MESHUGGAH will grace Australian and New Zealand’s shores in April 2017, on the back of their 8th studio Album, The Violent Sleep of Reason. The tour, presented by MJR Presents will see Australia’s extreme metal leaders, THY ART IS MURDER, join the tour for all dates except Perth. With only a handful of tickets left for the Wednesday 170 Russell show in Melbourne, the promoters have announced a second show on Tuesday 14th March, now on sale.
The Swedish Metal Juggernaut that is MESHUGGAH are today announcing that they are to grace Australian and New Zealand’s shores in 2017, on the back of their 8th studio Album. The Violent Sleep of Reason will be released through Nuclear Blast records and takes the band back to their heavy, technical roots.
In 2017, Swedish progressive metal pioneers MESHUGGAH will be entering their 30th year of existence, defying expectations on record as to the limitations of metal, and then proving their virtuosic prowess by taking their cathedral-complex compositions to stages all over the world – this leg of the tour being only part of a lengthy world tour – for which they are well known.
It all began with 1991’s Contradictions Collapse, but the MESHUGGAH legend was established through the likes of 1995’s groundbreaking Destroy Erase Improve and the band’s third record, 1998’s Chaosphere. In 2002, MESHUGGAH issued ‘Nothing’, which sold over 110,000 copies in the US and garnered the band an arena tour slot with TOOL, high validation from the biggest and most discerning progressive metal band on the planet at the turn of the decade. Catch Thirtythree, obZen and 2012’s immense Koloss solidified the band’s reputation as creative mavericks raising the reputation of what metal could be, resulting in status as the creators and godfathers of an entire progressive music style known as djent – even if the band has a somewhat ambivalent relationship with that tag or tags of any sort.
The Violent Sleep of Reason, the band’s eighth full-length studio album, finds MESHUGGAH building upon their legacy for fearless metal sculpting within the context of extreme metal, but also recapturing some of the magic and excitement specifically within the aspect of performance, finding flow and groove that would be a challenge for any lesser band to locate, given such technical geometric madness at mischievous hand.
They are bringing that legacy to Australia and New Zealand and visiting iconic venues such as The Powerstation in Auckland, The Tivoli in Brisbane, The Enmore Theatre in Sydney, 170 Russell in Melbourne and Metropolis in Fremantle.
THURSDAY 9TH MARCH – POWERSTATION, AUCKLAND NZ (18+)
SATURDAY 11TH MARCH – TIVOLI, BRISBANE QLD (18+)
SUNDAY 12TH MARCH – ENMORE THEATRE, SYDNEY NSW (Lic AA)
TUESDAY 14TH MARCH – 170 RUSSELL, MELBOURNE VIC (18+)
WEDNESDAY 15TH MARCH – 170 RUSSELL, MELBOURNE VIC (18+)
FRIDAY 17TH MARCH – METROPOLIS FREMANTLE WA (18+)