Nuclear Blast is pleased to announce that Swedish extreme tech-metal pioneers MESHUGGAH hit #19 in the world sales charts with their new album “The Violent Sleep Of Reason” which is a huge accomplishment for a metal band!

The Album took the worldwide charts by storm with the following entries:

# 2 Sweden (Rock/Metal)
# 3 USA (Hard Music)
# 5 USA (Rock Charts)
# 7 USA (current Album)
# 9 Australia
# 11 Finland
# 17 Sweden
# 17 USA (Top 200)
# 18 Germany
#19 World Top 50
# 21 Switzerland
# 31 Austria
# 32 Belgium (Wallonie)
# 32 UK
# 34 Hungary
# 46 Belgium
# 47 Belgium (Vlanderen)
# 56 France
# 57 Italy
# 60 Netherlands

“A huge thanks to all our fans for the support and for buying the album,” comments MESHUGGAH.

Order the album here: http://nblast.de/MeshViolentSleepNB
Or digitally: http://nblast.de/MeshuggahDownloads

The Swedish extreme tech-metal pioneers MESHUGGAH will release their upcoming eighth album, “The Violent Sleep Of Reason” on October 7th via Nuclear Blast. Today, the band released the second trailer in which Tomas discusses the lyrical inspiration of the eighth Album.

Check out the trailer here:

Last week, RollingStone.com premiered the bands first single “Born In Dissonance” and an exclusive interview with Tomas Haake. Order your copy of the album on iTunes and receive “Born In Dissonance” as an instant grat: http://nblast.de/MeshuggahDownloads

Tomas Haake comments:
“Basically, the whole idea of why we chose the title is it kinda connects with the lyrical content of the album. Which is to a fair degree about current events and what you see is going on as far as terrorism today, extremist views on ideals, and religious dogma and the violent implications that you get from being asleep so to speak and not acting/reacting to what is going on in the proper way”

The album was produced by the band and was engineered by Tue Madsen of Puk Studios in Kaerby, Denmark. For the cover, the band once again enlisted Keerych Luminokaya who created the artwork for “Koloss” and “The Ophidian Trek” as well as the new images for each of the 7 albums and 3 EP’s featured in the 25 Years of Musical Deviance box set.

Pre-order “The Violent Sleep Of Reason” in the format of our choice here: http://nblast.de/MeshViolentSleepNB

The Swedish extreme tech-metal pioneers MESHUGGAH will release their upcoming eighth album, “The Violent Sleep Of Reason” on October 7th via Nuclear Blast. Today, the band premieres their first single “Born In Dissonance” and an exclusive interview with Tomas Haake on rollingstone.com

Order your copy of the album on iTunes and receive “Born In Dissonance” as an instant grat tomorrow, August 26th: http://nblast.de/MeshuggahDownloads

Earlier this week, the band released the first trailer discussing the title and cover artwork. If you missed it, you can watch it on the Nuclear Blast YouTube channel:

Tomas Haake comments:
“Basically, the whole idea of why we chose the title is it kinda connects with the lyrical content of the album. Which is to a fair degree about current events and what you see is going on as far as terrorism today, extremist views on ideals, and religious dogma and the violent implications that you get from being asleep so to speak and not acting/reacting to what is going on in the proper way”

The album was produced by the band and was engineered by Tue Madsen of Puk Studios in Kaerby, Denmark. For the cover, the band once again enlisted Keerych Luminokaya who created the artwork for “Koloss” and “The Ophidian Trek” as well as the new images for each of the 7 albums and 3 EP’s featured in the 25 Years of Musical Deviance box set.

“The Violent Sleep Of Reason” will be available in the following formats:
– CD Digipak
– Black Double LP
– various colored Double LP
– Mail-Order Exclusive Box Set*
Limited to 1,000 worldwide
Includes: Latex face mask, (2) stickers, (2) 1.25” buttons, poster flag, certificate of
authenticity

Pre-order “The Violent Sleep Of Reason” in the format of our choice here: http://nblast.de/MeshViolentSleepNB