Meshuggah's music sucks?

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Had to ck out this thread......I can honestly say I have never heard anything by this band ( I don't generally like any  metal bands of any kind especially those with growling  vocals...) , so I went on you tube and listened to a few songs from the new album.[DIV[/IMG]

backtothegarden wrote: When Destroy, Erase, Improve came out, I was blown away.  Future Breed Machine is a bona fide classic. But I also had a greater tolerance for screaming vocals then compared to now.  I find myself desiring more melody in my music, but I still love the heavy stuff.  That's why I like what some of the djent bands have done with Meshuggah's sound.  Bands like Tesseract, Stealing Axion, and Face the Maybe have infused the low-tuned, poly-rhythmic foundation with melodic elements.  When clean vocals are involved, this style is one of my faves right now. It's kind of a "2.0" version - they took the key elements, and added another layer to the sound.  It's happened in a number of other styles, like with what Chevelle did with Helmet's sound, or what Soen did with Tool's sound.   In other words, "sub-genre" is the sincerest form of flattery. I know there's a fine line between imitation and "sub-genre", if you will.  I also understand that which of those categories a band is in that is heavily influenced by another may vary, depending on who you ask.  Discussing it is the stuff that makes message boards great.   BTW saw a mention of Prong on here.  I hadn't listened to them in about 20 years before I found "No Absolutes" at a yard sale a few months ago.  It was surprisingly good.

Upbeat Tango Monday wrote: Even though I liked the first records when they came out, I grew tired of Messhugah really fast. If you are a symphonic prog fan who loves solos and variation, stay away. Messhugah is all about repeating a riff over and over, taking that riff changing it a bit and repeating it again for several minutes. When they released "Catch 33" I couldn't take it anymore

When Destroy, Erase, Improve came out, I was blown away.  Future Breed Machine is a bona fide classic.

Intricate does not always mean good. I do admit Meshuggah is a big outlier but I'll never like Dillinger. There's just no actual substance aside from complexity for the sake of being complex.

Funny, I find Dillinger E.P. to be 'difficult' compared to Meshuggah, I do like them, but they're totally bonkers !!

Meshuggah are god awful binary metal. Chugga chugga 010011010011. They give me a headache and the vocals are crap mallcore, screamo styled monotony. I'd rather listen to grass grow.

Fear Factory can easily musically "kill" Meshuggah with 7-string guitar sound. 

Arctopus, cool... Let's say I can't get through the avalanche of riffs from this band and it's really difficult for me to feel an emotional connection with them because of the high technicity/virtuosity.

On the other hand, I have this split-single Arctopus/Orthrelm...

I won't say that their music sucks, especially since I'm starting to be somewhat fed up by the current appearance of "negative" threads on this forum for a few weeks... It's okay to say "I don't like this band that everyone say to love", but I'm starting to feel a bit suspicious about the multiplication of those "negative" threads in a really short time.

Anyway, back to the topic: I hardly know the music of Meshuggah. I've tried to listen one or two of their albums, without managing to get into them after just one (1) session of listening. I've not been really impressed by what I heard, saying to myself: "Oh, I've already this kind of rhythms, this type of riffs..." before remembering these guys are around since the mid-90's and have influenced younger bands that I discovered before Meshuggah...
So, I guess that I would better try to listen a bit more carefully their music before expressing a definitive opinion about them.

After all, they're still better than, let's say, Behold The Arctopus...