This time, with 'Colossus', there will be also of Allmusic the highest grade. Anything else is unthinkable. The album has a tension like a movie. Already in the first listening test is clear with what mastery is all composed.
Here are my notes from the first to hear:
I AM COLOSSUS - Almost immediately sets Jens Kidman's singing (uh, shouting) a. It is better to understand than even. That's all no coincidence: Everything seems in Song on the singing voice which, if rhythm is perfectly integrated and contributes greatly, and it grooves, oh yes, even in a variety of ways. Wow.
THE DEMON'S NAME IS SURVEILLANCE - Pops of 1 second to complete in the ears. The opening riff is downright melodic Meshuggah ratios, and there's more of them! Perfection. Melodic minimalism with brutal groove and a couple of strong voltage-boosting moments. Leaves a no moment of the leash. At least now stands to reason that the band attaches to the album to greater.
DO NOT LOOK DOWN - Again this groove! It is becoming clear that the dissected from the polyrhythmic grooves are concatenated on the songs away and we follow a kind of storyline. And I hear here is not a quote to Iron Maiden and early Anthrax out?
BEHIND THE SUN - The next chapter begins with arpeggiohafter harmonies and exuding a gloomy grandeur. Kidman's singing does the rest. The song makes gradually formed a kind of evolution by which from the center especially the masterful use of the bass drum pulses should be emphasized. Madness. Alternating powerful neck and shaking Juchzer of joy when reviewers.
THE HURT THAT FINDS YOU FIRST - Okay, now I'm sure. Meshuggah quote the story of Metal! If the opening of the song is not a slight bow toward Slayer, I do not know it well. 'Colossus' was also incorporated into the songs before repeatedly so small bows in different directions. what's happening?! Look of the 'Colossus' from the platform of Extreme Metal to its origin? Whatever, Meshuggah connect the niche that they themselves have created - calls them 'Djent' or what you will - with the familiar, and we listen spellbound and almost taken.
MARROW - A perfect, absolutely perfect attachment to the conclusion of HURT. The guitar riffs included with your Slides references to THE DEMON'S NAME. Compact, tight, typical Meshuggah as we know from previous albums. At this point in the album looks like a look in the mirror. Kidman takes us further.
BREAK THOSE BONES WHO GAVE IT SINEWS MOTION - Strange title. Sounds somehow after false English, right? But no matter. Now again this minimalist melodies and the groove! In the last third of the song receives a different character, supported by long counterpoints. The feeling sets in that the circle begins to close. This is a reconciliation, like in the movie: You know, equivalent to something else. What probably really heavy.
SWARM - Oh my God what a Groove! As a listener one is now fully here, you know what the guys out drive just for a game with one and they make it perfect, just the right dose of the stuff before we always warn our doctor. Bring it on!
Demiurge - The final act orchestrated without blemish.. Pulls it all together. Makes it clear that we have reached the end. What is yet to come afterwards? This is the final point of the album. While it is still a track, but can the storyline of the album to add anything more. Is not easy. If you do, we would not have realized the album.
THE LAST VIGIL - Gottlob, we understand it: An acoustic track to wind down, warned away to Pink Floyd. Credits of a madness-sfilms, the Swedes have in front of our ear drain. Guys, you were on the level of your art has never been so close to us at the other end of the speaker. The gods have spoken to us, and with this last piece retire.
Conclusion: 'Colossus' delivering Meshuggah a lighthouse of an album from. It is so good that it - I lean out of the window because - even after many years will be considered still as bright star in the sky of the metal, in a row with other exceptional jewels of Metal history.
