The Ophidian Trek

Formed in the college town of Umea in northern Sweden in 1987, MESHUGGAH have spent the last twenty seven years and cumulative fourteen releases developing, exploring, and redefining their complex, inimitable approach on the art of expressing the music they hear in their heads. A group that has not sounded like anyone else in over two decades, MESHUGGAH are one of the few purely and honestly lateral-thinking forces, genuinely dedicated to pushing the boundaries of extreme music, simply because doing so comes naturally to them.

Celebrating over a quarter of a century as one of the spearheads of their genre, MESHUGGAH are now treating their fans to the release of a new DVD entitled The Ophidian Trek. This audio-visual encounter contains a full MESHUGGAH live show, recorded on May 03, 2013 at their co-headline show alongside DEVIN TOWNSEND at Brixton Academy, London.

The thirteen tracks on The Ophidian Trek represent a great retrospective of MESHUGGAH's fulminant carrier.Kicking off the show with 'Swarm', just one of many from their most recent album Koloss (2012), going back to ObZen (2008) with songs like 'Lethargica' and 'Bleed' and all the way to the very early days of Chaosphere (1998) with the track 'New Millenium Cynadie Christ'.

2014 still sees MESHUGGAH at the top of their game that has been extended and re-named by a whole influx of of new bands such as Gojira, Periphery and Karnivool.They all try to reach out to the godfathers of math, jazz,djent or whatever-you-wanna-call-it metal. They might come close, but never will deliver as these Swedes do for more than 27 years now.