Meshuggah - Making of Destroy Erase Improve | 1995 Studio Recording Footage

[@griiseknoen]

They broke the ice. They cleared the terrain. They created the path. 30 years later we are still walking in their footsteps.

[@billybobbob3003]

garbage band

[@NeesyPlaysGuitar]

cleared the terrain for what? They are forerunners of a sub genre of a sub genre, get over it lmfao

[@Tr0llmannen]

@@NeesyPlaysGuitar Yet, those interested in rhythmically complex music usually refer to Meshuggah as one of their main influences. That could be considered "walking in their footsteps", assuming "we" are part of those interested in rhythmically complex music. In that sub genre of a sub genre, they indeed broke the ice etc. Credits to Meshuggah for that, and be it "just" for their mathematical way of songwriting and perfect instrumental execution.

[@Grasses0n]

@@NeesyPlaysGuitar wrong, considering they're the main influence of Periphery, arguably the biggest metal band today.

[@dilbophagginz]

pretentious comment is pretentious

[@karolpopiak2031]

I'm not sure if they knew what they did to music at the time. This album changed my life and many others for sure too.

[@psaikogroove]

mine too.along with Focus by Cynic.

[@reezlaw]

Mine for sure, I'd probably be a completely different person without it

[@agustinmacri8980]

Also mine 🙋‍♂

[@astralandreid]

@@psaikogroove Man, Focus is one of my favourite albums ever!!!! Is my favourite metal album. Destroy, Erase, Improve and Contradictions Collapse are among my favourite too. These guys were fucking insane

[@ollierips]

@@psaikogroove Yup! This and Focus are my favorite metal albums from the 90s and ever. Both were so one of a kind and influenced pretty much all prog metal at this point.

[@joeyjones9041]

Although I think Chaosphere is their Magnum Opus, this album will always hold a special place in my heart. My band covered Future Breed Machine back when I was 16 in 2000 and melted faces with it. We covered Humiliative and New Milenium Cyanide Christ as well. Our Drummer was a huge Meshuggah fan as were we all, but he was the biggest fan of us all. Sadly, he took his own life, so Meshuggah and this album will always be a part of my life and be looked fondly upon. I hope you're at peace brother, I miss you and our days of melting faces.

[@MasonMapes]

Namaste🙏

[@guilhermefioresi7538]

My condolences.

[@Thelavendel]

Destroy Erase Improve is their best I think. You love what you grew up with.

[@Thelavendel]

Destroy Erase Improve is their best one.

[@0SCUBS]

The magnum opus is Obzen but yeah.

[@AlexH8280]

You know an album slaps when a nearly 30 year old recording of the console room monitors sounds great.

[@Rocker72]

My God Tomas’ playing here is sublime. Who else would like to have the entire album with just drums and bass on it? I could listen to that shit all day.

[@hilaryrestom6934]

Right on my friend

[@JobForAMaxboy]

The original stems were released a few years ago for future breed machine

[@evensteven8129]

And this isn’t even their first album. Listen to ‘Contradictions Collapse’ which precedes this as their first and it’s quite groundbreaking.

[@dumbnessobtained4807]

​@@JobForAMaxboy where would you find these

[@aeniMatteo]

It's incredible that they were writing this crazy music back in 95! When most of the bands had more "regular" riffs. So ahead of their times.

[@juancontreras2711]

Yeah and drum patterns too, insane drumming

[@АртурОголенко-б7о]

A lot of inspiration from Cynic helped

[@grizzlywhisker]

19:04 SO GLAD I GOT TO SEE THAT BIT RECORDED! EPIC.

[@mdamiano61]

Yo same, I have always regarded Destroy Erase Improve group vocals as the pinnacle, and very cool to see them record 3 voices at once

[@oliverliden5461]

What song is that

[@joonasalmela5624]

@@oliverliden5461 Vanished from 4:17

[@oliverliden5461]

@@joonasalmela5624 thanks bro!

