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Meshuggah have no new album in the works. Drummer Tomas Haake said so on The Downbeat Podcast, hosted by Stray From The Path drummer Craig Reynolds, when asked about the follow-up to 2022’s “Immutable”: “No. What are you, nuts? Well, we’ll probably… There’s nothing in the works. We’re just gonna do this, we’re gonna do this tour, or two years of tours, and then we’ll see. No promises, but I think… What are we gonna do? We’re gonna make another album.”
Haake also talked about “Immutable” itself. The band reissued it remastered on 4 April 2025 as the “Indelible Edition”, with three live tracks added, and the drummer says the process taught him something: “I realized that it’s a shame that that didn’t happen earlier or that that didn’t happen from the get-go, that it wasn’t that sound that it came out as.” Had he been the album’s executive producer, he would have dropped a couple of songs. “I probably would’ve cut ‘The Faultless’,” he said. “But I also love that it’s a very long album and that you have songs like that that kind of just gives it a bit of another vibe. It kind of takes you a little bit sideways.”
The 40th-anniversary tour starts in North America in early 2027, with Testament and Blood Incantation in support and the band’s first show at Red Rocks. It reaches Europe on 29 September with Periphery and Vildhjarta, and the only Spanish date is 21 October at the Palacio Vistalegre in Madrid.
Text by Roger Estivill