Bands Like Meshuggah

[MFB]

Don't forget your hip North Face Puff jacket

 

[worC]

I'd recommend Swim In Styx, they have some cool riffs that sound like Meshuggah (a bit too much sometimes though). But if you want moar djentness, u can haz my band.

 

[Scar Symmetry]

I can see recommending them in a different thread, but I have to agree that there's little to no similarity between After the Burial and Meshuggah.

I'm assuming that you haven't heard After The Burial's album, because if you had I really doubt you would've said this.

 

[Variant]

The new M.A.N. sounds very Mesh-inspired, plus there is some microtonal fretwork there for some added weirdness.

 

[InCasinoOut]

I've been called worse..

My next ep will sound just like Godsmack. I just got 4 new "sweet" tribal tattoos, too. I'm ready to party Nu-Metal style.

...where the hell did I put my red baseball cap

I hope at least one of those tattoos is a barbed-wire armband.

 

[Ibanezsam4]

while this is right, it's one to thing to state it and another not to recommend.

I would definitely recommend After The Burial.

the reason i say this is the OP wants bands like Meshuggah, not bands that play 8 strings. which IMO is the only way you can mention both bands in the same breath

 

[leftyguitarjoe]

Forget about that meshuggah stuff and get a hold of some Spiral Architect and Twisted into Form

I just checked out Spiral Architect.

THEY ARE FUCKING AWESOME

 

[Scar Symmetry]

the reason i say this is the OP wants bands like Meshuggah, not bands that play 8 strings. which IMO is the only way you can mention both bands in the same breath

right... so ATB's sound doesn't bear any semblance to Meshuggah's then?

 

[Rotatous]

Limp Bizkit, Korn, Fear Factory, etc. It's just nu-metal. Not a unique sound at all. During your first year of guitar lessons, this band just seems killer. Man, listen to those rhythms. Then as time goes on you realize that (a) not much goes on in Meshuggah songs and (b) past the rhythmic technique, nothing they're doing is particularly hard. So you're listening to faux prog that really has more in common with a bad Exhorder or Vio-lence clone. Errr... I'll pass.

This guy is from A.N.U.S. Death Metal and Black Metal Blog

Read #7 in "Bandfails"

Fuck A.N.U.S!

 

[Scar Symmetry]

This guy is from A.N.U.S. Death Metal and Black Metal Blog

Read #7 in "Bandfails"

Fuck A.N.U.S!

#2 Necrophagist

Like Opeth and Cynic, this band survives by convincing people with little experience of music that they're experts. Overnight, they become sophisticated aficionados of the difficult, obscure and brainier-than-thou art of technical death metal. But when you peel back the hype, you find very simple songs wrapped in layers of sweep, chug, squeal, repeat. Confusing this with quality metal is like admiring a painter who can paint cars really well, but sucks at painting anything else, so he makes who pastoral scenes out of Hyundais talking to Lamborghinis.

hey everyone, Necrophagist songs are simple now! everyone go learn them and marvel at how easy they are!

For whiners

Yes, we know: you hate us, you hate them, you hate something, you're bubbling over with rage at how someone on the intertard can be so wrong. Either that or you were reading ANUS once, came upon a word you didn't recognize and instead of growing a pair, tip-toeing your fingers to dictionary.com and rising to the occasion, you wimped out with the chorus all failed people like to repeat: "It's not my fault, you're an elitist, it's not fair!"

To all such people we say: Go whine up a rope, because the only people who like that kind of mealymouthed rambling are other failures. You can all go fail together somewhere. And maybe touch each other, but in the grand tradition of being in denial so you can fail more efficiently, you'll insist you're not gay... it has nothing to do with what Uncle Ted did to your peenor after he'd been drinking. If you've failed at life, it's because you're disorganized and cannot man up and face reality. Don't blame us for your weakness; fix it. (Listening to the albums on this list will not help.)

what a fucking dickhead that guy really is.

 

[DIOBOLIC5150]

what a fucking dickhead that guy really is.

Yeah he hasn't a clue what he's saying. That douche just basically roasted many albums that have influenced me over the past 15 years. CLASSICS even.

Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Cryptopsy - Whisper Supremacy
Sepultura - Chaos AD
Carcass - Heartwork!!!!!111!
Cannibal Corpse?
Opeth?

Those are titles that kept me playing all these years. I literally WORE OUT the top 4 albums I listed above.

If those albums are "fail", I wonder what he considers to be "good". What a homo.

 

[Scar Symmetry]

I don't think he's a dickhead because he doesn't like things I like, I think he's a dickhead because he's obviously gone out of his way to do this just to try to get on people's nerves.

a lot of outward hatred there, usually comes from people who hate themselves.

