Drummer Tomas Haake of Sweden’s extreme musical deviants MESHUGGAH has proudly issued the following band decree:
”A quarter century of deviance.
You try to wrap your head around, it but comprehension fails.
It's been twenty-five years since the first official MESHUGGAH release!!! The self-titled (though often referred to as "Psykisk Testbild") EP came out on the small local Umeå label Garageland Records in 1989, making 2014 the big TWO FIVE for the band!! Hoooly s**t!!
Who would have thought, huh?! That our small group of young guys would get to not only write and record our own quirky, deviant style of metal, but that we would still be doing it a quarter century later, making our living off of what we love to do!! Now in our forties, we can't help but look back at it jawdropped and baffled at the fact!!
We always set out to do something new, something different from the music we heard around us - something that would be a challenge to ourselves to write, learn, and perform. Something truly unique. Looking back at our career, we feel that we have actually been successful in doing just that!!
We have - for so many years - been blessed with a super loyal fanbase and a still-growing one at that, allowing us to continue to create freely and without boundaries! For this we sincerely thank all of our fans that have stood by us all this time!!!
To commemorate this great anniversary, we have a few different cool things coming out in 2014! Those will include among other things a few official releases, but as to not completely kill the suspense immediately, we will come back with more info on that during the winter and spring. So keep your eyes and ears peeled for more news on this in the next few months on our official site as well as Facebook, etc.
One thing we can announce at this time, though, is that we will be doing a few select "25th Anniversary" festival dates in both Europe and North America, out of which one will be us closing the Marquee Stage at [Belgium’s] Graspop Festival with a special 25th Anniversary set on Sunday, 29th of June! More info on additional dates will soon follow!
I'll stop blathering now. Just want to say from all of us in the band to all people whose support keeps us going strong - still:
THANK YOU!!! And here's to another 25!!!”
“I Am Colossus,” “Demiurge,” and “Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion” are MESHUGGAH’s latest videos.
The band’s 2012 release, KOLOSS, can be purchased from the Nuclear Blast USA Webshop & is available digitally on iTunes & Amazon MP3.
Download MESHUGGAH’s free Pitch Black EP at SCION A/V: www.scionav.com/meshuggahpitchblack.
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