MESHUGGAH - Do Not Look Down / The Ophidian Trek (OFFICIAL LIVE VIDEO)

I am 67 going on 68. I witnessed, first hand, the birth and development of "heavy" music. From 1965 on. I saw Cream in 1967, Yardbirds 1967, Vanilla Fudge 1967, The Who in 1967, Jeff Beck 1968, Zeppelin 4x in 1969, Hendrix 5 times, Spirit 2x 1969, Mountain in 1969 and 1970, was at Woodstock, saw Naplam Death, Extreme Noise Terror, Butthole Surfers, Magma. etc. etc. Take it from me, one of The Elders. Meshuggah is the Absolute Best Heavy Band of All Time. Peace.

It takes a while to understand the genius that is Meshuggah.

I love how the crowd are all headbanging to different shit

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The more I listen to Meshuggah the more I understand Fredrik's solos, at first I thought they made no sense but now that I bought a good pair of headphones and listened carefully to every note DUDE, it's beautiful!

Every metalhead should experience Meshuggah once in their lifetime. After that, there is no escape from their captivating musicianship. Also, in my opinion, they are the heaviest band that exist nowadays and have unique style that is a genre on its own. There aren’t bands that can exceed or even come close to what they are creating. I admire their talent and the ability to compose such unique sounds and arrangements.

This is some great smooth jazz

Holy hell when I saw meshuggah on their most recent tour I reverted to my most primal state once they dropped into this song. What a masterpiece. I feel that true metal should sound like it would be able to be played for cavemen thousands of years ago and for aliens thousands of years in the future and they should both appreciate it, Meshuggah is that band that both a Neanderthal and advance alien species would both enjoy.

Koloss wasn't quite as well recieved by all fans as their previous albums but it has really grown on me and I definitely think it is at least as good as Nothing and Obzen. I fucking love the more organic and melodic sound as this track is a great example of and the grooves on this album are some of the best they've ever done.

I remember when I saw them on this tour, I told my friends, "I'm not gonna mosh, I'm just going to watch Meshuggah and just appreciate their performance." Then, when they started this song, I remember my friend and I looked at each other, and our faces were both like, "NOPE" and we both bounced right into the fuckin pit

I’m surprised no one here is talking about how TOOL had Meshuggah open for them for 11 shows back in 2002 for the Lateralus tour. It was soo epic you have no idea, I drove 182miles out of the way to go see that, to witness Meshuggah Open with ELASTIC, last song off of chaosphere, only time I’ve ever seen that song live, I was a bit let down that Thordendal let his sound guy play the solo in SOULBURN, smh arghhh but then I got to see haake jam with Danny Carey on the last song of the night, the last track on Lateralus, reflection or something, I never cared for those three tracks that come after Lateralus, weird placement for songs on an epic album. Danny Carey Announced on a webcast (this is before podcasts lol) that he had been listening to an awesome band that he thought everyone should check out, I thought to myself, how rediculous would that be if he said Meshuggah, but there’s no way, mesh is way too heavy, i lost it when I heard him say Meshuggah. I was in the nose bleed section watching a bunch of jaded semi goth morons not give a shit about Meshuggah but it didn’t matter, I knew I was witnessing greatness in the presence of greatness. I still have the ticket stub, my most coveted ticket stub besides my stubs signed by Allan Holdsworth. A few years later, I saw Meshuggah at the smallest venue you can imagine for their Catch33 tour, the venue was called “(The Pound)SF” and i met them and talked to hagstrom for over an hour over endless bowls of chronic nugs and got to ask them about them opening for TOOL and I said “yea man, you guys opened with Elastic” and Hagstrom replies “what!? Why did we do that?” Lolol soo epic

@3:00 my favorite riff off 'koloss' ... you really can't help but head bang.

Mark my words - we are the most fortunate generation who got to live in the same era as Meshuggah. We might not see a better band for coming 100 years.

Damn Jens headbanging/dancing from 0:23 was some cinematic shit

Meshuggah is the best and successful without compromising integrity. That's unusual for any band.

"Do Not Look Down" Are they telling me not to headbang to this?!?

I am constantly amazed at how tight these guys are live. Each show is flawless.

I loved watching the crowd awkwardly headbang to the time signature hahah

I can’t help but notice everytime I see a live recording. The singer has such sad eyes. It makes me feel that his lyrics often come from a real place of strife and experience.

The mix is incredible, and it sounds exactly like the album. Seriously amazing performance