{"id":5502,"date":"2012-02-11T12:26:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T01:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/?p=5502"},"modified":"2012-02-11T12:30:39","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T01:30:39","slug":"marten-hagstrom-of-meshuggah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/2012\/02\/marten-hagstrom-of-meshuggah\/","title":{"rendered":"Marten Hagstrom of Meshuggah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/v_pp_meshuggah_001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5503\" title=\"v_pp_meshuggah_001\" src=\"http:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/v_pp_meshuggah_001-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/v_pp_meshuggah_001-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maytherockbewithyou.com\/mtrbwy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/v_pp_meshuggah_001.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u201cThis time we thought it would be cool to have the title represent the way we feel the album sounds like, it is a denser album, it&#8217;s a heavier album, it&#8217;s groovier and it&#8217;s like a &#8216;colossus&#8217;.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Whilst Soundwave Festival this year features a plethora of heaviness, as far as intense live performances go, few bands are likely to top Meshuggah who are no strangers to Soundwave having appeared in 2010.\u00a0 Following on from <em>ObZen, <\/em>their most commercially successful album in their 20 plus year history , Meshuggah are set to unleash new album <em>Koloss <\/em>upon the world on March 27<sup>th<\/sup>, which if you heed the warning via the bands official website it \u201cwill pulverize your being.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chatting to us from a bitterly cold Sweden, M\u00e5rten Hagstrom filled us in on the new album and expressed his excitement about hitting Soundwave Festival once again!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hey Marten, thanks for chatting today!\u00a0 So in a few weeks you will be hitting Australia for a return to Soundwave Festival, you guys must be looking forward to heading back downunder?<br \/>\n<\/strong>It&#8217;s going to be really nice, the last time we did Soundwave was awesome and we don&#8217;t see any reason why this won&#8217;t be either.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you find your Soundwave experience last time around?<br \/>\n<\/strong>For us it was the second time coming down to Australia and festivals are festivals, but a summer festival in Australia is pretty hot, especially for us Swedes!\u00a0 So we had to learn how to handle the heat, but apart from that it was a great experience.\u00a0 I think it was a good lineup then and I&#8217;m actually really looking forward to this one.\u00a0 The crowds in Australia have been really good to us do we&#8217;re stoked!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What of the Australian crowds and Meshuggah fans, how crazy are they compared to the rest of the world?<br \/>\n<\/strong>It&#8217;s always hard comparing crowds from country to country, but in the whole, in general, it&#8217;s been the USA and Canada that has kind of been our territory as far as crazy crowds go.\u00a0 But Australia is pretty much up there and they are the couple of territories where we feel we are getting a really energetic reaction from the crowds.\u00a0 We always think fondly of Australia if you put it like that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>As far as heavy and intense performances few bands will probably top it Meshuggah on the Soundwave lineup, but who are you looking forward to checking out?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Well most of the guys we already know.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll be looking forward to checking out Devin, Machine Head and Mastodon, they are like artists that we know from the past and have seen them a bunch of times live so it&#8217;s always good to check them out again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You are also getting to play some sideshows with Devin Townsend and Dredg, that will be great!<br \/>\n<\/strong>Yeah it&#8217;s going to be nice!\u00a0 We&#8217;ve known each other for a pretty long time, Strapping Young Lad opened up for us in 2005 so we&#8217;ve toured together before.\u00a0 He&#8217;s such a great guy and person, so it&#8217;s going to be cool!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Are we likely to hear any new songs from your upcoming album?<br \/>\n<\/strong>We don&#8217;t know!\u00a0 It&#8217;s been a few weeks since we finished off the masters and there&#8217;s been a lot of promotion since, planning tours and doing video shoots and stuff like that, so we&#8217;re going to start rehearsing next week.\u00a0 That means we haven&#8217;t yet made any decisions on the setlist just yet.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a 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week ahead of the rest of them, with my wife just to hang out.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to have a long time to get rid of my jet lag as well so I&#8217;m going to in great shape for the shows (laughs).