Meshuggah announce European tour dates for autumn

Swedish metal extremists Meshuggah will be crawling their way around Europe in the wake of their recent new album, Obzen.

Obzen is extreme metal done properly – immensely heavy and powerful, but surprisingly intricate and melodic as well, and enhancing Meshuggah‘s well-deserved reputation as purveyors of high-grade product.

Meshuggah will release the track “Bleed” as a single, and it seems there’s a fancy video in the pipeline for it – you can watch the teaser-trailer thingy. [ Sorry folks, not on YouTube. Well, not yet, anyway. Nor have I got a release date for you ... it's all fun and games, this music journalism, y'know. ]

Edit: that’ll teach me to be slow out of the gate; turns out the video is available, but on MySpazz rather than YouTube. Here you go:

But I do have the UK dates from Meshuggah‘s forthcoming European adventure in September:

• 04 September – Brighton, Barfly
• 05 September – London, LA 2
• 06 September – Newcastle, Academy
• 08 September – Glasgow, Garage
• 09 September – Manchester, Academy 3
• 10 September – Sheffield, Corporation
• 11 September – Birmingham, Academy 2
• 12 September – Bristol, Academy 2

I’m guessing you’ll have to book early to get tickets for those shows, so think about hitting the venue websites and pre-ordering, especially for the London date.

September’s a long way off, though, so in the meantime you can poke around in Meshuggah’s website (they keep a tour diary blog, plus you can find the non-UK tour dates there), and there’s always free tunes to be heard on the MySpazz.