Dogmatic

I’ve been to many a gig over the course of the past twenty years or so. I’ve seen them all. But when it comes to outright brutal heaviness, I have never seen, heard of experienced anything like Meshuggah before in my life. To call them Heavy is really selling them short. These guys are way beyond that.

Hailing from Sweden, and proliferating their tunes with polyrhythmic structures that require intense concentration for one just to find a solitary groove - Meshuggah are not for the layman Rock fan.

Last night featured a literal barrage of sound delivered to a sold-out raucous maniacal crowd that was lapping it all up with gratitude and fists held high.

The set was only a little over an hour but in all honesty, that is about as much as I could take. I felt as if I had been battered from pillar to post. An aural assault of intricate time shifts, and a bottom end that had the fillings in my teeth shake, rattle and roll! Pure intensity topped only by the magnificent specimen of a barmaid, but we’ll leave well enough alone hey?

I couldn’t even begin to tell you the set-list as I am really not that familiar with the band’s repertoire, but I left the venue last night knowing I had experienced a truly unique sounding powerful band. Just intense! That’s the word that keeps repeating on me and that’s what we’ll stick with…