Swedish metal greats Meshuggah have unleashed their new single titled “The Abysmal Eye,” which you can check out below. The tune serves as the first single to appear from the band’s recently announced new album dubbed ‘Immutable’ (marking the follow-up to 2016’s ‘The Violent Sleep of Reason’), which comes out on April 1st via Atomic Fire Records (pre-order).
Here’s more info on the impending effort through a presser, “2022 brings the release of the Swedish icons’ most fearlessly creative studio album yet. Full of surprises and yet instantly recognizable as the work of metal’s most idiosyncratic force, Immutable redefines and redesigns the MESHUGGAH sound across more than an hour of the most stimulating and absorbing music the band has ever made. Despite the challenges of the last couple of years, the progressive principles that have always informed their artistic efforts remain as cherished as ever. As we spiral towards a dystopian future, MESHUGGAH still stands alone.”
Guitarist Mårten Hagström comments, “For us, it wasn’t all that clear that we were making a new album. We knew we could do it, but did we want to do it? We had to decide, ‘are we doing this or what else are we doing?’ After a long, long discussion, we agreed on certain things. We would make an album with as few restraints as possible. We would go in and try to make as cool an album as possible, have no anxiety about it and see it as an opportunity. How do we make this a challenge that we feel like accepting and rising up to? Pretty quickly we had a starting point. Everybody started to write, the ball started rolling, and suddenly we were sitting there, discussing how many songs we were going to have to cut!”
Stream:
‘Immutable’ track listing:
1. Broken Cog
2. The Abysmal Eye
3. Light The Shortening Fuse
4. Phantoms
5. Ligature Marks
6. God He Sees In Mirrors
7. They Move Below
8. Kaleidoscope
9. Black Cathedral
10. I Am That Thirst
11. The Faultless
12. Armies Of The Preposterous
13. Past Tense
Meshuggah are:
Jens Kidman – vocals
Mårten Hagström – guitars
Dick Lövgren – bass
Fredrik Thordendal – guitars
Tomas Haake – drums
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