Let me preface this by saying that the first person to comment “hurr durr djent is not a genre” is going to get forcibly bedded by the business end of a rake. No dinner, no candles, and no fucking Kenny G. The argument of genre/chord/sound comes up more often lately than racism in football, but the bottom line is that’s it’s a word. The function of a word is to convey meaning, and the word “djent” describes a genre to a lot of people, and thus the word’s purpose is served – no matter how hard you scream and kick your legs.
Javier Reyes djents; not to whom I'm referring in the title.
Last night we ‘broke’ the news that a brand new Meshuggah track had been ‘leaked’ – albeit intentionally – and although it happened late in Britain, the overnight evidence pointed to the internet simultaneously going nuts…and also being somewhat underwhelmed.
I could not have been less surprised on either count.
In the same way that Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin are now considered tame nowadays, and as the widely recognised progenitors of that sound, Meshuggah are in very serious and imminent danger of sliding into the very saturation and mediocrity that they spawned. Sacrilege, surely?!
Let’s look at the facts. By the time Koloss is released it will have been just over four years since Meshuggah last put out a record – 2008′s obZen. Unless you’ve been living under a five-ton lump of iron, you’ll know the ripple effect that this record in particualr, but all of their records really, have had on the progressive metal landscape; a landscape that has long been towered over by the monolithic bastion that are this Umeån quintet.
Outrun the Sunlight
