If one looks at the struggles of life as a cliff called Heartbreak Ridge, once one gets tired of the expulsion of energy on negative feelings, then one comes to realize the awe-inspiring beauty & boundlessness of the landscape below, & with all of that energy now available. This song reminds me of that watershed
Ηλιας Χοκουρ The solo truly encapsulates the experience of life. So brief yet full of so much beauty and wonder. A short melodic reminder of how quickly our end day could arrive. We are all, after all, just straws pulled at random...
Its so damn etheric its such an awesome dynamic shift (or part of one more accurately) its sets u up for a longer track but then i feel like it ends too quickly. They could've made it 7mins, a mad ambient scape, same with "the hurt that...". Still both awesome tracks just leave me wanting more...
I will be honest, in my entire life, I have never heard a sound in a song that I can listen without being tired. This song's ending section is an exception. I have literally listened to this for years and it still never gets enough, keeps on giving goosebumps. Brilliant works my Swedish lads!
@@airwann I love Deliverance's outro too, as well as several more such as Bloodbath's Hades Rising and Pantera's Flood, but even these become a bit tiring for me after listening for years but Straws Pulled at Random for some reason never tires me. I can listen to this outro for endless amount of time lol, it's pretty weird.
funny, 10 mins ago i listened this song in my car for the 1st time and the outro gave me massive goosebumps, here i come in youtube section and watch your comment
There's definitely more to Meshuggah than listening. It awakens a primal instinct in the mind in a way that thousands of bands attempt to do, but very few actually succeed in doing. It's definitely something that needs to be heard live in order to be fully experienced.
I've experienced so much pain the past few years that my grip on reality was starting to disappear. I have never felt so liberated when the solo came. The feeling I felt down my spine was beyond goosebumps.
Was listening to this song on shuffle and as soon as it finished Stayin' Alive by The Bee Gees came on and it was perfect, songs in the same key and everything.
Lyrics What solace lies in the arms of fate -The ill embrace of uncertainty When did I leave this in other hands -To be pulled down at chance Ripped away by destiny-claws Am I another of fate's possessions Dwelling the lie of freedom Just another straw pulled at random Reclaimed by deceiving time A silent judgement I can not overrule Drawn back into the origin-vortex Uprooted and ground to dust Retracted into anti-existence A magnet repelled by life's polarity Denied the self control of fate we flow suspended in semi-life Until the ever imminent day when oblivion claims our breath Nowhere indefinitely Not dead, not alive Existence-patterns ripped of symmetry as will and fate divide Have I appeased the gods of fate Am I allowed another day Must I die to escape the scanning eyes of death
@@Grox3000 Jens does not write the lyrics for Meshuggah anymore, Tomas Haake does along with Hagström and Thordendal writing some. Jens wrote some but that was long ago, in their first albums I guess.
@@sjn_ after tomas writes the lyrics then he gives them to jens to change the parts that he wants depending on how he wants to sing them along with other instruments. plus he writes all the lyrics for his own songs like Behind the sun. but yeah tomas still writes most of the lyrics
First time I listened to this song, especially the solo and the buildup to it, I felt like watching a sunset, with warm light hitting my face and having this inexplicable peace. After a while, seeing it on RUclips and Reddit and reading the comments, I was genuinely surprised to see many people wording the experience exactly the same way - a calm sunset. It is incredible to see how a song can create such a similar emotional response in many different people. What a great song !!!
I first heard this late afternoon driving a van on a deserted country road that went straight to the horizon, with clear deep blue sky. I had the exact feeling you are talking about, warm sun and total peace. Once of the most euphoric experiences I've ever had, and is probably my favourite 2 mins of music to this day
I have full body goosebumps every single time I listen to this.... it hasn't faded at all.... usually I get used to a song and I love it but I have to move on and find a new one for the goosebumps.... this one just....stays. It is arguably more moving now than it was years ago. Meshuggah has a LOT of amazing tunes... but to me...this one stands out. It is wildly different... and its power is almost inhuman.
I can't believe this. I make it a point in monsoons to listen to this outro while watching a sunset. I know EXACTLY what you mean. Can you link the thread where everyone talked about this? I'm curious behind the psychology of this sound evoking the same feeling irrespective of the nuances of everyone.
this track is ethereal. I've tried to explain how perfect this track is to people I know and no one gets it. This is the harmony of the universe. It's perfection
Honestly I think Thordendal's style is unique, he "fails" at emulating Holdsworth but seems to "win" at respectfully learning from his fellow musicians yet keeping his style his own. I love when he gets so shine through, a lot of the songs are disappointing, especially live, because Thordendal always remains an element in the background, he might as well play synths on most of the songs. Damn I hope he makes another solo project now that we have had so many meshuggah albums.
