Meshuggah

Meshuggah is simply the GOAT. I’ve been a fan since I first heard “Rational Gaze” in 2006 and realized I’d just heard something completely different, like “from another dimension” level different. I’ve been absolutely hooked since. I have probably listened to the album Catch-33 a thousand times. What’s crazy is that each new album just gets more ambitious and takes everything further beyond what should even be possible.

Tomas Haake is Meshuggah's drummer and primary lyricist. I have spent untold hours in this conjurer's conceptual universe.

When I first started playing with making style transfer videos, Meshuggah’s video for “New Millennium Cyanide Christ” was the first thing I thought of messing with, because I wanted to take something visually mundane and turn it into something as insane as the music.

Endlessly moving, the mercurial entities known only as "They"

A primordial realm with ancient structures unchanged by time