Rare Trax

Rare Trax
Compilation album by
Meshuggah
Released21 August 2001 (2001-08-21)
Recorded1989–2001
Genre
Length54:44
LabelNuclear Blast
Meshuggah chronology
Chaosphere
(1998) 		Rare Trax
(2001) 		Nothing
(2002)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal8/10[2]

Rare Trax is the first compilation album by Swedish extreme metal band Meshuggah. It was released on 21 August 2001 by Nuclear Blast. It compiles the three songs from the band's first 1989 release, Meshuggah, along with other rare songs that the band had recorded but never released.

The CD-ROM also contains the music video for the song "New Millennium Cyanide Christ" from Chaosphere, which features the band on a tour bus, air-playing all the instruments (with Jens Kidman yelling into a pen) and headbanging in unison.

"War" was the first Meshuggah song to feature programmed drums. The remix for the song "Concatenation" is a slower version of the song with a different drum beat. The person on the cover and inlay photographs is tour manager Per Wikström.

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."War"2:48
2."Cadaverous Mastication"7:49
3."Sovereigns Morbidity"4:28
4."Debt of Nature"7:18
5."By Emptiness Abducted"4:49
6."Don't Speak"3:26
7."Abnegating Cecity" (Demo version '90)6:22
8."Internal Evidence" (Demo version '90)6:59
9."Concatenation" (Remix)6:15
10."Ayahuasca Experience"4:30
Total length:54:44

Personnel

Meshuggah

Additional personnel

  • Peter Nordin - bass on "Sovereigns Morbidity", and "Debt of Nature"
  • Gustaf Hielm - bass on "Don't Speak"

References

  1. ^ O'Neill, Brian. "Rare Trax - Meshuggah". Retrieved 28 August 2013.
  2. ^ Popoff, Martin; Perri, David (2011). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 4: The '00s. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 318. ISBN 9781-926592-20-6.


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