Chaosphere

Chaosphere
Chaosphere
Studio album by Meshuggah
Released	9 November 1998
Recorded	May–July 1998
Studio	Dug-Out, Uppsala, Sweden; Area 51 and Uae-Function studio, Stockholm, Sweden
Genre	Progressive metal; groove metal; avant-garde metal;
Length	47:20
Label	Nuclear Blast
Producer	Daniel Bergstrand, Fredrik Thordendal
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Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[5]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	9/10^[6]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[7]
Pitchfork	8.6/10^[8]

Chaosphere is the third studio album by Swedish extreme metal band Meshuggah. It was released on 9 November 1998 by Nuclear Blast, and is the only studio album to feature bassist Gustaf Hielm. Chaosphere's sound shows the band toning down some of the thrash style of their previous releases in favor of the technical, polyrhythmic, groove-oriented sound they would continue to explore on subsequent albums. A video was made for "New Millennium Cyanide Christ".

The Japanese version of the album contains a bonus song, titled "Unanything", as track 9. This song was also included on the promotional card-sleeve CD as track 6. On both this and the standard album release, after "Elastic" there is a period of silence then an unlisted and unindexed track where all of the album's songs are played at once, with volume changes making each song somewhat dominant and recognisable in the mix at different times.

The "Reloaded" re-release features five of the six tracks from The True Human Design EP.

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Tomas Haake, except "Neurotica" by Mårten Hagström.

No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Concatenation"	Thordendal	4:14
2.	"New Millennium Cyanide Christ"	Thordendal, Hagström	5:35
3.	"Corridor of Chameleons"	Thordendal	5:02
4.	"Neurotica"	Hagström	5:19
5.	"The Mouth Licking What You've Bled"	Thordendal	3:57
6.	"Sane"	Kidman, Hagström	3:48
7.	"The Exquisite Machinery of Torture"	Haake, Thordendal	3:55
8.	"Elastic"	Hagström	15:30
Total length:			47:20

Japanese bonus track
No.	Title	Music	Length
9.	"Unanything"	Meshuggah	3:01
Total length:			50:21

Re-release bonus tracks
No.	Title	Music	Length
10.	"Sane" (demo version)	Kidman, Hagström	4:07
11.	"Future Breed Machine" (Mayhem version)	Meshuggah	8:12
12.	"Futile Bread Machine" (Campfire version)	Meshuggah	3:30
13.	"Future Breed Machine" (Quant's Quantastical Quantasm)	Meshuggah	7:31
14.	"Future Breed Machine" (Remix)	Meshuggah	6:48
Total length:			80:29

Personnel

Meshuggah

Jens Kidman – vocals
Fredrik Thordendal – lead guitar, keyboards
Mårten Hagström – rhythm guitar
Gustaf Hielm – bass
Tomas Haake – drums, vocals (tracks 6-7, 12)

Production

Daniel Bergstrand – recording, mixdown
Fredrik Thordendal – recording, mixdown
Peter in de Betou – mastering (at Cutting Room, Stockholm, Sweden)
Tomas Haake – artwork, design
Meshuggah – art direction
John Norhager – band photo

References

^ Nuclear Blast - Meshuggah - Chaosphere Retrieved 11 November 2017
^ Espn. "A short biography". Meshuggah.com. Archived from the original on 13 May 2007. Retrieved 15 March 2023.
^ NMESHUGGAH'S 'CHAOSPHERE': 6 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW Retrieved 11 December 2018
^ Meshuggah’s Chaosphere Turns 20 Years Old! Retrieved 11 December 2018
^ https://www.allmusic.com/album/chaosphere-mw0000045351
^ Popoff, Martin (2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 275. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2006). "Meshuggah". Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 5 (4th ed.). MUZE. p. 722. ISBN 978-0-19-531373-4.
^ Reyes-Kulkarni, Saby (August 1, 2016). "Meshuggah - 25 Years of Musical Deviance". Pitchfork.com. Retrieved August 1, 2016.

[1] Nuclear Blast - Meshuggah - Chaosphere Retrieved 11 November 2017

[2] Espn. "A short biography". Meshuggah.com. Archived from the original on 13 May 2007. Retrieved 15 March 2023.

[3] NMESHUGGAH'S 'CHAOSPHERE': 6 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW Retrieved 11 December 2018

[4] Meshuggah’s Chaosphere Turns 20 Years Old! Retrieved 11 December 2018

[5] ttps://www.allmusic.com/album/chaosphere-mw0000045351

[6] Popoff, Martin (2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 275. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.

[EOPM-7] Larkin, Colin, ed. (2006). "Meshuggah". Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 5 (4th ed.). MUZE. p. 722. ISBN 978-0-19-531373-4.

[8] Reyes-Kulkarni, Saby (August 1, 2016). "Meshuggah - 25 Years of Musical Deviance". Pitchfork.com. Retrieved August 1, 2016.

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v t e Meshuggah
Jens Kidman Fredrik Thordendal Tomas Haake Mårten Hagström Dick Lövgren Niklas Lundgren Peter Nordin Gustaf Hielm
Studio albums	Contradictions Collapse Destroy Erase Improve Chaosphere Nothing Catch Thirtythree obZen Koloss The Violent Sleep of Reason Immutable
Extended plays	Meshuggah None Selfcaged The True Human Design I Pitch Black
Live albums	Alive The Ophidian Trek
Compilation albums	Rare Trax
Related articles	Discography Sol Niger Within obZen Tour
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