Chaosphere

Chaosphere
Studio album by Meshuggah
Released	November 10, 1998
Recorded	Dug-Out, Uppsala, Sweden
Genre	Extreme metal, progressive metal, avant-garde metal
Length	47:27
Label	Nuclear Blast
Producer	Daniel Bergstrand Fredrik Thordendal
Meshuggah chronology
The True Human Design (1997) Chaosphere (1998) Nothing (2002)

Chaosphere is the third album by Swedish metal band Meshuggah. It was released on November 10, 1998, by Nuclear Blast.

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Chaosphere's sound is largely a combination of the thrash style of the band's previous releases and the technicality that they would further explore on subsequent albums. A video was made for the second track, "New Millennium Cyanide Christ".

The Japanese version of the album contains a bonus song titled "Unanything" as track 9. This song was also included on the promotional cardsleeve CD as track 6.

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Concatenation"	Haake	Thordendal	4:17
2.	"New Millennium Cyanide Christ"	Haake	Thordendal, Hagström	5:36
3.	"Corridor of Chameleons"	Haake	Thordendal	5:02
4.	"Neurotica"	Hagström	Hagström	5:20
5.	"The Mouth Licking What You've Bled"	Haake	Thordendal	3:57
6.	"Sane"	Haake	Kidman, Hagström	3:49
7.	"The Exquisite Machinery of Torture"	Haake	Haake, Thordendal	3:56
8.	"Elastic"	Haake	Hagström	15:30
9.	"Unanything" (Japanese bonus track)	(Instrumental)		3:01

Re-release bonus tracks

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
9.	"Sane" (Demo Version)	Haake	Kidman, Hagström	4:07
10.	"Future Breed Machine" (Mayhem Version)	Haake	Meshuggah	8:11
11.	"Futile Bread Machine" (Campfire Version)	Haake	Meshuggah	3:29
12.	"Future Breed Machine" (Quant's Quantastical Quantasm)	Haake	Meshuggah	7:30
13.	"Future Breed Machine" (Remix)	Haake	Meshuggah	6:46

Personnel

Meshuggah

• Jens Kidman - lead vocals
• Gustaf Hielm - bass
• Tomas Haake - drums, vocals (on "The Exquisite Machinery of Torture")
• Mårten Hagström - rhythm guitar
• Fredrik Thordendal - rhythm guitar, lead guitar, synthesizers

Production

• All songs recorded and mixed at the Dug-Out, Uppsala, Sweden.
• Additional recording at Area 51 and Uae-Function studio, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Recording and mixdown by Daniel Bergstrand and Fredrik Thordendal.
• Artwork and design by Tomas Haake.
• Art direction by Meshuggah.
• Band photo by John Norhager.
• Mastered by Peter in de Betou at Cutting Room, Stockholm, Sweden.

References

1. ^ http://www.allmusic.com/album/r382654