Acrid Placidity

Infobox Song
Name = Acrid Placidity
Artist = Meshuggah
Album = Destroy Erase Improve
Released = 1995
track_no = 6
Genre = Post Thrash Metal
Length = 3.15
Writer =
Composer = Mårten Hagström
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prev = "Vanished"
prev_no = 5
next = "Inside What's Within Behind"
next_no = 7

"Acrid Placidity" is an instrumental by the heavy metal group Meshuggah from the 1995 album "Destroy Erase Improve". This instrumental showcases Meshuggah's jazz fusion influences. It was composed entirely by rhythm guitarist Mårten Hagström, and is peculiar in that it departs from the "Meshuggah-sound", and features no crushing riffs or heavy drumming, only soft near-acoustic instrumentation.

The piece is entirely in 5/4 time, and its rhythm largely comes from the guitars. Percussion is rarely used.