Meshuggah guitarist Mårten Hagström is puzzled by the whole concept of ‘djent’. The Swedish band are universally acknowledged as pioneering this innovative and exciting strain of modern metal.

The title of Meshuggah‘s second salvo, 1995’s Destroy Erase Improve, promised a permanent paradigm shift — a common enough boast, but no idle one in this case. Nor were they content with subsequent ...

We’ve known for a while that Swedish extreme metal outliers Meshuggah were going to release a remastered version of their seminal album ObZen, but today’s drop of the title track from that version has ...