Fredrik Thordendal (born February 11, 1970) is the lead guitarist and a fou… Read Full Bio ↴Fredrik Thordendal (born February 11, 1970) is the lead guitarist and a founding member of the Swedish metal band Meshuggah.

Under the name Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects, Thordendal released his first, and so far only, solo album in 1997 titled "Sol Niger Within" with Ultimate Audio Entertainment. The album featured Tomas Haake (drummer of Meshuggah ) on "spoken vocals", as well as Morgan Ågren on drumkit and Mats Öberg on keyboards, who both have played for "Mats & Morgan" and " Frank Zappa ". The style of music is best described as very a very similar style to Meshuggah's thrashy poly rhythmic Metal with Jazz elements and some obscure noise effects such as high pitched shrieks and screams.

The album was remixed and re-released by Ultimate Audio Entertainment and Relapse Records in 1999 under the title "Sol Niger Within version 3.33". The re-release contains two bonus tracks but omits several parts of the original version, most noticeably, the church organs. The Bonus tracks include "Missing Time" and "Ooo Baby Baby".

A second solo album is in the works, with the current Soilwork drummer Dick Verbeuren, but a release date is unknown.

Missing Time
Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'Missing Time' by these artists:

Big Dipper Rolling in a green car, where’s the Vermont border? Who is…
Matthew Sweet Do you realize what they have done Showed me I am…
MDFMK Black is everything Pull me right out of reality, the emptin…
MOLLY DRAG less than a hundred years from now i'll be dead, i'll…
Spectres Stop because you’ve gone to far Someone remembers what you s…
Stereo Specter I don't really know what happened last night It's gotta be…

We have lyrics for these tracks by Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects:

... Och Stjärnans Namn Var Malört Immolate reliance: suffocate defiance. (Ephemeral slimy flui…

...Och Stjarnans Namn Var Malort Immolate reliance: suffocate defiance. (ephemeral slimy flu…
Dante's Wild Inferno [Instrumental]…
Death at Both Ends Parallel dimensions: on frequencies sublime. Hidden for mill…
Descent to the Netherworld Entering hellbound dominion. acid rain. Human mortification…
Existence out of Joint It's too late now. over the brink of the interior…
I, Galactus My existence precedes the origin of the universe I, delivere…
In Reality All Is Void Blown out of proportion. perfect-wrong Heathen distortion. i…
Och Stj%C3%A4rnans Namn var Mal%C3%B6rt immolate reliance: suffocate defiance. (ephemeral slimy flui…
Ooo Baby Baby [taken from the album: mats/morgan - trends and other diseas…
Sensorium Dei ...dibbacakkhu-pannacakkhu-samanta-cakkhu-buddhacakkhu-dhamm…
Sickness and Demoniacal Dreaming Demons begin their march. down. Down. Deeper down. Down th…
Skeletonization sweating. swirling on sheets of torture beach. malignant ca…
Solarization i've become the nuclear image of eternity i'm the original…
The Executive Furies of the Robot Lord of Death I'm seraph. I'm snake. Controlled. Pre-programmed entrapped…
The Sun Door They can't fool me. Wearing human faces. They're nothing b…
Through Fear We are Unconscious Avoiding reality. We dare not to face the truth. We all…
Transmigration of Souls Battle within begin. life after life. Death after death. …
UFOria I sing in colors. My mother is god. My father is…

Vitamin K Experience not lost. but gone before. deposited at the brink of time.…

The lyrics are frequently found in the comments by searching or by filtering for lyric videos

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Most interesting comments from YouTube:

@MikeWJones1497

6y↑345

00:00 "The Beginning of the End of Extraction (Evolutional Slow Down)"
01:36 "The Executive Furies of the Robot Lord of Death"
03:04 "Descent to the Netherworld"
03:33 "...Och Stjärnans Namn Var Malört"
05:27 "Dante's Wild Inferno"
06:26 "I, Galactus"
07:54 "Skeletonization"
08:08 "Sickness and Demoniacal Dreaming"
09:14 "UFOria"
09:51 "Z1- Reticuli"
12:44 "Transmigration of Souls"
14:12 "In Reality All Is Void"
14:41 "Krapp's Last Tape"
15:56 "Through Fear We Are Unconscious"
16:55 "Death at Both Ends"
17:54 "Bouncing in a Bottomless Pit"
19:07 "The Sun Door"
20:39 "Vitamin K Experience (A Homage to The Scientist/John Lilly)"
22:13 "Sensorium Dei"
25:41 "Z2- Reticuli"
28:37 "De Profundis"
29:06 "Existence Out of Joint"
30:19 "On a Crater's Verge"
31:33 "Solarization"
33:22 "The End of the Beginning of Contraction (Involutional Speed Up/Preparation for the Big Crunch)"
34:13 "Tathagata"
37:15 "Missing Time"
48:31 "Ooo Baby Baby"

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@Yggdra666

5y↑41

I love music to the point where I've always said that I do not have a favorite album. I listen to anything, from tibetan ceremonial music to noise, anything I can get my hands on.
But this.. this is something else.

I can listen to this album 3 times a day and not get bored of it. Since I have found this album about 5 months ago I have listened to this easily over 100 times and I still love it like the first time I've listened to it. I have never heard of a single piece of music that has been able to capture my attention for this long in such an intense manner even though I know of some strong contenders, this one takes the cake by a long shot.

