@BAND: MESHUGGAH @ALBUM: DESTROY ERASE IMPROVE Total playing time : 46:33 İ95 Nuclear Blast Produced by Meshuggah and Daniel Berstrand 1. FUTURE BREED MACHINE 5:48 2. BENEATH 5:08 (+30ı before the next track) 3. SOUL BURN 5:18 4. CATATONIC TRANSFIXION 3:34 5. VANISHED 5:05 6. ACRID PLACIDITY 3:16 7. INSIDE WHATıS WITHIN BEHIND 4:31 8. TERMINAL ILLUSIONS 3:47 9. SUFFER IN TRUTH 4:20 10. SUBLEVELS 5:14 Meshuggah is : Tomas Haake - Drums, Voice Jens Kidman - Lead vocals Fredrik Thordendal - Rhythm guitar, solo guitar & synthesizers Mċrten Hagström - Rhythm guitar Peter Nordin - Bass guitar Recorded and mixed at Soundfront Studios Uppsala, Sweden Feb-95. Mixed by Danne Bergstrand & Fredrik Thordendal Engineered by Danne Bergstrand Mastered at Cutting Room, Stockholm by Peter In De Betou All songs published by Regatta Cover deisgn by Meshuggah Cover art work by Stefan Gillblad For Meshuggah info send self adressed self stamped envelope to : Luger Productions, Fredriksgatan 35, 811 35 Sandviken, Sweden Fax : +46 26 250915 Sources of inspiration : Earth Wind And Fire, Steely Dan, Slayer (Reign in Blood), Chet Baker, Queensryche, Pink Floyd, Fläskkvartetten, Chick Corea El. Band, Cynic, Mike Oldfield, Björn J:Son Lindh and Staffan Scheja (Spirits of Europa), Rush, Sting, Allan Holdsworth, Björk, Vinnie Coulaiuta, Gary Husband, Jimmy Johnson, It Bites, Thin Lizzy, Edie Brickell, Tori Amos, Holy Moses (Finished ...), Nirvana, Primus, Alice In Chains, Corneliis Vreeswijk, In Slaughter Natives, Memorandum, Peace Love And Pittbulls, Marillion, Anthrax (Spreading..., Among...), Metallica (Ride..., Master...), Megadeth (Peace...), Metal Church (1:st), Death (Human), The Aliens Trilogy, Jacobsı Ladder, T2, Begotten, Legion, Bad Taste, Meet The Feebles, Braindead, Tetsuo (Iron Man), Flaus and Fritz, The Evil Dead Trilogy, The Starwars Trilogy, Naked Lunch (William S. Burroughs), Forrest Gump, Intruders, Steven Spielberg, Clive Barker, Graham Watkins, H.P. Lovecraft, Magnus Dahlström, American Psycho, GG. Allin, J.R.R. Tolkien, H.R. Giger, Robert Gustafsson, Peter Wahlbeck, Nasses Dieselknappar. Typin' job done by Pierre-Jean Fontaine. August 20 1995. I havenıt an Internet address, but you can write to me at : Pierre-Jean Fontaine Avenue Bel Horizon 48 B-1341 Ottignies Belgium @SONG: FUTURE BREED MACHINE (Music : Fredrik Thordendal / Lyrics : Tomas Haake) An even stobe a pulse of flashing Hatelights of synthetic souls massproduced Hammered to shaped a sign of times dreams Turn into systems a new way a new breed Implanted in our minds Here I am in the hand of a sterile hate the New control I can not wake Iım not a sleep New intelligence arise in emptied bodies Turgid flesh tested through eternal spastic Fits through not known codes mother Machine in genocide now scorn a dying race Evolution in reverse now itıs time for me Changing what am I to be contorted an Eternity defeated Programmed to appease you weıre symbols of Perfection humanoids runed by your laws : Destroy erase improve lesson first : Submission weıre docile servant dogs our Leashes are your limbs computed deep Within Remoted minds controlled our thoughts no More doubts the new way is here disgorged Another thousands fakes that obey to a Circuit skein to vacuum Mechanical thoughts I now concieve no Longer me always to see inanity millions To be units like me eternally human Patterns copied dissected distorted completed to fit the machine the nerve Fibres give in to cords to the unknown See me be me same contents same machine The currency of ours no more flesh and bone We are to unaware of what we have been Before Evolution in reverse now itıs time for me Changing what am I to be contorted an Eternity defeated by the new machine @SONG: BENEATH (Music : Fredrik Thordendal / Lyrics : Tomas Haake) Itıs time to go into the me below My morbid self beneath A peril trip the last way out I spin as I let go In spirals down the narrow lines Passing through my aura Spit me out into my mind A journey through disease Iım behind my cynic eyes That stare but can not see The sickness in me ... beneath ... I fall in untruthful me the essence of My thoughts Swirling in a thousand vows endless Truthless What am I this me beneath A vain organic lie That rules me from inside Immobile now I bow before reality itself Itıs substance moving through my eyes My life is transferred once suffused upon My mind the view erases burns inside And then another fall I plunge into a well of lies a cold Perennial flow the vortex of my soul @SONG: SOUL BURN (Music : Fredrik Thordendal, Tomas Haake / Lyrics : Tomas Haake) Inner perception trapped in a soul cage Human wreckage I leave my liquid face Who am I sense blurred whoıs my mind In this life obscured Visual progressions leave me no peace Subliminal merger clutch the Fence of needs Whatıs there in desperation whatıs real Flawless confusion Void of emptyness reign my truth Before my eyes flashes of youth Memory-nuances pass whereıs my life Frayed pictures mass Insidious deception feelings fade Reenous mirrors I praise the Blackened day What am I to reality whatıs in line Subsequently Forever turning through a lifetime Endless burning of soul and mind Step by step Iım taken through the past To burn in fear of lies Iım lost mouldering Oblivions grasp makes my soul burn Burn This astray mind has sieged my soul Forever chained to this tearing cold Iıll never tell the truth from lies Disbelief covers my eyes Iım lost mouldering Perpetual pain in this soul burn Pieces to me strange wrapped up disguise Reflections of myself in another life I see it vague before my eyes Pictures drawn of naked bare lies