Meshuggah guitarist Fredrik Thordendal recently began recording material for his second album (the first as Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects in 1997). The effort will likely be available later this year.

Among those contributing to the album is Soilwork drummer Dirk Verbeuren, who has issued the followed regarding his participation: "What a dream come true! Fredrik has been very supportive of my career for many years in many ways, and I respect him immensely both as a musician and songwriter. It was huge for Scarve to be asked to open for Meshuggah and we've been in touch ever since. When Fredrik asked me to be a part of the second Special Defects record, I just couldn't believe it! Now that I have the Soilwork album under my belt, it's exciting to dive into a completely different challenge where my drum parts will be based on improvisation more than anything else."

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Source:	lambgoat.com
Band profile:	Meshuggah

Original news, posted on 08.12.2009

Meshuggah have announced more details about their upcoming live DVD/CD Alive. The live DVD is set to be released in the beginning of 2010 on the 5th of February in Europe and 9th of February in the US, through Nuclear Blast Records. The digipack will feature over 60 minutes of live music on CD, in addition to 105 minutes of footage on DVD. The material was recorded during the band's 2008-2009 tours of USA, Canada and Japan. A trailer will be online soon at this location. The trailer, just like the film, is made by director Ian McFarland of Killswitch TV.

Alive cover art] tracklist:

DVD

01. Begin
02. Perpetual Black Second (Tokyo)
03. Twenty Two Hours
04. Pravus (Tokyo)
05. Dissemination
06. Bleed (NYC)
07. Ritual
08. New Millenium Cyanide Christ (Montreal)
09. Cleanse
10. Stengah (Montreal)
11. The Mouth Licking What You've Bled (Montreal)
12. Machine
13. Electric Red (Tokyo)
14. Solidarius
15. Rational Gaze (Tokyo)
16. Moment
17. Lethargica (Toronto)
18. Communicate
19. Combustion (Toronto)
20. Humiliative (Montreal)
21. Infinitum
22. Straws Pulled At Random (Toronto)
23. End

Bonus:

01. "Bleed" Music Video
02. The Making Of "Bleed"
03. Micha Guitar Tour
04. Tomas Drum Tour

CD

01. Perpetual Black Second
02. Electric Red
03. Rational Gaze
04. Pravus
05. Lethargica
06. Combustion
07. Straws Pulled At Random
08. New Millenium Cyanide Christ
09. Stengah
10. The Mouth Licking What You've Bled
11. Humiliative
12. Bleed

UPDATE (thanks to BudDa)

You can now watch a trailer for the Meshuggah Alive concert film DVD.


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Source:	meshuggah.net
Band profile:	Meshuggah

The Batallion will replace Meshuggah at this years Inferno festival. The Batallion will go on at 21:15h Thursday 9th april on the main stage, Rockefeller venue.

A message on the festival website reads as follows: since Meshuggah drummer Tomas Haake's back injury Link] requires surgery and rest, they had to cancel their gig at Inferno (and all other live gigs for the next couple of months - for more details about the cancelled gigs, click here).

Six days before the festival kicks off, the last thing any festival needs is to lose a headliner - but what can you do but try to find a replacement? With this little time, we can't possibly get another headliner in place so we decided to book another band, and rearrange the Thursday lineup so Pestilence now will headline and Septicflesh play their original slot.

Our saviours this year has pleased Inferno crowds with their powerhouse live performance before, and were incredibly enough able to threaten all their members into playing.

The Batallion boasts members from bands like Old Funeral, Borknagar, Taake, Grimfist and Bombers and set out with a mission - to bring masculinity and pure energy to the stage with their take on thrashy oldschool metal. Nobody's tougher than these guys - don't take our word for it, see for yourself @ Inferno Thursday!

Norwegians who purchased a Thursday ticket to see Meshuggah only can visit their local post office to get their ticket refunded. Foreigners who want a refund will have to send an e-mail to tickets infernofestival net.

Click here to view the altered line up.

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Source:	blogs.myspace.com
Band profile:	The Batallion
Event:	Inferno Festival

Nuclear Blast Records is reporting the following:

Intent on decimating the boundaries of extreme music with their metric art, Sweden's Meshuggah will be returning to North America in February, 2009 on a 17-show headlining tour presented by MySpace Music. Direct support to Meshuggah will be provided by the legendary progressive metal band Cynic. Opening all shows will be technical progressive death metallers The Faceless from Los Angeles. As one of the most popular and highly trafficked music platforms in the world, MySpace Music has evolved into an offline experience by connecting bands and fans around the world through various concert series and live events.

