Last Updated on 12:02 PM by Giorgos Tsekas
Swedish extreme tech-metal pioneers Meshuggah have revealed the title of their upcoming eighth album, ‘The Violent Sleep Of Reason‘. Inspired by a Goya painting called,’The Sleep Of Reason Produces Monsters’, the album will be released on October 7th via Nuclear Blast Records.
The album was produced by the band and was engineered by Tue Madsen of Puk Studios in Kaerby, Denmark. For the cover, the band once again enlisted Keerych Luminokaya who created the artwork for ‘Koloss’ and ‘The Ophidian Trek’ as well as the new images for each of the 7 albums and 3 EP’s featured in the 25 Years of Musical Deviance box set. ‘The Violent Sleep Of Reason’ will be available in the following formats:
– CD Digipak
– Black Double LP
– various colored Double LP
– Mail-Order Exclusive Box Set*
Limited to 1,000 worldwide
Includes: Latex face mask, (2) stickers, (2) 1.25” buttons, poster flag, certificate of
authenticity
1. Clockworks
2. Born in Dissonance
3. MonstroCity
4. By the Ton
5. Violent Sleep of Reason
6. Ivory Tower
7. Stifled
8. Nostrum
9. Our Rage Won’t Die
10. Into Decay