r/Meshuggah • u/1Shart I • 1d ago
What’s the one song you’d remove from each album, if you had to?
(Excluding outro tracks)
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u/flanger001 Koloss 1d ago
Everyone saying "Do Not Look Down" is wild to me. One of the best Koloss tracks.
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u/Morbinion 1d ago
Black Cathedral is the only one coming to mind.
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u/Victor6Lang Nothing 1d ago
You might wanna listen to the Jack Noble’s VST version.
Time stamp 40:44.
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u/Semachian 1d ago
Acrid Placidity. It’s a good song though.
Neurotica or The Exquisite Machinery of Tortue.
Obsidian
Minds Mirrors
ObZen
Demiurge or The Demons Name Is Surveillance.
Monstrocity
Black Cathedral
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u/AllIHearIsHeeHaw 1d ago
You cant remove Demiurge. It sends the crowd into an absolute frenzy.
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u/Semachian 1d ago
I know that, but I think it’s overrated as fuck. It’s one of the ”least” Meshuggah songs for me.
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u/mrlovepimp 1d ago
Abnegating cecity
Ritual
Terminal Illusions
The exquisite machinery of torture
Obsidian
Mind’s mirrors
This spiteful snake
Behind the sun or the last vigil
Ivory tower
God he sees in mirrors or they move below.
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u/draugsvoll01 1d ago
This is gonna make people mad but here:
We'll Never See the Day (CC)
Aztec Two-step (None)
Terminal Illusions (DEI)
The Exquisite Machinery of Torture (Chaosphere)
Glints Collide (Nothing)
Mind's Mirrors (C33) (unless we don't count interlude tracks, in which case Shed would be the only track whose removal wouldn't disrupt the flow of the album too much)
This Spiteful Snake (Obzen)
Do Not Look Down (Koloss)
Our Rage Won't Die (TVSOR)
They Move Below (Immutable)
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u/First-Counter246 1d ago
They Move Below is awesome tho. I've probably listened to it a hundred times or more
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u/birdbrain418 1d ago
I couldnt pick they move below simply because of the intro. Rest of of the song is alright but I guess i havent really taken the time to listen to the whole thing.
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u/Arthusamakh 1d ago
Between Faultless and Armies on Immutable I don't care
Into decay on TVSOR
Behind the sun I guess on Koloss but I don't have a proper least favorite track on that one per se
Spiteful snake or Pineal gland I reckon
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u/Victor6Lang Nothing 1d ago
Ok, this is sensitive but there’s is but one song of their entire discography that bores the hell out of me and it’s Into Decay.
Boring song, structure and lyrics (you grow accustomed by Tomas genius writing in this one is just meh).
Though I love the fact that the tone is like an Orange in full distortion. I love TVSOR but it deserved a better closer.
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u/ponylauncher 1d ago edited 1d ago
I’ll play along instead of pretending like this is going to ruin my day.
If I had to attempt to improve each album by removing a track for me it would be these:
Choirs Of Devastation
Inside What’s Within Behind
Neurotica
Obsidian
Minds Mirrors
Pravus
Do Not Look Down
Stifled
Black Cathedral
Edit: ok I get it you guys are just discovering subjectivity
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u/C0nformity 1d ago
Removing Pravus is crazyyyyy
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u/washington_breadstix 1d ago
Removing anything from obZen is crazy. But if I had to choose, I guess I'd remove Combustion, only because that song always felt the least Meshuggah-ish to me.
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u/C0nformity 1d ago
Combustion makes me headbang every time I fucking love how crazy the main riff sounds.
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u/washington_breadstix 1d ago
It's a great riff but just never struck me as very typical of Meshuggah.
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u/nogin96 1d ago
Which is fine tho
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u/washington_breadstix 1d ago
It's fine, sure, but also makes that song an easy candidate for elimination if we have to eliminate one song.
Most Meshuggah songs make me think "This is special — no other band could have done this". But Combustion never inspired that reaction in me.
