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1998 studio album by Meshuggah
Chaosphere
Studio album by
Meshuggah
Released
9 November 1998[1]
Recorded
May–July 1998[2]
Studio
Dug-Out, Uppsala, Sweden Area 51 and Uae-Function studio, Stockholm, Sweden
Genre
Progressive metal[3]
groove metal[4]
avant-garde metal
Length
47:20
Label
Nuclear Blast
Producer
Daniel Bergstrand, Fredrik Thordendal
Meshuggah chronology
The True Human Design (1997)
Chaosphere (1998)
Rare Trax (2001)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source
Rating
Allmusic
[5]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal
9/10[6]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
[7]
Pitchfork
8.6/10[8]
Chaosphere is the third studio album by Swedish extreme metal band Meshuggah. It was released on 9 November 1998 by Nuclear Blast, and is the only studio album to feature bassist Gustaf Hielm. Chaosphere's sound shows the band toning down some of the thrash style of their previous releases in favor of the technical, polyrhythmic, groove-oriented sound they would continue to explore on subsequent albums. A video was made for "New Millennium Cyanide Christ".
The Japanese version of the album contains a bonus song, titled "Unanything", as track 9. This song was also included on the promotional card-sleeve CD as track 6.
On both this and the standard album release, after "Elastic" there is a period of silence then an unlisted and unindexed track where four of the album's songs are played at once, with volume changes making each song somewhat dominant and recognisable in the mix at different times.
The "Reloaded" re-release features five of the six tracks from The True Human Design EP.
^Nuclear Blast - Meshuggah - Chaosphere Retrieved 11 November 2017
^Espn. "A short biography". Meshuggah.com. Archived from the original on 13 May 2007. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
^NMESHUGGAH'S 'CHAOSPHERE': 6 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW Retrieved 11 December 2018
^Meshuggah’s Chaosphere Turns 20 Years Old! Retrieved 11 December 2018
^Popoff, Martin (2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 275. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
^Larkin, Colin, ed. (2006). "Meshuggah". Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 5 (4th ed.). MUZE. p. 722. ISBN 978-0-19-531373-4.
^Reyes-Kulkarni, Saby (August 1, 2016). "Meshuggah - 25 Years of Musical Deviance". Pitchfork.com. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
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