Thank you Fredrik, thank you Morgan and thanks to everyone else involved in the production of this, in my eyes, absolutely flawless piece of Art.
I will carry this until the day I die.

@johannrajan6357

3y↑59

Guitar Solos
- 0:36 The Beginning of the End of Extraction(Evolutional Slow Down)
- 2:35 The Executive Furies of the Robot Lord of Death
- 5:28 Dante's Wild Inferno
- 6:57 I, Galactus
- 9:55 Z1- Reticuli
- 13:17 Transmigration of Souls
- 18:00 Bouncing in a Bottomless Pit
- 24:08 Sensorium Dei
- 30:28 On a Crater's Verge
- 38:57 Missing Time
- 49:35 Ooo Baby Baby
Saxophone Solo
- 25:53 Z2- Reticuli
Bass Solo
- 42:10 Missing Time
Synth Solos
- 43:05 Missing Time
- 45:30 Missing Time

All comments from YouTube:

@MikeWJones1497

6y↑345

@coloripple

5y↑12

I'm pretty sure "Skeletonization" is my favorite song of less than 15 seconds ever! xD

@burntcrispycorpse

5y↑7

Sounds like morbid angel guitar solos meshugah and a little taste of doom metal

@apartment213

5y↑6

can we have the featuring artists names aswell. and which band they are from.

@MRSludgedude

4y↑3

Well the music cool..vocals ehhj. Got to respect it that's all in can say. Not bad but nothing addictive.

@chrispouliot1599

4y↑1

made man
Morgan Ågren on drums
From his own fusion project to his own electro project, he did also guest drums for the las Devin Townsend album(along with Samus66 and Anup Sastry)
Just to name a few

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@pentexsucks43

15w↑27

This album has enough riffs for 10 metal bands entire careers. Best Jazz Metal album ever.

@XiyuYang

1y↑91

This album somehow sounds like it’s released in 2050.

@opendagates8642

1y↑3

Yes 💯 %

@aphexlane

3y↑238

I bought this at a Best Buy when i was like 14. I had no idea who he was or anything. I just thought the cover looked cool. I had no idea what i was in for..

@metadata5638

2y↑15

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Heliosphan33

2y↑48

Best random CD purchase ever

@deezpro4412

2y↑24

I got Destroy Erase Improve album from local record store for the same reason. First introduction to Meshuggah at 17. Favorite band ever since. 🤘🤘

@XxMETALJAREDxX

2y↑11

Dude… talk about a wild purchase. That’s an awesome story.

@YsAbTones

2y↑11

same story, same age for me, but with Divine wings of tragedy - Symphony X ;)

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@templeecho1206

3y↑337

This has what I call "The Aphex Twin Effect."

It's from the early 90's and yet still somehow sounds like it's from 2023

@pentexsucks43

3y↑28

"early 90's"

Description:
"Late 90's"

Hmmm

@deliriumcb5959

3y↑38

@@pentexsucks43 He definitely had this banging around inside his head for most of the early and mid 90's.

@SW3Raceman2890

3y↑15

this is timeless

@danielreyna7897

2y↑19

Is the selected ambient works 85-92 in metal

@user-wl6ew5eq1e

2y↑3

interesante

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@bornthebjorn1490

4y↑209

When one becomes too swedish to remain terrestrial

@sexhaver420

3y↑5

Real Annunaki hours

@matthewhiggins604

How true...

@samcarlen6097

3y↑3

@@sexhaver420 The Greys have entered the chat
Blue Avians have entered the chat

@jesusa_ikher

10w

i cannot stress enough how this comment made me spat water because of laughter

@OdinPerez

3y↑131

Thordendal really managed to evolve the Holdsworth sound into outer fucking space. One of the greatest musical intellects of our time.

@Noone-ew2wk

2y↑4

I wouldn't say thordendal evolved holdsworths sound, thordendal is good but was never on holdsworths level

@enijize1234

2y↑34

@@Noone-ew2wk He is. He may not have the harmonic library of Holdsworth but Holdsworth doesnt have the rhythmic library of Thordendahl. You can argue semantics, specifics and technicalities that say otherwise, but at the end of the day they are both true Super-Novas orbiting the same black hole.

@davidbond8139

2y↑4

@@enijize1234 love this description!

@arsonravengarcia8370

1y↑2

@@enijize1234 Jeez man you nailed it on that one..both are bat shit crazy on their own respective crafts.

@truslyd

I jock the fuck outta the galactus solo..the tone, the phrasing, it's just beautiful

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@Heliosphan33

29w↑27

Z2 Reticuli is like a jazz ensemble straight from inter-dimensional hell. Never heard anything like that, but that also goes for the entire record. I’m still absorbing this album and it’s been over 2 years since I’ve been listening to it.

@andrewbennett7610

22w↑1

Man, this has legit become one of my favourite albums ever, after also first hearing in about 2 years ago. I’m hooked and can’t stop listening to it lately and I don’t even know how to purchase/ access it other than YouTube (shrugs)

@timh4595

22w↑1

Yes never gets old. I picked this CD up back in 1999. Monumental milestone for the signature Meshuggah mathematical ingenuity in song structure and riff technique - after this was released they changed their approach to how they structure songs which you can hear on Chaosphere (1998) all the way until their latest - which in turn has had an incredible influence on 99% of metal you hear today. So in short, THANK YOU Frederik Thordendal, your musical contributions have a long lasting impact likely for many more years to come. As Devin Townsend says in his song Planet of the Apes "we all ripoff MESHUGGAH!". 🤘

@TurkeyGuy9790

6y↑163

I truly love the fact that almost every comment is people giving appreciation for this album. No elitists or assholes. Just pure love for this masterpiece! <3

@HINRG14

4y↑14

8/10, not enough Freebird

@rorybass7915

4y↑1

This record is fucking genius that’s why

@sexhaver420

4y↑15

I'm an elitist and an asshole.

