Music News - Meshuggah announce March 2017 Australia/NZ Tour
05 September 2016 - 0 Comments
The Swedish Metal
Juggernaut that is MESHUGGAH are today announcing that they are to grace
Australian and New Zealand's shores in 2017, on the back of their 8th studio
Album. The Violent Sleep of Reason will be released through Nuclear Blast
records and takes the band back to their heavy, technical roots. The March 2017
tour is being presented by MJR presents and goes on fan-presale tomorrow
Tuesday 6th September and on sale to general public this Thursday 8th
September.
In 2017, Swedish
progressive metal pioneers MESHUGGAH will be entering their 30th year of
existence, defying expectations on record as to the limitations of metal, and
then proving their virtuosic prowess by taking their cathedral-complex
compositions to stages all over the world – this leg of the tour being only
part of a lengthy world tour – for which they are well known.
It all began with
1991’s Contradictions Collapse, but the MESHUGGAH legend was established
through the likes of 1995’s groundbreaking Destroy Erase Improve and the band’s
third record, 1998’s Chaosphere. In 2002, MESHUGGAH issued 'Nothing', which
sold over 110,000 copies in the US and garnered the band an arena tour slot
with TOOL, high validation from the biggest and most discerning progressive
metal band on the planet at the turn of the decade. Catch Thirtythree,
obZen and 2012’s immense Koloss solidified the band’s reputation as creative
mavericks raising the reputation of what metal could be, resulting in status as
the creators and godfathers of an entire progressive music style known as djent
- even if the band has a somewhat ambivalent relationship with that tag or tags
of any sort.
The Violent Sleep of
Reason, the band’s eighth full-length studio album, finds MESHUGGAH building
upon their legacy for fearless metal sculpting within the context of extreme
metal, but also recapturing some of the magic and excitement specifically
within the aspect of performance, finding flow and groove that would be a
challenge for any lesser band to locate, given such technical geometric madness
at mischievous hand.
They are bringing
that legacy to Australia and New Zealand and visiting iconic venues such as The Powerstation in
Auckland, The Tivoliin Brisbane, The EnmoreTheatre in Sydney, 170
Russell in Melbourne and Metropolisin Fremantle.
Meshuggah's drummer
Tomas Haake says that they are keen to make sure that when they come down
under, their erudite and intelligent fan base “get something that they
don’t really hear in any other bands. On the first album you still hear a lot
of METALLICA and ANTHRAXand Bay Area kind of thrash metal influence. We
knew that we sounded a bit like that, but we were aiming for something we
hadn’t heard in any other band. And that’s still the main fuel. We’re not trying
to write your average metal song. We’re not trying to write catchy songs. We’re
not trying to write hit songs (laughs). We’re just trying to write something
that is cool, that we haven’t heard before, and hopefully our fans haven’t
heard before. And that gets harder and harder, because by now, there are so
many fucking awesome musicians and so much great music out there. But it would
seem like the followers that we do have, the people that have kept buying our
albums and stayed with us for a lot of years, are not typical metal fans. The
crowd we have is diverse. We have a lot of geeks and nerds and weirdos, and
they are beautiful ones, you know? We have a lot of people with talent, and a
lot of people that are interested in music as art, and not just an event.”
The MESHUGGAH –
AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND TOUR 2017 goes on pre-sale Tuesday 6th September at
mjrpresents.com and then on general sale Thursday 8th September.
AUSTRALIA/NZ TOUR - MARCH 2017
PRE-SALE – TUESDAY 6TH SEPTEMBER 2016
ON-SALE
– THURSDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER 2016
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THURSDAY 9TH MARCH - POWERSTATION, AUCKLAND NZ
(18+)
SATURDAY 11TH MARCH - TIVOLI, BRISBANE QLD (18+)
SUNDAY 12TH MARCH - ENMORE THEATRE, SYDNEY NSW (Lic AA)
WEDNESDAY 15TH MARCH - 170 RUSSELL, MELBOURNE VIC (18+)
FRIDAY 17TH MARCH - METROPOLIS FREMANTLE
WA (18+)
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