Koloss,(Released March 23rd through Nuclear Blast Records) by the masters of Math Metal, Meshuggah, lives up to its title. Koloss is a juggernaut of power with everything you love about the Meshuggah sound. I will admit to a bit of trepidation on first listen. The slow moving and sludgy sound of opening track “I Am Colossus,” put me in a mindset for their album Nothing. While a fantastic album, Nothing was an experiment for Meshuggah testing whether they could take one song and expand it into roughly one hour to create an album out of that one song.

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