@@dcko1979 That's what I think whenever I listen to Holdsworth, just mindboggling, what Allan is able to pull of over the most demanding chord changes is unreal. Never seen impro chops like that from anyone, except a handful of master jazz pianists like Keith Jarret. Pat Metheny is a monster guitarist too, although more subtle. I rank Thordendal up there with several of these players, his rhythmical stuff has been utterly revolutionary for the guitar, metal and music in general and he has world class technique to boast too.
Best ending ever. The best part about it is you're like, "How did I get here?" at the ending, and then you just start the song again and are amazed that you got taken that far.
I never heard this song until I went to see Meshuggah live a couple years ago. I was just starting to finally get into them, so I hadn't gotten around to this album yet. The last 2 minutes of this song is genuinely my favorite piece of music ever created. I've never found anything else that managed to haunt me for 2 years straight the way that section does, it's unreal... Literally my favorite beat I've ever encountered in 16 years of drumming, along with my favorite guitar solo... It's just too much haha.
The entire lyrics of this can be summerized with the question the protagonist asks, "Am I [...] just another straw pulled at random?", at 0:58-1:08. The universe answers with a very monotonous (non-random) and immensely beautiful solo, convincing him that life is so much more than just a sequence of random events leading to an inevitable death. It is something beautiful and worth experiencing.
@@markbowen8461 If you think about life small like that, then the life you live will be as small. I'm certain you'll come to see the fruits of your mentality down the long road.
I don't know... "Ripped away by destiny's claws, am I another of fate's possessions dwelling the lie of freedom? Just another straw pulled at random reclaimed by deceiving time; a silent judgement I can not over rule," are as good metaphorical lyrics get :)
Haake is among the best lyricists I know. I mean, who else could describe pain as "Beams of fire sweep thorugh my head, Thrusts of pain increasingly engaged, Sensory receptors succumb, I'm no one now, only agony" And bleeding as: "My crimson liquid so frantically spilled The ruby fluid of life unleashed" He's not a lyricist, he's a poet.
This dude (Haake) is one of the most enlightened artists I know. It's amazing how everytime I'd go through a major spiritual revelation, I would re-read some lyrics and they still held up and made even more sense than the last time. It's an incredibly amazing feeling I enjoy very much of this band.
I suppose that's kinda the thing with occult knowledge. The ones who have to get it, will get it, and those who don't, won't, hollywood-esque glory aside. Hopefully one day such wisdom traits will be praised and acknowledged properly by mankind.
hayley kendal ah shit that sucks. I'd literally dip in to my savings to see these guys! actualy I did did once, they played bloodstock in the UK. Was a challenge to stay sober until they came on but somehow manged it. Would do it again!
hayley kendal In no way rubbing it in, but caught them at Brixton Academy supporting Devin Townsend... they blew him off the stage! and I love Devin, he did a great show, but meshuggha just owned it !
+twinpeaks I can only imagine what they are capable of melodically. Their rhythmic fuckery is really exciting, but the outro to this song is what first drew me to them.
I got into Meshuggah heavily in the last year and honestly a lot of their older songs still sound like they could've been produced yesterday. Their music is timeless; its crazy to think one of my favorite songs by them is almost 20 years old now!
I've heard people say Meshuggah's music is literally emotionless and robotic but by watching this a few times and memorizing the lyrics I've realized how imminent death actually is and how valuable yet transient life is, it should be treasured.
Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. I hope this final peace descends before all of my tomorrows are done. Beautiful music, Meshuggah.
Nope, it's called groove metal. Which the band confirmed to me in a meet n greet would be their preferred way of categorising the band's music. It's just groove metal made by musicians who got bored of having everything be in the same rythmic cycle. Meshuggah is music made with feeling, by musicians who just naturally got used to more complex structures in music. Meshuggah is a highly precisely executed audible explosion. My definition of Zen.
took me a long time to like these guys, which started their career in the town i live and grew up in. years later they're one of my fav bands. such amazingness on so many levels.
Chris S. And now that i hear it again, its totally like jazz; i was in jazz bands for ages and you can hear the gradual key change from minor to major and they do it in a very clever subtle and jazzy way. its so cool
+Lewis Reeves some people don't even consider meshuggah metal.... on Encyclopedia maetallum some people argue that they're a metal-inspired jazz form. Not that i agree with it.... but meshuggah and jazz are inarguably related
Dont you guys think the last part of this song is the most beautiful and soulful Meshuggah has ever done? God I've been listening to this song for years, and it still giving me f*cking goosebumps goddamn!!
