If you live in the right kind of household, Meshuggah is as common a name as Barack Obama or Mr. Clean. They’ve been at it since 1989, and haven’t ceased melting faces and caving in chest cavities ...

Born in 1970 in Umeå Sweden, Fredrik Thordendal formed Metallien, the band that would become Meshuggah in 1985 ... derives from symmetrical diminished scales such as half-whole (1-2-b3-4-b5 ...