If you had told the members of Meshuggah, 25 years ago, that they would one day be known as “The Godfathers of Djent,” they probably would have laughed and replied with whatever is the Swedish equivalent of “Da fuck is that?” (Of course, that’s likely the same response they would have given if you had told them they’d one day be interviewed for something called a podcast, which would be hosted on something called a blog, which would be shared around the world through something called the internet). Yet this is the era we live in, one unforeseen by Meshuggah or any of us, where made-up words used to describe guitar sounds can suddenly evolve into genres of music and define a band’s legacy faster than Nyan Cat shits out rainbows. I discussed the Djent phenomenon and this new age of information with guitarist Mårten Hagström during our recent podcast.

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