MESHUGGAH presented by POWERMETAL.de

[Relaaya1]

what venue is that?! looks like someone's garage

[Morbidfilthz]

1 2 3 and we GROOVE! Thats the master talking right there!!!!

[dopefiend138]

God damn this dude cant string a sentence together to save his life

[JuIsTheLaw]

If Marten keeps his solo album for himself, I will punch my own legs off in frustration.

[Meshuggaaaahhhhh]

"It's less of a story than it is an expression of a mood. It's an expression of a state of mind, of anxiety. It is not meant as a pin-pointed story, It is meant to be floating... so that whatever it means to you is what it's about. It's about the meeting between the lyric and the guy listening to it." - Marten Hagstrom on Catch 33

[burningvenom]

amazing interview, and good questions.

[loosifur]

SOUL NIGGER!!!!!!!!

[evilmurderproduction]

Finally some one else who writes music cause they want to hear something different, this guy is my new hero

[touretul]

They use now Vetta only for the bass guitar. And Fredrik and Marten uses Axe FX

[Fergusforslipknot]

5:24 pay attention to their godliness, you dumb headbanging shits D:

[AbuGollo]

Hungária póló:D:D azhogy:O:D

[xdeathwalkingterrorx]

fucking pitchfork tv l0l

[proggod876]

whats the song at 1:57?

[faselblaDer3te]

@proggod876

it's Stengah from the Nothing album.

[ZeppelinRules]

Martin is such a clever guy, its little wonder they get him to do all the talking.

[Dakedoom]

..rock metal band?

[xfierusx]

@Dakedoom He said Prog metal :P

[Fergusforslipknot]

@Dakedoom "prog metal"

[dujl]

But that's not to say you don't need a sense of rhythm, because you do.

[dablacksolja]

you muthafukkkas going to be a witness with my cover of perpetual black second...

[Heavynprog1]

Those guys are brilliant.

[jolulaiho]

Wow... he has almost no accent at all :P

[NoStickTricks]

but the german guy has loooool :(

[pvagyok]

i think he's hungarian since there are hungarian words on his shirt

[Mutafuka]

@jolulaiho

Yeah, I wonder why is that. It's like every fuckin swedish band (metal band mostly) speaks english soo well.

[ZeppelinRules]

@Mutafuka

I'm pretty sure they learn english in schools. I mean in the wider world, how useful is Swedish right?

[onkabonkah]

1-2-3-4 And then we groove!

[msslipknot]

was ? oO !?!?!

die warn in der räucherkammer?!?!?!?!

halloo???

meshuggah in der mickrigen räucher kammer xD aber ey ich bin derb geshockt^^ wusst garet dass die hier waren!!

[MickeyLWalker]

i must see meshuggah before i die

[princi360]

@MickeyLWalker they wher absolutely amazing live

[Hatesmonkeys666]

@MickeyLWalker Just record your self doing a bunch of open notes on your guitar then watch it, and you should feel like your watching meshuggah

[MickeyLWalker]

@Hatesmonkeys666 yo i got 2 invites for ya. one from da slink center and anotha from burtons house candy co which one u want first? and btw get a better name for youtube sheesh

[Hatesmonkeys666]

@MickeyLWalker What? im sorry i didnt know i had to please you with my name, what should i put?

[MickeyLWalker]

@Hatesmonkeys666 answer my first question...... then we'll get to the name

[Hatesmonkeys666]

@MickeyLWalker You first "question" makes no sense, wtf are you talking about? and i was joking idc what you want my name to be, my name is a lot more creative then yours, it looks like you put your real name, how long did it take you to come up with that?

[picball39]

@MickeyLWalker or they..

[Ozlanthos]

@MickeyLWalker I've seen them 2 out of the 3 times they've played here in Oregon....and you are right, YOU MUST SEE THEM BEFORE YOU DIE!!!! Last time I got one of Thomas Haake's drum heads SIGNED!!!

-Oz

[JackoThe1st]

Damn I really wanna see or hear that concert now!!

[JoeSkaterGuitarist]

Marteb's English is so good! haha

[theSyringe]

Excellent interview.

