‘The Abysmal Eye‘ is the first taster single of Swedish extreme tech-metal pioneers Meshuggah! The song is taken from their upcoming ninth studio manifest, Immutable, released worldwide via Atomic Fire on April 1st, 2022!
Stream, download ‘The Abysmal Eye’ now here: https://meshuggah.afr.link/TheAbysmalEye
Recorded in Sweden’s “Sweetspot Studios”, their ninth full-length album Immutable is the follow-up to their highly acclaimed and Grammy-nominated album, The Violent Sleep Of Reason. This band blow minds for a living, and Immutable is their most explosive work of monstrous art yet.
Pre-order today your Immutable edition as CD, EXCLUSIVE super deluxe liquid vinyl, nine limited vinyl colours, cassette, or merchandise!
2022 brings the release of the Swedish icons’ ninth and most fearlessly creative studio album yet. Full of surprises and yet instantly recognisable as the work of metal’s most idiosyncratic force, Immutable redefines and redesigns the Meshuggah sound, across more than an hour of the most stimulating and absorbing music the band have ever made. Despite the challenges of the last couple of years, the progressive principles that have always informed their artistic efforts remain as cherished as ever. As we spiral towards a dystopian future, Meshuggah still stand alone.
For guitarist Mårten Hagström, the task of embarking on another unprecedented tech-metal odyssey was impossible to resist. “For us, it wasn’t all that clear that we were making a new album. We knew we could do it, but did we want to do it?,” he says. “We had to decide, are we doing this or what else are we doing? After a long, long discussion, we agreed on certain things. We would make an album with as few restraints as possible. We would go in and try to make as cool an album as possible, have no anxiety about it and see it as an opportunity. How do we make this a challenge that we feel like accepting and rising up to? Pretty quickly we had a starting point. Everybody started to write, the ball started rolling and suddenly we were sitting there, discussing how many songs we were going to have to cut!”
For guitarist Mårten Hagström, the task of embarking on another unprecedented tech-metal odyssey was impossible to resist.
Shattering even the highest of expectations, the band’s ninth album is simply their wildest and most esoteric sonic adventure yet. Recorded at Sweetspot Studios in Halmstad (Sweden), mixed by Rickard Bengtsson & Staffan Karlsson and mastered by multiple Grammy award winner Vlado Meller (Metallica, Rage Against The Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, System Of A Down). Visionary artist Luminokaya once again created the stunning cover artwork.
