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Occupation
- Peter Nordin: E-Bass
- Tomas Haake: Drums
- Jens Kidman: Voice
- Fredrik Thordendal: Guitar Synthesizer
- Mårten Hagström: Electric Guitar
Formation
The album was the follow up to their debut, Contradictions Collapse of 1991. Was recorded in February 1995 in the Swedish Sound Front Studios in Uppsala and there mixed by Fredrik Thordendal. The album was produced by Daniel Bergstrand beach. Following the recorded music by Peter In de Betou was mastered at Cutting Room in Stockholm.
Title list
Bonus songs
Dier re-release on 25 August 2008 via Nuclear Blast were added the following bonus tracks:
Style of music and texts
A characteristic feature is especially the polyrhythmic applied in the songs. Character defining also the technically demanding guitar solos Thordendals described as failed. The songs have an aggressive sound, each song " of disturbingly hallucinatory ( ' Beneath ', ' Suffer In Truth' ) to brachial genickbrechendem (, Future Breed Machine ',' Vanished ') riffing backed " is. Technically challenging is also the game of percussion, juggling with the back and forth seething, crooked and rectangular bars. In addition to the übligen guttural vocals, Kidman used in songs such sublevels chant. Lyrically, the songs act of " godlike science of inner turmoil to media terrorism " or futuristic themes such as the integration of machines into the human organism as a next logical evolutionary step. Siggy Zielinski of Baby Blue Pages compares songs with the " aggressive, thrashigsten Metallica pieces [n ]" where Meshuggahs works "has become much trickier and more varied " are. The singing is compared with that of Phil Anselmo of Pantera. The songs are also by " relaxed, or atmospheric ballad - instrumental fragments - in all this, of course, still guitar -oriented " interspersed. Transfer compared the song structures with those of Watchtower and Cynic. John Serba of Allmusic compared Thorndals guitar playing with Allan Holdsworth, noting that the band had used in various genres such as fusion, Thrash Metal, Math Metal and Hardcore Punk.
Reviews
Lasse was Rosenberger of powermetal.de that the band have created classics in terms of brute force and songwriting. Siggy Zielinski of Baby Blue Pages particularly praised the technically neat interplay between the instruments and referred to it as " impressive, how naturally the Meshuggah drummer for example, the chord progressions of the rhythm guitar can reenact slightly delayed, or as the highly complicated, for the rhythm guitars and drums precisely defined rhythm changes can be the irrepressible energy of the band appear only more concentrated. " The album reached a rating of 11 out of 15 possible points. Administration of The Metal Observer speaks of a personal classics and lifted above all, the technically challenging game of instruments and especially the good implementation of the Polyrhytmik forth and awarded 9.5 out of 10 possible points. John Serba of Allmusic praised the previous points also, with Fear Factory have tried to similar music, Meshuggah but deklassiere this. Serba called the album still considered classics of the 1990s and awarded 4.5 of 5 possible points. Oliver Recker from Metal Hammer wrote the songs were " is miles away from what you commonly referred to as a readily available ", so you " the listener but also to the of a Nervous Breakdown " exaggerating. The pieces were " only" mad class in a insanely annoying in the other minute ". He also wrote that, if you still added a keyboard player to fill, " the five exceptional talents in the field of instrument mastery of the Dream Theater of the ultra hard" would be. Recker missed 6 of 7 possible points.