I've only recently gotten into harsher-vocals in metal, so Meshuggah had to grow on me for a while. I fucking love this band now. I remember listening to their hits like Bleed and Demiurge like: "This is amazingly technical, but way heavier than I'm used to. Idk if it's for me." Then I heard this song and it took me on a journey to Feels Town. One of the most beautiful, most affecting solos I'd ever heard. It made me stick with the band and keep listening until I grew accustomed to their sound and started really liking the heaviness.
For being a totally brutal, universe deforming, assault of a heavy riff. This song takes me the egde of tears with that solo... Some people cry at modern chart music for being 'so relatable' i cry at destructive, goliath metal riffs. LOL
What solace lies in the arms of fate The ill embrace of uncertainty When did I leave this in other hands To be pulled down at chance Ripped away by destiny-claws Am I another of fate's possessions Dwelling the lie of freedom Just another straw pulled at random Reclaimed by deceiving time A silent judgement I can not overrule Drawn back into the origin-vortex Uprooted and ground to dust Retracted into anti-existence A magnet repelled by life's polarity Denied the self control of fate we flow suspended in semi-life Until the ever imminent day when oblivion claims our breath Nowhere indefinitely. Not dead, not alive Existence-patterns ripped of symmetry. As will and fate divide Have I appeased the gods of fate Am I allowed another day Must I die to escape the scanning eyes of death
4:00 i was on the top of Mt. Hunger with my german shepherd listening to this solo..looking beyond the horizon as the sun settled down .. i reached nirvana
This is one of the most beautiful pieces Meshuggah has ever released. I listened to Catch 33, ObZen and Koloss before this, and I was totally blown away.
These guys are the O.G.'s of metal. This song came out in '02 I believe, that's over 20 years ago and it still blows most metal these days out of the water. We all know that Meshuggah gave birth to all these new djent bands today. Most of you guys have heard the band Erra, and specifically the song "Drift." Not to take anything away from that song or band, but when I was listening to the end of "Drift" I noticed that their breakdown and solo sound is incredibly similar to what Meshuggah did in S.P.A.R starting at 3:04. Listen to both songs and let me know what you think. I'm not trying to say that Erra stole anything, but more that their song was a direct result of what Meshuggah started over 23 years ago. I don't know how to word it any better than that.
J'adore ! Cette façon de nous plonger, d'abord, dans une ambiance oppressive et puis de nous en sortir avec quelque chose de léger, d'aérien, de frais.. C'est génial ! Et puis le côté jazz fusion qui montre que c'est pas des cons, ça aussi c'est bon.
A perfect soundtrack to the awareness of - everything that ever was, is , and will ever be. I am you, you are me, and together we are God, experiencing the universe subjectively, but, simultaneously, as one consciousness.
+skypjuh ..You ever notice in live performances how Jens seems to have a hard time settling into a regular rhythm for his neck motion? The time signature may be evident enough to anyone with a bit of musical experience, however, that does not take away from the imbalanced feeling which is exactly why they do some of the things they do in the first place...
A solo by Meshuggah compossed in major scale HOLLY F##K!!!!!! This song and Dancers to A Discordant System... transmits so much more than all the commercial bands and singers out there nowadays... seriously this is an epic mental awakening. My primal insctincts got upgraded with 5 dimension feelings across the river of time and space
So nice to see comments like this, shuggah fans ride Thordendals dick too hard, yeah he's an exceptional player, but they always seem to forget the other half that makes Meshuggah so great
From 3:05 and on is the most beautiful thing I've heard in a long time. It shows just how versatile this band really is. From bludgeoning to beautiful before you've even realized it.
I couldn't agree more. This is the most beautiful riff in all of Metal. Everytime I hear this I feel like I'm on stage in front of 10,000 screaming fans on hot summer day sweating and closing my eyes very tightly with my tongue out biting it as I play every note beautifully with the sun glaring in my eyes at sunset!
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This is club music in the fourth dimension.
I'd definitely put this song in a disco, seriously, LOL
You are the most creative commentator I have ever stumbled upon.
Yes!
I will never forget about this comment.
This is my favorite comment.
The ending of this song is some of the most beautiful metal ive heard in an entire generation
In all time actually
The whole band Tesseract become from this ending...
If one looks at the struggles of life as a cliff called Heartbreak Ridge, once one gets tired of the expulsion of energy on negative feelings, then one comes to realize the awe-inspiring beauty & boundlessness of the landscape below, & with all of that energy now available. This song reminds me of that watershed
Correct
@@brejnae lol
the only song where meshuggah actually fly off into the sunset :)
hahaha! great way to put it! it usually ends with them (and us) in a black void surrounded by screaming, tormented souls :D
Best fucking comment ever.
Robyn Withrow thank you dear
...and 'Marrow*
marrow? marrows like a jackhammer of a song... i dont know where your getting that idea. haha
That solo, is one of the most beautifull things i've ever heard. No matter how simple it is. Its fucking epic. Dissolves everything.
very eloquently put my friend, couldnt agree more .......gives me the feels every time
I wish there were more solos like that in metal. It's slow and it doesn't involve many notes, but fuck it has feeling.
