Destroy Erase Improve
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| Studio album by Meshuggah | ||
| Released | July 25, 1995 | |
| Recorded | Soundfront Studios, Uppsala, Sweden | |
| Genre | Tech/Post-Thrash/Extreme metal | |
| Length | 46:31 | |
| Label | Nuclear Blast | |
| Producer(s) | Daniel Bergstrand Meshuggah |
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| Meshuggah chronology | ||
| None (1994) |
Destroy Erase Improve (1995) |
Chaosphere (1998) |
Destroy Erase Improve is the second album by Swedish tech metal band Meshuggah.
It is generally considered by fans and critics alike to be a significant creative achievement and is regarded as one of the most influential metal albums of the '90s.
Destroy Erase Improve was groundbreaking in its use of polyrhythm and off-time thrash beats, and established these elements as instantly recognizable trademarks of Meshuggah's music. Some jazz fusion elements are present in some songs such as Future Breed Machine, Acrid Placidity, and Sublevels.
The track Future Breed Machine is often used as a closer to their live performances.
[edit] Track listing
All lyrics by Tomas Haake unless otherwise noted
- "Future Breed Machine" (Fredrik Thordendal) – 5:48
- "Beneath" (Thordendal) – 5:07
- "Soul Burn" (Thordendal & Haake) – 5:17
- "Transfixion" (Mårten Hagström & Thordendal) – 3:33
- "Vanished" (Thordendal) – 5:04
- "Acrid Placidity" (Hagström; no lyrics) – 3:15
- "Inside What's Within Behind" (Thordendal & Jens Kidman) – 4:30
- "Terminal Illusions" (Thordendal; lyrics by Kidman) – 3:47
- "Suffer in Truth" (music & lyrics by Kidman) – 4:19
- "Sublevels" (Thordendal) – 5:14
[edit] Personnel
- Tomas Haake - Drums, vocals
- Jens Kidman - Lead vocals
- Fredrik Thordendal - Lead guitar, rhythm guitar, synthesizers (Thordendal covered bass guitar after Peter Nordin left the band. Fredrik would play his lead guitar parts on the bass as well.)
- Mårten Hagström - Rhythm guitar
- Peter Nordin - Bass (dropped out of the band during a tour, due to an infection in the inner ear)
| MESHUGGAH |
| Jens Kidman | Fredrik Thordendal | Mårten Hagström | Tomas Haake |
| Dick Lövgren | Gustaf Hielm | Peter Nordin | Niklas Lundgren |
| Discography |
| Chronology: Psykisk Testbild (1989) | Contradictions Collapse (1991) | None (1994) | Selfcaged (1995) | Destroy Erase Improve (1995) | The True Human Design (1997) | Chaosphere (1998) | Rare Trax (2001) | Nothing (2002) | I (2004) | Catch Thirty-Three (2005) | Nothing (Re-release) (2006) |
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| Official website |
