Mind's Mirrors / In Death - Is Life / In Death - Is Death

[@DC33879]

Fun fact: Wikipedia credits Marten Hagstrom with writing the guitar parts for this album. Dude is seriously underrated as a guitarist and songwriter!!

[@johannrajan6357]

In death-Is life sounds like something fredrik plays. Whereas In death-is death is completely Marten.

[@morganb900]

@@johannrajan6357 yeah two way different styles

[@carryingfire286]

Hes like Bill from Mastodon. Brent is a wild mad man that gets a lot of attention but Bill has always been the one laying down the ground work on the songs.

[@DC33879]

@@carryingfire286 Couldn’t have said it better myself as I’m a huge fan of Bill Kelliher as well.

[@DC33879]

@@johannrajan6357Especially that legendary groove that starts at 9:20. That’s got Märten’s style all over it!

[@CrossHunter1966]

Saw this live as an opener it just was so fucking insane. The lightwork aswell. 4 mins of buildup to end up completely destroying us beyond repair.

[@Medytacjusz]

Yeah but the transition between the 'in death is death' and the next track, 'shed' is also soo good... same between 'entrapment' and 'mind's mirrors'... but if you start adding tracks like that, based on how they transition, you end up with the whole album. Because the whole album is basically one great song.

[@crzxm]

Yes! So is I.

[@Shake69ification]

I first heard _Shed_ as a stand alone song, and it works that way, but it also goes well with the final 3 tracks.

[@bateriaeletronica]

Meshuggah should re-issue catch 33 with real drums played by haake

[@SockMalone]

@@bateriaeletronica agreed they should remaster all their early work!!!

[@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers]

Catch33 20th anniversary re-release and tour please!

[@ScalyMuzzle]

Catch 33, and particularly this very sequence, is one of the most astonishingly well written metal music of all time: fast sections, slow sections, complexity, lyrics, those obscure and strange vibes... a fucking masterpiece! Well, for my ears, at least.

[@clauslangenbroek9897]

Yes.

[@a_perfect_human_being]

9:23 is gorgeous. so much atmospheric, palpable density jammed into only 3 separate notes.

[@turdferguson974]

That transition is so fckn awesome dude, I can't get enough of it

[@Fleshaga]

Shockwave from the decepticons finally got his contract. The bass in this one blows speakers ... FUCK i love this part. Saw them live and they LITERALLY play perfectly studio versions of their recent work. It was in their home town ... after playing gigantic arenas all over the world, they still ended their tour in Umeå, Sweden with 300 ish people in the audience. My love for Meshuggah is too deep.

[@CpLKaNeZA]

Thanks for this golden nugget of wisdom; I'll keep track of their next touring schedule and make sure I find myself in Umeå close to the end 😂 that intimacy is something I could only dream about.

[@JonathanTaylorW]

these tracks are a masterpiece i reckon. i had a dream one night like 10 years ago that they played them in a gig and i was so happy about it, then a couple of years ago i saw it for real and i felt like wetting myself

[@Pancorania]

I just had a staring competition with this song, now I need to remember how to blink...

[@KatyGroves]

You're not the only one.

[@jaype331]

Me too

[@crzxm]

I think Mind's Mirrors is beautiful.

[@cerberus3504]

its give me goosebumps every time

Thank you so much for this! I wanted to hear these three together, no pauses. And I agree with you, one of the best compositions by colossal Meshuggah. Everything is here, they really nailed this one like no other. Cheers!

[@turdferguson974]

Saw them Dudes in March for the first time in Berlin, didnt expect them to play this . Might have been the best Metal Concert i've ever been to, but for sure the best sounding band live. From now on i'll try to catch every show thats "near" me.

[@jadedmastermind]

16:17 To me, this represents the knot in one's stomach when one realizes something is terribly, horribly wrong, and the dread of what is about to come next. It's like the day after 9/11 but before the anthrax mailings. Or perhaps better, before thermonuclear war.

