Meshuggah: North American Tour 2025 at The Stage AE

It’s the triumphant return of the titans of Swedish extreme metal, the pioneers of djent, one of the ten most important metal bands in the world, according to Rolling Stone. They are unparalleled musicians, masters of innovation, overlords of technical precision, liege lords of genre-smashing, and conquerors of the world of metal.

It’s slated to be the most monumental and unmissable metal tour of the year, bound to descend upon Quebec City at the end of March 2025, ravaging through all the major venues in North America before taking their bow in New York close to the end of April 2025.

Meshuggah has been on rotation on every metal lover’s sound system since they dropped their debut album, ‘Contradictions Collapse’, in 1990. To date, they have released nine studio albums, with their latest, ‘Immutable’, dropping in 2022 and being hailed as “a masterclass in progressive metal." Whether you’re into ‘New Millennium Cyanide Christ’, ‘Bleed’, ‘Dancers to a Discordant System’, ‘Future Breed Machine’, ‘Born in Dissonance’, or ‘Clockworks’, we have to agree on one thing: the musical prodigies of Meshuggah are masterminds. Every single album explores some other innovative aspect of music – from jazz fusion-like soloing, improvisation, and “weaving hardcore-style shouts amongst deceptively (and deviously) simple staccato guitar riffs and insanely precise drumming – often with all three components acting in different time signatures” (AllMusic), to the use of a breath-controller device; from swapping fast tempos for tuned-down tempos and grooves to insanely complex arrangements. The undeniable fact here is that Meshuggah simply is NOT so simple; they are pioneers and musical innovators – genius-level – all the more reason to not miss out on this one.

Death metal legends Cannibal Corpse, known for their influences on some iconic bands such as Slipknot and All That Remains, and face-melters such as ‘Hammer Smashed Face’ and ‘Scourge of Iron’, will be joining Meshuggah on their titanic tour as special guests, together with Carcass, known for eardrum-smashers such as ‘Corporal Jigsore Quandary’ and ‘Incarnated Solvent Abuse’.

All metal hell is about to be unleashed upon the epic Stage AE, with seating space for 2,400 metal heads indoors and up to 5,500 at the outdoor amphitheatre, both with reserved and general admission seats. With the venue’s top-notch equipment and acoustics, and a full-metal firestorm about to erupt, you are surely in for the experience of a lifetime!