MESHUGGAH Immutable LP Vinyl (2022)

Forty years into their existence and Meshuggah are still playing time signatures that give drummers nightmares. Immutable, released in 2022, is their ninth record and proof that nobody, absolutely nobody, does this the way they do.

Where some bands in the technical metal space chase complexity for its own sake, the Swedes have always been about the groove underneath the math, the weight that hits you in the chest before your brain has caught up. Immutable doubles down on that. It's dense, punishing, hypnotic, and oddly meditative once you've surrendered to it. Tracks like Broken Cog and They Move Below sit in that Meshuggah pocket where brutality and precision become the same thing. If you got into djent via Periphery or Animals as Leaders and haven't gone back to where the blueprint actually came from, this is the corrective you need. Essential shelf addition next to your Chaosphere and ObZen.

Available on CD and LP vinyl. Full length album. Released 2022. Origin: Sweden. Genre: Technical groove metal, djent, thrash metal.

Fans of: Gojira, Strapping Young Lad, Gorguts, Periphery, Cult of Luna.