@vonbraunprimarch

this record is shit, how about that huh

@7stringwings7

49w

It's one of the greatest open secrets in music. For us, by us type of community. I was introduced to this piece in 2006. Limewire was a huge factor in my discovery of some of the best shit ive ever heard. But back then i was like the only person who knew this existed and i showed it to EVERYONE. I was obsessed. Till this day I still have people thank me for showing them this, as they would have never discovered it otherwise. It's a rare and strange feeling. As is this masterpiece 🤘

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@michaeljohnston490

4y↑294

Just tripped on a borderline heroic dose of shrooms, and I can say with 100% certainty this is one of the greatest pieces of music ever made

@frankschrodinger1424

4y↑50

Brave of you to listen to this on shrooms...

@michaeljohnston490

4y↑31

Frank Schrodinger I would argue it’s the proper way to listen to this album. It has a story to tell you

@frankschrodinger1424

4y↑34

@@michaeljohnston490 Yeah and it's not a pleasant story - i'd end up throwing myself out the window

@jakeison2968

3y↑17

My brother showed me this album for the first time while we were tripping on acid, always loved meshuggah and had no fucking clue this existed! We were dying laughing at how insanely technical it is, reminds me of Blotted Science!

@dexterj5615

3y↑7

i would argue that every piece of music sounds this epic on shrooms. Just ask a grateful dead fan. To clarify, my stash is heady as fuck, I pick azurescens like they're chanterelles.

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@Petar_Nikolov

6y↑252

Playing of Morgan Agren in this album must be essential for EVERY drummer on this world!!!

@jackmakackov7077

5y↑24

Except no one else can pull this stuff off but him. Absolutely incredible

@michaeljohnston490

4y↑15

I feel like the drumming on this album has caused people to quit drumming

@Rxbandit421

3y↑6

Right! They did have him Fredrik and mattias ia eklundh on some Swedish tv channel sponsored by Vic Firth. Check it out if you haven’t seen it. It was just a medley of this album but still awesome even tho I don’t play drums haha.

@Rxbandit421

Not sure much info about the special they did but it’s on YouTube and it’s super sick from all parties.

@MilkoOfficialChannel

3y↑2

Ringo is essential, this is Doctor level.

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@t3hgir

9y↑373

Albums like this make me truly appreciate this era I'm living in.

@Yojimbo711

8y↑2

+t3hgir My feelings as well.

@unscathedpotato

8y↑4

Well said

@rikardschumacher178

5y↑13

What the 1990's?

@Henry

5y↑2

Admirable art does! in whatever medium

@seppesai

5y↑1

You are aware brother

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@69leipa

3y↑43

I need more unexpected saxophone solos in my life.

@7thparabola

2y↑2

I recommend Careless Whisper by GM

@kyleledermann2473

2y↑1

Nab that chap live 1991 - t square

@JayTyrus

Nik Turner of Hawkwind

@calebmalinowski7183

25w↑3

Where Owls Know My Name - Rivers of Nihil

@lsptnjpmc

1y↑18

I'll say it again... Fredrik has one of the coolest guitar styles even this early in his career.

@MeekDrill

17w↑5

This Is A Masterpiece

@luisbenjaminnunezquintana4221

16w

Missing time, awsome, what a travel through this album..20 years later, the best ever..like you say master piece

@Consural

10w↑2

This album never ages. This album will never age.

@Yggdra666

5y↑41

@yuricoutinho233

4y↑3

Man, I second you... It's been my favorite for ages and I kinda listen to it every week... should've gotten tired of it by now!

@krewm.2128

3y↑3

You know it’s a great album when you can listen to it multiple times a day and it doesn’t get boring.

@roybatty2268

2y↑2

Couldn't agree more. There are other albums I have listened to a lot, like Mark of the Mole from the Residents to the point I can hum that whole album from beginning to end, and that is a very strange album! But SNW is the one I never get tired of. Literally every day I get in my car I tap the opening bass rhythm on the steering wheel, like its a code or password to start the car properly. I feel like I know this album so intimately.

@johannrajan6357

3y↑59

@krewm.2128

3y↑6

Underrated comment 🙏

@SW3Raceman2890

3y↑2

my favorite guitar solo of all i've ever heard... and i have listened very very much different ones... – is from "I, galactus".
every single note and the way them played, the guitar tone, and of course, rhythmical decisions – are meaningful

@truslyd

1y↑1

I galactus solo has more feeling and is as jazzy as anything I've heard...miles Davis would dig this...

@dimitriospapapavlou9539

8y↑439

Damnit guys...this is the evolution of metal. I feel sorry for people who cannot aknowledge the passion and energy these dudes put into this. Friends would start laughing when i made them listen to this and they never got it. Especially in my country, Greece, people would be thinking monolithically in the sense that if you enjoy this kind of music you can only be a metalhead. But one can enjoy classical and pop music and still get goosebumps when listening to Meschuggah. So much emotion...

