Meshuggah - Catch 33 CD (album) cover     Tech/Extreme Prog
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progressive rock music website  Prog Reviewer 2 stars Of the
three Meshuggah CDs I owned for a while (the others being
Destroy Erase Improve and I), I find this one the best and most
intelligent.  Meshuggah have long been known to write highly
complicated patterns of monotony, but thankfully that gets
thrown away somewhat for this release. The album plays like a
forty five minute song, if you will, but there really is not
very much in the way of continuity. For the most part, even
though all the vocal parts and plenty of the guitar lines sound
quite similar, there really isn't any continuity to the album as
a whole. Parts are played and discarded. I heard a rumor once
that there were lyrics, but you wouldn't know it by listening to
this--so I'm afraid I can't discuss those.  What we have here,
though, is a critically acclaimed progressive metal act finally
trying something progressive. So