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Meshuggah’s
skullcracking metal chops aren’t the point here, though. The real point
is a Quicktime file that’s included on Rare Trax (which doesn’t
come out until August 21st, by the way, so you’re going to have to
be patient) and upgrades the album from way-cool potential purchase to must-own
item. It’s a video for a song called “New Millennium Cyanide Christ,”
a title any beat poet would have been proud to call his own. The only reason
I watched it at all was that there wasn’t anything else to do; as everybody
knows, “multimedia content” is usually synonymous with “indescribably
disappointing collection of high-resolution mock-up web pages that try to
sell the viewer peripheral merchandise and lower the level of overall goodness
in the universe,” and I didn’t expect Meshuggah’s multimedia
content to reinvent that particular wheel. Ah, but be of good cheer, friends.
The usual meaning of “multimedia content” is light-years away
from “New Millennium Cyanide Christ.”
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