CATCH THIRTY-THREE

'''Catch Thirty-Three''' is the fifth full-length studio album by Swedish tech metal band, Meshuggah. It was released on May 16, 2005 in Europe and May 31, 2005 in the United States by Nuclear Blast.
Although it is printed as a full-length album with 13 tracks, it is actually a single continuous thirteen-part suite. The band themselves have said that even though it is a full length release, it is still considered to be an experimental piece and not quite a bona-fide album. The musical direction is consistent with the evolution carried on from Nothing and I, utilizing heavy and texturous grooves, leaving most of the thrash elements behind.
Lyrically this album is a concept album, revolving around different kinds of paradoxes; hence the title Catch 33. See Catch-22 and Catch-22 (logic).
This is also the first full Meshuggah album where the drums are programmed rather than performed by drummer Tomas Haake. They are programmed using the Drumkit from Hell, a software package that actually uses Tomas' drums and cymbals as samples, meaning that the band could work together on the drum parts. The first Meshuggah song to feature programmed drums was "War" from ''Rare Trax''.

Contents

Track listing

Personnel

Track listing

# "Autonomy Lost" – 1:40
# "Imprint of the Un-Saved" – 1:36
# "Disenchantment" – 1:45
# "The Paradoxical Spiral" – 3:12
# "Re-Inanimate" – 1:04
# "Entrapment" – 2:29
# "Mind's Mirrors" – 4:30
# "In Death - Is Life" – 2:02
# "In Death - Is Death" – 13:22
# "Shed" – 3:35
# "Personae Non Gratae" – 1:47
# "Dehumanization" – 2:56
# "Sum" – 7:18

Personnel

★ Jens Kidman - Guitars, Bass, Vocals, drum programming

★ Fredrik Thordendal - Guitars, Bass, Drum programming

★ Mårten Hagström - Guitars, bass, Drum programming

★ Tomas Haake - Spoken word, Drum programming, artwork