@PanasonicTooth

8y↑10

+Dimitrios Papapavlou Friends are dumb :)

@jenshalsberghe

8y↑34

+Dimitrios Papapavlou it's because people who never listen to the heavier stuff out there would find this crap. You cannot blame them though. I also grew slowly into metal and it's now my most preferred genre. But if you had me listen to this 10 years ago I only would have heard screaming and noise, no melody, nothing. Of course it's different for everyone but sometimes I instantly like a band I listen to and sometimes it takes a bit of time. It is true though that people start finding it weird that you can like other music besides metal and they get surprised lol. heck, I even like some justin bieber songs these days. overly commercial, underground. If I like it, I listen to it!

@martinkorn2668

+Jens Halsberghe yes a agree

@martinkorn2668

8y↑1

exeis dikio

@stayrosgre

8y↑4

Meshuggah is amazing. μην τους ακους :P

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@djentmaster33

6y↑111

I love how you can hear the guy gasping for air on the sax between rests on the 27:00 mark. So much emotion and brutality put into it.

@nihility00

4y↑13

I like it when he gasps at 38:39 when he has tissue and fluid samples taken.

@teepeeth

@@nihility00 Goddamn i laughed out loud ✌️

@harpernicholson1

33w↑2

i never noticed this before, it gives me even more goosebumps now

@djentmaster33

33w

@@harpernicholson1 more to add to the list of why this is a masterpiece.

@tedeisner822

8y↑185

It may sound odd, but this album has a powerful hypnotic effect that helps me sleep..especially when having too many thoughts to fall asleep when tired

@sooryapraveen1780

7y↑3

augustus rayne same here! It's perfectly normal.

@albinullanger7862

6y↑3

Me too. I wonder what Fredrik thinks about that?

@ELCAFELO

5y↑1

been there!

@garrettjohnsen

5y↑4

Yeah, this kind of music has always helped me sleep.

@george9822

4y↑13

Its the droning polyrhythms. Puts me to sleep like a metranome

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@cyclopsvideo1

9y↑222

Brilliant.This is where fredrik goes into outer space.

@Wormbung

7y↑3

Yikes! You think that's funny or somethin?

@mattharris9015

5y↑3

@@Wormbung ye

@Cestariarts

Speaking of outer space, Baby Yoda loves it https://youtu.be/jQjUIyDVaOQ

@pedromrls6

4y↑3

This would be some Lovecraft shit

@pyramidhead3109

@@Cestariarts gay

@carryingfire286

30w↑3

Ok class, today is the day! Everyone ready up your one song you wished to share with music class.

Me:

@Heliosphan33

26w↑2

I’m there

@Jukestar

31w↑5

The beginning is just the perfect way to describe to others how I felt at the worst of my mental health.

@Heliosphan33

28w↑1

Hope you’re feeling better

@Jukestar

28w↑3

@@Heliosphan33 Certainly better than that time. I am not perfect, but definitely better than I was in the past. Thank you for the good wishes. It's very kind.

@diegoarana5862

5y↑46

Thordendal is a genius. This is the most innovative thing in metal that ive ever heard and it's been like 20 since this was released.

@cthulpaspawn

4y↑13

Morgan Agren's drumming is INSANE in this album. Dude can make his drums sound like they're falling down a stairwell and then throw the meanest groove. Ugh.... I fuggin love this album

@Cestariarts

4y↑139

He was SO MUCH AHEAD of his time, this stuff is trending now. 20 years after its release. Do you have any idea what this means?

@xtoreighty5891

4y↑17

He's a visionary!

@cthulpaspawn

4y↑16

Straight up. I always mention when this was released, still blows my damn mind. I was a wee lad when this mastery was unveiled. Sorcerers, all. Pioneering af.

@Cestariarts

Guys, if you're into Star Wars, look at this https://youtu.be/jQjUIyDVaOQ

@8KILLSTEP

4y↑1

REAL recognizeReal

@michaeljohnston490

4y↑5

I’m gonna show this album to people when I’m 60 and ask them to guess its age. Crazy to think this came out a year before I was even born

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@02SplinterCell02

3y↑249

This and Catch 33 are objectively the greatest albums ever made

@arsonravengarcia8370

3y↑25

I cannot agree with you more..as a long time Meshuggah fan,this is just fuckin boinkers man.Beyond crazy.

@SW3Raceman2890

3y↑6

you forgot the third one: "the dark side of the moon"

@mattvdh

3y↑19

ok simmer down lol

@Noone-ew2wk

3y↑6

Check out rivers of nihil's "monarchy" not the same style but check it out you might like it, "suntold" is sick af, idk why I'm recommending it I just love meshuggah been listening to them for years and rarely find good metal since finding them

@gabberpiet6919

@@SW3Raceman2890 worst album ever

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@prince13896

7y↑165

Everyone I play this for sits silently, both mesmerised and horrified, until it's done. It's pretty much the scariest album of all time.

@colins7771

5y↑1

you should listen to any album by Child Abuse... that is scary

@IMHOLUKE

5y↑22

Its perfect because no metal album has succeeded in just being disturbing the way a horror movie or HP Lovecraft book is, despite the long association of metal with horror and other related imagery. Im always surprised that no other band or artist has tried to follow in the path of this sound

@nackskott12

5y↑18

Maybe I'm just jaded, but after hearing artists like Gnaw Their Tongues, Plebeian Grandstand and Axis of Perdition, can't say I find this album scary. It's trippy as fuck though. Very weird and eclectic, amazing stuff.