Ηλιας Χοκουρ The solo truly encapsulates the experience of life. So brief yet full of so much beauty and wonder. A short melodic reminder of how quickly our end day could arrive. We are all, after all, just straws pulled at random...
Its so damn etheric its such an awesome dynamic shift (or part of one more accurately) its sets u up for a longer track but then i feel like it ends too quickly. They could've made it 7mins, a mad ambient scape, same with "the hurt that...". Still both awesome tracks just leave me wanting more...
Right. Only Meshuggah has the power to do something like this!
I will be honest, in my entire life, I have never heard a sound in a song that I can listen without being tired. This song's ending section is an exception. I have literally listened to this for years and it still never gets enough, keeps on giving goosebumps. Brilliant works my Swedish lads!
I do have to agree. This and Deliverance by opeth are both songs that can blast my ears off a thousand times without me ever getting tired of it !
I get the same thing from TOOL
@@airwann I love Deliverance's outro too, as well as several more such as Bloodbath's Hades Rising and Pantera's Flood, but even these become a bit tiring for me after listening for years but Straws Pulled at Random for some reason never tires me. I can listen to this outro for endless amount of time lol, it's pretty weird.
it's perfect. my entire body gets goosebumps every time.
funny, 10 mins ago i listened this song in my car for the 1st time and the outro gave me massive goosebumps, here i come in youtube section and watch your comment
There's definitely more to Meshuggah than listening. It awakens a primal instinct in the mind in a way that thousands of bands attempt to do, but very few actually succeed in doing. It's definitely something that needs to be heard live in order to be fully experienced.
it's like prrimal war ritual
They just might be the band that I want to see most live. At least that’s still playing.
great comment
I am going to see them for the first time tonight. Absolutely cannot wait
I've experienced so much pain the past few years that my grip on reality was starting to disappear. I have never felt so liberated when the solo came. The feeling I felt down my spine was beyond goosebumps.
Was listening to this song on shuffle and as soon as it finished Stayin' Alive by The Bee Gees came on and it was perfect, songs in the same key and everything.
Just spit beer all over my keyboard laughing so hard. Thanks for ruining a perfectly good keyboard.
John S Robertson Make that two keyboards
Just imagining that made me laugh. Someone should do a mashup just for shits and giggles
loooooool
This is literally how youtube just autoplayed for me. It went from this to Stayin' Alive....
Lyrics
What solace lies in the arms of fate
-The ill embrace of uncertainty
When did I leave this in other hands
-To be pulled down at chance
Ripped away by destiny-claws
Am I another of fate's possessions
Dwelling the lie of freedom
Just another straw pulled at random
Reclaimed by deceiving time
A silent judgement I can not overrule
Drawn back into the origin-vortex
Uprooted and ground to dust
Retracted into anti-existence
A magnet repelled by life's polarity
Denied the self control of fate
we flow suspended in semi-life
Until the ever imminent day
when oblivion claims our breath
Nowhere indefinitely
Not dead, not alive
Existence-patterns ripped of symmetry
as will and fate divide
Have I appeased the gods of fate
Am I allowed another day
Must I die to escape
the scanning eyes of death
Joe Duplantier and Jens Kidman are probably two of the best writers in metal today
@@Grox3000 Jens does not write the lyrics for Meshuggah anymore, Tomas Haake does along with Hagström and Thordendal writing some. Jens wrote some but that was long ago, in their first albums I guess.
Thank you
@@sjn_ after tomas writes the lyrics then he gives them to jens to change the parts that he wants depending on how he wants to sing them along with other instruments. plus he writes all the lyrics for his own songs like Behind the sun. but yeah tomas still writes most of the lyrics
Took my daughter to see Harry Styles in Philly last night. He covered this song. Brutal.
HAHA!
I call BS. He usually only covers songs on obZen
The dancers were probably on point!
@@B3Band Nah bro he did a few songs from Catch 33 a couple weeks ago when I went to see him live with my sister. Pretty good vocalist, good growls
🤣🤣🤣
First time I listened to this song, especially the solo and the buildup to it, I felt like watching a sunset, with warm light hitting my face and having this inexplicable peace. After a while, seeing it on RUclips and Reddit and reading the comments, I was genuinely surprised to see many people wording the experience exactly the same way - a calm sunset. It is incredible to see how a song can create such a similar emotional response in many different people. What a great song !!!
