Mesetiah were formed in 2008 in Kokkola, Finland, and this 2011 album was the follow-up to their debut ‘The Purpose of Existence’. This is brutal metal, which brings together elements of Crowbar, Pantera, Meshuggah and even Lamb of God in a way that may not be creating anything dramatically new in the scene but boy is it good. When I first started playing this I was instantly taken into their dark and hard world, one where light rarely makes an entrance, and was incredibly impressed with the tightness of the band as a whole. The guitars are bang on, often quite staccato in approach, and it is just the tightness of these that really lifts the band. Some people may ask what these guys are doing when music has moved on in so many ways, but if it ain’t broke why fix it? This is all about getting out there and creating a moshpit that has some groove and plenty of aggression.
Meshuggah fans in particular need to sit up and take notice of this, as although they haven’t taken the syncopation to the extreme it is definitely there and the result is something that contains a lightness and finesse that one rarely experiences with music that it is this heavy. The louder you play it, the better it gets, and yet again Inverse have uncovered a Finnish act that need to be heard outside of their own country. Superb.
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