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Meshuggah
•Tech/Extreme Prog Metal
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Singles/EPs/Fan Club/Promo, released in 1994 Songs / Tracks Listing 1. Humiliative (5:17) Jens Kidman: Vocals
Live version of track 4 (recorded at Hultsfredsfestivalen 1994 by Sveriges Radio P3) are found on both the American and European EP Selfcaged, and also on the Japanese remastered version of Destroy Erase Improve. and to L.V.X. for the last updates Edit this entry |
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MESHUGGAH None ratings distribution
(21 ratings)
Essential: a masterpiece of progressive rock music(29%)
Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection(33%)
Good, but non-essential (33%)
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SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Honorary Collaborator

There's no weak tracks here, except for the ending of "Aztec Two-Step" which is basically just 5 minutes silence. Otherwise, this is top-notch stuff,with the best track being "Slickening", a great candidate for beign the best Meshuggah track from their early years. "None" is not as mind-boggling as later releases but still a highly recommended EP for fans especially! I'll give it 4.7/5
PROG REVIEWER

Meshuggah - progressed. The band's first real outreach towards a more complex and progressive sound, None is a bit more laid back approach from their first progressive studio approach in Destroy Erase Improve. However, for those not adjusted to this band or this sound, it won't seem as such.
It becomes clear very quickly how much this band has to offer. The only comparison I can make to the lead guitar sound is Allan Holdsworth, which is really saying something. However, it's Allan with an unhappy childhood, as evidenced by the dense riffing and distortion. Haake's drums are not as impressive here as they would be on other albums like Chaosphere, but you can already tell how much different his style is to others in the field.
Sickening is the best track here, sounding most like a DEI track but has a very nice clean section to go with it. A great EP to have. The only downer to this is the vocals, which are not near as robotic and structured as they would become later (trust me, you don't want a lot of variety with the vocals with this style of music). For those that can stomach the initial sound, there are enough tricks and turns to keep yourself entertained.
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Honorary Collaborator

The music is very different from the music on the debut album Contradictions Collape as Meshuggah have made their music more simple and groove oriented. A sort of technical Pantera you could say. At the time of it´s release this was called Groove thrash. Many bands followed in their wake and they were considered as a genre defining band. A role they have again taken with their later albums.
The more simple thrash metal on None suits me better than the tech metal attack they showed on Contradictions Collapse even though I am not too impressed. A song like Gods of Rapture is really cool though. Ritual has some singing from Jens Kidman but I don´t think it works very well. The last song Aztec Two-Step is way too long and has an industrial touch that is not to my liking.
The production is a bit better than on Contradictions Collapse, but not really good. The overall impression is that this is a good tech metal EP, but I don´t think it is essential and a 3 star rating is fair.
SPECIAL COLLABORATOR Prog Metal Team

In 1994, Meshuggah was still a relatively unknown act and their debut album did very little to change this. Then came a 30+ minute EP titled None which predated Destroy Erase Improve by less than a year and showed definite improvement over their debut. None had almost everything that would make the band famous, over the course of the next few years, compiled on these short five compositions.
I consider Sickening to be the definite highlight here because, although it's still somewhat of a transitional composition between the two periods of Meshuggah's career, the composition actually show exactly how the band made their improvement by giving us, the listeners, a linear enhancement of their sound. It also helps that Sickening is one of the more well recognized songs in the band's arsenal. All this crammed into a six minute composition alone makes this little piece of Tech Metal history worth purchasing!
I also like Gods Of Rapture which features one of Fredrik Thordendal's trademarked guitar-solos which is backed up by a synthesizer sound that must have been inspired by Mats/Morgan, who Thordendal has collaborated with on a few occasions.
The only real issue I have with the EP is related to the 11 minute concluding track called Aztec Two-Step which actually ends after the four-minute-mark and the rest of the time is filled with sound-effects which are then followed by five minutes of complete silence. There is a minor pay-off at the end of that silence but it's definitely not worth waiting for.
This EP marks the new era of Progressive Tech Metal development and therefore I can't give it anything less than the 4 star rating which it truly deserves!
***** star songs: Sickening (5:47) Gods Of Rapture (5:11)
**** star songs: Humiliative (5:18) Ritual (6:17)
*** star songs: Aztec Two-Step (10:44)
Latest members reviews
To be honest, this is a great record if you've never heard of Meshuggah or are being introduced.
I've been a Meshuggah fan for a while now and when I listen to this, Its just not what I expect from
them. For starters, the vocals sound like Nickelback's Chad Kroeger. Secondly, the quality is pretty
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Report this review (#195967) | Posted by Treasure | Monday, December 29, 2008 | Review Permanlink
Tagged onto the 1999 reissue of Contradictions Collapse, you can hear Meshuggah
progressing through and creating their famed sound in this EP. The tracks here are
solid tech-metal, but definitely nothing that will floor you like the later releases.
This is a transitional EP that's very solid an
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Report this review (#39568) | Posted by | Friday, July 15, 2005 | Review Permanlink
Rating: 3,75 (Excellent addition to any tech-metal collection)
This EP was my introduction to the band, and I still have high regards for the first four
tracks. The last track (Aztec Two-Step) are boring in a different way (ending of the album
Chaosphere)... only this time because five minute
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Report this review (#38247) | Posted by | Friday, July 1, 2005 | Review Permanlink
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