[loosifur]

he said soul nigger within but he ment soul niger within oops who cares anyway?

[sefeed65]

Did Marten just say Soul Nigger Within instead of Soul Niger Within?

[NeuroHead]

soul nigga within

[FierceDeity33]

alter, der kerl sollte echt englisch lernen, wenn der weiter interviews machen will. selbst wenn die grammatik und syntax stimmen, die AUSSPRACHE ist superwichtig ;) ich hab echt probleme gehabt manches zu verstehen, respekt an Mârten :)

ansonsten ein gutes interview!

[MainstreamKills]

auch die grammatik war teilweise im eimer

[blackseeds666]

ja

z.bsp. listening hat er versaut, er sagte what kind of music do you listen

das ''to'' fehlt :P

nur mal ein kleines beispiel

[dreckfirmada]

alter , der kerl tritt dir gleich in deinen arsch,....

sind wir hier aufm studienlehrgang? bisher konnte "der kerl" sich damit immer gut zurechtfinden.

,... ALTER !

[FierceDeity33]

ist doch gut, wenn es klappt...aber du brauchst doch nicht gleich so auszuticken, bist du dem seine mutti, oder was?

hat auch nix mit nem studilehrgang zu tun, oder sonst was, sondern mit seriosität! wie gesagt, wer englisch schreiben und lesen kann, kann es noch lange nicht sprechen.

und recherche würde ich es auch nicht nennen, mal auf meinen username zu klicken und sich meine videos anzuschauen (danke für die klicks)

[dreckfirmada]

ps . wenn man über dich recherchiert findet man auch nicht gerade das gelbe im E(nglischen) ei !!!

[FierceDeity33]

ich recherchier dich dann auch mal, um zu sehen ob der spruch von deiner seite überhaupt gerechtfertigt ist ;)

viel spaß beim weitertrollen!

[alexhepp]

joa, sich schwächen eingestehen ist halt ne stärke, die nicht unbedingt jedem in die wiege gelegt wurde... Deine Aussprache ist n Hohn für die Sprache, und wenn man Interviews bei youtube posten will, sollte man schon in der Lage sein, sie richtig zu sprechen! Trotzdem danke für den Beitrag!

[Zettybaby]

I actually was on that gig! :D

Good interview though. Fredrik thought about a second solo album?

WELL PLEASE!!!! Sol Niger Within was friggin awesome. Also I'd love to hear another one-tracker by meshuggah... maybe the album after the next one? Who knows....

[dujl]

Good interview. I have this interesting opportunity to do some stage work on a metal festival near me, and that includes a backstage pass. The exciting part is that Meshuggah are playing! It would be extremely aweaome to just get a few quick words with them.

[specialDFX]

RE: Marten's solo project - FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF­UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­UUUU

[WebsterA]

Meshuggah = Math because of the polyrhytmic structures, uncomprimisingly equalling 4/4.

Not Jazz as jazz can change whenever it wants.

Theyve stated they write music on Cubase. This would help greatly in mathematically structuring the off time riffs. The band writes the bass drum first, to kick to the guitar notes then adds a H-H every quarter note and a snare every 3rd H-H. If Haake cant do er,he changes it to fit. They did the time over time before but never so methodically. MESHUGGAH!!

[mathiusvoodoo]

How can jazz change from one form to another. Like martin said "jazz is free flowing" it has no "form."

[WebsterA]

Form?

Were talking time signatures here and Jazz is notorious for changing from one to another.

Buddy said jazz has no form because its allowed to change. Its not restricted.

Meshuggah, however is restricted to the jist of the chug, per se.

[mathiusvoodoo]

Hmm fair dos. But as far as Meshuggah's times sig's are concerned you know that they dont play any other than 4/4 most the time. Acrid Placidity is in 5/4 but i think all there other songs revolve around 4/4?

[WebsterA]

LoL.

Yes, MEshuggah makes a POINT of being in 4/4 timing. However the riffs they play are not.

