"The Abysmal Eye" is the new single from Swedish extreme tech-metal pioneers, Meshuggah, released in January. The song is taken from their upcoming ninth studio offering, Immutable, set for release worldwide via Atomic Fire on April 1. Check out the just released official video for the track below.
Immutable is the follow-up to their critically 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.
Stream/download “The Abysmal Eye” here. Listen to the song below.
Immutable will be available on CD, exclusive super deluxe liquid vinyl, nine limited vinyl colors, and cassette formats. Find pre-ordering options and merchandise here.
2022 brings the release of the Swedish icons’ most fearlessly creative studio album yet. Full of surprises and yet instantly recognizable 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 has 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 stands 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!”
Shattering even the highest of expectations, Immutable is simply their wildest and most esoteric sonic adventure yet. The work was recorded at Sweetspot Studios in Halmstad, Sweden, mixed by Rickard Bengtsson and 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.
Meshuggah are still operating on a higher level of metallic consciousness than just about everybody else. Since forming in 1987, the Swedish sound architects developed into one of the most technically complex and virtuosic group of players the metal realm has ever encountered, their distinctly unique brand of progressive groove-infused death metal inadvertently launching an entirely new subgenre.
The most inventive and creative metal band of the last thirty years and one of the most widely revered, Meshuggah has held the standard for forward-thinking creativity in heavy music throughout their illustrious career. Over the course of more than three decades and eight studio albums, the widely worshipped progressive mavens have consistently redefined what it means to be heavy while exhibiting a ferocious intelligence that belies the crushing weight of their riffs. From the ground-breaking savagery of 1995's Destroy Erase Improve, to the psychedelic tech-splorations of CatchyThirtyThree, and on to the streamlined grotesquery of ObZen and Koloss, Meshuggah has always been way ahead of the game and plainly without peer.
Immutable tracklisting:
"Broken Cog"
"The Abysmal Eye"
"Light The Shortening Fuse"
"Phantoms"
"Ligature Marks"
"God He Sees In Mirrors"
"They Move Below"
"Kaleidoscope"
"Black Cathedral"
"I Am That Thirst"
"The Faultless"
"Armies Of The Preposterous"
"Past Tense"
"The Abysmal Eye":
Lineup:
Jens Kidman - vocals
Mårten Hagström - guitars
Dick Lövgren - bass
Fredrik Thordendal - guitars
Tomas Haake - drums
