Meshuggah’s Tomas Haake: “You think more about how the songs go together when you come older”

[@Radwalls]

an ICON. His whole look is amazing. And his skills are SUPER SAIYAN

[@Asyouwere]

Despite everything that is going on in the world, we are very fortunate to endure these interesting times and have another amazing album dropped by one of the best bands in the world. Hopefully there will be peace for everyone and we as a humanity can fully start to thrive.

[@dismalrealm]

We're all doomed

[@adamproductions4529]

One of the best albums I’ve ever heard

[@chriscatharsis5236]

one of the best interviews with tomas i've heard the past few weeks! well done!

[@Asyouwere]

Definitely! I love how Arto has a completely open and relaxed vibe and lets Tomas talk. He also asks great questions, I really enjoyed this interview!

[@robbyerics2792]

Gandalf is an excellent drummer, for sure

[@7AKV7]

I love Immutable Album. One of their best albums actually!

[@sleepless51]

That was really pleasant to listen. Hope top catch Meshuggah on this tour.

[@Micas099]

Getting old sucks.. but wishing Tomas and the guys in the band the best of luck on the new tour. I'm looking forward to seeing them. New album is great!

[@DenEz_TV]

Tomas Haake is such a cool guy! Always loved Meshuggah works, keep it up, brothers!

[@VinyLegends]

This was a fantastic interview.

[@mariopio4750]

Agree with all previous comments , but I want to focus on the superb Perepedil rug at the back of Thomas. One of my favourite rug ever. This tell a lot about his sensibility. Great

[@markoRE]

What a great interview. Thanks! 🤘

[@chaoszine]

Thanks for the good feedback. 🙏

[@HelpAlongYourWay]

Great work as always. Howdy 👋🤠🤘 from TX

[@JeffReams]

Awesome interview! Love the new album.

[@King-Gilamashur2758]

Tomas is a God that came down from Asgard to make music for mortals to experience a bit of divinity.

[@BillCoz]

Yep, decades ago he met the Thordendalian alien God Fredrik, and the God of Kidman, Jens... and they decided to start a band..

[@BillCoz]

Some of his leads in Immutable have that Thordendalian "alien communique" effect, where when you listen to it you get locked in, and he starts doing that legato tapping s*** that twists your brain, and then after you're done listening to it you know things you didn't know before..

[@rottenamiigo9443]

Tomas doesn’t play drums for a year. Still sounds like eight drummers at once

[@ds698]

Well that’s less then the 36 drummers he normally sounds like 😂 jkjk I’m glad he is doing ok! Dude is a drumming GOD! Love Meshuggah!

[@guyonthecouch136]

Great interview! Much love from Australia cheers

[@formindrums7129]

Great album!Thank you!!!

[@idanshahar]

Tomas! I have the same issues on my hands, try using Shea butter, it really helps the dryness and cracking of the skin. Hope this reaches you.

[@chaoszine]

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[@coloredCYANIDE]

I’m glad to see health is more and more a question asked to metal drummers in general but I was very curious for Tomas as his limb independence is just superb, but that can result in so many odd physical stresses. Sustaining this degree of athleticism night to night is tremendous work and the turnover rate is pretty high up for many bands. Inflammation on nerves can result in nervous autoimmune disorders and at that point you have to stop playing or slow down. Excellent interview!

[@emarsk77]

Great interview, and excellent choice of questions.

[@Volkmannx]

I love artists with integrity, him admitting actually not necessarily enjoying to play Bleed every single gig! Me on the other hand naturally would be dissapointed not to hear/see it live 😬

[@BillCoz]

Bleed is awesome but for me it's not even one of their songs I'd most want to hear them play live. My ideal 'shuggah set list would include mostly older songs like pre Obzen along with new songs from Immutable. I would love to see them play a live set of Catch 33 and I in their entirety.

[@JesusLordOfLords455]

@@BillCoz catch 33....yeaaaa

[@thronesdominions]

@@BillCoz yeah, like - watch them die on stage?

