Meshuggah - "Closed Eye Visuals"

[sinceremalevolence]

These guys must smoke alot of pot.

[bandproj]

Best song ever

[underscoreisnotvalid]

6:23 onwards is fucking awesome. i love the over the top bend note in the riff... "derp... bee nerr nerrp...nnnnnerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr­rrrrrrrr nerp" so fucking brutal and over the top. i love how it just sounds so out of place and is carried way over the bar

[JamilAlexandre1]

@underscoreisnotvalid one of the baddest ass riffs ever!

[19740916]

G E N I A L N E ! M U S I C A L G E N I U S !

[giacoz92]

I got healthy and at the end of the song I started rocking chair. What the fuck happened to my head? sorry for my english

[vanishy0urself]

@giacoz92 Meshuggah happened to your head. :D

[TheFBM2011]

sorry interlude hahaha

[TheFBM2011]

everybody talking about the afterlude riff

but for me I love the part from 4:27 to 5:24

[vanishy0urself]

I tried to show Meshuggah to a friend. He listened for 30 seconds, switched it off and turned out Linkin Park's "In The End". Now I myself do like some Linkin Park every now and then, but this... was a sad moment for me.

[vanishy0urself]

My personal opinion is that the combination of guitars, rhythm, and rhythmically-placed screaming vocals during the "MIND-SIGNAL TRANSMISSION PEAKED, DISTORTED, BENT... UN-RE-STRAINED!!" defines Meshuggah's style the best.

[vanishy0urself]

6:23 -- "I'M TROOOLLIIIING!!!!"

Yes, you are. And I love it.

[allikatish]

i got hook on you guys from my ex-boyfriend joe and his friend jason........ as my boyfriend would say now guys is rock out with your cock out...........lol

[cypheron0]

@allikatish :O

[paperpro3223]

@allikatish Your a liar hahah

[allikatish]

i got hook on you guys from my ex-boyfriend joe and his friend jason

[DoctorLipsh1ts]

i've been listening to as many meshuggah songs as i can on youtube and they all sound the same to me. i love shed and all the intermissions in the songs they have are cool (like at 5:25). i get that they play in polymeters and it takes talent but to me it all runs together and i don't like it at all

[FiveHundo500]

@DoctorLipsh1ts I'll tell you, man, all it is is that you're not listening in the way that the music is demanding you to. I just got into Meshuggah like 2 weeks ago by recommendation, and I'm a jazzer. A year ago I would have shut this off after 5 seconds. For some reason, metal has finally clicked for me. The drummer in this band is VERY smart. As I understand, he writes a lot of the music, and his style is very aligned to modern jazz, especially the likes of Steve Coleman.

[DoctorLipsh1ts]

@FiveHundo500 i've been listening to metal since 7th grade (i'm about to be 18 now) and i love more technical stuff like between the buried and me or the red chord, but this isn't my type i guess. i love the song shed because i can actually hear an eerie melody in it but this all sounds like hitting the bottom string over and over in a very bizarre pattern (and yes i get that it's technical and highly difficult to play). i love tool and progressive music...just not this i guess

[FiveHundo500]

@DoctorLipsh1ts Yeah, np with that. It might come someday, it might not.

[Bodycage]

@DoctorLipsh1ts That's great. Keep us up to date with any further developments...

LOL.

[DoctorLipsh1ts]

@Bodycage HA

[DeathMetalArchives]

this album art is similar to the visuals i had on an 8th of mushrooms while laying on my back looking up unable to physically move

[BenjaminKuruga]

@DeathMetalArchives yeh and the cops were screaming SON, CAN YOU HEAR ME?! did the cops face look like the cover?

[killwhitneydead666]

@DeathMetalArchives hahaha been there lol. I dont think I could have comprehended this song lol

[DeathMetalArchives]

@killwhitneydead666 I've listened to catch 33 and nothing back to back while tripping. All i can say is when you come down how many hours later your left with a definite lasting impression.

