Destroy Erase Improve

Destroy Erase Improve
Studio album by Meshuggah
Released	July 25, 1995
Recorded	Feb, 1995 Soundfront Studios, Uppsala, Sweden
Genre	Extreme metal, progressive metal, avant-garde metal, death metal
Length	46:31
Label	Nuclear Blast
Producer	Daniel Bergstrand Meshuggah
Meshuggah chronology
Selfcaged (1995) Destroy Erase Improve (1995) The True Human Design (1997)

Destroy Erase Improve is the second full-length studio album by Swedish metal band Meshuggah. It was released on July 25, 1995, by Nuclear Blast.

Destroy Erase Improve was groundbreaking^{[citation needed]} in its use of polyrhythm and off-time thrash beats, and established these elements as instantly recognizable trademarks^{[citation needed]} of Meshuggah's music. Some jazz fusion elements are present in some songs such as "Future Breed Machine", "Acrid Placidity", "Vanished" and "Sublevels".^{[citation needed]} Meshuggah later developed these qualities, abandoning much melody on 1998's Chaosphere and introducing heavier, faster songs.

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Future Breed Machine"	Haake	Thordendal	5:48
2.	"Beneath"	Haake	Thordendal	5:07
3.	"Soul Burn"	Haake	Thordendal, Haake	5:17
4.	"Transfixion"	Haake	Hagström, Thordendal	3:33
5.	"Vanished"	Haake	Thordendal	5:04
6.	"Acrid Placidity"	(instrumental)	Hagström	3:15
7.	"Inside What's Within Behind"	Haake	Thordendal, Kidman	4:30
8.	"Terminal Illusions"	Kidman	Thordendal	3:47
9.	"Suffer in Truth"	Kidman	Kidman	4:19
10.	"Sublevels"	Haake	Thordendal	5:14
11.	"Humiliative" (Japanese bonus track)	Haake	Kidman, Thordendal
12.	"Ritual" (Japanese bonus track)	Kidman	Kidman
13.	"Gods of Rapture" (live, Japanese bonus track)	Haake	Thordendal

Personnel

Meshuggah

• Jens Kidman – lead vocals
• Fredrik Thordendal – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, synthesizers (Thordendal covered bass after Peter Nordin left the band.)
• Mårten Hagström – rhythm guitar
• Tomas Haake – drums, voices
• Peter Nordin – bass (dropped out of the band during a tour, due to vertigo)

Production

• Danne Bergstrand – mixing, engineering, production
• Fredrik Thordendal – mixing
• Meshuggah – production, cover design
• Peter In De Betou – mastering (at Cutting Room, Stockholm)
• Stefan Gillbald – cover artwork