[@maxyboy9648]

that section onward is haunting as f*ck, gives me chills every time

[@crzxm]

It sends my mind deep within itself.

[@eternalbot9837]

Interesting perspective

[@groovy_9633]

It's the feeling those got at the first nuclear test.

[@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers]

I used to listen to this in bed. I'd start to lose consciousness around this part, and sometimes even had lucid dreams before 'Shed' brutally slapped me awake.

[@miguel180195]

best musical group throughout whole human history. and catch thirty three is their best album.

[@markdisanzo3796]

Catch 33 is sooooo good.

[@therandomman6647]

Fun fact! The original recording didn't use real drums on the Catch Thirty Three album! But despite Hakke not playing during the recording (as far as I remember) he sill manages to nail it perfectly on live tours!

[@JeremyHale141]

@@therandomman6647 Wow.. he's one impressive drummer

[@philippmuller-litz7588]

so heavy, so paradoxical, so good!! 🤘

[@jamesadams542]

The god damned depth in the intro made reality stop for a slow moment.

[@KatyGroves]

Thank you for sharing these songs in one video. Together they make quite an Experience.

[@horseradish4046]

10:26 heaviest riff ever recorded, feels like someone is furiously tearing the fabric of reality with their bear hands

[@jaype331]

That part made me puke and black out.

[@julioeduardopatino7890]

A systemic 'symphonic' death-lasting poem from Meshuggah

[@TheGringuish12]

Nothing I've ever heard in my life has been both pleasant and uncanny/creepy as 14:52 .... this album fascinates me but its actually kinda scary, an incredible achievement for a music track to cause

[@mathprodigy]

Probably the best music i've ever heard. Covered the first half of this album in one sitting on my channel, oldie but goodie

[@Legta45]

I'm so glad I could finally see this live.

[@oscarh5439]

This whole fucking album is just one giant mega-song

[@rustyshackleford9452]

i- am I a joke to you

[@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers]

Catch33 20th anniversary re-release and tour please!

[@THESLOWDEATHHOOKS]

heavy

[@jowjjoeksidnwosjxnalwosmbl5476]

Well, that's true.

[@jaype331]

10:27 after the 50th time hearing that, just now truely appreciating how absolutely bonkers that part is

[@ZWTCHDCTR]

The feeding frenzy of my starving soul Gnawing voraciously at the bones The exo-skeletal patchwork Protecting my own reflection within The twin-and-same engaged In the mirrored act of chewing away At the shell of my attacking self The paradox unseen Treacherous this deceit To make no choice matter To have and yet lose yourself Until finally all reasons why are forgotten To live through ones own shadow Mute and blinded, is to really see Eclipse the golden mirror And the reflection is set free So imminently visible This cloaked innocent guilt Sentenced to a lifetime A second of structured chaos Trampled by the ferocious Raging crowds of solitude I'm the soil beneath me soaking up The sustenance of my own death Extradited to the gods of chance The deities of all things random Alive, multicolored Twitching in their dead monochrome world Iridescent to the searching eyes. I'm all things vivid in a world of grey So easily spotted, so easily claimed in this domain where all is prey My thoughts a radiant beacon to the omnidirectional hunter-god radar I'm a markerlight of flesh to these subconscious carnivores I am them, I am teeth, I'm their arousal at the kill Feasting on self. A schizoreality warp. The contradiction fulfilled Focus the only means to see my back to life's unending swirl A reversal of passing away, as the world of dead, as away is now my origin

[@lukehepburn3478]

Anyone else notice how the lil spoken word bit at the start of this song matches the outro of the album?

[@muffmuff3631]

yes catch 33 repeats itself in some parts

[@guitaristssuck8979]

Do you mean the notes of the vocoder with the Sum outro arpeggios?

[@DC33879]

Guitarists Suck Yes. That is what he is referring to, the clean notes after the chaos of “Sum” ends.