Confirmed shows are as follows:

Feb. 01 - House of Blues - Anaheim, CA
Feb. 02 - House of Blues - San Diego, CA
Feb. 03 - House of Blues - Hollywood, CA
Feb. 04 - Slim's - San Francisco, CA
Feb. 06 - El Corazón - Seattle, WA
Feb. 07 - Hawthorne Theatre - Portland, OR
Feb. 08 - Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver, BC
Feb. 09 - Knitting Factory - Spokane, WA
Feb. 11 - Gothic Theatre - Englewood, CO
Feb. 13 - Station 4 - St. Paul, MN
Feb. 15 - House Of Blues - Chicago, IL
Feb. 17 - Phoenix Concert Theatre - Toronto, ON
Feb. 18 - Club Soda - Montreal, QC
Feb. 19 - - New York, NY
Feb. 20 - Recher Theatre - Towson, MD

Two additional tour dates will be announced shortly.

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Source:	nuclearblastusa.com
Band profile:	Meshuggah
Event:	Meshuggah: N. American Tour

Meshuggah's Tomas Haake has been named the No. 1 drummer in the "Metal" category in the July 2008 Modern Drummer magazine's 2008 Readers' Poll.
The Readers' Poll results appear in the July 2008 issue of the magazine.

2008 results in the "Metal" category:

01. Tomas Haake (Meshuggah)
02. Jason Bittner (Shadows Fall)
03. Chris Adler (Lamb Of God)
04. Derek Roddy (ex-Hate Eternal)
05. Joey Jordison (Slipknot)

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Source:	nuclearblast.de
Band profile:	Meshuggah

Meshuggah have unveiled the video for "Bleed" in all of its gory, uber-frightening glory. The clip was produced by Ian McFarland and Killswitch Productions. Directed, written and edited by McFarland and Mike Pecci, "Bleed" boasts a fittingly-cinematic horror flick tone, and some genuine scares - seriously!

Killswitch Productions had this to say: "Working with Meshuggah was truly an honor for us. It's extremely cool to work with a band who is willing to allow the music and imagery to speak for itself and who does not insist on themselves being the prominent focus of the video. I think that takes real balls and I admire them as a group for doing so."

You can see the video at the official Meshuggah MySpace.

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Source:	blog.myspace.com
Band profile:	Meshuggah

Meshuggah have announced a headlining tour of the U.K. to take place in September, full dates as follow:

September
Thu 04 - Brighton, Concorde 2
Fri 05 - London, LA2
Sat 06 - Newcastle, Academy
Mon 08 - Glasgow, Garage
Tue 09 - Manchester, Academy 3
Wed 10 - Sheffield, Corporation
Thu 11 - Birmingham, Academy 2
Fri 12 - Bristol, Academy
Sat 13 - Notthingham, Rock City

Tickets are priced £13 except Newcastle, Bristol and Birmingham where they are £12 (£15 in London) (subject to booking fee) and are available to buy at www.seetickets.com or 24hr cc hotline 0870 264 3333. Tickets also available at individual box offices. Doors are at 7pm and Meshuggah are onstage at 9pm. Support TBC.

The album "ObZen" is available through Nuclear Blast records now.

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Band profile:	Meshuggah
Event:	Meshuggah: U.K. Tour

Meshuggah will be streaming their concert "LIVE" on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 at: at: 5:00pm (Pacific) -- 6:00pm (Mountain) -- 7:00pm (Central) -- 8:00pm (Eastern) -- (Europe - This will be Wednesday morning your time!) ...from The Agora Theater in Cleveland, Ohio exclusively at YeboTV.com.

The stream is FREE for fans around the world to view right from the comfort of their home computers. Visit this link to register in advance for this exclusive event.

For more info about the Dimmu Borgir free live internet stream, click here.

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Source:	nuclearblastusa.com
Band profile:	Meshuggah
Event:	Ministry + Meshuggah: C U LaTour

Swedish metallers Messhuggah are streaming their entire new album, entitled "ObZen", on the band's MySpace page Link].
"ObZen" will be release in Europe on March 7 via Nuclear Blast Records (on March 11 in US). The album contains nine songs and has a running time of around 55 minutes.