@tomdongerson1474

5y↑13

Scary? I think it’s beautiful.

@schpleeb

4y↑1

Try Scott Walker’s The Drift

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@miguelortegaparra2880

4y↑29

Back when I was in college (around 2003) I had this on CD and it got stuck in my cars CD player, best equipment malfunction ever, I got to listen this record daily for a long time !!

@positivebenzowithdrawal5578

5y↑151

I’m trying to get my metal head 16 year old drummer son to take a jazz intensive this summer. Gonna play him this album as a reminder (he’s heard it before) of WHY he needs to study some jazz.

@BJforthelife

5y↑58

Can I be your son too?

@cthulpaspawn

4y↑21

Damn good parenting.

@alistairdimmick2886

4y↑2

Did it work?

@eljapi9346

4y↑17

do not force him to play musci

@juangarcera2544

4y↑1

You do good. Jazz rues!

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@oRnch199

8y↑97

Honestly my favorite album of all time. I've shown it to friends, like most fans of the album have, it just takes time to sink in how genius and crazy this album really is.

@oRnch199

8y↑9

It really is actually brutally beautiful.

@Galactu5

8y↑12

Same here. My favorite of all time. It NEVER gets old. Listened to this album more than probably all other albums I've heard combined. Went about 5 years playing this on average every day. Just got caught listening again right now and can't stop, lol!

So true about it taking time to soak in, but once it does, it becomes a part of you. I really can't say the same about just about any other music I've heard in any genre. This is a masterpiece without any reservation. It is unlikely that Fredrik could surpass this which might explain the long delay for a part II.

@luciano9755

7y↑2

They don't understand, Ogre Dubs . They don't understand.

@justinm50

6y↑4

people also never seem to remark on the genius level of lyrical content in this masterpiece

@justinm50

6y↑1

http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/fredrikthordendalsspecialdefects/solnigerwithinversion333.html

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@ivyhallquist3159

28w↑2

Bouncing In A Bottomless Pit has such a STANKY riff.

@aramisvanaquin827

7y↑102

How the hell did the earth, let alone the Studio in which they were recording this Album, hold and not just break into pieces? I mean, judging by the result (this Album), the recording Process had to be something similar to the big bang. This Album definitely created it's own Universe.

@isaacw9357

6y↑8

The Sinister Haunted Moartea Of Melancholy Obviously was recorded in hell

@claytoncardoso9201

6y↑14

You are gay

@nejczupan

Its inspired by other other musicians .. they just happen to put this kind of music into metal and made their own thing that way :)

@cthulpaspawn

4y↑1

Fabric of reality: broken

@felinekaiju4517

4y↑7

it simultaneously both destroyed and reconstructed reality around them as they recorded it. Death and rebirth. ;)

@dronmusicsound

2y↑10

Best avant-garde metal album of all time! It’s like I’ve been looking for it all my life! Very beautiful guitar playing from Fredrik combining metal and jazz fusion!!!

@DIRTKNAPFX

1y↑10

I bought this CD at Music Express in Kalamazoo in 1998. I had been into Meshuggah for a few years by then so I figured, it was going to be quite similar. Boy, was I wrong. This album is an hour of atmosphere and texture, 25 years ahead of its time.

@colins7771

5y↑36

one of the greatest albums of all time.... its pretty cool that Fredrik has been working on a second one for a long time now!!!!! Canttttttttt wait to die and be reborn again when he releases number 2.

@stalker11421

4y↑7

is that information legit?

@MaXaNoMaLoUs

7y↑57

38:57 the Most Holdsworth homages I've ever heard! Please everyone listen, this is not from Sol Niger. Its a song called "Missing time" Fredrik did with Mats & Morgan, everyone also needs to realize this drummer played with Frank Zappa!

@Henry

6y↑2

Yes! Tone and composition very much so in several parts of the album

@U2SaxFan

5y↑3

Same goes for the song following that at 48:31, "Ohh Baby Baby." However, both tracks were included at the end of the 3.33 re-release version of Sol Niger Within as bonus tracks, which is why they're included here. It's also to note that Morgan Ågren is the drummer on Sol Niger Within, and Mats Öberg is featured on several tracks of the album.

@snuppssynthchannel

5y↑1

Never expected that, thorendal is a great player, Holdsworth is miles ahead though, that guy is unreal.

@DyLANoob

15w

The intro sounds like something out of Sand.

@MinnesotanMysticism

50w↑5

To those who don’t know; sol niger is the black sun is an archetype I think jungian in origin but not in symbology and mythology. There is a really interesing book called “black sun: the alchemy and art of darkness” it’s fascinating, changes my life. I’ve loved meshuggah a long time and just recently read that book and found this afterwards. Meshuggah and Fredrick are deeper artist than they even appear.

@luismg2130

9y↑39

Impeccable album, I never get tired of it.

@Galactu5

9y↑8

Absolutely true! I hum it every day at least and listen a couple times per week since 1999.

@polcio3559

5y↑22

Fredrik Thordendal's guide on how to disassociate on a long night drive ™️

@tomdongerson1474

5y↑1

Polcio yes

@jadedmastermind

5y↑18

I first heard this in 1999 and was completely blown away. It was like falling asleep in 1849, waking up 150 years later and being blown away by how revolutionary and advanced everything was compared to the world I’d known up to that point.

