The Violent Sleep of Reason
by Meshuggah
For their eighth studio album, Meshuggah opted for a live-in-the-studio recording approach, capturing a more organic and raw energy. 'The Violent Sleep of Reason' is a dense and dizzyingly complex work, even by their standards, filled with dissonant textures and a barrage of aggressive, technical polyrhythms. The album's title, a reference to a Goya painting, reflects its lyrical themes of terrorism, religious extremism, and dogmatism.
Genres
- Djent
- Progressive Metal
Tracklist
- Clockworks
- Born in Dissonance
- Monstrocity
- By the Ton
- Violent Sleep of Reason
- Ivory Tower
- Stifled
- Nostrum
- Our Rage Won't Die
- Into Decay