Meshuggah - I

I - this fractal illusion burning away all structure toward the obscene
I - to cleanse, to purge, to breach eternity and smother all life
Blind-these mortal men of clay, divine and dying in their harassed form
I-this furnace of limitless hate. Bestial, pure

The pendulum swings semi-attached to the center of all
I drug these minds into ruin and contempt-the acid smoke of burning souls

This is an anomaly. Disabled. What is true?
Not destined for incarceration, I crave my nothingness

The illness that they whisper of, is that what makes me fail?
I see through the eyes of the of the blind
Not clear what it is to be this self I dread, the immense, the rabid I am
The cogs turn, grinding away at ceaselessness-willing it to dust

Re-disintegration. Convulse. A dead universe-Impales this twilight
Fear aligns. Sadistic me. Meant to devour. Despair
Sickened by the fact that immortality is not mine to have.

A snail along a straight razor-dividing itself through motion
I charge this feeble product of god
Laughing, drenched in the bile of millions
Chewing on the stinking flesh of the crown of creation

Solitude in splendor has been rivalled
Shroud stained with tarblack vomit
Veiling the rotting eyes of the masses
The strain of Armageddon evolves

Shifting through worlds from chaos, to chaos, to chaos
I devour this manure of existence-infertile, barren, whole
Rancid redeemer. Virulent deterioration of faith

Sacrilege in persona. In truth, fundamentally twisted
A witness to this savage carnage. A frenzy of animosity
The will to mutilate. Dominant deviation
The worship of the sick and degenerate will spread

I - The nihilist, not the lunatic
Ridding my godlike being of doubt
Obliterating all hope of escape
I - Enter the echoes of despair

Miracles inverted by default, a reflex to devastate
Soaking in the will to violate, to castrate
Soiling the purpose of mankind. Deus ex machina on hold
The orgasmic, the splendid, the beginning of the end

Conception derived from misconceptions
The dimensionless features of truth
Silence in the core of undoing
Untie its knots and set it loose

The inertia of my existence is clear
Premutation of slaughtered worlds
I alone will behold the dying sky
A servant of eternity

Progress finally, emergence of doom complete
Here only to reverse the flow of life
I

[jarltrippin]

I've no doubt in my mind that if they played this song live and nailed the whole thing it'll go down as one of the greatest performances in music history.

[mathijsfraaije]

I heard 90% of the mass of the observable universe comes from this song...

[SonOfAcedia]

No one knows, how I goes.
-Thomas Haake

[klaustrussel]

This album cover on acid is something else, I love that the interpretation of this song is basically "A black hole went insane and destroyed the universe"

[trichogaster]

"honey, theyre playing our song"

[manjay]

Insane. So advanced. Not just "different". They have created their own environment. That's very, very rare. And by their own environment, I don't mean "djent". Meshuggah is Meshuggah. Period.Peace.

[feliperibeiro]

10:33 This riff is the most brutal thing ever created. Period.

[PlasticRocket]

1:55 and now back to your regular messhuggah programming.

[onewaytickettotheastraplan]

5:40 is possibly the fastest I've ever heard that polyrhythm, fucking sick!

[johnholmeswebb]

2004, me and my whole band sat around getting blazed, and listening to this for the first time. So many rewinds, so many moments when we were just like "What the fuck? "Good memories. Great album.

[BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers]

7:25 is verging on Death Metal. Arguably Meshuggah at their most chaotic.

[PramythAbeysekera]

This track was mixed and mastered by Lockheed Martin

[ErikSeverinson]

6:19 is just all-time. The fact that the riff is just one pitch, in unison, with its bludgeoning on/off simplicity, drenched in so much rhythmic dissonance that it's basically untranscribable. I can't believe I'm alive on Earth at the same time as Meshuggah.

[Supervideo]

Playing this whole track perfectly note-by-note will produce the same effect as that of dividing by zero

[Kosmic_fire]

The drummer must be half dead by the time the song ends. Jesus Christ, how do they do all those patterns and shit?! It's beautiful, organized chaos created by musical genius.

[Bloink]

10:35 This may just be the most brutal shit i have ever heard in my life

[MrRundas]

This is like describing the Big-Bang with 21 minutes of music

[Vegan_Kebab_In_My_Hand]

Best track Meshuggah have ever composed.

[xavierdouglas-smith]

I think Meshuggah may be the greatest extreme metal band of all time

[DioGhark]

i've tried listening to this with my lights off and closed eyes. best thing i've done so far