I first heard this late afternoon driving a van on a deserted country road that went straight to the horizon, with clear deep blue sky. I had the exact feeling you are talking about, warm sun and total peace. Once of the most euphoric experiences I've ever had, and is probably my favourite 2 mins of music to this day
I have full body goosebumps every single time I listen to this.... it hasn't faded at all.... usually I get used to a song and I love it but I have to move on and find a new one for the goosebumps.... this one just....stays. It is arguably more moving now than it was years ago. Meshuggah has a LOT of amazing tunes... but to me...this one stands out. It is wildly different... and its power is almost inhuman.
I can't believe this. I make it a point in monsoons to listen to this outro while watching a sunset. I know EXACTLY what you mean. Can you link the thread where everyone talked about this? I'm curious behind the psychology of this sound evoking the same feeling irrespective of the nuances of everyone.
this track is ethereal. I've tried to explain how perfect this track is to people I know and no one gets it. This is the harmony of the universe. It's perfection
A rare tonal and in key Thordendal solo and its stunningly beautiful.
It is, it makes this song like 10X more epic than any other Meshuggah song, IMO.
+Timothy Clarke Proper stare-out-from-a-cliff-top stuff...
Daniel Lewis-carter haha yeah totally.
yep goes perfect with sublevels... gods of rapture
+Timothy Clarke He uses a lot of jazz fusion style solos usually, which fit with chaotic nature of the songs.
dat solo... I never tire of it
eargasm
+Neon Black proper.
Freakin simple, but note selection is spot on imo.
pure emotion, loved it
The involuntary reaction of your soul as it's touched by something pure is manifest in the hairs on your arms raising and your eyes closing...
The solo is hauntingly beautiful in its simplicity and emotional content. You can clearly hear the Allan Holdsworth influence there. Just fantastic!
Honestly I think Thordendal's style is unique, he "fails" at emulating Holdsworth but seems to "win" at respectfully learning from his fellow musicians yet keeping his style his own. I love when he gets so shine through, a lot of the songs are disappointing, especially live, because Thordendal always remains an element in the background, he might as well play synths on most of the songs. Damn I hope he makes another solo project now that we have had so many meshuggah albums.
Discovered Allan because Fredrik listed him as his greatest inspiration. Holdsworth is probably the greatest musician ever.
@@dcko1979 That's what I think whenever I listen to Holdsworth, just mindboggling, what Allan is able to pull of over the most demanding chord changes is unreal. Never seen impro chops like that from anyone, except a handful of master jazz pianists like Keith Jarret. Pat Metheny is a monster guitarist too, although more subtle. I rank Thordendal up there with several of these players, his rhythmical stuff has been utterly revolutionary for the guitar, metal and music in general and he has world class technique to boast too.
I know everyone loves 3:04 but omg that riff that comes when he screams "DIVIDE" at 2:09, it hits so hard
both are excellent
That’s when he does the meshuggah face
"Reclaimed" also slams. This whole damned thing is like surviving a tornado
I love when at 4:28 he bends that last note right out of the solar system............
Best... moment... ever...
@cyanidechrist best comment ever
Its kind of strange but that part reminds me to Spyro the dragon old psx games OST
and rings of saturn reminds me of mario
also penis
This crushes everything in existence.
:28 These guys got a lot of nerve making a riff like that. They're so metal they don't even concern themselves with melody. Awesome.
I love your covers, dude. But there's definitely a melody in there :)
cover this one please :)
Well the best melody is saved for later =)
Dude i had to check this out after watching ur Q&A glad i did
Who needs melody when you have rhythm?
That solo is so fucking beautiful, brings tears to my eyes. I ll never get tired of it. Absolutely perfect
I think this solo was one of the main influences for the djent/melodic progressive metal bands that have come about in the last decade
Jack Torrance that's awesome man :) I'd say my three favourites of all time are Rush, Meshuggah and Tool.
Same. Almost all meshuggi solos do that to me. That's why their the best in my book. Oh what a tale it has been.
The Album cover's color changing from black and white to yellow when the solo starts is a matter of perfection in this video.
Best ending ever. The best part about it is you're like, "How did I get here?" at the ending, and then you just start the song again and are amazed that you got taken that far.
Strings pulled at random
Koala Mexicain song named at random 😂
Everything about this song is random. Random pulled at random
Randoms Randomized at Random.
@@jonahsmith2708 😂😂😂
I see what you did theeeeere
for real man. it's ridiculously heavy while still being melodic in some way. this band is the shit.
I never heard this song until I went to see Meshuggah live a couple years ago. I was just starting to finally get into them, so I hadn't gotten around to this album yet. The last 2 minutes of this song is genuinely my favorite piece of music ever created. I've never found anything else that managed to haunt me for 2 years straight the way that section does, it's unreal... Literally my favorite beat I've ever encountered in 16 years of drumming, along with my favorite guitar solo... It's just too much haha.