@gabegrohl9437

32w↑5

Morgan Agren's drumming in Sensorium Dei is phenomenal. HOW DO YOU STAY ON POINT THROUGHOUT ALL OF THAT RANDOMNESS. The extra high hats enhance the whole experience so much.

@unabashedindividualist6232

8y↑26

This was the most elusive/expensive album I've ever paid cash for.

@tomzen660

3y↑4

Largely it's the only album I have considered aqquiering. I mean: a vinyl collection got to begin somewhere, and with this work of art the standard would be set.

@SuperSonicSauce

3y↑49

Soul Nigga Within

@Ryo7_7

2y↑6

😂🤘🏾🔥🔥🔥

@sethhoffman8213

2y↑3

Fact

@phylazen5649

13w

two years two late

@redmondbarry449

12w

Or Sole Nigga Within, implying the definition of "being the only one"

@MusicAsMedicine88

8w↑1

Descent to the Netherworld... perfection. Those cymbals just wow.

@leventetakacs4638

1y↑4

I am stuck forever in 03.03.1997

@productive_citizen

8y↑41

This was released in 1997 and I can think of dozens of metalcore bands that would release something like this today. As always, Fredrik was/is way ahead of his time, yet undeniably timeless.

@lordofrephaim1824

8y↑10

+RespectfulDad Its great that, even though theres alot of metalcore/deathcore acts that use the 'djent' tone and play 8 string guitars, Fredriks playing is still unique, which is what makes Meshuggah such a great band.

@productive_citizen

+mike patton Faith No More sucked, Mike

@heppper

8y↑21

+RespectfulDad

doubt any metalcore band would ever release this perfect blend of complex metal chugg riffs with fusion drums and melodies/solos.

@productive_citizen

8y↑5

+heppper It was a comment on the style, not necessarily the technical aspects. I agree with you

@ashleyvillanueva6969

hey! Buddha, aren't you with Jesus in super best friends? yeah. he's looking for you, you'll be his next guest on his TV show. 😂

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@BlaacHollow

12w↑1

When the drum dopamine level blows my head off, you know this is a great masterpiece.

@gaborkrausz5402

2y↑5

33:37 When you finally arrive home after a long day of work

@miles41

true

@BrunoSampietro

8y↑32

I still think the first version, with the interlude from 20 to 30 mins has the best sound mix. Besides that, what a masterpiece, I am more of a jazz guy, but this is a trip to hell. When I first discovered it, I listened to it once or twice a day for 3 or 4 months, it was like I couldn't believe it, Fredrik really plays with your mind here, few artists can really say that. Brutal!!

@ozeri

7y↑50

this album, for me is the epitome (ahh love that word) of everything I look for in music. And without exaggeration, is the definition of my core self .
10 years have past since i discovered that album and on every scale : spiritualy, musicly, philosophicly, it is perfection in every aspect.
I would die with this album, and go to the next reality with it. whatever reality it will be ...
i almost shed tears in my eyes when i'm writing it down ..

@IMHOLUKE

5y↑2

Im 26 I first heard this album when I was 13 and it was all over for me. This is the best CD Ive heard

@ELMarz

5y↑1

I couldn't agree more with what you said. It's a god damn master piece. It transcends genre and even time.

@DevotionToChaos

@Matt G i enjoy you

@knockpotato

6y↑22

25:52

This sax solo gets me every time. Jonas Knutsson, you are truly a genius accompanied by geniuses.

@Facundoviscarra34

9y↑23

9:56 the best fucking guitar solo EVER

@MaXaNoMaLoUs

7y↑5

Facundo viscarra 18:00 - 19:14 one of my all time favorite solos and riffs from anyone. "Bouncing in a bottomless pit"

@BengB

6y↑2

Z1 is unparalelled imo

@israelcosta980

3y↑1

so lydian...

@Zaksporebrainiac

2y↑7

If Meshuggah used those jazzy haunting clean sections much more, I'd be a lot more into them now. They're just so good.

@jackbenson8228

2y↑3

dissolving abyssal emptiness overflowing out of and into itself

@JoyBard

26w↑2

When I first found this on Spotify I saw Fredrik Thordendal in the name and thought "Huh interesting, this must sound like Meshuggah then"... Boy was I wrong (and sorta right)

@officialrhythmicthoughts

2y↑6

14:46 SHEESH

@BigFloppa_TheNoble

2y↑3

Yoo I can't believe Drake just dropped this secret album after certified lover boy

@andrewbennett7610

2y↑5

"The executive furies of the robot lord of death" may be the best title for a heavy metal song in human history.

@rooxg

4y↑11

the beginning of missing time sounds soooo much like an early DOOM soundtrack ! what a wonderful album. I've been a meshug fan for more than 10 years but it took me starting to study jazz and lots of other shit to really grasp this album. Now that my ear is more developped i can really enjoy that incredible sound. To think these guys did this in 1997 is even more astonishing because they litterally were pioneering a sound that would only start getting popular 10/15 years later. Such amazing musicianship and such an underrated album !

@AidanMmusic96

3y↑2

Me too. Though ironically, I've just come out of the "schooled musician route", and it's taken this time away (and detaching my notation brain) to finally work out some of what's going on.

