Meshuggah "Chaosphere"

Chaosphere is the third album by Swedish metal band Meshuggah. It was released on 9 November 1998 by Nuclear Blast, and is the only studio album to feature bassist Gustaf Hielm. Chaosphere's sound shows the band toning down some of the thrash style of their previous releases in favor of the technical, polyrhythmic, groove-oriented sound they would continue to explore on subsequent albums. A video was made for "New Millennium Cyanide Christ".

The Japanese version of the album contains a bonus song, titled "Unanything", as track 9. This song was also included on the promotional card-sleeve CD as track 6. On both this and the standard album release, after "Elastic" there is a period of silence then an unlisted and unindexed track where four of the album's songs are played at once, with volume changes making each song somewhat dominant and recognisable in the mix at different times.

The "Reloaded" re-release features four of the five tracks from The True Human Design EP.

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Tomas Haake, except "Neurotica" by Mårten Hagström.

1. "Concatenation" Thordendal 4:17
2. "New Millennium Cyanide Christ" Thordendal, Hagström 5:36
3. "Corridor of Chameleons" Thordendal 5:02
4. "Neurotica" Hagström 5:20
5. "The Mouth Licking What You've Bled" Thordendal 3:57
6. "Sane" Kidman, Hagström 3:49
7. "The Exquisite Machinery of Torture" Haake, Thordendal 3:56
8. "Elastic" Hagström 15:30

A video was made for "New Millennium Cyanide Christ".

The 9-track promotion card-sleeve CD of this album features a track that is not included on the regular album. It is called "Unanything" (3:00), listed as track # 6. This song is also found on the Japanese pressing as track # 9.

Art direction by Meshuggah.

Chaosphere is the only Meshuggah studio album to feature Gustaf Hielm on bass.

Recording information:

Recorded and mixed at the Dog-Out in Uppsala, Sweden.

Additional recording at Area 51 and Uae-Function Studio in Stockholm, Sweden.

Mastered at Cutting Room in Stockholm, Sweden.

Produced by Meshuggah.

Daniel Bergstrand – recording, mixdown

Fredrik Thordendal – recording, mixdown

Peter in de Betou – mastering (at Cutting Room, Stockholm, Sweden)

Tomas Haake – artwork, design

Meshuggah – art direction

John Norhager – band photo