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Your new album Koloss is coming out in late March, so what were you guys aiming for with this album in comparison to say your last?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Well it&#8217;s always hard to discuss it in those terms as we never really sit down and discuss &#8220;ok guys for this album we are going to do, this, this and this&#8221;.\u00a0 It&#8217;s more a process where whatever comes up first, the first parts and bits of a song that anybody writes that sparks the imagination of anyone, that sets the core of what the album will be.\u00a0 We never know that and we never try to master that or steer that in any direction.\u00a0 We just wait for something that feels good enough and fresh enough to roll with.\u00a0 We did the same thing this time, but having said that, this album we are really happy with how it came out for a lot if reasons.\u00a0 We think it&#8217;s got more of a band sound to it than we have had in a long while, it&#8217;s just got far more of a band sound.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a groovier album as well, but it&#8217;s more darker and sinister.\u00a0 Its a pretty messed up album, but it&#8217;s still Meshuggah, just more focussed and organic is the best way to put it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You mentioned \u2018more of a band sound\u2019, was that a result of the way you wrote or recorded the album?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Well a bit of both I think.\u00a0 Mostly it had a lot to do with how we wrote the album.\u00a0 We started writing over a year and a half ago, but we set out to finish off the album the way we normally do.\u00a0 Then some touring came in that we pretty much had to do and couldn&#8217;t refuse, so we had some time to let the ideas mature a bit.\u00a0 So it helped us understand more what we were doing with this album.\u00a0 Secondly we wrote it the way we normally do, but the arrangement of the songs, it was more of a collaborative effort arranging the songs.\u00a0 More input in some cases can often not be a better thing, but in this case it definitely was.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is this the album you&#8217;ve spent the longest finishing off?<br \/>\n<\/strong>No I think it&#8217;s the same as usual, I think it&#8217;s just that each album has taken a certain amount of time for different reasons.\u00a0 Some albums it&#8217;s the recording process which stumped us, or it&#8217;s been slow because we were touring in between and so forth.\u00a0 But with this new album, more guys in the band have been able to focus more on everyone\u2019s stuff than before.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the inspiration behind the album title \u2018Koloss\u2019, or is that something you want to retain some mystery around?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Well it&#8217;s pretty straightforward actually.\u00a0 <em>Koloss<\/em> is colossus in Swedish. \u00a0We were thinking of a bunch of different titles we were messing around with that had more to do with the lyrical content on the album, which is what we had done before.\u00a0 This time we thought it would be cool to have the title represent the way we feel the album sounds like, it is a denser album, it&#8217;s a heavier album, it&#8217;s groovier and it&#8217;s like a &#8216;colossus&#8217;.\u00a0 We kind of thought it funny too that the way we were referring to it, always when you make an album it&#8217;s a lot of hard work and mentally that title seemed appropriate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You recently had a listening party in the USA, were you personally there?\u00a0 How did it go?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Everybody was there except me as I had some commitments here that I couldn\u2019t avoid.\u00a0 I wanted to be there and obviously I&#8217;ve spoken to the guys about it as I knew it was going to be a massive thing.\u00a0 It was held in connection with the NAMM show.\u00a0 Apparently the reaction to the album was really, really good!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Before we finish up, out of interest, you guys have been around for over 20 years\u2026what status does the band have in your own home country, Sweden, are you as big in your home country as you are elsewhere in the world?<br \/>\n<\/strong>Oh we are bigger in other countries.\u00a0 Sweden is a small country and there&#8217;s a lot of music and a lot of musicians in a lot of different genres that come out of Sweden.\u00a0 As far as the general music scene, it&#8217;s very, very mainstream. \u00a0Even though there is a big metal scene here, whilst we are considered to be an influential band here and we are not super small we&#8217;re doing good here, but we are still on the extreme part of things, which is fine by us, that&#8217;s where we should be!<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Essential Information<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>From:<\/strong> Stockholm, Sweden<\/p>\n<p><strong>Band members:<\/strong> Vocals 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