@rooxg

2y↑1

@@AidanMmusic96 yea i feel like this kind of music is between both worlds. I'm in no way theorically qualified enough to say with certainty whats going on here and there but being a metalhead first that got into jazz later i really understood how much jazz had influenced this music.

@DyLANoob

Listen to the album 'Wardenclyffe Tower' by Allan Holdsworth. It's very much inspired by that. Or any of Allan's late 80s to early 90s work.

@jonathandelucia8301

2y↑2

I can't believe I found this. I played this constantly back in the day... Couldn't find much online. I thought it was lost in history. Thanks for putting this up!

@diegoarana5862

4y↑3

i do not understand how i enjoy this. fredrik's riffing is too good.

@continuum288

6y↑6

By far in my experience and opinion the best and most entertaining album i have ever heard.. iv'e probably had over 50 versions of this album. I have a ton of downloaded and ripped versions. This one included. I also have 1 of the vinyls sold from Husaria Records and years ago bought the Sol Niger Within version from Morgan Agren himself.. . I'd most likely never play it(the vinyl)even if i had a record player. This album means a fucken lot to me!

@Bang

8y↑102

Thank you, Palm.

@skippityblippity8656

4y↑7

Bang
How does feel to be a worthless burden on society?

@bejited6932

3y↑2

@@skippityblippity8656 can i have some context im really interested

@progfox

@@skippityblippity8656 what

@meshuggahshit9634

@@skippityblippity8656 cause he plays fortnite.....really.

@bejited6932

3y↑1

@@skippityblippity8656 i guess not

@VenapGames

3y↑3

It's amazing that this Mr. has been making this music since the 90's. It seems done today. The fusion with jazz and the decomposition of the times is simply wonderful. Masterpiece.

@bobby666666

3y↑1

The first ep was earlier as it was released February 1989.

@h.p.dominocus

3y↑4

Hash Tag Missing time. Some of the best guitar playing I have ever heard in my life. So unique but also memorable much like alot of his other solos.

@metadata5638

Alan Holdsworth style of not much picking legato .

@sonicheadspace3710

3y↑4

Hauntingly mindblowing!!!

@color-head1696

3y↑6

👍🏻 Wow! Very inspiring stuff! (So far I didnt know that Gollum was a Swedish Djent-Singer before he started his movie carreer in New Sealand ...)

@conradtaylor9513

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@GojiraScorn

5y↑39

This album stands on its own today. It could be released ten years from now, and still be the most relevant album that metal has ever experienced. Existential angst and ecstacy in aural form.

@metalheadpolack

4y↑2

Thank you friend. Beautifully put. It’s like an inter dimensional being crossed over to this reality and made an album..

@user-ru1qk4qq1u

2y↑7

Pretty much the record every extreme prog/tech death metal act of the 90s aspired to make, until Fred came along and proved them hopelessly deluded. It hasn't been bettered since.

@Heliosphan33

2y↑1

I keep coming back to this record

@Dudeguyman131

9y↑11

Genius, and breath taking.

@rumblefishes

2y↑3

Honestly the best music I have ever heard. I wanna cry.

@starrrkkk

9y↑35

5:29 I think I listened to this about 100 times

@ofirtalmor

6y↑18

This is how it feels when you're in outer space, entering a space-time vortex, and suddenly all these old suppressed memories of that time when you've been abducted by aliens start to resurface....

@mikuspalmis

5y↑1

Lol

@demoncleaner80

3y↑5

Tathagata @34:13 is the outro from Sublevels on Destroy Erase Improve but just ... way more intense. Too cool.

@holygroove2

9y↑16

In music, it seems Freddie can do no wrong with me. I wish more people had the same rhythmic germs that he has. I swear I get goosebumps listening to this.

@Meshuggapeth

8y↑2

Rhythmic and melodic

@holygroove2

8y↑2

+Meshuggapeth well said, very true.

@Meshuggapeth

8y↑2

j3j33j333j j333j33j3j
Thanks, no homo, unless you're a female, then I love you too lol

@Wabungus2

4y↑16

Holy god damn FUCK this is the most incredible piece of music I have EVER heard

@igormendoncacanga2569

2y↑3

Solarization and the spoken word... what was Thordendal, this creative master doing? Practicing entheogenesis on an artistic level?! I'm left speechless. This is not music it's positively beyond that in my opinion Systematic Productions. I like your remasters. Thanks for the entertainment my friend!

@luciano9755

7y↑31

This is my bible.

@hugoflores8090

2y↑3

It's been a long while since I listened to something this good.

@nihilanth_mudrarakshas

4y↑73

This is to Meshuggah what Meshuggah is to normal Metal bands

@19RaxR91

3y↑3

It has been for the longest time.
Im listening to this album for the first time in its Entirety after quite some time, and it was definitely before I finally went through Destroy Erase Improve a couple of times, and if you listen to That album, I think its safe to say that Fredrik could Never really express himself to his fullest potential in Meshuggah after that ever again.
Dont get me wrong, because Certainly Fredrik has done a lot of great stuff in Meshuggah, right till his leaving, but listen to This, and the Meshuggah album that came after DEI, as well as after This album came out, which is Chaosphere, and its basically This, but without most of its psychedelic tendencies, and adventurous experimentation melody-wise.

