Formed in Umeå, Sweden in 1987, Meshuggah pushed thrash and death metal's rhythmic complexity to an extreme, building entire songs from interlocking polymeters and odd-time riffs played on extended-range guitars. Albums like Chaosphere (1998) and obZen (2008) turned Tomas Haake's mathematically dense drumming and Fredrik Thordendal's detuned riffing into a blueprint that, largely by accident, gave rise to the djent subgenre. Decades on, their name remains shorthand for the outer edge of technical, punishing heaviness.

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