practice and discipline even with slow tempos.

  • @ke812 Yes sir. The variations are infinite.. I threw that out for a younger drummer who may not have thought of subdividing triplets with triplets. Tomas Haake is a genius. He is able to play this technical and brutal music flawlessly and also has a laid back pulse and groove too, even live...better. I can understand what he's doing but to play it like that, and even more impressive to create it....no way.

  • lol ! Tomas looks so much like his brother! i was my teacher just recently i "digital sound produktion" :D

  • Is he american??

  • @akhimakhi93 swedish

  • @unoulike How does he have an american accent :S wierd...

  • @akhimakhi93 Many of us Swedes aren't too influenced by Swedish when talking English.