Our music section editor pmontoro explores the legacy of Swedish death metal titans messhugah & their new ninth new LP, 'Immutable' (out now on atomicfirerec), on which the music 'clamps down on the scruff of your neck & shakes you till you see stars.'
have developed an approach to progressive death metal so distinctive and compelling that it’s spawned an entire subgenre of imitators. And right from its title, the Swedish band’s ninth album,, announces that it won’t try to fix what isn’t broken.
Some of the new album’s oddly weighted riffs still move like slipping chains or stuttering jackhammers, just like in the old days, but at least as often they’re anvils tumbling down a hill.are about deception, folly, the abuse of power, and the limits of knowledge: as guitarist Mårten Hagström puts it in the album’s press materials, “Humanity is immutable, too. We commit the same mistakes over and over.
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