Tag: Meshuggah
Evan Thompson’s Best of 2016 – Finding the Way Forward
I’ll be the first to acknowledge that 2016 was hard on all of us. Here in that huge space of snow-covered land called Canada, more specifically in Alberta, we have been going through a brutal …
Zach Duvall’s Best Of 2016: Foundations Of Immortality
Another year, another year-end roundup blah blah blah… NO! Not going to treat this like any other year. Not at all. Because for a multitude of reasons, 2016 was far from ordinary, or even within …
Last Rites’ Best Of 2016 – Combined Staff
Every year we get hundreds of thousands of letters from all over the world asking how we manage to compile our annual Last Rites Combined Staff Top 25 List. It’s no easy task, we’ll have …
Meshuggah – The Violent Sleep Of Reason Review
When one has a deep history with a band, a traditional critic’s review is damn near unthinkable. Intentional or not, our very own Dan Obstkrieg touched on this in his recent review of the newest …
Our Djent Problem – Is There Truth In Perception?
Originally written by Jordan Campbell Djent is inherently problematic. The forefathers of the sound, Meshuggah, are one of the most complex, innovative acts in the history of progressive metal. That alone should lend the Scions …
Six Thoughts – Meshuggah’s Pitch Black EP
Originally written by Ramar Pittance Because this is 2013, Swedish progressive-bjrkenkt-metal supermen Meshuggah announced a few weeks ago that they were putting out an album through Scion A/V, which is a car company that also puts out metal albums …
Last Rites’ Best Of 2012 – Combined Staff List
First thing’s first: Welcome to Last Rites! Now, it might seem weird for a “new” webzine to be bursting out of the gate with a Top 926-or-whatever Albums of the Year list, but, despite appearances …
Meshuggah – Koloss Review
Originally written by Rae Amitay When Meshuggah announced their plans for Koloss, I knew that this news would dominate every metal outlet from that moment until weeks after the album’s release. Sure enough, each time …