[@metaddict]

Once I hit my first depression, I found this album around the same time. I would listen to it every day for probably close to a year and it was the only thing that made me feel better for a while. Sometimes I would come home from school, put this on pretty loudly and it would still relax me to the point where I sometimes would fall asleep in the middle of it! Oddly enough this brutal album was the first time I listened to any kind of metal. It took me probably a year of listening to only this before I started enjoying any other kind of metal. Like a few before me wrote here, I think Destroy Erase Improve is the only album I can say literally changed my life. And here they still are, dropping some completely insane songs on a new album, not one ounce softer or affected by any kind of outside pressure. Just Meshuggah being Meshuggah.

[@jeffarab4947]

Oh yea I know they are just kicking ass lately love them

[@fedev80]

It also happened to me, battling with depression, the only thing that would give me a relief was listening to metal, Meshuggah and others too.

[@TCGCOLLECTOR689]

This is literally my exact same story but replace this with slipknots self titled album Edit: meshuggah was the 2nd heavy metal band I started listening to😀

[@magusking9215]

I was also in the same place basically, around 2008 - 2009 when a friend of mine introduced me to Meshuggah... and then Obzen came out. Between all their albums from Chaosphere to Obzen at the time, and then the Live DVDS, I was going to sleep to their music too. It totally lifted me up from a place of apathy and despair. I also give credit to their lyrics for being so potent at describing the world as I would see it then, while remaining rational ( no pun intended ) and not forgetting there's two sides to this coin.

[@parbostrom3269]

Word!!

[@SalemYbor]

And 2 years after that excellent recording, we have Sol Niger Within !

[@planetgame779]

yeah #BLM

[@msw0322]

I need a copy of that album!

[@xenophagia]

@@planetgame779 🤣🤣

[@cleanclouds]

Haake with no hair, Fredrik with no beard... this is indeed rare footage.

[@Pure_KodiakWILD_Power]

Suuuuper rare.

[@Pure_KodiakWILD_Power]

And Jens is still bald as hell 😂

[@joshabraham1240]

😂

[@muffmuff3631]

11:00 devastating bass tone

[@juicebox4345]

was looking for this comment.... that spector bass tho

[@fmbighair]

And an even better riff!

[@diegopelozo2679]

Jeff Dahmer Bass

[@Afurthyclays]

Soulburn! 🤘

[@Egoblivion]

It sounds like Godzilla glitching as it stomps on buildings.

[@debbyclowner]

The fact that this video starts off with the recording of THE most legendary sampled drum kit of all time is so flippin raw

[@crackerbarreIkid55]

Beneath is one of my top 5 Meshuggah songs and hearing the guitar and drum tracking here is amazing. Sounds so good.

[@metalftw9652]

Hugely underrated song imo

[@PaUles90]

These videos are truly priceless for fans of old Meshuggah. Thank you for your uploads kind sir! Cheers from Poland.

[@ELECTRICSCARS]

🙋🏼‍♂

[@ALaz502]

Polska!!!!!

[@matthias7534]

Greetings from Poland too! 🤘🏻

[@AmdusciasBaal]

One of the best albums in Music History. Period. Seeing this footage in 2022 is quite moving considering how... Traumatic the discovery of Destroy Erase Improve was in 1995. Those guys were ALIENS back then. It was like "How the Hell can you play like this ???? And it still is, after all these years. What an eternal masterpiece. What a fantastic band.

[@TheEnderBand]

Sublevels is like the sweetest song ever- the lead during the clean section, the fills at the end... just a complete masterwork. Goddamn these young dudes just casually changing the landscape of metal forever

[@rabbitz7740]

The guitar tones are super bonkers in this Era.

[@ztoxtube]

9:40 - a chord sequence so SICK that, at the end, he exclaims in Swedish "I just time-traveled and created not only the Black Death, but an entire Swedish movie about it called "The 7th Seal."

[@PowuhToSeven]

Lol introduced in the 7th month.

[@Mike_Fortin]

What song is that from?

[@charliebetperez]

@@Mike_Fortintransfixion

[@rustyshackleford9452]

@@Mike_Fortin It’s the intro to transfixion

[@Rocker72]

Beneath & Sublevels. Two of my favorite Meshuggah tracks EVER! 🤘😍🤘

[@blasteffect19]

I agree good sir, vanished is lit too

[@neonblack211]

theres some transfixion in here too

[@toxendon]

I was 2 when this was recorded and now I'm 29 and they're still going. Pretty insane to think about how long they've been going at it

[@PowuhToSeven]

They totally have a spot in the metal hall of Fame. Being the mathematics of metal and Thomas's drum technique being something that even Bill Burr had to see because his teacher and other great drummers wanted to see him live and be in awe. You gotta hear Bill's opinion when you get the chance.