 

[keeper006]

I don't think he's a dickhead because he doesn't like things I like, I think he's a dickhead because he's obviously gone out of his way to do this just to try to get on people's nerves.

a lot of outward hatred there, usually comes from people who hate themselves.

THIS. This dickwad obviously is mad his mom didn't hug him. Another fabulous example of the web making a boisterous ass of someone who would never say these things in person. I'd love to see what he considers "good" metal, but he probably won't post that, as other people would then be able to critique his choices. Ironic that he is in charge of making the FAIL list.

 

[Rotatous]

Have you guys read the top ten "Bandfails" on A.N.U.S yet? The meshuggah portion that metalwizard posted is just copy/pasted from the site.

 

[DrewsifStalin]

 

[Ibanezsam4]

right... so ATB's sound doesn't bear any semblance to Meshuggah's then?

to my ears, no. totally different sounds. however i do think any band that uses more unconventional time signatures applied on an 8 string, Meshuggah will be mentioned simply because they did it first. again the OP was asking for more "djent" type bands. i find ATB more straight forward

If those albums are "fail", I wonder what he considers to be "good". What a homo.

i found what they consider "good". all they like are old black metal records that sound like they've been recorded over a speaker phone. seriously? you can't tell what the fuck is being played on those records, it all sounds like shit. not to hate on the genre but good lord their just a bunch of stuck up "black is the only tru metul!!!!" conformist dumbshits.... rant off

 

[Scar Symmetry]

to my ears, no. totally different sounds. however i do think any band that uses more unconventional time signatures applied on an 8 string, Meshuggah will be mentioned simply because they did it first. again the OP was asking for more "djent" type bands. i find ATB more straight forward

I urge you to go and listen to After The Burial and Meshuggah and tell me they don't have similarities. it's usually near the middle or end of songs that ATB bring out the Meshuggah sections, but the Meshuggah sections they most certainly do have.

they also use 8 strings in F standard, and the only other band I know of that uses that tuning is guess who?

yep, Meshuggah.

 

[Ibanezsam4]

I urge you to go and listen to After The Burial and Meshuggah and tell me they don't have similarities. it's usually near the middle or end of songs that ATB bring out the Meshuggah sections, but the Meshuggah sections they most certainly do have.

they also use 8 strings in F standard, and the only other band I know of that uses that tuning is guess who?

yep, Meshuggah.

thats exactly my point. i see what your saying believe me, however riffs like "steady decline" i hear all the time from hardcore bands, except they're playing them on 6 strings vice 8. and i can't really say the two bands are similar just because they use the same tuning, i mean listen to them on a whole and the bands couldn't be any more different

 

[Scar Symmetry]

thats exactly my point. i see what your saying believe me, however riffs like "steady decline" i hear all the time from hardcore bands, except they're playing them on 6 strings vice 8. and i can't really say the two bands are similar just because they use the same tuning, i mean listen to them on a whole and the bands couldn't be any more different

where do you think those hardcore bands got that style of riff from?

of course using the same tuning doesn't automatically make you sound similar to a band, but it's obvious that ATB utilised the tuning in Meshuggah's footsteps.

listen to:

2:47-4:37 in Berzerker - Meshuggah worship
1:25-2:19 and 3:05-4:09 in Drifts - Meshuggah worship
all of Cursing Akhenaten - Meshuggah worship
0:52-1:31 in Rareform - Meshuggah worship
2:29-4:37 in Aspiration - Meshuggah worship
1:02-1:52 and 3:08-3:49 in The Fractal Effect - Meshuggah worship
0:34-1:11 and 2:22-2:57 in Ometh - Meshuggah worship
all of A Vicious Reforming of Features - Meshuggah worship

so that's not one song on their album that doesn't have a 'Meshuggah worship section'

 

[vampiregenocide]

Have you guys read the top ten "Bandfails" on A.N.U.S yet? The meshuggah portion that metalwizard posted is just copy/pasted from the site.

I noticed that Even banned, he continues to fail.

I urge you to go and listen to After The Burial and Meshuggah and tell me they don't have similarities. it's usually near the middle or end of songs that ATB bring out the Meshuggah sections, but the Meshuggah sections they most certainly do have.

they also use 8 strings in F standard, and the only other band I know of that uses that tuning is guess who?

yep, Meshuggah.

I think After The Burial do have their moments when you can tell the Meshuggah influence, though on the whole I think its a lot less obvious than bands like Mnemic, Sybreed etc.