The entire lyrics of this can be summerized with the question the protagonist asks, "Am I [...] just another straw pulled at random?", at 0:58-1:08.
The universe answers with a very monotonous (non-random) and immensely beautiful solo, convincing him that life is so much more than just a sequence of random events leading to an inevitable death. It is something beautiful and worth experiencing.
@@markbowen8461 nope. Life ain't random for sure. U are here for a reason find it along your journey!
@@markbowen8461 and u just a cynic. Get a smile on ur face loser
@@markbowen8461 If you think about life small like that, then the life you live will be as small. I'm certain you'll come to see the fruits of your mentality down the long road.
@@deadskinrippers why not? life is random as shit, thats why you gotta make it interesting for yourself
@@paveantelic7876 no it isn't
Haake is underrated as lyricist, not particularly this song but overall.
True
I don't know... "Ripped away by destiny's claws, am I another of fate's possessions dwelling the lie of freedom? Just another straw pulled at random reclaimed by deceiving time; a silent judgement I can not over rule," are as good metaphorical lyrics get :)
Haake is among the best lyricists I know. I mean, who else could describe pain as "Beams of fire sweep thorugh my head, Thrusts of pain increasingly engaged, Sensory receptors succumb, I'm no one now, only agony"
And bleeding as:
"My crimson liquid so frantically spilled
The ruby fluid of life unleashed"
He's not a lyricist, he's a poet.
This dude (Haake) is one of the most enlightened artists I know. It's amazing how everytime I'd go through a major spiritual revelation, I would re-read some lyrics and they still held up and made even more sense than the last time. It's an incredibly amazing feeling I enjoy very much of this band.
I suppose that's kinda the thing with occult knowledge. The ones who have to get it, will get it, and those who don't, won't, hollywood-esque glory aside. Hopefully one day such wisdom traits will be praised and acknowledged properly by mankind.
The last half from 3:05 on is pure dark etheric moody perfection
lethal tone there too...one of my fav ´shuggah tracks!
I'll never get sick of this song. UNF BEASTYYYYY
jealous...:
I'd actually bought a ticket to go see them last December in London... but i couldnt afford a train ticket from Preston so.. I couldnt go :'( :'( :'(
hayley kendal ah shit that sucks. I'd literally dip in to my savings to see these guys! actualy I did did once, they played bloodstock in the UK. Was a challenge to stay sober until they came on but somehow manged it. Would do it again!
hayley kendal In no way rubbing it in, but caught them at Brixton Academy supporting Devin Townsend... they blew him off the stage! and I love Devin, he did a great show, but meshuggha just owned it !
Jon Archer Dude I was there...Devin should have played before Meshugga...Even though he was the "main act"...
3:05 onward is my shit
+twinpeaks I can only imagine what they are capable of melodically. Their rhythmic fuckery is really exciting, but the outro to this song is what first drew me to them.
Your shit is enjoyable
The way this song ends is such a masterpiece.
Is and will always be one of my most favorite Meshuggah songs. The latter half is so...confusing. How is it so brutal and yet so moving?!
I got into Meshuggah heavily in the last year and honestly a lot of their older songs still sound like they could've been produced yesterday. Their music is timeless; its crazy to think one of my favorite songs by them is almost 20 years old now!
they also invented nu metal with just one demo track , called 'debt of nature'
Get tickets to the 2022 tour. Who knows when their last will be.
I saw them in Finland a few weeks ago, it was life changing as expected. Hopefully I can catch them again later this summer
The bass strokes from 3:30 that ushered the solo. Great stuff
I've heard people say Meshuggah's music is literally emotionless and robotic but by watching this a few times and memorizing the lyrics I've realized how imminent death actually is and how valuable yet transient life is, it should be treasured.
Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. I hope this final peace descends before all of my tomorrows are done. Beautiful music, Meshuggah.
Classic music player myself… but this band, something special that makes you don’t want to stop listening to them. Fantastic musicianship.
Something about the darkness of this song, it seems to counteract and create light. Such a moving jam that makes me feel good... Is that strange?
Destructive music can either create destructive emotions in you or ventilate them from you. All depends on what kind of person you are.
Nope, it's called groove metal. Which the band confirmed to me in a meet n greet would be their preferred way of categorising the band's music. It's just groove metal made by musicians who got bored of having everything be in the same rythmic cycle.
Meshuggah is music made with feeling, by musicians who just naturally got used to more complex structures in music. Meshuggah is a highly precisely executed audible explosion. My definition of Zen.
no kenny it's not strange..i wanna fuck this song! lmao thats strange
Good call, Silrian777!
See this is why everyone should listen to metal.
3:06-end one of the best meshuggah parts ever! And so different from their usual stuff
Meshuggah can make 3 notes sound like fucking heaven...
fucking totally.