[@smackythefirst]

Literally exactly same. I've been a huge fan since I was a teen, but I hadn't really realized just how early they really came into their sound and how they're still going strong. Absolutely insane. What legends

[@ayandey137]

I wasn't even born lol, now I exist for this stuff!

[@planetcaravan2925]

Well, rolling stones are still in the game, you know when they started?

[@dreckigerdan8244]

I wasn't even born back then and these guys already set the footsteps in their own Genre. True pioneers in metal and music in general 😄

[@suoreoni]

17:49 Thomas killing it on the drums 🔥🔥🔥

[@juancontreras2711]

bruh that is straight insanity

[@paulc2317]

A wtf moment

[@alexwhite7827]

I found a black, unmarked tape, in an 2nd hand music store in my town. it was just in a bin with a ton of other tapes...I had no idea what it was, but for some reason I put it in a listening station and heard Future Breed Machine for the first time. I didn't know who wrote the album, so I cherished it... ha! it was easily the most amazing album I'd ever heard. and so unique not knowing who the magicians were on the other end... love these dudes.

[@oopsydaizi3s824]

Hope you kept that tape!

[@konsens]

hehe great

[@GOutside]

the fact that the video is 20 minutes long and not less than 5 makes it so good

[@tobiasrottenboypersson]

This is fucking GOLD! Been wanting to see some proper footage from this recording for like forever! Tomas drumming on this album is still the best metal drumming I've ever heard! Still one of their best albums! The album that changed metal forever.

[@Avliv_Satan]

The fact that this album is from 1995 still blows my mind, I was only 3 at the time.

[@eugenetkachev]

this and Demanufacture.

[@Gabobow]

9:14 this album has the best guitar tone ever created

[@123612100]

Based pfp, watchtower rules.

[@Gabobow]

@@123612100 thanks man, They do rule!

[@greedo69]

@@Gabobow CONTROL AND RESISTANCE!!!!! CONTROL AND RESISTANCE!!!!!!!!!! CONTROL AND RE!!! SIST!!! ANCE!!!!!!

[@Gabobow]

@@greedo69 that title track is one of my absolute favorite prog metal tracks, what a fucking band

[@greedo69]

@@Gabobow frfr you know spiral architect? they got the same kinda vibe

[@jasoncrump1886]

Man these guys were way ahead of thier time .

[@christyler5409]

I always think of meshuggah as older people so it feels so surreal to see a bunch of kids making this album

[@moonboogien8908]

I imagine a can of snus and fanta sitting on top of a rectifier being part of every 90s Swedish recording studio.

[@djentlegiant739]

Playing a 7-string in '95? What a fucking king.

[@anon4ik-of9hd]

Nothing special. In 1993 came out Morbid Angel's "Covenant" and Trey used 7 string Ibanez Universal guitar as Fredrik on this footage. Next year came out Korn's self titled and they are used 7 string guitars to.

[@byronlaird5116]

I was 26 when this album came out. Was already well steeped in Heavy/Difficult music of all genres, but this.. What the ?!? Then I saw them when they came to USA @ the old, small 9:30 Club in D.C. 'Destroy, Erase, Improve' wasn't just an album title, but a mission statement.

[@allhopeislost5841]

The clean guitar at 14:13 is one of the best sounding parts ever.

[@Gabobow]

Sublevels is so fucking underrated

[@SalemYbor]

The beggining of Beneath is eargasmic !

[@Gabobow]

@@SalemYbor yes!!! That chord is eargasmic

[@woobi4739]

Agreed. The clean sections are some of my favorite parts of Meshuggah.

[@electricwhiterabbit]

He is using a Roland GR-1 guitar synth. Super cool old device. Robert Fripp uses one to this day I believe.

[@supermot34]

History being made

[@anhedonia7437]

Haake’s drumming on Beneath is mesmerizing… I could watch it all day

[@Egoblivion]

Old fan here and I can't believe I'm seeing this footage!!!