I mean, when you compare the Sol Niger Within and Chaosphere, the latter might have become iconic more quickly, but the former was the Actual creative progression and elevation of ideas done in Destroy Erase Improve.
Once again, not that it diminishes my fondness of Chaosphere - not in the least, but I should say that Catch Thirtythree is my all time Favorite Meshuggah album, and it might be due to it adhering more to the formula of this record, in that both are concept albums, with CT sounding like a dystopian future when compared to the transcendental trip that is SNW.

@nihilanth_mudrarakshas

3y↑1

@@19RaxR91 DEI is growing on me slowly, and I absolutely love the mind bending melodies. None and DEI are so vastly underrated despite them having some of Meshuggah's best material. I mean I love the turn Meshuggah took after DEI as well, there is not a single song I don't like. But I miss the old Meshuggah as well. It would be amazing if they decide to revisit those days in their new album

@holygroove2

In the Meshuggah camp it's folks who cling to Catch 33, or folks who love Chaosphere. If you like utter brutality, funk, and hip hop, Chaosphere is for you. If you like odd sounds Catch 33 is for you. I'm in the Chaosphere camp with Catch 33 and "I" being my least fav albums. I do like the parts of Catch 33 that they play live, but Chaosphere, Nothing, DEI, Obzen, Violent Sleep. Those are all albums that I listen to regularly. I haven't heard that Frederick has left Meshuggah, but that he's taken a break to record his own stuff, and build his studio, which you can see if you follow his Insta. 🤘

@igormendoncacanga2569

2y↑2

13:10 - 13:16 - That's some vocality straight of something Mike Patton or Kyo would do I love it when Meshuggah members do this vocally it's so alien and insane ahahaha... Pitch Black contains similar vocals and the Exquisite Machinery Of Torture. This is soooo awesome oh thank you Mr. Thordendal!

@papayaldabaoth

6y↑6

didn't know about this record... 1997? it's anticipated so much music. incredible stuff.

@SilverSpoon_

8y↑17

We are of course fascinated by the essential unreality of the universe. What starts out as yearning soon becomes corrupted into a dialectic of distress, leaving only a sense of unreality and the possibility of a new understanding. The man alone facing to its own god-self, into the void of existence, where all and nothing is, for the being, of who think beyond "I think therefore I am" semiotics are mere, tetradimensional conceptions for the common mortals that should be deprecated.
As spatial forms become clarified through frantic and personal practice, the viewer is left with an insight into the darkness of our existence. The endless oscillation of the universe. What starts out
as vision soon becomes corroded into a cacophony of chaos, which generates the cosmos, at all scales of existence, a sense of failing and the inevitability of a new understanding. Temporal replicas become clarified through a clue to the inaccuracies of our future further to a more accurate representation of a more accurate representation of the god through the universe, and the being, defying the void.
Is life the only form of sentient existence since we only define it by being so or were we wrong all along is the question only Celestia could answer, as my brain melts into a thousands of high energy particles across the infinity of the cosmos. it's a bit like that.

@jadedjay7861

6y↑5

Yeah, well man that's just your opinion.

@red9317

5y↑4

same

@davidpadgett3108

5y↑1

lol sure

@Heliosphan33

24w

Did you come up with that? It’s amazing. Where can I read more like it?

@tigersinyourlungs

4y↑4

2020. My first listen to this album. Wow!!!

@scottgeorgeff2896

3y↑1

This is beautiful & frightening!!!
Haven't moved in 36 minutes....❤

@glebvic

1y↑3

A fusion masterpiece for the ages for sure. A logical next step for fusion from Miles Davis' "Aura" and Terje Rypdal's "Odyssey". A lot in common, as far as the ambient bits, rhythm, and harmonies go. Loved this album for many years.

@joshcobb5939

3y↑3

Just brilliant. Those sweds know how to do things right. Love you Fredrick

@momenta1279

5y↑4

1:57 There's so much tension building up here. Sounds so sick when it releases. This music is absolutely insane. Amazing.

@freestylerelaxmusicnichola7385

3y↑2

I just don't know what to say, Fredrik is really not a human! No one on this entire earth has done something like this, I feel blessed every single time I listen to this ablum, this is true nirvana!

@robertkelly3475

2y↑2

That is the craziest speck of dust I've ever seen move like that, God bless Fredrick

@psychrot

6y↑6

It took me this long to get here, I really feel like i was not a true metal fan until now.
This music is a rite of fucking passage. Holy shit. It's like a time machine, somehow takes me back to it's time of creation, even though back then and even now it sounds so foreign and futuristic.

@60hzmasterrace17

5y↑7

Love how he re-purposed the end of Sublevels

@WorkingTitleDG

It’s difficult not to get hyperbolic about this music - it’s that good. Fredrik hitting one chord eg 3:33 in «Och stjärnas namn..», palm muting it and then slowly opening up the chord has more power and depth to it than a lot of other music I’ve ever listened to. Majestic.

@Alix777.

9y↑3

Thank a lot for sharing your work and this insane album, this sounds better for sure !

@genexis6286

3y↑9

I own all the released versions of this except the Japanese release. Straight up the most psychedelic album ever made.

@siccbastard4580

3y↑3

I've never heard of a Japanese release of this album. Does it include anything different?

@mikaomalley5650

8y↑5

This piece of music stands out and always will. It's a effing monument. With supreme drumming by the way.

@josephbrenner2278

1y↑2

Sounds more like early 90s meshuggah mixed with strapping young lad with other psychedelic prog jazz elements in itself. And I love the Allen Holdsworth style guitar solos.