Totally Hot
I love that so many people have experienced the emotions this song brings to the surface like me.
looks like you opened a youtube account just to upload this song.
i respect that.
you earned my subscription.
I am by no means Meshuggah’s biggest fan. They are hit or miss for me, but this song hits the fucking spot.
The solo is one of the less evil solos by meshuggah.... but the one I most love
it sounds very Satrianish
took me a long time to like these guys, which started their career in the town i live and grew up in. years later they're one of my fav bands. such amazingness on so many levels.
i think this is the only major key, positive solo too, song that meshuggah has ever done that i can think of. and its so fucking cool.
Chris S. And now that i hear it again, its totally like jazz; i was in jazz bands for ages and you can hear the gradual key change from minor to major and they do it in a very clever subtle and jazzy way. its so cool
+Chris S. Meshuggah and jazz were two words I'd never put together but now I think of it I think you're right
+Lewis Reeves some people don't even consider meshuggah metal.... on Encyclopedia maetallum some people argue that they're a metal-inspired jazz form. Not that i agree with it.... but meshuggah and jazz are inarguably related
3:05 + weed = Release feelings I haven't felt since childhood!
fuck off
Frank Brazil Kids don't try this at home would be a more intelligent way of putting it
i tried to dumb it down the best i could for the guy. what do you want...
Stay innocent brother. That's the point.
@@mountainstepper the rest of us got it.
Why is this so good after alcohol
extremly agree 👍
Cada vez que la escucho, me dan ganas de bailar!
Meshuggah's making my hangover much more tolerable.
true addicting sou8nd rhyyytm im drunk
my thoughts exactly.
The solo is seeing God's face form in a tangle of electrical cables you've stared at for a hundred years
Wait wut ;o
this made so much sense for no reason
Pure genius. It mixes brutality and beauty all in one song like no other.
meshuggah speaks in different languages to me
Dont you guys think the last part of this song is the most beautiful and soulful Meshuggah has ever done? God I've been listening to this song for years, and it still giving me f*cking goosebumps goddamn!!
Brutal, yet beautiful. Beauty+Brutality=Beautality.
Bravo Meshuggah.
Beautality also would have been great name for the band
I've only recently gotten into harsher-vocals in metal, so Meshuggah had to grow on me for a while. I fucking love this band now. I remember listening to their hits like Bleed and Demiurge like: "This is amazingly technical, but way heavier than I'm used to. Idk if it's for me." Then I heard this song and it took me on a journey to Feels Town. One of the most beautiful, most affecting solos I'd ever heard. It made me stick with the band and keep listening until I grew accustomed to their sound and started really liking the heaviness.
Ever feel like a solo just makes just transcend to another fucking dimension? I just did.
For being a totally brutal, universe deforming, assault of a heavy riff. This song takes me the egde of tears with that solo...
Some people cry at modern chart music for being 'so relatable'
i cry at destructive, goliath metal riffs. LOL
SAME
You're not alone my friend
The only song I've heard that's made me tear up. Absolutely beautiful ending
Epic ending! Meshuggah rightfully became legendary and obviously belongs to the elite of hard music!
Those objecting this will be prosecuted by law.
Since 2002 and still awesome!
3:04 is the most beautiful music in all metal.
John D Jones III we have mad similar taste man......creepy.
Baphomet Rael great minds, eh? :D
@Matthew Bullen Electric Red, too
I tear up at this part.
Every.
Single.
Time.
Totally agree
What solace lies in the arms of fate
The ill embrace of uncertainty
When did I leave this in other hands
To be pulled down at chance
Ripped away by destiny-claws
Am I another of fate's possessions
Dwelling the lie of freedom
Just another straw pulled at random
Reclaimed by deceiving time
A silent judgement I can not overrule
Drawn back into the origin-vortex
Uprooted and ground to dust
Retracted into anti-existence
A magnet repelled by life's polarity
Denied the self control of fate
we flow suspended in semi-life
Until the ever imminent day
when oblivion claims our breath
Nowhere indefinitely. Not dead, not alive
Existence-patterns ripped of symmetry. As will and
fate divide
Have I appeased the gods of fate
Am I allowed another day
Must I die to escape
the scanning eyes of death
Cesar Sandoval Some of the most incredible lyrics ever wrote...
@@DC33879 I agree
Hej i Svenske....Meshuggah er altid elsket !!!
4:00 i was on the top of Mt. Hunger with my german shepherd listening to this solo..looking beyond the horizon as the sun settled down .. i reached nirvana
Most poetic 3 minutes at the end there.
4:00 chills
This is one of the most beautiful pieces Meshuggah has ever released. I listened to Catch 33, ObZen and Koloss before this, and I was totally blown away.