It makes no sense to live this mess Constant until I find my rest Enemy within a soul in flames Gaining itıs pulse breeding inside Pressure increase drowns my belief As I unveil myself in me Burn @SONG: TRANSFIXION (Music : Mċrten Hagström, Fredrik Thordendal / Lyrics : Tomas Haake) Trapped in a gaze where time stand still Connected to a blur sensations deformed We are to drown just to become Another set of eyes among the millions Enchanted we fade selecting illusions Dwellers of the scene a new world obsessed Gods of displays divine screens Radiate us now your blessing Down kneel to shields of glass To the sovereign Bleed for the entity of wavelenghts Transfixed yet eyes glowing with delight Delusions of omniscience bred us my liars Mentally drained by the growing leech Fed on our manic desire Oceans of sewage continual Washing into our minds Drowning in wasted integrity With eyes too open to see vanity Engulfed in super fiction fields What are we when the false pictures Dissolve Caged within a twilight world Devoid of own self made thoughts Stare blind ... @SONG: VANISHED (Music : Fredrik Thodendal / Lyrics : Tomas Haake) Convalescent livid we succumb Stagnation now complete This is the new plague called Unconsciousness Weıre selfcaged in defeat Clotted minds coagulate we are trapped Inside the tears we obey resignate to our Self-inflected fears Voices calm will be never heard In this mode who will change Bantised in our minds so absurd Is this the world sublime Into pools of paranoia weıre fading with Reality drained by lies we are al inhuman Introspective vanishing Sterile thoughts now upraised in subhuman Majesty bodies numb still enchained Where am I in hell of our dreams Wrong wrong Iım in the now the vain reality So it seems weıre dying yet content Worship our chrysalis stage since when are Lies devine Since when This is now degrade indulge This is us servile obliging Swallowed by our hunger for mendacity As this dance whirls deeper into hate Weıre vanishing In down deep cold where am I caught cage Trapped not in dreams now time has killed Our eyes fall fade gone dead away @SONG: ACRIS PLACIDITY (Music : Mċrten Hangström) @SONG: INSIDE WHATıS WITHIN BEHIND (Music : Fredrik Thordendal, Jens Kidman / Lyrics : Tomas Haake) I canıt run away from the thing in me Iım weakening down another now developing Within I can feel it itıs inside my head Connected to my brain this other me is Slowly taking over deep beneath the Eye that All can see energetic visions of the one I know myself to be Look into my eyes donıt listen to their lies How can I stop this from being real No my life will be no longer what it always Used to be Life neglected infected by strain I fall into the smothering the even Flow of Ravaging pain this my temple of selfcaged Contempt a body slowly pierced by Inevitable me Do I differ from yourself am I like They say The truth eventually Iım the one you Wanna be Can you feel the same as I another inside Pushing to free itself from the chains Of the soul Turn your eyes toward the inside Dig deep within Iım sure youıll find A different self a different soul To put you in peace with mind @SONG: TERMINAL ILLUSIONS (Music : Fredrik Thordendal / Lyrics : Jens Kidman) I donıt need religion God bless no one Me and my own opinions Are written by me You surrender Under mass hypnosis Bound to illusions Produced by your god Who is humane Real alive no god I see your blindness Erase your identity Your mind is hollow Carved to inability I know to be Loyal to myself My integrity leaves myself Alone in peace with me God Thereıs no god Life is a trap Unlock your mind Trust in yourself Wake from the grip of the tongue Youıve been choked oppressed God owns god cheats god lies God hates god kills god slays The pressure on humanity Has risen beyond control We are leading evolution Into termination The sense of hate Inbreeding scars to innocence Genetic prejudice a Selfdestructive line in pain Why this reality Life poured into inanity @SONG: SUFFER IN TRUTH (Music : Jens Kidman / Lyrics : Jens Kidman) Tortured soul ripping skin into ashes Blind by pain deaf by lies Smell of freedom violently cuts Forgiveness Power to a being never dies Suffer in truthıs narrow passage saw Weak solutions stabbed to now know The smile of obliterations face Penetrating through the void of life A dance with the dead Buried in oblivion stolen from the mind Constant starving never fed Contamined life is fading Laughing in my face Suffer in deception Manipulated not to feel Slain beleifs abandoned dreams A life of misery Suffer in truth The wounds of a soul in pain A mirror of life Dreams all in vain Life will always be sealed I see ... unseen I feel ... unseen Suffer in truth @SONG: SUBLEVELS (Music : Fredrik Thordendal / Lyrics : Tomas Haake) Back again within myself Asleep but aware Iım lost again Every time I close my eyes I enter the dream to which Iım strained A sudden change into a state Where life is dust And everything flow Circling above swirling seas Of eyes upraised toward the unknown Vapour masques in the leaden air Unleashed by death in a grubby dawn Vacant faces reflecting sorrow Hidden inside senses disowned A maze of glass shattered by thoughts Of a faltered soul freed in bliss Clouds disperse revealing shades Tempting my soul I canıt resist A vision of morbidity Of ragged silent shadows Dressed in black disease Theyıre closing up on me Peering lifeless weary eyes They drag me down into Another world inside of me Paralyzed by the view Hypnotized let me wake Mesmerized by the flames as I return Into myself a slow conversion a silent Change I wake into the brightened day