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\nContinuing with the momentum of celebrating their 25-year anniversary, Sweden’s extreme metal deviants MESHUGGAH proudly announce the upcoming fall re-issue of 2004’s one song EP, I, via Nuclear Blast Records. Album artwork and concept are courtesy of Meshuggah drummer Tomas Haake, who comments on the EP’s mutant resurrection:<\/p>\n
“This 21 minute madness that is the song ‘I’ is something we’ve always been extremely proud of!! Originally recorded for Jason Popson’s Fractured Transmitter record label, this was a ‘one off’ that NB gave us the go ahead for – as we were under contract with them. Our plan was to just quickly write a little nugget of a song to help our friend Jason to kinda kickstart his label. It wasn’t quick, however. We ended up spending a couple months on this thing as it just kept evolving and kind of took on a life of its own.<\/p>\n
“This song is really different as it wasn’t ‘written’ in the normal sense, but recorded without anything more than very open guidelines\/ideas as to what kind of style we wanted each part to have. For example: The initial 1\u00bd minute drum fill is an excerpt of around a 15 minute recording of me just randomly going off on a kick\/tom fill. Once we had chosen which part of it to use, we had to chart out the hits on paper and guitarists Fredrik [Thordendal] and M\u00e5rten [H\u00e5gstr\u00f6m] then basically used sight-reading\/Avista to get the hits right while recording.<\/p>\n
“And this is how we continued through the whole song\/process.<\/p>\n
“We often get the question ‘When will you guys play ‘I’?’ – and though I’m sure it could be done with a lot of listening and hard work, it’s really too unstructured a track. It would take up too much time and effort to make sense.<\/p>\n
“We’re super stoked now to have this be re-released under the NB flag. Distribution and access to this little demon of a song was never quite what we had wished back when this was released, so we’re thrilled to see it be brought back to life!!<\/p>\n
“To further add value to this re-release, we added a couple live tracks and another weird little track ‘Pitch Black’ that some of our fans may have heard but probably not all, as it was only released in a limited number. Enjoy!”<\/p>\n
I’s 21-minute title track has been re-mastered and includes two live tracks recorded during the 2012 – 2013 Ophidian Trek World Tour, plus an extremely limited studio track recorded in July 2003 at Meshuggah’s own Fear & Loathing studio in Stockholm, Sweden that has never previously appeared on a studio album.<\/p>\n
The track listing for I is:<\/p>\n