Immutable (album)
2022 studio album by Meshuggah
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Immutable is the ninth studio album by Swedish extreme metal band Meshuggah. It was released on April 1, 2022, via Atomic Fire Records, making it the band's first studio album to not be released through Nuclear Blast.[3][4][5] The album was remastered and released as Immutable – The Indellible Edition on April 4th, 2025 with an addition of three live tracks.
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| Released | 1 April 2022 | |||
| Studio | Sweetspot Studios (Halmstad, Sweden) | |||
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| Length | 66:43 | |||
| Label | Atomic Fire | |||
| Producer | Meshuggah | |||
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Background
Guitarist Mårten Hagström stated “The title Immutable fits perfectly for where we are as a band,” “We’re older now. Most of us are in our 50s now, and we’ve settled into who we are. Even though we’ve been experimenting all along, I also think we’ve been the same since day one.”[citation needed]
He continued: “The way we approach things and why we still make new albums, and why we still sound the way we do, it’s immutable. Humanity is immutable, too. We commit the same mistakes over and over. And we are immutable. We do what we do, and we don’t change.”[6]
In addition, certain Meshuggah songs on Spotify leaked a URL, which was https://immutable.se/. Clicking the link would give you a teaser of the song "Ligature Marks" and the release date.[7]
The songs "The Abysmal Eye", "Light the Shortening Fuse"[8] and "I Am That Thirst"[9] were published as singles before the album release. Music videos were released for "The Abysmal Eye"[10] and "Broken Cog".[11]
Reception
Immutable has received universal acclaim from critics with a score 83 out of 100 on Metacritic.[12] Thom Jurek of AllMusic wrote: "Ultimately, Immutable delivers the very essence of Meshuggah. While comfortable in their collective skin, they continue expanding their reach by obliterating – hell, nearly swallowing – metal's genre boundaries in their long, relentless search for the undiscovered."[1]
Accolades
| Publication | List | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Metal Hammer | The Best Metal Albums Of 2022 So Far | –[13] |
Track listing
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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| 1. | "Broken Cog" | Mårten Hagström | Hagström[a] | 5:35 |
| 2. | "The Abysmal Eye" | Tomas Haake | Dick Lövgren | 4:55 |
| 3. | "Light the Shortening Fuse" | Hagström | Hagström | 4:28 |
| 4. | "Phantoms" | Haake |
| 4:53 |
| 5. | "Ligature Marks" | Hagström | Hagström | 5:13 |
| 6. | "God He Sees in Mirrors" | Haake | Lövgren | 5:28 |
| 7. | "They Move Below" | (instrumental) | Hagström | 9:35 |
| 8. | "Kaleidoscope" | Haake |
| 4:07 |
| 9. | "Black Cathedral" | (instrumental) | Hagström | 2:00 |
| 10. | "I Am That Thirst" | Haake | Hagström | 4:40 |
| 11. | "The Faultless" | Haake | Hagström | 4:48 |
| 12. | "Armies of the Preposterous" | Haake |
| 5:15 |
| 13. | "Past Tense" | (instrumental) | Hagström | 5:46 |
| Total length: | 66:43 | |||
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
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| 14. | "Kaleidoscope (Live)" | Haake |
| 4:27 |
| 15. | "Ligature Marks (Live)" | Hagström | Hagström | 5:26 |
| 16. | "God He Sees In Mirrors (Live)" | Haake | Lövgren | 5:18 |
| Total length: | 81:54 | |||
Personnel
Meshuggah
- Jens Kidman – vocals
- Fredrik Thordendal – lead guitar[15]
- Mårten Hagström – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (track 11)
- Dick Lövgren – bass
- Tomas Haake – drums, spoken word (tracks 1, 11)
Production
- Rickard Bengtsson and Staffan Karlsson – mixing
- Vlado Meller – mastering
- Luminokaya – artwork
Charts
| Chart (2022) | Peak position |
|---|---|
| Australian Albums (ARIA)[16] | 26 |
| Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[17] | 12 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[18] | 65 |
| Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[19] | 45 |
| Music Canada (MC)[20] | 6 |
| Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[21] | 48 |
| Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[22] | 6 |
| French Albums (SNEP)[23] | 74 |
| German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[24] | 6 |
| Italian Albums (FIMI)[25] | 90 |
| Japanese Hot Albums (Billboard Japan)[26] | 98 |
| Japanese Albums (Oricon)[27] | 106 |
| Scottish Albums (OCC)[28] | 4 |
| Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[29] | 58 |
| Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[30] | 3 |
| Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[31] | 6 |
| UK Albums (OCC)[32] | 38 |
| UK Independent Albums (OCC)[33] | 2 |
| UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC)[34] | 1 |
| US Billboard 200[35] | 113 |
| US Top Hard Rock Albums (Billboard)[36] | 1 |