Meshuggah Announce 2021 UK and European Tour
Meshuggah have announced a European and UK tour for winter 2021. In addition to this, they’ve also added a one-off London show the following summer. The one-off London show is at the prestigious Royal Albert Hall on June 3, 2022.
The Swedish five-piece will start off their European run of dates in Vienna, Austria next November.
In December, the band will be going to the UK to perform in Bristol (December 5), Glasgow (December 6), Manchester (December 8) and Nottingham (December 9).
They are currently working on their ninth studio album, which release will probably coincide with the tour launch.
Drummer Tomas Haake confirmed that the band has spent much of the downtime during the COVID-19 pandemic creating material for a new album.
“Since March, we all kind of separated, and Jens [Kidman, vocals] took all his stuff and started working from home. And me and Dick [Lövgren, bass], the bass player, we usually work a lot together, but he also worked separately since then. But at this point, we’re back together, and we’re trying to hammer it out.”
According to Haake, working remotely hasn’t posed any huge any problems for him and his bandmates so far.
As for the musical direction of the new MESHUGGAH material, Tomas said:
“Of course, we have a certain framework that we still wanna sound like MESHUGGAH, we wanna have that signature sound, we want people to be able to — even if they haven’t heard the song [before] — in the best-case scenario, it’s, like, ‘Oh, that’s gotta be MESHUGGAH,’ even if it’s a brand new thing. So hopefully that’s something we’re aiming at. But with that said, as far as the music goes, we try to [do] kind of the opposite of what AC/DC has been doing for 40 years. So we’re not trying to write the same album over and over. And whether we succeed with that or not, that’s more up to our fans and other people, but that’s definitely the aim. We try our best to kind of find new grips within the framework of what we’re supposed to be, I guess. ‘Cause we don’t wanna really step out of that either. We’re not looking to be another band all of a sudden or something that we haven’t been or that is not true to kind of what we’re doing.”
Meshuggah’s latest album “The Violent Sleep Of Reason” came out in 2016 and resulted in a “Best Metal Performance” Grammy nomination for the song “Clockworks”.
Meshuggah 2021 Tour
Show Date and Time: November 19, 2021 – December 13, 2021
Show Location: Vienna Arena, AUS – Hamburg Große Freiheit, GER
