Contradictions Collapse

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Contradictions Collapse
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Studio album by
Meshuggah
Released1 May 1991
Recorded Umeå, Sweden
Genre
Length56:35
Label Nuclear Blast
Meshuggah chronology
Meshuggah
(1989)		Contradictions Collapse
(1991)		 None
(1994)

Contradictions Collapse is the debut studio album by Swedish extreme metal band Meshuggah. It was released on 1 May 1991 by Nuclear Blast. Contradictions Collapse was originally titled (All This Because of) Greed. The album leans more towards a thrash metal [1] sound than the band's later works, featuring heavy riffs and influences of industrial dance in the drum patterns. [2] It was re-released as a digipak with an incomplete version of Meshuggah's second EP, None , in 1998, [2] with no liner notes or lyrics included in the booklet. It is the only album to feature Jens Kidman on rhythm guitar, as well as Fredrik Thordendal on lead vocals in some tracks.

Contents

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 8/10 [3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]
Pitchfork 5.2/10 [5]

AllMusic critic Steve Huey wrote: "Although it's not quite as accomplished as their later work, it's certainly a worthwhile listen, especially for devoted fans." [2]

Track listing

No.TitleLyricsMusicLead vocalsLength
1."Paralyzing Ignorance"Jens KidmanKidman, Fredrik Thordendal Kidman4:28
2."Erroneous Manipulation"Kidman, ThordendalThordendal, Johan SjögrenThordendal6:21
3."Abnegating Cecity" Tomas Haake Kidman, Thordendal, HaakeThordendal6:31
4."Internal Evidence"KidmanKidman, ThordendalKidman7:27
5."Qualms of Reality"HaakeKidman, ThordendalThordendal7:07
6."We'll Never See the Day"KidmanKidman, Niklas LundgrenKidman6:03
7."Greed"Kidman, ThordendalKidman, ThordendalThordendal7:06
8."Choirs of Devastation"Haake, ThordendalHaake, ThordendalHaake4:00
9."Cadaverous Mastication"Kidman, ThordendalKidman, Thordendal, LundgrenKidman7:32
Total length:56:35

The first four tracks from the None EP were included as bonus tracks on the 1998 reissue.

Personnel

Meshuggah

References

  1. ↑ Cory, Ian (23 July 2015). "Twenty Against Ten (years later) – Meshuggah from Destroy Erase Improve to Catch Thirtythree". Invisible Oranges . Archived from the original on 29 March 2016. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 "Contradictions Collapse – Meshuggah – AllMusic". AllMusic . Retrieved 10 February 2023.
  3. ↑ Popoff, Martin (2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 274. ISBN   978-1-894959-62-9.
  4. ↑ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2006). "Meshuggah". Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 5 (4th ed.). MUZE. p.  722. ISBN   978-0-19-531373-4.
  5. ↑ Reyes-Kulkarni, Saby (1 August 2016). "Meshuggah – 25 Years of Musical Deviance". Pitchfork.com. Retrieved 1 August 2016.


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