Destroy Erase Improve

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Destroy Erase Improve
Studio album by
Meshuggah
Released12 May 1995 (1995-05-12)
RecordedFebruary 1995
StudioSoundfront Studios (Uppsala, Sweden)
Genre
Length45:57
LabelNuclear Blast
ProducerDaniel Bergstrand, Meshuggah
Meshuggah chronology
Selfcaged
(1995) 		Destroy Erase Improve
(1995) 		The True Human Design
(1997)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic
[1]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal9/10[2]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
Kerrang![4]
Pitchfork7.9/10[5]
Punknews.org[6]

Destroy Erase Improve is the second studio album by Swedish extreme metal band Meshuggah. It was released on 12 May 1995 by Nuclear Blast. This is the first studio album to feature rhythm guitarist Mårten Hagström and the final to feature bassist Peter Nordin, as he left the band during the supporting tour due to vertigo.

Legacy

Describing the record as "one of the 90's definitive metallic works", Kevin Stewart-Panko argues that Destroy Erase Improve's unique fusion of genres amounted to a new "watermark" for heavy metal upon its release.[7] Metal critic Martin Popoff regards Destroy Erase Improve as the first clear demonstration of what would become the quintessential Meshuggah sound, wherein "stutter gun" riffs and "upset apple cart time signatures" are featured alongside "bone-breaking" percussion, an approach which resulted in considerable influence in the development of genres like mathcore and djent.[8] Popoff suggests that Destroy Erase Improve is the clear linchpin of Meshuggah's particular style, a "specific, nearly absurd proposal that only this band has dared to own."[9]

The album was ranked number 42 on Rolling Stone's 50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time list.[10] In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked Destroy Erase Improve as 77th on their list of 'The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time.'[11] The song "Future Breed Machine" appears in the shockumentary film Traces of Death IV.[12]

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Tomas Haake, except where noted; all music is composed by Fredrik Thordendal, except where noted

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Future Breed Machine"  5:48
2."Beneath"  5:38
3."Soul Burn" 
  • Haake
  • Thordendal
5:17
4."Transfixion" 
  • Hagström
  • Thordendal
3:33
5."Vanished"  5:04
6."Acrid Placidity"(instrumental)Hagström3:16
7."Inside What's Within Behind" 
  • Kidman
  • Thordendal
4:30
8."Terminal Illusions"Kidman 3:47
9."Suffer in Truth"KidmanKidman4:20
10."Sublevels"  5:14
Total length:45:57
Japanese bonus tracks
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
11."Humiliative" 
  • Kidman
  • Thordendal
5:15
12."Ritual"KidmanKidman6:15
13."Gods of Rapture"  4:55
Total length:62:22
Re-release bonus tracks
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
14."Vanished" (demo)  5:34
15."Suffer in Truth" (demo)KidmanKidman4:19
16."Inside What's Within Behind" (demo) 
  • Kidman
  • Thordendal
4:10
17."Gods of Rapture" (live)  4:53
18."Aztec Two-Step"HaakeMeshuggah10:43
Total length:92:01

Personnel

Meshuggah

Production

Charts

Chart (2018) Peak
position
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[13] 43

References

  1. ^ "Destroy Erase Improve - Meshuggah | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic.
  2. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9
    .
  3. ISBN 978-0-19-531373-4
    .
  4. EMAP
    . p. 48.
  5. ^ "Meshuggah: 25 Years of Musical Deviance". Pitchfork.
  6. ^ "Mushuggah - Destroy Erase Improve". Punknews.org.
  7. ISBN 9780306818066
    .
  8. ISBN 1550225308
    .
  9. ISBN 1550226002
    .
  10. ^ "50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time". Rolling Stone. 17 June 2015. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  11. ^ "Rolling Stone Share Their Choices for 'The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time'". 21 June 2017.
  12. ^ "Traces of Death IV Soundtrack IMDb".
  13. ^ "Swedishcharts.com – Meshuggah – Destroy Erase Improve". Hung Medien. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
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