[@BillCoz]

@@thronesdominions well I mean there could be like intermissions

[@thronesdominions]

@@BillCoz thank god

[@jobulog4545]

Great chat!

[@MLTHLA]

Lisää Meshuggah! Aivan loistava haastis, kiitos Arto!

[@chaoszine]

Kiitos. 🙏

[@roquemusic]

Great interview!

[@Majima897]

Tomas sounds full blown American. Yet looks like a Norse God. Amazing!

[@agoogleuser3787]

He needs one of those tribal chieftan thrones from the longhouse, for his interviews or smething out of LOTR for sure!!

[@CliffConway]

Great interview.

[@chaoszine]

Thanks! 🤟

[@diegoezequielmendonca1382]

I hope they play Phantoms, my favorite song of the new album!

[@TylerHNothing]

same. my fav off the last one was MonstroCity and they didn't play it live :(

[@afroheadwes]

He said in another interview that they won’t :(

[@WeatherStationZ41]

@@afroheadwes Because that last riff is in a lower tuning right? Pretty sure the low note is E or Eflat

[@afroheadwes]

@@WeatherStationZ41 Most likely, however it sounded like Thomas was more concerned about the difficulty. I cannot say I blame him with the medical issues he had recently.

[@TunnelJumper]

@@TylerHNothing Hey, they have songs that they sit on for a while before bringing out live! I don't think they started doing Obzen live until 2013.

[@JimdowsXD]

Tomdalf the Grey 🧙‍♂️

[@leandrobego154]

Meshuggah needs to come to Brazil !!!

[@SamiK1989]

Tosi hyvä haastattelu! 🫵🏻🔥🤩

[@djciregethigher]

10:00 Wild opinion, but here me out: Messhugah’s legacy and impact on the industry is very similar to a vastly different artist from a different genre… Sade. Her music is cited by so many artists, and her output has slowed down over the years, but her songs have remained similar in style but always quality and sonically different in little ways. So Messhugah is similar… they’ve kept a similar groove throughout all the years, so much so that you can still recognize their music as Messhugah despite all the copycat bands we’ve seen wit djent. SO, the GOATs will take their time so that they can produce great music thay they can enjoy and which we will also enjoy. Patience is a virtue.

[@filipberntsson6634]

Just speculating here, and I have very little data to rest on. But to me this comparison highlights how a significant part of Meshuggah listeners seems to (speculation) listen to a wide range of music, and not just different flavours of metal (which of course is a MASSIVE genre in itself).

[@MattTheScholar]

Great interview! Immupöytä on erinomainen levy😎🤘

[@sadmemeboi]

the thumbnail looks like it has a dodgy smoothing filter on Tomas wtf lol

[@echoexpedition]

Gandalf the grey ✌️

[@RemorfChuket]

Metal Santa bringing us a sack of new nasty polyrhythms

[@t3hgir]

are Fredrik and Mårten the elves?

[@jcblebowski]

If the word “drum” had a face

[@imanolfehi7130]

Haake the white

[@optimisticallycynical.814]

Amazing how he didn't play for a year and he's gonna pick up blood again

[@simonwalker2073]

Sorry to hear he's has trouble with his hands..

[@GingerDrums]

I really wish they would sacrifice a little loudness for dynamics.

[@maidenless_tarnished]

I cannot want to see them live this year. It's been far too long!

[@Valogragu]

We can hear that they care about every track more now. Like sounds balanced... As they where known as an multidimensional straight locomotive 😅

[@PIVITDUB]

MESHUGGAH IS THE SKELETAL STRUCTURE OF WHAT METAL IS NOW. Respect the original gangsters, give them the right title which represents nothing more than just meshuggah

[@thronesdominions]

love it how the journalist is having a moment with one of the greatest minds of modern music and he manages to come up with questions about his E C Z E M A 💀💀💀

[@chaoszine]

All pretty much improvised as I had 1 question about the topic :D

[@thronesdominions]

@@chaoszine health first always

[@chaoszine]

@@thronesdominions for sure. 👌

[@cdrumz]

Am I the only one who thinks to himself “what’s his income when he’s not playing tours?”

