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Alive
Video by
Released5 February 2010 (2010-02-05)
Recorded2008–2009 on the obZen Tour
Genre Djent, progressive metal, extreme metal
Label Nuclear Blast
Director Ian McFarland
ProducerIan McFarland
Meshuggah chronology
Alive
(2010)
The Ophidian Trek
(2014)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
About.com [1]
Exclaim!favorable [2]
PopMatters8/10 [3]

Alive is the first live album by Swedish extreme metal band Meshuggah. The film was released as a double album (DVD with CD in digipak) through Nuclear Blast on 5 February 2010 in Europe and 9 February 2010 in North America. [4]

Half of the film consists of the band performing songs on their obZen Tour during 2008–2009. This is intertwined with documentary-style clips of the members talking about their experiences in the band. Also on the DVD is "The Making of Bleed", a documentary on how the music video for "Bleed" was shot, along with the music video itself; and a "Drum Tour" and "Guitar Tour".

The cover is made to imitate the film poster for Alien. [5]

Track listing

DVD

  1. "Begin"
  2. "Perpetual Black Second"
  3. "Twenty Two Hours"
  4. "Pravus"
  5. "Dissemination"
  6. "Bleed"
  7. "Ritual"
  8. "New Millennium Cyanide Christ"
  9. "Cleanse"
  10. "Stengah"
  11. "The Mouth Licking What You've Bled"
  12. "Machine"
  13. "Electric Red"
  14. "Solidarius"
  15. "Rational Gaze"
  16. "Moment"
  17. "Lethargica"
  18. "Communicate"
  19. "Combustion"
  20. "Humiliative"
  21. "Infinitum"
  22. "Straws Pulled at Random"
  23. "End"

Bonus material

  1. "'Bleed' music video"
  2. "The Making of 'Bleed'"
  3. "Micha Guitar Tour"
  4. "Tomas Drum Tour"

Live audio CD

No.TitleCityLength
1."Perpetual Black Second" Tokyo4:32
2."Electric Red"Tokyo6:02
3."Rational Gaze"Tokyo5:35
4."Pravus"Tokyo5:21
5."Lethargica" Toronto5:52
6."Combustion"Toronto4:16
7."Straws Pulled at Random"Toronto5:05
8."New Millennium Cyanide Christ" Montreal4:57
9."Stengah"Montreal5:56
10."The Mouth Licking What You've Bled"Montreal3:25
11."Humiliative"Montreal5:21
12."Bleed"Montreal7:55

Personnel

Charts

References

  1. ^ Bowar, Chad. "Alive review". About.com. Archived from the original on April 29, 2010. Retrieved April 18, 2010.
  2. ^ Falzon, Denise (March 2010). "Alive review". Exclaim!. Archived from the original on 10 July 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2010.
  3. ^ Begrand, Adrien (12 February 2010). "Meshuggah: Alive". PopMatters. Archived from the original on 28 March 2010. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
  4. ^ "Meshuggah's Alive details revealed". Bravewords.com. 8 December 2009. Archived from the original on 23 September 2012. Retrieved 11 January 2010.
  5. ^ "Album Covers Inspired by Movie Posters".
  6. ^ "Lescharts.com – Meshuggah – Alive". Hung Medien. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  7. ^ "Discography Meshuggah". Hung Medien. Archived from the original on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  8. ^ "Swedishcharts.com – Meshuggah – Alive". Hung Medien. Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  9. ^ "アライヴ | メシュガー" [Alive | Meshuggah]. Oricon. Retrieved 16 November 2021.