[@ciudadanovivanco1]

Still their best album and a keystone of metal

[@KingCrimson82]

it remains to be my favourite record, the "i go into my teenage room and listen to it" and then "go into my room as an old man listen to it" and i just realize time is an illusion, a painfull illusion, realization record. 3:38 that riff is so BRUTAL

[@bkebradley]

I don't know what it is, but as I get older, this is the only Meshuggah record I still come back to. There are a handful of songs from their later catalog I enjoy like Combustion from obZen, but this is the only record I still like to listen to all the way through.

[@matternicuss]

DEI is arguably still their most “complete” feeling album. They made plenty of great songs later, and Chaosphere especially took things up a notch, but for me DEI is still their undisputed masterpiece.

[@Tulkien]

and chaos to me. But yeah! Of their best album! Have you heared the newest? I stopped listening around 3 albums back. I heared the newest is good. Might have to try again.

[@bkebradley]

@@Tulkien I haven't listened to their new records since Koloss, which I actually thought that one was much better than what they had been doing for a while, so perhaps I shouldn't have stopped there

[@hazardeur]

the newer records just have a very different aestetic. if you look at it from that POV, it makes more sense. i love DEI but i just love Nothing and Catch 33 just as much. Also, stuff like Demiurge and some of the newer songs are just insanely good

[@dieheiligenhallen5184]

They simply evolved.....

[@andysalter7192]

I will NEVER Forget hearing this album for the first time, it was early 96 and i was at a Party in my hometown of Hobart Tasmania, there was at least 100 people at this party and music was cranking and i was in full conversation with some girl and suddenly my ears catch the music coming out of the Stereo and that girl suddenly didn't exist, i was lost it the sound of the first track of this album i had never heard, i excused myself from the Girl and ran over to find out what it was , luckily the guy who put it on was standing right next to the stereo and we spent the rest of the party discussing Metal, he told me like 10 times the name of the album " its Destroy Erase Improve" , and i thought yep , no worries i will be ordering that come Monday! Of course i woke up and couldn't remember the name of the album, so i went to the local Record store who imported any album you ordered, and asked for Meshuggah, he said " is it Contradictions Collapse?" and honestly i thought that was it ! So a month or so later i go to pick up my album all excited, i have told all my friends about this incredible band thst was doing Metal like no one else and ran home to put it on for everyone......of course i was disappointed to hear a modern Thrash album ( although i do love that album) and it sounded nothing like what i had heard at that party. Eventually after about 6 months of tracking it down i got my copy of DEI ( this was the 90s and i lived in Tasmania, things were hard to find). Still my favourite Meshuggah album, i wish they would go back to that sound, nothing has moved me like that album did.

[@aserabus]

Seriously, one of the best albums of all time!!!

[@brundlefly7686]

I Concur ❣️

[@jorgedeltiempo]

For my, the Best álbum of messhuggah..

[@jeffarab4947]

And chaosphere also obzen

[@eteline_music]

An intriguing mix of extreme musical and recording precision with a casual, lighthearted attitude is just so cool

[@The00air]

13:25 It still gets me that the pad sounds in 'Sublevels' were just Frederik feeding a guitar through a synth pad

[@CosmicMetallMusic9919]

I like that album so much, it's priceless to see how passionate and young guys made history recording of all time!

[@dougsteeleguitar]

I'm so glad I get to see footage of Beneath. That one needs to be played live. Hellacious groove in that tune, and that middle part is fuckin' ball kickin'.

[@fmbighair]

Unearthed gold we got here…so much tasty musical goodness. These guys are more than just odd time crazy stuff…they have a solid foundation in music in general and are able to play dynamicly.

[@bonniebarber6114]

Best album they ever did. That was all I listened to in the late 90s. This was great footage!

[@Derbixrace]

Always fun to see how history was made!

[@omnomaly7458]

2/2/1995 was my 5th birthday, fucking cool to know one of my favorite albums was being recorded at that time

[@lnxlyvato452]

same here, but it was my 4th

[@Pure_KodiakWILD_Power]

Love this album....can't believe I'm seeing this like 30 years later 🤯😂 Thanks for these uploads ( I also see there's footage for the making of_None_ ) Look at these young kids 😂

[@itikutok6568]

Still think it's their best album, the album to end all metal albums. It introduced me to Meshuggah and changed my perception of music forever. Thanks!

