Meshuggah Announce 25 Years of Musical Deviance Box Set
Time to start saving pennies in your piggy destroyer bank: the mighty Meshuggah — ahem, excuse me, MESHUGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!! — have announced that they’ll release a mega-super-duper-limited-deluxe-all-you-can-eat box set, 25 Years of Musical Deviance, on July 29 via Nuclear Blast.
Salivate over the box set’s contents:
- Outer case with 3D cover art
- Slipmat with exclusive design
- 100-page hardcover book with lyrics and previously unreleased photos
- Blu-ray with all music videos and previously unreleased studio footage
- (17) ultra clear, 180 gram 12-inch vinyl featuring brand new artwork
The seventeen vinyls are as follows:
- Meshuggah EP – single, 45rpm vinyl
- Contradictions Collapse – double, 33 1/3rpm vinyl
- None EP – single, 33 1/3rpm vinyl
- Destroy Erase Improve – double vinyl, 45rpm vinyl
- Chaosphere – double vinyl, 45rpm vinyl
- Nothing – double vinyl, 45rpm vinyl
- I EP – single vinyl, 33 1/3rpm vinyl
- Catch 33 – double vinyl, 33 1/3rpm vinyl
- Obzen – double vinyl, 45rpm vinyl
- Koloss – double vinyl, 45rpm vinyl
And here’s the Blu-ray track list:
Music Videos
- “Abnegating Cecity”
- “Terminal Illusions”
- “New Millennium Cyanide Christ”
- “Rational Gaze”
- “Shed”
- “Breaking Those Bones Who Sinews Gave It Motion”
- “Demiurge”
- “I Am Colossus”
Studio Videos
- Contradictions Collapse
- None
- Destroy Erase Improve
- Chaosphere
- I
Also here’s a picture of this beauty:
Also also here’s a trailer for this mammoth orgy of Meshuggawesomeness:
The box set will cost you a cool $250, but that’s actually pretty cheap when you consider everything you’re getting. You can pre-order ’em here — but don’t dawdle, ’cause they’re only making a thousand of ’em, and of that thousand, only 585 will be sold in the U.S.!