EXAPMPLE: First riff in Pepetual Black Second:

Dotted 8th (open note), Dotted 8th (6th fret), 8th (open), 16th (1st fret), Dotted 8th (open), 8th (open). =14/16 aka 7/8 timing.

Do that 4 times with NO REST. = 28 beats. 4 more beats makes 32 = 4/4 timing.

They play the 7/8 riff uncomprimised until the cutoff point, being the 17th beat, where it starts over, rendering the riff "4/4".

[WebsterA]

Haake has to kick along to these patterns while maintaining, usually a 4/4 ostenato with his hands w cymbal accentuations.

This makes snares fall on a different spot measure for measur comared to he kick pattern.

He is in essence, playing two time sigs at once. Its an approach theyve capiatalized on since the Nothing album. (They touched base in other albums but some riffs were still comprimised, out of the 4/4 spectrum.)

Lemme know if this dont clear up the definition of true math meatl! :)

[JoeSkaterGuitarist]

thats right! Tomas plays in 4/4 apparently the whole time

while the actual guitars and bass are other strange time signatures

Rational Gaze for example Tomas plays simple 4/4 time, hitting the snare on each third beat, for 16 bars. At the same time, the guitars and bass are playing the same quarter notes, in a different time signature, and eventually both sides meet up again at the 64th beat

lol

[MainstreamKills]

most of them but eg shed is in 7/8 and the secound part of sane is in 7/8 too. im sure there are many more parts

[asphixa]

Why don't you guys understand, go study some musictheory... IT DOES NOT MATTER WHICH TIMESIGNATURE IT HAS ! Timesignatures are used to write music, odd time signatures are meant to write the music in a way that it can be comprehensed, but you can write it in 4/4 to

[MainstreamKills]

dude i dont have to study music theory but you should study some music practice. its not about writing it in 7/8 or 4/4... its just the fact of feeling it as a 7/8 just like you said: its used so it can comprehensed. its simply a fact that some parts like eg sane in 1:40 is 7/8 even though it might be possible to count it in many other time signatures as well but that would be soulless counting (at least for me) as it wouldnt make any sense. just listen to it once more. hope u get what i mean

[asphixa]

Yea, in fact you're stating the same thing I was saying... It's weird to write it in 4/4 cause it's more logical to do so in 7/8 but it doesn't mean it's not posible.

[sbotos]

Every Meshuggah song is most logical to write in 4/4. It is all 4 or 8 bar phrases in 4/4.

[Dakora]

Sure. Most of Tomas Haake's drum patterns is based on a 4/4-rhythm.

[snofthndr]

although that can be true certain songs or riffs will define a time signature

[asphixa]

ofcourse, but my point is that it can be written in every sort of timesignature.. But that's just stupid

[snofthndr]

i understand I use that alot it helps if the music is really hard to think about.

[skezness]

good job coming up with questions that haven't been asked 1000 times, it was an interesting interview.

[dreckfirmada]

hi guys , it was me who did the interview ;-)

greetZ alexander andreszka

[Kafe420]

cool! good interview! must have been really nice to get the opportunity to interview meshuggah

[dreckfirmada]

im pretty connected to them, that probably made it easy primary.

they are realy cool while weve talked the whole day but morten is the one who is gona give the offical interviews.

[hellonieman]

marten is so straightforward, must be easy to interview him.

[NeuroHead]

Good stuff!

[schwarg]

sol nigger within, fuckin lol'd

[YuMMie28]

@schwarg Sol niger within, not nigger.....

[schwarg]

@YuMMie28 I was just quoting marten jackass

[ZettaiThorn]

@YuMMie28 you're correct, but it's actually the same thing. Niger in latin means black,

but on the other hand we all know nigger is an offensive word...

[Rg76215150]

That camera man at the end sucks. Yea, turn away when fred does some sweet scale/sweep stuff, ugh.

[dragonaut]

"fredrik released sol nigger within..uh sol neeger within"

[behindthen0thing]

LOL

[charlezurich]

Sol Niger Within 2

that would be too good

[junkyardw]

when they were mentioning side projects did the interviewer say smashing pumpkins?

[strawspulled]

Right on, good interview. Thanks a lot.