Meshuggah: Catch Thirtythree (2LP, 20th anniversary, remastered, gold & white marble vinyl) [REIGNING PHOENIX MUSIC]

Why you'll love it

A remastered 20th anniversary 2LP set on gold and white marble vinyl, with an etched side D and only 2,500 copies worldwide. Catch Thirtythree is one continuous suite in 13 movements, built entirely on programmed drums.

This edition

• Limited to 2,500 copies worldwide
• Gold and white marble vinyl
• Remastered for the 20th anniversary
• 2LP set with an etched side D

About the album

Meshuggah made their fifth album as a single song, a continuous suite split into thirteen movements, from 'Autonomy Lost' through 'Shed' and 'Dehumanization' to 'Sum.' Instead of recording acoustic drums, the band programmed every beat with Toontrack's EZdrummer and its Drumkit from Hell expansion, and all four members share the drum programming credit, with Tomas Haake and Mårten Hagström writing the lyrics.

Nuclear Blast put it out in May 2005 and it entered the Billboard 200 at number 170, quite the achievement for a Swedish extreme metal band offering one enormous song. Twenty years on it has been remastered and spread over two marbled discs, the fourth side given over to an etching. Even the tracklist has trouble counting this one.

Tracklist

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Out August 28, 2026 on Reigning Phoenix Music (cat# 1.0111), a reissue of the 2005 album.