Alive (Meshuggah video)

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Alive
Meshuggah Alive.jpg
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Released5 February 2010 (2010-02-05)
Recorded2008–2009 on the obZen Tour
Genre Djent, progressive metal, extreme metal
Label Nuclear Blast
Director Ian McFarland
Producer Ian McFarland
Meshuggah chronology
Alive
(2010)
The Ophidian Trek
(2014)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Exclaim! favorable [2]
PopMatters 8/10 [3]

Alive is a concert film by Swedish extreme metal band Meshuggah. The film was released as a double album (DVD with CD in digipak) through Nuclear Blast on 5 February 2010 in Europe and 9 February 2010 in North America. [4]

Contents

Half of the film consists of the band performing songs on their obZen Tour during 2008–2009. This is intertwined with documentary-style clips of the members talking about their experiences in the band. Also on the DVD is "The Making of Bleed", a documentary on how the music video for "Bleed" was shot, along with the music video itself; and a "Drum Tour" and "Guitar Tour".

The cover is made to imitate the film poster for Alien . [5]

Track listing

DVD

  1. "Begin"
  2. "Perpetual Black Second"
  3. "Twenty Two Hours"
  4. "Pravus"
  5. "Dissemination"
  6. "Bleed"
  7. "Ritual"
  8. "New Millennium Cyanide Christ"
  9. "Cleanse"
  10. "Stengah"
  11. "The Mouth Licking What You've Bled"
  12. "Machine"
  13. "Electric Red"
  14. "Solidarius"
  15. "Rational Gaze"
  16. "Moment"
  17. "Lethargica"
  18. "Communicate"
  19. "Combustion"
  20. "Humiliative"
  21. "Infinitum"
  22. "Straws Pulled at Random"
  23. "End"

Bonus material

  1. "'Bleed' music video"
  2. "The Making of 'Bleed'"
  3. "Micha Guitar Tour"
  4. "Tomas Drum Tour"

Live audio CD

No.TitleCityLength
1."Perpetual Black Second" Tokyo 4:32
2."Electric Red"Tokyo6:02
3."Rational Gaze"Tokyo5:35
4."Pravus"Tokyo5:21
5."Lethargica" Toronto 5:52
6."Combustion"Toronto4:16
7."Straws Pulled at Random"Toronto5:05
8."New Millennium Cyanide Christ" Montreal 4:57
9."Stengah"Montreal5:56
10."The Mouth Licking What You've Bled"Montreal3:25
11."Humiliative"Montreal5:21
12."Bleed"Montreal7:55

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