[Feberizo1]

@DeathMetalArchives that must have been scary

[Meshuggaaaahhhhh]

I love the fact that this has two veins, original and re-mastered. Now I can enjoy the piss out of it twice

[Jendonos]

4:27 Fucking orgasmatic solo with badass riff

[Admirturano]

cevs are awesome

[BlazeInTheMazeOfLife]

0:29 - 0:36 = Wow. The instantly win from just that. The rest of the song is just the biggest bonus.

[jp3sucks]

They always have the best endings, damn amazing band.

[LStrucks]

@niltonyukina fag

[Jendonos]

Omg! This song is simply amazing, and i discovered this band just now...

[TemptingTime7]

I love the extra kick drum hit at 6:59. It is clearer to hear on the re-mastered version.

[TemptingTime7]

I love the extra kick drum hit at 6:59

[Tool78Maynard]

One of the most underrated songs off of nothing..this song owns

[dujl]

@Ician100 It's sure to be. Obzen is probably their most diverse album. Destroy Erase Improve has lot of diversity, as well.

[Bagas]

i hate the part after 7:26

[supah1337B]

@Bagas :) joke is old bro

[Bagas]

vintage mesh

[godsstillbornson]

I love to slap this out on bass.....

[AiALiCiOUS]

so fucking good i love this

[Restayvien]

Working out to this makes you feel like Mars

[NocturnalTerror]

@Restayvien Yeah, I usually feel like Zeus when i listen to Pineal Gland Optics

[Th3Congregation]

So much better than the re-issue version.

[dujl]

@Th3Congregation I disagree.

[Restayvien]

This and Bleed are my favorite Meshuggah songs by far.

[Jakob0andreas]

math metal^^

[666spawnofsatan666]

@Jakob0andreas no mate. progressive metal

[ThrashMetalMan1]

@666spawnofsatan666 no its super awsome extremely progressive extreme awsome metal

[bumcookie1]

@666spawnofsatan666 no dude "Coverifyoudare" metal

[todd291022]

The technical metal Gods...

[rololoo]

Just try to count in four (in beats) while listening to the song, and don't worry about the odd meters at all. This is what I mean by the 4/4 feel. A certain pattern doesn't have to be only four beats long to be written in 4/4 time sig. Then when you get the patterns down (either tabbing it and/or just memorizing) you'll know what I'm talking about.

[supah1337B]

Metallica - Thrash

Behemoth - Death metal

Dethklok - Comedic Dethmetal

Meshuggah - Meshuggah

[Fluffypopcicle]

rofl what's the time signature at the start? sounds like 11/4 i don't know.

[rololoo]

@Fluffypopcicle

It's all 4/4.

[Fluffypopcicle]

@rololoo

correct me if im wrong, but if it takes around 4 times for it become 4/4 wouldn't it be something like 16/4? anyways, the core is 4/4 but im pretty sure the guitar parts are sometihng else that just meet up with the 4/4 beat. rotating time signatures.

[rololoo]

@Fluffypopcicle

Ever heard of polyrhythms...? They're different from time signatures. This song among almost all of them are entirely written in 4/4 and maintaining the 4/4 feel is important. The "guitar parts meet up" after four measures of 4/4 in the intro, for example. All of their patterns often realign after four or eight measures. Eventually it's not about calculating, but memorizing and feeling the groove.

[Fluffypopcicle]

@rololoo

it's a tad different from that. it's not purely 4/4 in fact almost not at all. the guitar and the drum parts play completely different time signatures, but when repeated enough those time signatures meet up. the srums play 4/4 but the guitar is often playing something like 21/16 or the likes. they essentially are playing time signatures, but they're just playing different ones that eventually meet up. the core is 4/4 but not the whole shabang.

[rololoo]

@Fluffypopcicle

Great you just proved you didn't get my point at all. First of all, if you'd just "repeat" those odd time signatures, they wouldn't meet up after e.g. eight measures of 4/4. Odd meters never do. That is why there's a small ending part in the tail end of the patterns to even it up and the whole thing starts over (or another part comes up). OF COURSE the guitars are playing something different, everyone hears that.

[eylesn]

@rololoo This is 4/4, the band admit that they write in this time sig it's just the polyrythmnic slicing between instruments of the sig that gives it it's feel. Read some music theory books if you don't get what I and rolollo are talking about.... Odd meters do meet up, it's the rests that you're not counting. Jesus....

