Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 68. Chapters: Opeth, Bathory, Tad Morose, Meshuggah, Therion, Europe, Soilwork, Blindside, Deathstars, Clawfinger, Cult of Luna, The Haunted, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Lake of Tears, Evergrey, Ground Mower, Crashdïet, Watain, Shotgun Messiah, Siebenbürgen, All Ends, Hellsongs, Tiamat, Vintersorg, Twelvestep, Drain STH, Crucified Barbara, Månegarm, Thyrfing, The Poodles, Overload, Regurgitate, Astral Doors, Selfmindead, Pain, Mindless Sinner, Bloodbound, Wolf, Raubtier, Freak Kitchen, Veni Domine, This Ending, Carbonized, Clockwise, Electric Boys, H.E.A.T, Meldrum, Grand Magus, Masquerade, Passenger, Axewitch, Sister Sin, Wolfbrigade, Despite, Death Breath, Mithotyn, Destiny, Time Requiem, Tristitia, Cemetary, Funeral Mist, Moonlight Agony, Moahni Moahna, Breach, Heavy Load, Otyg, Face Down, Headplate, Cronian, Hysterica, Bibleblack, Dial, The Great Deceiver, VII Gates, M.ill.ion, Kayser, Psycore, Pan.Thy.Monium, Abstrakt Algebra, Ghost, Beseech, Prime STH, Khoma, Devils Whorehouse, Dominion, Cranium, Black Ingvars. Excerpt: Meshuggah (pronounced ) is an experimental metal band formed in Umeå, Sweden in 1987. Meshuggah's line-up has primarily consisted of founding members vocalist Jens Kidman and lead guitarist Fredrik Thordendal, drummer Tomas Haake, who joined in 1990, and rhythm guitarist Mårten Hagström, who joined in 1993. The band has gone through a number of bassists, but the position has been held by Dick Lövgren since 2004. Meshuggah first attracted international attention with the 1995 release Destroy Erase Improve for its fusion of fast-tempo death metal, thrash metal and progressive metal with jazz fusion elements. Since its 2002 album Nothing, Meshuggah has used downtuned eight-string guitars. Meshuggah has become known for innovative musical style, complex, polymetered song structures and polyrhythms. They were labeled as one of the ten most important hard and heavy bands by Rolling Stone and as the most important band in metal by Alternative Press. Meshuggah has found little mainstream success as yet, but is a significant act in extreme underground music, and are said to have largely inspired the djent scene. Nothing and the albums that followed have all charted on the Billboard 200. In 2006 and 2009, the band was nominated for a Swedish Grammy Award. Meshuggah's most commercially successful album, 2008's obZen, peaked at No. 59 and sold 11,400 copies in the first week and 50,000 copies six months after its release in the United States. Since its formation, Meshuggah has released six studio albums, five EPs and eight music videos. The band has performed in various international festivals, including Ozzfest and Download, and embarked on the obZen world tour from 2008 to 2010. Frontman Jens Kidman in 2007In 1985, guitarist Fredrik Thordendal formed a band in Umeå, a college town in northern Sweden with a population of 105,000. The band, originally named Metallien, recorded a number of demo tapes, after which it disbanded. Thordendal, however, continued playing under a diffe