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| Avclub |
| Meshuggah's dense, polyrhythmic roar elevates math-metal artisanship to such insane heights, the Swedish group often builds new ceilings just to smash through them. With 2005's Catch Thirtythree, the band delivered a suite of sampled drums and multi-tracked guitars so complex that it couldn't replicate the album live. With the follow-up, however, Meshuggah revisits its core tools to push even harder....full text |
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| Sputnikmusic |
| With obZen, Swedish metal mathematicians Meshuggah have delivered their best release this decade. This assertion stems from two definitive characteristics that give the album its identity. To begin, Tomas Haake is back behind the kit, a welcome return after the Drumkit from Hell-driven percussion heard on 2005's Catch Thirty-Three. While obZen may or may not win Album of the Year credentials at year's end, Haake's performance on this album is absolutely stunning and easily cements him as one of metal's finest drummers....full text |
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| Allmusic |
| On first listen, the sound on Obzen, Meshuggah's sixth full-length, is startling, not for its trademark rapid-fire key and tempo changes, or for the intricate, insanely knotty riffs that careened over 2002's Nothing or 2005's Catch Thirty-Three. Instead, it is the rampaging charge that leads off the set on "Combustion," a balls-out sprint that recalls the band's earlier catalog albums like Contradictions Collapse, Destroy Erase Improve, and even Chaosphere. Power, focus and attention to the bone-crushing power are at the center of Obzen. That said, it loses nothing in terms of the band's keen focus of musical or technical innovation or drummer Tomas Haake's songwriting. What it does leave behind is some of the mathy quick-change-for-the-sake-of-it annoyances that were more a show-off of athletic prowess than actual compositional tropes....full text |
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