[@tmex9588]

Man I’ve heard this a million times and I just noticed that. Good ear 🤘🏼

[@MrRundas]

HOLY SHIT

[@quietus5138]

This really is the best

[@eljapi9346]

Insane

[@gondola3465]

so powerful

[@nigel7880]

The greatest battlefield charge song in the history of mankind!

[@QjoWilwolf]

The intro scares the shit out of me, no kidding

[@StromboliKicks]

Thank you for the included lyrics!

[@BObbert179]

Masterpiece

[@Kastigatr]

That time when meshuggah found a way to talk to cybertron

[@DougAlpha94]

Amazing songs!

[@unshackledmind7863]

Eclipse the golden mirror, and the reflection is set free

[@DirMrsHQoftheScreamingGhouls]

I've become a bit obsessed with this line and the lyrics in the song in general. Any ideas?

[@maxmordon7295]

@@DirMrsHQoftheScreamingGhouls "I once described the computer as a second self, a mirror of mind. Now the metaphor no longer goes far enough." (Sherry Turkle, Alone Together: Why We Expect More From Technology And Less From Each Other, page 16). Maybe 'Mind's Mirrors' doesn't have anything to do with computers or AI... or maybe the vocoder voice is a subtle indication on the contrary. 🤔

[@TriOdy]

@@maxmordon7295 I agree with the theme of the second self. It's about you, and then the second you, the thoughts within your own head. It's the paradox of your subconscious forged through an evolution as a survival advantage often so being the greatest deconstructor of one's own mental well-being. The self-doubt, self-worry, self-pity that is forged within your own mind. The reflection in the mind's mirrors--how you see yourself, and who you truly are. Those are the "twin and same". It is you sitting along with your ego, separate entities. Often the negative reflection you see of yourself is what binds and cripples your mental space. Choose not to see it or talk about it, mute and blinded, and then you truly start to see. Eclipse the golden mirror which you stare at and which holds your reflection, and your reflection is set free. I love this album so much due to their message. It's a story about killing and shedding your ego. In the death of your ego, there is life. There is a life to enjoy without self-doubt, self-worry, and self-pity. You are truly free to be yourself now, for who you are is all you need to be. There is no longer a reflection to stare at, for it has escaped the mind's mirror. All you have is yourself to be.

[@Abc-tx4zr]

Casn anyone else hear them yelling in the background?

[@A_New_Yorker_Lost_In_Florida]

to really understand this work.. one must be familiar with Lourie Anderson's work

[@HPalternetive]

6:01

[@pigeon41]

Two drops of liquid acid and a setting with this album and lights off 😣💙 Thank me later 👊

[@grifterofeas3]

Dude small gatherings/solo trips with meshuggah are phenomenal

[@Ring0--]

04:30 - is for all you Door Kickers out there.

[@PieroMinayaRojas]

The beginning sounds like a growl

[@Slayyyer84]

more views!!!

[@ziggydee1528]

Is that drop c that intro or something else all together? 😮🤔😋🤐????

[@buttsbutts7858]

8 string guitars, lowest string is tuned to F. Low-to-high the tuning is F Bb Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb

[@therandomman6647]

@@buttsbutts7858 sometime they use 9's but otherwise yeah

[@LuredDecoy]

The best . 9:14 just.... :DD

[@gwendeseminat8r]

Please do nice things to people all of you

[@EvoSvex]

9:15

[@ricardopinzon549]

Djent?

[@braders790boop]

I just want a version without the end bit?

[@ClickyMcbuttons]

We don't need that kind of negativity here.

[@birthdaydinosaur]

how about just stop the video when it gets to that point?

[@BlackSailPass_GuitarCovers]

The riff at 6:30 is disgusting.

[@toastandtea9250]

music that's been influenced by meshuggah might be termed "dub metal" rather than "djent".

[@joelwatts1413]

One mans garbage is another mans gold

[@dogbone3678]

What?

[@tudorardelean20]

The contradiction fulfilled

[@maxmordon7295]

You are gold for... whom? Anyone? Nah, it doesn't matter.