Meshuggah have released their first single and video, “The Abysmal Eye,” from their ninth studio album, Immutable, out April 1 via Atomic Fire Records. Immutable is the follow up to their Grammy nominated record, The Violent Sleep Of Reason. Guitarist Mårten Hagström states: “For us, it wasn’t all that clear that we were making a new album. We knew we could do it, but did we want to do it? We had to decide, ‘Are we doing this, or what else are we doing?’ After a long, long discussion, we agreed on certain things. We would make an album with as few restraints as possible. We would go in and try to make as cool an album as possible, have no anxiety about it, and see it as an opportunity. How do we make this a challenge that we feel like accepting and rising up to? Pretty quickly ...