[@Grasses0n]

Crazy they had access to such a nice studio and equipment this early on. They're quite the seasoned veterans today.

[@everpolo29]

9:40 what is the name of that song? That sounds badass! Edit: So it's Transfixion, but this bit is just faded in the original cut smh. Anyways, look at Thomas playing War at 0:00 lmao.

[@_d_m]

This album absolutely blew my mind when it came out... this is their master of puppets. So cool to see this footage all these years later.

[@planetcaravan2925]

​@richardharrold9736its easy to say when they had more music to copy from in early 90s

[@planetcaravan2925]

@richardharrold9736 too long, didnt read

[@ewan_mclean]

@richardharrold9736I agree with what you’re saying but I’m pretty sure Meshuggah did literally start as a Metallica ripoff band 😂 please correct me if I’m wrong though

[@loganamaral]

19:04 frickkkkkkkk those vocals are so tight. I love the energy.

[@clinteverett4729]

1995 was a great year for music.. Morbid Angel released Domination, Slayer released Diabolus, NIN released Further Down The Spiral... Pantera had released Far Beyond Driven the previous year and I was only 10 years old, listening to My Name Is Mud by Primus and White Zombie's Thunderkiss.. then I obtained my own personal home computer and flat-bed scanned my Johnson

[@TemalCageman]

Fear Factory released Demanufacture.

[@geomusicmove]

Nailed the Holdsworth sound for those swelling chords and soloing at the end of the video!

[@FaquirHemofilico]

This is pure gold! History in the making!

[@jf9979]

Incredible album. Pioneers of their style and at the cutting edge of metal.

[@Timetofly8888]

The fact this album is only 16tracks yet sounds so huge just blows my mind all over again everytime I hear it..

[@r.c.kozletsky3313]

Thank you so much for uploading these!!

[@smokejc]

how can a band be so ahead of their time with each release

[@ObeseChess]

“If you want to know what metal is going to sound like in ten years, listen to whatever Meshuggah just did”

[@benoitguillou3146]

You just try new shit YOU find interesting , careless about what other might think about it ... Then eventually the morons catch on , usually a decade later .... that's how the "time" you speak of is created , just the army of morons without singular personnalities finally catching on ....

[@altrogeruvah]

Not gonna lie, I much prefer the earlier thrashier and faster Meshuggah than the band they've become now. Love these 2nd and 4th interval overdubs in the Transfixion intro, great video man, thank you.

[@SymbioticMonarch]

100%

[@user-mz9ig5id3o]

Fr.They seemed much more creative and dynamic back then , now their have technicality in excess

[@oopsydaizi3s824]

They’re getting older now , it would be unfair to expect them to keep playing their thrash stuff but i do love it a lot

[@Bhatt_Hole]

That part in 95, where they are playing that thing! That's the best part!

[@markspinozzi2882]

Great footage!! You really see the making of this album and what went into!! Meshuggah is so underrated!!

[@organiccaveman]

watching all the recording footage, thanks for sharing mannn...

[@antoniobravo952]

Beneath man!!!!!!! This is awesome!!!! Thank you for uploading this

[@kelleymcbride4633]

This was the album a friend gave me that exposed me to these guys. I knew immediately this was something new

[@martinsiepman]

Man this brings back memories watching them play in small clubs just 1/2 hour because they weren’t headliner back then. I love this album

[@alexwhite7827]

F&%#ing masterpiece. What a great old video... Thanks for dredging this up.

[@vishalsarabhai1383]

12:39 the chair is in sync with the track everytime the engineer moves or leans forward. I produce hitech psychedelic and it sounds exactly hitech element. I have major shuggah influence.

[@jordanmiles2195]

it's weird with these older bands I just assume they were always older. Bands like Meshuggah, Death, and Morbid Angel were just kids making incredible music.

[@karlkanner3467]

I always LOVED watching old studio footage from Dream Theater, and now I finally stumble across this...THANK YOU!