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Meshuggah

You can check out a new song from Meshuggah entitled "Bleed" online over at their official MySpace page.

The track comes off the band's forthcoming sixth full-length "ObZen", slated for a European release on March 7th and aNorth American release on March 11th, 2008 via Nuclear Blast Records.

The tracklist is as follows:

01. Combustion
02. Electric Red
03. Bleed
04. Lethargica
05. ObZen
06. The Spiteful Snake
07. Pineal Gland Optics
08. Pravus
09. Dancers To A Discordant System

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Meshuggah

The following message has been posted on Meshuggah's official website:

"We regrettably have to inform you that we have been forced to pull out of the November Euro tour with The Dillinger Escape Plan. There are several reasons for this. The main one being the fact that the album recording has taken longer than what was originally planned. As an effect of that - NB has moved the album release to Jan/Feb of 2008.
In light of this we choose to not do a tour that could compromise the outcome of the album as well as possibly delaying the release even more.

Our intention was to have the album out in November and then do this as the first tour in direct support of the release. With this "album-promotional" aspect of the tour gone, we feel that we should instead focus on the most important thing at hand - the album!

We realize that this is a big disappointment to everyone who didn't have the opportunity to catch us on the European tour last summer but we will be back in 2008 touring the new album. Tourdates will be posted shortly!

Our apologies to the other bands on the bill and to all who already bought their tickets as well as those who were about to do so. The tickets are, of course, refundable.

/Meshuggah"

Source:	meshuggah.net
Band profile:	Meshuggah

Due to circumstances not in our control, and I'll leave it up to the other band on the tour to explain this one, The Dillinger Escape Plan/Meshuggah European tour in November WILL NOT be happening. If you bought tickets, contact whoever you bought them from for a refund. Again, if I started to comment on this right now it would probably not be good, so I'll leave it up to them to do the explaining. We were looking forward to this more than any of you can imagine and we are just as disappointed as anyone. HOWEVER, we ARE in the process of confirming a new great tour during the same time period, most likely in the same cities, and will announce it shortly. Stay tuned.

Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	The Dillinger Escape Plan
Event:

Meshuggah is currently writing a new album, which they hope to release in late-spring 2007. The group has issued the following update:

"Right now we are writing material for the new album. After the Nothing re-release, we more-or-less finished working on our studio, so know we're putting together a kind of demo to see where we are at material-wise and basically give the studio, the songs, and us a test-run, heh, heh. We are swimming in dark waters that constitute putting an album together and whatever we find beneath the surface is definitely gonna be... interesting. Suffice to say that we're in a weird but inspirational period right now. It's all gonna be about the writing during November. The demo recording is hopefully happening in December in-between the pinball tournaments here in the studio. Then we'll see where we're at, I guess. In hell, probably. We've got no working title or concrete cover ideas yet, but it's getting there. It's the slow process of coming to terms with the material we've got and hopefully understand what to make of it. The plan is to have the album out late Spring or - if things get fucked up - early Fall. Naturally, the touring will be planned around the album release, so we'll see when we get closer to completing the album."

Source:	meshuggah.net
Band profile:	Meshuggah

Bassist Dick Lövgren and drummer Tomas Haake of Swedish experimental extreme metallers Meshuggah have scheduled the following clinic dates in Sweden:

Nov. 13 - Eskilstuna Balsta musikslott, Balstavägen 2
Nov. 14 - Katrineholm Gamla Palladium, Drottninggatan 4
Nov. 15 - Örebro B-salen, Folkets hus, Gamla gatan 27
Nov. 16 - Karlskoga Musikhuset Vallmovägen.9
Nov. 22 - Göteborg Sticky Fingers
Nov. 24 - Borlänge
Nov. 25 - Gävle 15.00, Musikhuset/Sjömanskyrkan, St Esplanadgatan 1
Nov. 27 - Falköping Lilla Teatern, Dotorpsgatan 13
Nov. 28 - Motala
Nov. 30 - Stockholm 20.00, Street, Hornstulls Strand 9

Source:	meshuggah.net
Band profile:	Meshuggah

Nuclear Blast announced that "Swedish experimental extreme metallers MESHUGGAH have re-signed with the label!"

The band recently release their album "Catch 33" on 23 May in Europe, and will release it on 31 May in the U.S.A.

Source:	nuclearblast.de
Band profile:	Meshuggah