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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mårten Hagström, (born 27 April 1971), is the rhythm guitarist for the Swedish experimental metal band Meshuggah. He joined the band after the release of their first album, which allowed Jens Kidman to focus on his vocal performances. He is known for his strong and complex rhythm guitar playing. Hagström has cited Rush, James Hetfield, Squarepusher, Autechre, Strapping Young Lad and GISM as influences. In a Metal Injection interview he has said, "You can't play an instrument for the technicality of it. It's a tool you use it to get what's in here and here [heart and mind] out there." He has also said when he was growing up, everybody in Sweden was trying to be a guitar virtuoso. This made him want to be solely a rhythm guitarist. Although fellow Meshuggah guitarist Fredrik Thordendal plays most of Meshuggah's guitar solos, the two of them share songwriting duties more or less equally, with Hagström notably contributing "Nebulous" from Nothing, "Acrid Placidity" from Destroy Erase Improve, and "Neurotica" from Chaosphere. Hagström has also stepped out of his role of playing rhythm guitar with the release of Meshuggah's obZen album by playing the slower, melodic leads on the songs that he wrote, such as "Electric Red" and "Pravus". In addition to this, he has contributed lyrics to some of the bands later releases, co-writing Catch 33 with Meshuggah drummer Tomas Haake and penning the entirety of the words for their abstract EP I. Hagström and Haake have been playing music together since they were nine years old. Hagström, along with Fredrik Thordendal, were rated #35 by Guitar World as the top 100 greatest heavy metal guitarist of all-time. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mårten Hagström, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Mårten Hagström
Composer
for Composer in Meshuggah New Millennium Cyanide Christ
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Lyrics: I'm a carnal, organic anagram Human flesh instead of written letters I rearrange my pathetic tissue I incise, I replace, I'm reformed I eradicate the fake, pre-present me Elevate me to a higher human form The characters I am Made into a word complete then I'll be the new norm Self inflicted fractures I replace my bones with bars Aluminum bleeding oxide The drug of Gods into my pounding veins My receiving eyes exchanged with fuses Blindness induced to prevent destruction Ceramic blades implanted Past my ribs to save me from the dues of inhalation I tear my worldly useless skin Staples to pin it over my ears Non-receptive of ungodly sounds I disable the audio generators of fear Hexagonal bolts to fill my mouth Sharpened to deplete The creator of all violence Without speech there will be no deceit Baptized in vitriolic acid A final touch, a smoothing of features Completion of the greatest art To cast the godly creatures Humans, once astray, made divine Stripped of congenital flaws We're incandescent Revelations in a world of darkened forms Disciples, come join with me To save a failed humanity Follow the God of cyanide Into the new eternity Behold a sacrificial erase A cleansing worshiping of pain The new millennium Christ Here to redeem all from lies, lies
