Nothing (Meshuggah album)

The songs on this album consist of slower tempos and a heavy focus on groove instead of the thrash metal style of previous albums. Jazz fusion elements such as the interludes found in some songs on the band's Destroy Erase Improve album are still present in this release.

This is also the first album on which guitarists Fredrik Thordendal and Mårten Hagström experimented with 8-string guitars[4] by re-recording the guitar tracks, replacing the original performances made using detuned 7-string guitars, due in part to their custom Nevborn guitars not being ready.

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[5]
Blabbermouth	[6]
Ox-Fanzine	10/10[7]
Pitchfork	8.1/10[8]
PopMatters	[9]
Rolling Stone	[10]
Stylus Magazine	B[11]

The track "Rational Gaze" was promoted with three music videos. The first was a repetitive black-and-white sequence of pictures, and did not have much connection with the song structure; the second version, directed by Torbjörn Oyesvold, featured a blue-greenish environment with the band performing, heavy post-processed by blurry video filters; the third version, entitled "Mr. Kidman Delirium Version", was not an official video, but rather a handicam of Jens Kidman performing as his bandmates, with the help of different wigs. In January 2018, Loudwire named Nothing their favorite djent album.[12]

Nothing has sold over 95,000 copies in the US.

Original 2002 Release:

2006 Remastered Edition:

• Jens Kidman − vocals
• Fredrik Thordendal − lead guitar, bass, rhythm guitar on the 2006 re-release
• Mårten Hagström − rhythm guitar, bass
• Tomas Haake − drums, spoken vocals (4, 8, 9), artwork[13]