Album: Contradictions Collapse by Meshuggah (1991)
Genre: Progressive Metal | Style: Metal
Record Label: Nuclear Blast
Format: Album

Description: Contradictions Collapse is the debut album by Swedish heavy metal band Meshuggah. The album was released on 1 January 1991 by Nuclear Blast. Contradictions Collapse was originally titled (All This Because of) Greed. The album leans more towards a thrash metal and alternative metal sound than the band's later works, featuring heavy riffs and influences of hip hop and industrial dance in the drum patterns. It was re-released as a digipak with an incomplete version of Meshuggah's second EP, None, in 1998, with no liner notes or lyrics included in the booklet.

Artist Background: Meshuggah is a Swedish extreme metal band from Umeå, formed in 1987. Meshuggah's line-up has primarily consisted of founding members vocalist Jens Kidman and lead guitarist Fredrik Thordendal, drummer Tomas Haake, who joined in 1990, and rhythm guitarist Mårten Hagström, who joined in 1992. The band has gone through a number of bassists, with the position currently being held by Dick Lövgren since 2004. Meshuggah first attracted international attention with the 1995 release Destroy Erase ... Part of the Umeå, Sweden music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Progressive Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Related Artists: Animals as Leaders, Car Bomb, Vildhjarta, Textures

Music Scene: Part of the Umeå, Sweden music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Progressive Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Tags: Progressive Metal, Metal, 1990s, Album, Nuclear Blast

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Contradictions Collapse is the debut album by Swedish heavy metal band Meshuggah. The album was released on 1 January 1991 by Nuclear Blast. Contradictions Collapse was originally titled (All This Because of) Greed. The album leans more towards a thrash metal and alternative metal sound than the band's later works, featuring heavy riffs and influences of hip hop and industrial dance in the drum patterns. It was re-released as a digipak with an incomplete version of Meshuggah's second EP, None, in 1998, with no liner notes or lyrics included in the booklet.

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