Over the years, Swedish tech-metal behemoths Meshuggah have constantly shifted the boundaries of an entire genre and inspired wave after wave of bands hoping to ape their sound. With each subsequent album, the Swedes have torn up their blueprint and had you re-evaluating everything you thought you knew about the band. With the release of their ninth studio recording, Immutable, they do this same very thing. Hailed by many as pioneers of heavy music, the fact that Meshuggah can keep reinventing themselves is quite breathtaking and, as a jarring, chugging riff slams Immutable into your face, this creative musical juggernaut clearly has no thoughts of slowing down. As the waves of grinding tech metal are filled out with an almost eerie vocal line, the hairs should already be standing up on th...
