The album received positive reviews, but was not a commercial success. The LP, originally entitled (All this because of) Greed, was released in May 1991. Īfter replacing drummer Niklas Lundgren with Tomas Haake in 1990, Meshuggah signed a contract with German heavy metal record label Nuclear Blast and recorded its debut full-length album, Contradictions Collapse. The EP's back cover features the band members with cheese doodles on their faces. This 12" (30 cm) vinyl EP had only 1,000 copies released, sold by local record store Garageland. In 1989, Meshuggah released the self-titled, three-song EP Meshuggah, which is commonly known as Psykisk Testbild (a title that could be translated as "Psychological Test-Picture"). Kidman, who also played guitar, and Thordendal decided to restore the name Meshuggah for the new band. Kidman then formed a new band, Calipash, with guitarist Thordendal, bassist Peter Nordin and drummer Niklas Lundgren. The band recorded several demos before Kidman left, which prompted the remaining members to disband. Kidman found the word in an American street slang dictionary. Meshuggah was formed in 1987 by lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Jens Kidman, and took the name Meshuggah from the Yiddish word for "crazy" (ultimately derived from the Hebrew word מְשׁוּגָע). Thordendal, however, continued playing under a different name with new band members. The band, originally named Metallien, recorded a number of demo tapes, after which it disbanded. In 1985, guitarist Fredrik Thordendal formed a band in Umeå, a university town in northern Sweden with a population of 105,000. The band has performed in various international festivals, including Ozzfest and Download, and embarked on the obZen world tour from 2008 to 2010, and also the "Ophidian Trek". In 2018, the band was nominated for a Grammy Award for their song "Clockworks" under the "Best Metal Performance" category. In 20, Meshuggah was nominated for two Swedish Grammis Awards for their albums Catch Thirtythree and obZen, respectively. In the late 2000s, the band was an inspiration for the djent subgenre. The band was labelled as one of the ten most important hard rock and heavy metal bands by Rolling Stone and as the most important band in metal by Alternative Press. They rose to fame as a significant act in extreme underground music, became an influence for modern metal bands, and gained a cult following. Meshuggah has become known for their innovative musical style and their complex, polymetered song structures and polyrhythms. Their latest studio album, Immutable, was released on 1 April 2022 via Atomic Fire Records. Since its formation, the band has released nine studio albums, six EPs and eight music videos. The band's current lineup consists of lead vocalist Jens Kidman, guitarists Fredrik Thordendal and Mårten Hagström, drummer Tomas Haake and bassist Dick Lövgren. Meshuggah ( / m ə ˈ ʃ ʊ ɡ ə/) is a Swedish extreme metal band formed in Umeå in 1987.
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