Editing Meshuggah (section)

=== ''Contradictions Collapse'', ''Destroy Erase Improve'' and ''Chaosphere'' ===
{{listen|filename=Meshuggah - Future Breed Machine (solo).ogg|title="Future Breed Machine" (1995)|description="Future Breed Machine" demonstrates the jazzlike soloing of Fredrik Thordendal. He also uses his "breath controller" device on this song.}}

The early work of Meshuggah, influenced mainly by [[Metallica]], is "simpler and more straightforward than their more recent material, but some of their more progressive elements are present in the form of time-changes and polyrhythmics, and Fredrik Thordendal's lead playing stands out".<ref name="Decibel story" /><ref name="Official bio" /> According to [[AllMusic]], their [[Contradictions Collapse|debut album]] is a relatively immature, but original, release.<ref name="AMG DEI" /> [[Bass drum#Double bass drum|Double bass drums]] and "angular" riffing also defined the early work of Meshuggah.<ref name="Blabbermouth.net - Meshuggah: Prague Concert Footage Available">{{cite news|url=http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=76586 |work=[[Blabbermouth.net]] |title=Meshuggah: Prague Concert Footage Available - July 11, 2007 |access-date=8 June 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081226000523/http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=76586 |archive-date=26 December 2008 }}</ref>

With the groundbreaking ''Destroy Erase Improve'', Meshuggah showed [[Fusion (music)|fusion]] of death metal, thrash metal, progressive metal.<ref name="Rockdetector Bio" /><ref name="AMG DEI" /><ref name="PopMatters Catch 33">{{cite magazine|url = http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/m/meshuggah-catch.shtml|magazine = [[PopMatters]]|title = Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree
|author = Adrien Begrand|access-date = 10 June 2008}}</ref> AllMusic describes the style as "weaving hardcore-style shouts amongst deceptively (and deviously) simple [[staccato]] guitar riffs and insanely precise drumming—often with all three components acting in different time signatures".<ref name="AMG DEI" /> Thordendal adds the melodic element with his typical lead guitar<ref name="AMG DEI" /> and uses his "[[Vocoder#Vocoder applications|breath controller]]" device most famously on the opening track "Future Breed Machine".<ref name="PopMatters I" /><ref>{{cite magazine
| url = http://www.theskinny.co.uk/article/43732-meshuggah-the-garage-8-sep
| magazine = [[The Skinny (magazine)|The Skinny]]
| title = Meshuggah @ The Garage, 8 Sep (15 Sep 2008)
| author = Ryan Drever
| access-date = 30 January 2009
}}</ref>

''Chaosphere'' incorporates typically fast,<ref name="PopMatters I" /> still tempo changing death metal. AllMusic compares the genre also with [[grindcore]] fathers [[Napalm Death]].<ref name="AMG Chaosphere">{{cite web|url = {{AllMusic|class=album|id=r382654|pure_url=yes}}
|website = [[AllMusic]]|title = Chaosphere review|author = Mike DaRonco|access-date = 11 May 2008}}</ref><ref name="AMG Napalm Death">{{cite web|url = {{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p4990|pure_url=yes}}|website = [[AllMusic]]|title = Napalm Death Biography|author = Jason Ankeny|access-date = 11 May 2008}}</ref> Rockdetector states: "Whilst fans reveled in the maze like meanderings, critics struggled to dissect and analyze, hailing Haake's unconventional use of dual 4/4 and 23/16 rhythm, Kidman's mechanical staccato bark and Thordendal's liberal usage of avant-garde jazz".<ref name="Rockdetector Bio" />