Rare Trax
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Rare Trax
- Artist: Meshuggah
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- Release Date: August 21, 2001
- Total Time: 79:26
- Type: Compilation (best of), Enhanced CD-ROM
- Genre: Rock
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As the name implies, Rare Trax is a compilation of hard-to-find tracks from the distant Meshuggah past. Included with a digital reawakening of the band's limited-to-1,000-vinyl-LPs debut (known as Psykisk Testbild even though it was technically eponymous) are demo cuts culled from throughout the band's history. It is interesting how the likes of "Sovereigns Morbidity" have an Exodus-like quality to them, especially since the band has since left such influences behind, and the self-effacing self-penned liner notes are amusing. However, Meshuggah has progressed to a much different (dare say, better) place over the years, and like most odds-and-sods comps, Rare Trax is best saved for nostalgic completists. ~ Brian O'Neill, Rovi| Rare Transcription Recordings of the 1950's, Vol. 3 (2012 Album by Ted Heath & His Music) | |
| Rare Trax (2004 Album by Chris Poland) |
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| Compilation album by Meshuggah | ||||
| Released | 2001 | |||
| Recorded | 1989–2001 | |||
| Genre | Technical metal | |||
| Length | 55:00 | |||
| Label | Nuclear Blast | |||
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Rare Trax is a compilation album of rare songs by the Swedish technical metal band Meshuggah. It compiles the three songs from the band's first 1989 release, Psykisk Testbild, on CD format, as well as other rare songs that the band had recorded but never released.
The CD-ROM also contains the music video for the song New Millennium Cyanide Christ from Chaosphere, which features the band on a tour bus air-playing all the instruments (with Jens Kidman yelling into a pen) and headbanging in unison.
"War" was the first Meshuggah song to feature programmed drums. The remix for the song "Concatenation" is a slower version of the song with a different drum beat. The person on the cover and inlay photographs is tour manager Per Wikström.
Track listing
| No. | Title | Length | |
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| 1. | "War" | 2:48 | |
| 2. | "Cadaverous Mastication" | 7:51 | |
| 3. | "Sovereigns Morbidity" | 4:31 | |
| 4. | "Debt of Nature" | 7:19 | |
| 5. | "By Emptiness Abducted" | 4:51 | |
| 6. | "Don't Speak" | 3:28 | |
| 7. | "Abnegating Cecity" (Demo Version '90) | 6:24 | |
| 8. | "Internal Evidence" (Demo Version '90) | 7:01 | |
| 9. | "Concatenation" (Remix) | 6:17 | |
| 10. | "Ayahuasca Experience" | 4:32 |
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