Riffs composed at random
stringspulled at random
Amazing, beautiful section around 3:10 after the super-angular intro - an unusually original composition
I find this band to be an exorcism for specific neurological patterns and energies.
I feel pure bliss when listening to this.
These guys are the O.G.'s of metal. This song came out in '02 I believe, that's over 20 years ago and it still blows most metal these days out of the water. We all know that Meshuggah gave birth to all these new djent bands today. Most of you guys have heard the band Erra, and specifically the song "Drift." Not to take anything away from that song or band, but when I was listening to the end of "Drift" I noticed that their breakdown and solo sound is incredibly similar to what Meshuggah did in S.P.A.R starting at 3:04. Listen to both songs and let me know what you think. I'm not trying to say that Erra stole anything, but more that their song was a direct result of what Meshuggah started over 23 years ago. I don't know how to word it any better than that.
3:00 the guitar moves me beyond this plane of existence.
That ending solo...just beautiful
All music after millions of years of evolution will finally get here..\m/
My favourite Meshuggah song ! It goes from brutal to beautiful, I can listen to that outro everyday...
J'adore ! Cette façon de nous plonger, d'abord, dans une ambiance oppressive et puis de nous en sortir avec quelque chose de léger, d'aérien, de frais.. C'est génial ! Et puis le côté jazz fusion qui montre que c'est pas des cons, ça aussi c'est bon.
Reminds me of my mom 1946-2008 RIP ....meshuggah 🤘🤘🎸
0:28 the part where reality stops.
this song was a game changer in metal music!
good job Mesh
Fucking hell. I love this song. Can't help but air drum along to it everytime I hear it
right there with ya. my steering wheel takes a beating when driving to meshuggah.
Be careful while driving, my dude!
This song is happiness to a musician on a whole different level
metal rubberbands of death , sounds the guitars ..:)
A perfect soundtrack to the awareness of - everything that ever was, is , and will ever be. I am you, you are me, and together we are God, experiencing the universe subjectively, but, simultaneously, as one consciousness.
makes for the most irregular headbang ever ;)
+skypjuh no way man. that 4/4 still goin strong! :P
+James Wilkinson 1&2&3&4&
+James Wilkinson thats the beauty of it. the headbang keeps you on beat and shows you what they are really doing to it. so good >X(
+skypjuh ..You ever notice in live performances how Jens seems to have a hard time settling into a regular rhythm for his neck motion? The time signature may be evident enough to anyone with a bit of musical experience, however, that does not take away from the imbalanced feeling which is exactly why they do some of
the things they do in the first place...
it's in 4/4...
I love weaving in and out of time with these guys. Every time I listen I follow a new path through it all.
That is one badass song title.
A solo by Meshuggah compossed in major scale HOLLY F##K!!!!!! This song and Dancers to A Discordant System... transmits so much more than all the commercial bands and singers out there nowadays... seriously this is an epic mental awakening. My primal insctincts got upgraded with 5 dimension feelings across the river of time and space
0:28 Nuts mode
I've tried to come up with one word to describe this band & their music, and all I can think of is, "beautiful".
Shout out to Marten Hagstrom (one hell of an underrated guitarist) for writing this song. Thordendal is great, but Hagstrom is equally as good!
FUCKIN THANK YOU!!!!!
Thefractalillusion Absolutely! The man deserves the credit. He’s an incredible guitarist and a badass songwriter!
So nice to see comments like this, shuggah fans ride Thordendals dick too hard, yeah he's an exceptional player, but they always seem to forget the other half that makes Meshuggah so great
My favourite song from Meshuggah. Dark and mystic. Beautiful.
Everybody headbang in polyrhythms!
AS FUCK
they’re not polyrhythms they’re polymeters.. there’s a massive difference
I absolutely agree - the riffs that got me hooked. Song beats you around for the previous 3 mins and then raises you so so very high!
3:05 - 4:55 gives me chills
Every single time.
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From 3:05 and on is the most beautiful thing I've heard in a long time. It shows just how versatile this band really is. From bludgeoning to beautiful before you've even realized it.
Te lleva a dentro de ti 🤯
True Masters. Only few came close yet still never did it quite like it.
These guys are four parallel universes ahead of us!
I couldn't agree more. This is the most beautiful riff in all of Metal. Everytime I hear this I feel like I'm on stage in front of 10,000 screaming fans on hot summer day sweating and closing my eyes very tightly with my tongue out biting it as I play every note beautifully with the sun glaring in my eyes at sunset!
I love the whole intro it reminds me of a warrior sprinting through a forest
I play sekiro to this
First listening to Messhugah in 2016...I was hook...love the sound.
I got high and midway through I thought I was turning color blind 💀💀💀
My favorite track off Nothing. Love Meshuggah!