''Catch Thirtythree'' is the fifth studio album by Swedish

extreme metal Extreme metal is a loosely defined umbrella term for a number of related heavy metal music subgenres that have developed since the early 1980s. It has been defined as a "cluster of metal subgenres characterized by sonic, verbal, and visual tran ...

band

Meshuggah Meshuggah () is a Swedish extreme metal band formed in Umeå in 1987. Since 2004, the band's lineup consists of founding members Jens Kidman (lead vocals) and Fredrik Thordendal (lead guitar), alongside rhythm guitarist Mårten Hagström, drumm ...

. It was released on 16 May 2005 in Europe and on 31 May 2005 in North America, through

Nuclear Blast Nuclear Blast Records is a German record label with subsidiary, subsidiaries located in Germany, the United States and Brazil. It was founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger in Donzdorf. Originally releasing hardcore punk records, the label moved on ...

. ''Catch Thirtythree'' entered the ''Billboard'' 200 chart at number 170. The album is a single song, a continuous suite, with 13 movements. It exclusively used drum programming, leveraging Toontrack's EZDrummer software synthesizer with the "Drumkit from Hell" Expansion, instead of traditional acoustic drums.

Track listing

All music is written by Meshuggah (

Fredrik Thordendal Fredrik Carl Thordendal (born 11 February 1970) is a Swedish musician best known as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist for the extreme metal band Meshuggah, of which he is a founding member. Along with Meshuggah's rhythm guitarist Mårten ...

, Jens Kidman, Mårten Hagström, Tomas Haake), and all lyrics are written by Haake and Hagström.

Personnel

All credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. * Jens Kidman – lead vocals, guitar, bass, drum programming, mixing *

– guitar, bass, drum programming, mixing * Mårten Hagström – lyrics, guitar, bass, drum programming, mixing * Tomas Haake – lyrics, spoken vocals, drum programming, mixing,

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and artwork concept * Björn Engelmann – mastering (Cutting Room Studios)

Charts

References

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