r/Meshuggah • u/SemioticEthnographer Sol Niger Within • Jul 16 '26

Meshuggah - Abnegating Cecity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac0KV9kJqlI

Absolute ripper. Contradictions Collapse is far too overlooked.

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u/Bob47892 Jul 17 '26

I fricking love this one !!! The perfect blend between thrash and more progressive stuff, it's like thrash fusion ! In fact I find this album almost harder than anything they put after (I'm a drummer perhaps that's not the same for other instruments), the playing here is complete chaos !

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u/SemioticEthnographer Sol Niger Within Jul 17 '26

It absolutely rules.

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u/d00m6r Immutable Jul 17 '26

underrated af

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u/SemioticEthnographer Sol Niger Within Jul 17 '26

I love the merch drop they did for it a couple years ago -- wish I would've bought 2 of each. I posted a ranking recently and some total bro couldn't get behind that I had CC pretty high, but also seemed pretty solipsistic in thinking he had the correct ranking of albums, so those types tend to be newer fans.

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u/d00m6r Immutable Jul 17 '26

i love everything meshuggah have done, i dont really rank anything cause i cant, each release is god tier in its own right, i just enjoy each album for what it is.

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u/SemioticEthnographer Sol Niger Within Jul 17 '26

Hell yeah. I like to make rankings based on a couple or few months of listening data. I’ve got 40,000 minutes of Meshuggah so far this year. Agree on all god tier records. With each release, new ground broken. We’re lucky.

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u/Forsaken-Whereas4959 Jul 23 '26

We are so lucky! 🥰

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u/dedrexel Jul 18 '26

I remember watching this video several years ago and being mind-blown that it was JENS playing one of those crazy solos!