Yeah fuck me sideways, so soundcult is shutting down, so as we started with reviewing Meshuggah we are closing shop by reviewing the latest and greatest from my favorite Swedish extreme metal band! Immutable is an interesting album from Meshuggah, its Meshuggah but more commercial in a way, or might I say easier listening, creating more moods and grooves and not leaning so much into overly complex time signatures, it doesnt mean this isnt complex stuff it is, it just feels more coherent and easier listening.
So we kick off with “Broken Cog” and its a proper intro track, moody and heavy, nothing fancy just setting the mood for what comes next. Then “The Abysmal Eye” hits and holy shit its super fast speed metal kinda breakneck pace, reminds me of “Bleed” but less complex, still gets your head moving though. “Light the Shortening Fuse” is where things start getting groovy, I love this track, it goes back and forth and it has this super catchy crescendo, its creepy groovy, great stuff.
“Phantoms” is a great continuation, feels like the second part of Light the Shortening Fuse, keeping that downbeat groove but this time moved by the guitars, with another catchy guitar groove, its almost addicting. “Ligature Marks” gives you that slow burn Meshuggah bass heavy groove that only builds slowly to an explosion of guitars and drumming, another great track. “God He Sees in Mirrors” keeps that “Phantom” kind of back and forth groove, you know this needs an amazing guitar solo and thats what you get.
But then we get to “They Move Below” and fuck me this one is a masterpiece, it starts slow with a nice tune and builds into a wall of sound groove monster, it reminds me of “I” super bassy super groovy, a total and absolute jam, Meshuggah at its very best, 5 stars wow! “Kaleidoscope” is another great track with that “Phantom” back and forth type groove with a really nice breakdown, good good. “Black Cathedral” is just a dark and dreary interlude, black metal has got nothing on Meshuggah hehehe.
“I Am That Thirst” builds into another super groovy track, this is a weird one with a lot of stop/go kind of theme with some amazing breaks, this is another nice one! “The Faultless” and fuck me this gallivanting groove is heavy as shit WTF, this whole track is a bouncy spiral of death with of course a crazy guitar solo, finishing into a creepy as hell guitar outro, amazing music. “Armies of the Preposterous” is interesting, feels like death metal with the drums always on double bass, its like a death metal band trying Meshuggahs stop/go, I think sonically its amazing, even the breakdown uff hard as fuck, I just dont think it clicks, its ok. “Past Tense” closes things out as an end interlude, quite nice, eerie beautiful, you can put this at the end of any zombie movie hehehe, creepy and beautiful and a bit sad.
Yeah Meshuggah doesnt disappoint, there is no perfection, Meshuggah might say some things dont change and they are right, its still Meshuggah, but some things do change and you want them to change, stagnation is death, and this album shows that Meshuggah are healthy as a horse, sure older but wiser as well, you can have the cake and eat it! Also I think this is the perfect segway to thank everyone for reading and visiting soundcult.com it was a pleasure to share with you guys, I hope you all have happy times on this earth because we are all stuck here together hehehe! take care!
Yep this is my last review! Wanna say some thanks to Morgana, Nebulous and Meth for all their help! And of course all of you for the visits and comments, it was a blast!
More info about soundcult closure here ;D
Hope you guys liked it and see you… somewhere :) sometime!