[@christophercarson7733]

1995 I was playing in a punk metal band call the dry heaves lol just to hear and see my idol Tomas is worth every minute of this video

[@djfglobal3377]

My friends had a band in high school called dry eve I was a freshman when this album was getting recorded

[@NeonblueIndustries]

Wow. How I've spent so many years visualizing them in the studio making this punch in the nose to the metal scene... THANK YOU, from the bottom of my heart for putting all this footage up. This band and these musicians made the most unbelievable mark in music history. I remember showing people (musicians) DEI and Chaoshpere, and it was just too much for their brains. Some drummers even got upset. But I couldn't get enough and started working out and practicing what the hell Tomas was doing, and with such smooth execution.

[@m.boroova]

So it's 2024, and still no one can beat that bass tone. No one. None.

[@m.boroova]

@@Haekki yeah, me too. I just heard, what I'm sure you have heard too, that the trick was to split the signal in two, and then low pass to the bass amp, and high pass to the guitar amp. Don't know about the guitar cabs, but... in my darkglass best cab sim, for my taste, is the one from guitar cabs colection. So... I'm gonna listen to that bass again!

[@tyson80]

I remember listening to this in high school 1997. Been a loyal fan ever since.

[@predathor696]

Thank you for this masterpiece 🤘🏾

[@jaimealvarezmd7245]

A work of art

[@MechaAkuma]

This came out of Sweden in 1995. America was still three years away from System of a Down's first album and Tool was still alt-rock at this time. WHAT ARE THEY FEEDING PEOPLE IN SWEDEN?

[@AUM_-po9sc]

>Tool Just 1 year away from "Ænima".

[@senseicorey9979]

And I saw these guys open for tool a long time ago

[@123612100]

Dude, cynic focus came out in 93 so we had some innovative shit coming out of America.

[@Samm0th]

Thank you so much for post this!! This is my favorite album from them, i knew that there's some studio footage out there, here we are.

[@theariesexperiment4642]

That old analog console sounds pretty damn good. The production on that album is ridiculous.

[@bumschkinn]

After review i redact that lol. Think was the vid before though. Awesome vids guys !!

[@cliffont]

Awesome footage and what a great Album

[@kurtleitch5240]

Thanks so much for this! DEI is a major album in my life.

[@BigMuff75]

Their old Spector bass tone was pretty dope. In particular for that time.

[@anthonykiza]

on that year their sounds already much2 heavier. and watch their playing was so tight, OMG i couldn't tell how much i'm impressed by this footage

[@thorinteague989]

When you 110% cold click on a video because of the title.

[@juliosapere8010]

Top 3 metal songs of allllllll time! In those days it was actually the most creative song made those guys were always ahead of there time the GENRE DJENT and exsists literally cause MESSHUGAH the polyrhythm masters! Isn’t it crazy it took almost 20 years for the world to catch up in the metal world to this style amazing I would say MESSHUGAH, PANTERA, and METALLICA are the top 3 bands that made us all amazing guitarists in bands these days I know I’m fully one of them thanks You shaped my future amazing

[@neo__tokyo03]

Big Respect from Japan!!! support!!!

[@yuggothproductions]

When this album dropped my world changed forever! ⚔️🖤⚔️

[@13crusiej]

There is something kind of surreal about seeing that mesa rectifier all the way back in 95. I know of lots of bands that still use that same head

[@BigislandEJ]

Their time signature changes mid riff are mind blowing

[@gSWG3R]

They aren't changing time signatures mid-riff... just using a lot of displacement and sometimes metric modulation... polyrhythms too.

[@a13Banger]

I love this so much. Many thanks. I am grateful it exists and shared :)

[@alexandertuma2133]

man i could listen to them play beneath in the studio 24/7 shit is so fucking brutal

[@Quentingnostic]

So cool being born (3/20/95) and seeing these guys record this and having such an impression on me years later

[@drphalanges1520]

They were so far ahead of their time that modern bands still haven't caught up to them. You could have told me this was recorded yesterday and it would be believable. I was 7 years old when they made this!

[@davidaames8280]

epic !! its like they came from the future

[@straywhale9215]

Just some young gods playing around... 🤘🤘🤘

[@bend2847]

Oh my. I obsessed over this album for years when it came out and hearing the studio sessions is fabulous. They got a great sound from a small studio and limited budget. And what playing. Wise not to keep that comedy drum intro for Soul Burn, though…

[@andrewalarcon818]

How do you know their budget ?