LABEL: Atomic Fire
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 1/19/2024
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 1998
VARIANT: Colored Vinyl 2LP

Meshuggah’s third release, Chaosphere, built on the foundation of 1995’s Destroy Erase Improve, which heralded the Swedish band’s departure from its earlier thrash-influenced work. For its part, Chaosphere solidly established their ascent into a realm of progressive, far-out rhythmic mathematics, technical/groove insanity and space-jazz solos (epitomized on the crushing highlight “New Millennium Cyanide Christ”) an avant-garde metal kingdom over which they still reign supreme. It would take another 15-plus years for bands to learn how to copy the madness Meshuggah tapped into here.