While both releases might seem like willfully antagonistic efforts to skirt the djent craze, Meshuggah denies any such motivation. “With Catchthirtythree-- especially that very idea of doing a ...

Few bands can legitimately claim to have spearheaded an entire movement in music, let alone a genre all its own. Meshuggah can. If you enjoy bands such as Periphery or Tesseract, Animals As Leaders or ...

We already know that the word "djent" is one of the worst descriptors ever coined to describe a musical sub-genre. Now, according to the supposed creators of the style, Meshuggah, they claim it was ...

Shame on us. While we’ve been worrying about Nazis and sex offenders and murderers and thieves, the greatest crime perpetrated by a metal musician has gone unaddressed. A crime so foul, so heinous, so ...

“But does it djent?” It’s a question that’s haunted a generation (djeneration?) of progressive metal bands. Ever since Meshuggah first stormed onto the scene in the mid-1990s with their polyrhythmic ...

It seems as though the djent trend is on a downswing at this moment. While bands like Periphery, Animals As Leaders and Veil of Maya rose to prominence on the sound, if I hear a new band trying to ...

Meshuggah guitarist Mårten Hagström was quoted back in 2018 as apologizing for creating djent, and said the term came from fellow guitarist Fredrik Thordendal being drunk. "First of all, we're very ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Getty Images Google ‘djent’ and you’ll be hit with over 2.5 million search results. On Instagram, #djent has been used ...

In a bit of underground music news that’s somehow not a Hard Times article, Swedish prog-metal innovators Meshuggah have offered a tongue-in-cheek apology for inciting the rapid-paced, highly ...

We've all been there and done things we've regretted in our past – but Meshuggah guitarist Mårten Hagström apparently feels bad for creating an entire music genre… Speaking to Rauta, the shredder ...

There are only a few things that are certain in life: Death, taxes, and Meshuggah‘s hatred of the entire subgenre of djent. Or at least, we thought we were certain about that last one. A reason that ...

Meshuggah will unleash ninth studio album Immutable on the world tomorrow (April 1), and ahead of its arrival, the band's Mårten Hagström has dismissed the notion that the Swedish group actively ...