[rololoo]

@eylesn

You directed that comment accidentally at me I guess.

[rololoo]

@Fluffypopcicle

My point rather was that you should listen to this stuff as you would listen to any "regular" simple paced music based on 4/4. That doesn't happen in instant since your brain automatically picks up the odd things and perceive them differently, but after some time you'll get a grip.

[dujl]

Aww, the remaster is just so much better. Everything about it. It does the song more justice.

[123121s1]

@dujl mb you'll upload it

[stiffaction]

gr8 song. btw is the vocals hardcore-punk?

[Ghosy00]

@stiffaction it's more thrash i think, not really sure

[stiffaction]

@Ghosy00 yes, maybe hardcore-thrash.

[Hytimo]

tumbs up if this is your favorite meshuggah song!

[haklbarry2]

Nervethreads decoding the stream of the

reality-inverting revolution

The patterned untruth of non-dream: The closed eye

visual delusion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!

[LarsYenin]

black metal bands are religious visionaries and philosophers, etc, more than musicians; but meshuggah are pure musicians first and foremost. Their superior musicianship comes through instantly.

[TheDreamMechanic]

You fucking RULE for posting this. This song - this version - is probably my favorite Meshuggah song...and that's saying something. This shit RIPS.

[darkabz2346]

the guitar solo just leaves me speachless rock out Meshuggah \m/

[l0rdr1ddler]

if you put this pic upside-down and blur ur vision, it looks like a nasty bug that will kill you!

[007Pogo]

This is colossal.

[BrutalBreakdowns100]

0:30 sexxay

[ThisSaturatedMind]

EXPLOSIONS!!!!

[Belsebub93]

Best song by Meshuggah

[69OneTime]

The guitar solo fucking rapes.

[TheFearAsylum]

my favorite part is 0:00 to 7:26

[HRHlagatyta]

Tomas Haake is a poet, no doubt

[BoRdErgRiNdS1232]

i have to say that nothing was their best album yet

[TheModCon]

@BoRdErgRiNdS1232 Nothing is their second best for me, Catch 33 being the best :D

[TheClosedeyevisual]

One of my fav. tracks!!

[jonnywu3]

this is BRUTAL dont ya think

[CreatorOfChaosxx]

I wouldn't say it's brutal but it's good lol.

[jonnywu3]

but ya got to admit (CLOSED EYE VISUALS) is the best off this album along with Meshuggah

[p0litician0nLSD]

it is as it is, perfect

[twitsta69]

"A twirling visual overload, Explosions of terror and beauty, Colours of fear and pain within, Crashing to Unanything."

Tomas Haake, you are a lyrical genius.

[MortonGoldthwait]

nah jonathan davis

Yall want a singe say fuck that

its time to make them pay for all the shit you make me say.

MESHUGGAH ROCKS!!!!!

[666Opiate462]

My fav Meshuggah song and album. This song is sikk in a car with a loud system. The part where it kicks back in after the interlude made me jump the first time I heard it haha

[djPellTown]

holy shit.... i jumped the first time i heard it too Krazy

[theradu123]

@666Opiate462 me too, i shit my pants

[MetallicOpeth]

@666Opiate462 when I'm driving with Meshuggah on full tilt I just have one hand on the top of the wheel and do the simply head bob...just soo groovy

[dujl]

Where can I find the original album?

[bgggbb]

haha! I have three copies. I though i lost them but ended up finding both of em. Check eBay dude.

[tiki2188]

Thanks indeed. I like the way the original sounds so much better than the re-issue. And sadly that's all you find on youtube

[hellonieman]

thanks, i was wanting to listen to the original version

[voidisall]

...my pleasure ;-)

(I uploaded this song precisely because you could only find the 'Nothing (Re-Issue)' version here on youtube)

[fallenmonkeytieryu]

@voidisall where.......is the re-issue........?

[tiki2188]

@voidisall

Yes, thank you. Not sure why...but I like the original better. The remaster just sounds...well so ridiculous lol