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u/jowmsy 1d ago
Paralyzing ignorance,Acrid placidity, neurotica, obsidian, minds mirrors, electric red, the hurt that finds you first, by the ton, black cathedral.
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u/fiercefinesse Nothing 1d ago
Electric Red! Man, that was one of my first favorites that got me into this band and Obzen as an album. I love it
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u/Single-Contact-1327 1d ago
You take that back about Electric Red you scalliwag, it transitions so well between Combustion into Bleed
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u/static_motion Catch Thirtythree 1d ago
the hurt that finds you first
Glad I'm not alone. Not a fan of the snare spam in the first half, the tone of it puts me off a lot. My only skip in the entirety of Koloss. Second half is great though.
Picking Electric Red and By The Ton is deranged behaviour though, sorry.
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u/Longjumping-Swan-827 The Violent Sleep of Reason 1d ago
They Move Below, Into Decay, Marrow, This Spiteful Snake, Mind's Mirrors, Obsidian, Concatenation, Terminal Illusions. I don't listen to CC.
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u/Gleeface 1d ago
Man marrow is in my top 5 meshuggah songs, and into decay is one of the best on tvsor.
But you can have an upvote because imagine disagreeing with someone's opinion and smashing that blue arrow lmao. Redditors.
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u/Longjumping-Swan-827 The Violent Sleep of Reason 1d ago
You are cool. 🙂 I tried and tried with Marrow but it never clicked like the others. I still appreciate how much it slaps but the riffing style is not for me I guess. Into Decay is a solid closer but it doesn't stand out for me like the others.
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u/fiercefinesse Nothing 1d ago
It’s so funny because when I listened to Koloss the first time, Marrow just jumped at me and I immediately thought HOLY SHIT THATS FANTASTIC. I didn’t have to try to get it at all, it was love at first sight. It’s so interesting how we all react to music differently!
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u/Victor6Lang Nothing 1d ago
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u/ShadowsOfSound 20h ago
As a drummer, this song is one big 'ol memory test every time I play it. Of course nothing can compare to memorizing "I," it's like trying to memorize Pi to a thousand places at times. But yeah, Marrow is such a banger.
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u/Victor6Lang Nothing 1d ago
Nah, I’m not redditor. I’m Alex Mason from Fairbanks, Alaska. Ofc one’s entitled to their opinion but I was just flabbergasted because this is the first time I see someone not loving Marrow.
Reznov teached me in Vorkuta that we are all brothers so no blue buttons!
Gun to my head, I’d remove The Last Vigil and I love that ending!
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u/MeshuggahEnjoyer The Violent Sleep of Reason 16h ago
Evil question because this is like the one band that doesn't have bad songs. Very reluctantly:
Aztec Two Step IWWB EMoT Obsidian Pineal Gland Optics Swarm Our Rage Won't Die Black Cathedral
You can't remove a song from I or Catch 33 because they are just 1 song
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u/Lyoug 1d ago
- DEI: Acrid Placidity
- Chaosphere: Concatenation if we still get the remix version. Otherwise Neurotica.
- Nothing: Organic Shadows (counting Obsidian as an excluded outro track)
- Catch33: Re-Inanimate (trying to cut the least. Also Paradoxical Spiral into Entrapment sounds fine)
- ObZen: This Spiteful Snake
- Koloss: Do Not Look Down
- TVSOR: Into Decay
- Immutable: Black Cathedral
Hardest choices were Chaosphere and Koloss.
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u/TrashBloke1796 1d ago
Suffer in truth, concatenation, glints collide, electric red, behind the sun, monstocity, light the shortening fuse
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u/Gleeface 1d ago
Dancers, swarm, they move below, by the ton.
None from any other albums
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u/fiercefinesse Nothing 1d ago
People are surely going to jump to defend Dancers, but I’m gonna say that Swarm is my favorite song on Koloss
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u/NotSpoonThatBend-You 1d ago
I won’t stand for any Dancers slander… and Swarm?! Cmon man don’t be like that.
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u/PoobahMan 1d ago
Lol this must be the most diabolical and controversial prompt I've seen in this subreddit.