After several world tours, and the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown, they returned with Immutable in 2022. 2016's The Violent Sleep of Reason kept the groove but offered even more intricately constructed compositions. Meshuggah, ever aware of imitators, shifted gears again on 2012's Koloss, moving to a slower, more groove oriented approach without sacrificing their technical mastery. 2008's obZen marked a return to thrash and received a Swedish Grammy nomination. 2004's I EP was comprised of a single, spiraling, 21-minute track. 2002's controversial Nothing slowed tempos, introduced eight string guitars, and explored tonal dissonance. Only two more albums appeared in the 1990s. A touring juggernaut they record sporadically. Meshuggah's 1991 debut Contradictions Collapse changed the course of the genre. Early on, the term "intellectual death metal," was used to describe their albums. They are both celebrated and maligned for the creation of the "djent" metal sound. They combine sweeping math rock, prog, syncopated polyrhythms, and chromatic harmonies drawn from jazz, technical death metal, and brutal thrash in polymetered compositions. Sweden's experimental metal band Meshuggah play a complex hybrid music of their own design.
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