Destroy Erase Improve

Destroy Erase Improve
Studio album by Meshuggah
Released	July 25, 1995
Recorded	Feb, 1995 Soundfront Studios, Uppsala, Sweden
Genre	Extreme metal, progressive metal, avant-garde metal
Length	46:31
Label	Nuclear Blast
Producer	Daniel Bergstrand Meshuggah
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Meshuggah chronology
Selfcaged (1995) Destroy Erase Improve (1995) The True Human Design (1997)

Destroy Erase Improve is the second full-length studio album by Swedish metal band, Meshuggah. It was released on July 25, 1995 by Nuclear Blast. There also is a European jewelcase version with its details unknown. There was also a promo version of the album in white cardboard casing, and the disc has a picture of a brain. It says; "promo 121", as well as the regular production number.

It is generally considered by fans and critics alike to be a significant creative achievement and is regarded as one of the most influential metal albums of the '90s.

Destroy Erase Improve was groundbreaking in its use of polyrhythm and off-time thrash beats, and established these elements as instantly recognizable trademarks of Meshuggah's music. Some jazz fusion elements are present in some songs such as "Future Breed Machine", "Acrid Placidity", "Vanished" and "Sublevels".

The track "Future Breed Machine" is often used as a closer to their live performances.

[edit] Track listing

All lyrics by Tomas Haake unless otherwise noted

1. "Future Breed Machine" (Fredrik Thordendal) – 5:48
2. "Beneath" (Thordendal) – 5:07
3. "Soul Burn" (Thordendal and Haake) – 5:17
4. "Transfixion" (Mårten Hagström and Thordendal) – 3:33
5. "Vanished" (Thordendal) – 5:04
6. "Acrid Placidity" (Hagström; no lyrics) – 3:15
7. "Inside What's Within Behind" (Thordendal and Jens Kidman) – 4:30
8. "Terminal Illusions" (Thordendal; lyrics by Kidman) – 3:47
9. "Suffer in Truth" (music and lyrics by Kidman) – 4:19
10. "Sublevels" (Thordendal) – 5:14
11. "Humiliative" (Japanese Bonus track)
12. "Ritual" (Japanese Bonus Track)
13. "Gods of Rapture" (live version from Selfcaged) (Japanese Bonus Track)

The bonus track lyrics are printed in Japanese.

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Band

• Tomas Haake - Drums, Voices
• Jens Kidman - Lead vocals
• Fredrik Thordendal - Lead guitar, Rhythm guitar, Synthesizers (Thordendal covered Bass guitar after Peter Nordin left the band.)
• Mårten Hagström - Rhythm guitar
• Peter Nordin - Bass (dropped out of the band during a tour, due to vertigo)

[edit] Other

• Recorded and mixed at Soundfront Studios, Uppsala, Sweden, February 1995
• Mixed by Danne Bergstrand and Fredrik Thordendal
• Engineered by Danne Bergstrand
• Produced by Meshuggah and Danne Bergstrand
• Mastered at Cutting Room, Stockholm by Peter In De Betou
• Cover design by Meshuggah
• Cover artwork by Stefan Gillbald