Contradictions Collapse

Contradictions Collapse
Studio album by Meshuggah
Released	1991
Recorded	Umea, Sweden
Genre	Thrash metal, progressive metal
Length	56:38
Label	Nuclear Blast
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Meshuggah chronology
Meshuggah (EP - "Psykisk Testbild") (1989) Contradictions Collapse (1991) None (1994)

Contradictions Collapse is the first album by Swedish metal band, Meshuggah. The album was released in 1991 by Nuclear Blast. Contradictions Collapse was originally titled; All This Because of Greed. The album leans more towards a thrash metal sound than the band's later works though does have many of the band's characteristic elements such as the jazz fusion sounding guitar solos and complex precision. It was re-released as a digipak with an incomplete version of Meshuggah's second EP, None in 1998 and no liner notes or lyrics included in the booklet.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Paralyzing Ignorance" – 4:28
2. "Erroneous Manipulation" – 6:21
3. "Abnegating Cecity" – 6:31
4. "Internal Evidence" – 7:27
5. "Qualms of Reality" – 7:10
6. "We'll Never See the Day" – 6:03
7. "Greed" – 7:06
8. "Choirs of Devastation" – 4:00
9. "Cadaverous Mastication" (Bonus Track) – 7:32
10. "Sickening" (Japanese Bonus Track) − 5:47
11. "Gods of Rapture" (Japanese Bonus Track) − 5:11
12. "Aztec Two-Step" (Japanese Bonus Track) − 3:36

[edit] Personnel

• Fredrik Thordendal − guitar, backing vocals
• Jens Kidman − guitar, lead vocals
• Peter Nordin − bass
• Tomas Haake − drums