[@bamatoolhead]

That was sort of a decent interview, especially the parts where Tomas sort of does a great job, sort of, articulating and sort of describing his sort of views about the new album….sort of. Lol🤣

[@maxmarzocchi3041]

i love the finnish people

[@maestrogamer3]

Way too many ads jeeeeez!

[@tommihalonen6471]

Imjyteibul :3

[@yeptoo1148]

The New album is perfect until after the instrumental "They move below" the last tracks are weaker in my opinion 😊. I miss more Thordendal solos and writing. 3,5 / 5. Respect from Denmark to the incredible musicians in Meshuggah 🇩🇰🥁🎸

[@liamblack8786]

Faultless slaps

[@mikemerc24]

@@liamblack8786 the faultless immediately followed by armies of the preposterous 🔥

[@t3hgir]

@@mikemerc24 I WILL NEVER ASSIMILATE YOUR POINT OF VIEW

[@pungentzeus]

damn Tomas has like absolutely no accent, surprising

[@adrianmurillo8778]

Haha “here we go” only the greatest drum performance ever..

[@mgray82]

Tomas showing his gray hair. Further evidence that he's actually a norse god.

[@thorgrimb5393]

Emu table

[@grizzlywhisker]

Tomas is a legendary musician that people will gladly pay money to see play with Meshuggah any day of the week. It's really sad how governments have manipulated society to make it extra difficult for guys like this to make a living. Having to worry about traveling and all the totally nonsensical and inconsistent rules/regulations of whatever random place you happen to be in at the time. That's got to be incredibly annoying to go on tour in this environment.

[@dimifisher]

Noooooo Master of puppets sucks ass, Ride the lightning is the best Metallica record

[@mrveritas700]

1 year off the kit explains the drumming on the new album. No offence, but, it was weak. I call it tour friendly for Tomas. Age might be a factor here? BTW....The new album is amazing!

[@BillCoz]

He meant it was 1 year since recording the record so he hadn't played since finishing drum tracks over a year ago and is now just past the point of struggling to learn the new songs and rehearse their live set, it wasn't that he hadn't played for a year and then he wrote/recorded the album, it was a year between finishing the album and starting rehearsals for the tour. Like when they finished the Obzen record Tomas couldn't even play Bleed live so he had to learn it before that tour. Age is not really even a factor in a studio aside from the knowledge that the songs will have to be played live eventually for the tours, there's a balance between making a record with a lot of crazy ass drumming and keeping the difficulty within his own skill level in a live setting. Meshuggah have programmed drums for songs and whole albums before(Catch33, War) to write the songs and make demos, on the album the drums do not have to be played all in one take. When the Nothing album came out some fans hated it, said the drumming on it was too laid back and plodding, no double kicks, no fast beats at all on that record... it is now considered one of the greatest drum albums ever..

[@Dyingsociety38]

The drumming was weak? What? In what sense? Id say age plays a certain part but i think its fresh to leave leave out double bass stuff. I like this slower approach and the drumming is sick.

[@BillCoz]

Yeah I wouldn't say that age was never a factor for Tomas when writing/recording the album, but I didn't think the drumming was as "laid back" as you make it sound. There are way more double kick and faster beats/parts on Immutable than the Nothing record, which had absolutely no double-time beats or fast double kick drum blasts, with every song being a slower tempo groove feel. I fucking love Nothing and Immutable, I wouldn't call the drums on either of those records "weak", but of course you are entitled to think so..

[@drumkidstu]

What the hell are you talking about. Weak drumming. Literally all of it slaps. Incredible playing.

[@illuddivinus3309]

BLEED!🩸 if you haven’t seen it live - you haven’t lived 🤘🏼

[@JuanPabloVasquez]

great interview!