Rare Trax

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Rare Trax
Rare Trax cover
Compilation album by Meshuggah
Released 2001
Recorded 1989–1998
Genre Technical metal
Length 55:00
Label Nuclear Blast
Professional reviews
Meshuggah chronology
Chaosphere
(1998)
Rare Trax
(2001)
Nothing
(2002)

Rare Trax is a compilation album of rare songs by the Swedish technical metal band Meshuggah.

It compiles the three songs from the bands first 1989 release, Psykisk Testbild on CD format, as well as other rare songs that the band had recorded but never released.

The CD-Rom also contains the music video for the song New Millennium Cyanide Christ from the Chaosphere album, which features the band on a tour bus air-playing all the instruments (with Jens Kidman yelling into a pen) and headbanging in unison.

"War" was the first Meshuggah song to feature programmed drums.

The remix for the song "Concatenation" is actually a slowed-down, edited version of the song.

The person on the cover and inlay photographs is tour manager Per Wikström.

Track listing

  1. "War" – 2:48
  2. "Cadaverous Mastication" – 7:51
  3. "Sovereigns Morbidity" – 4:31
  4. "Debt of Nature" – 7:19
  5. "By Emptiness Abducted" – 4:51
  6. "Don't Speak" – 3:28
  7. "Abnegating Cecity" [Demo Version '90] – 6:24
  8. "Internal Evidence" [Demo Version '90] – 7:01
  9. "Concatenation" [Remix] – 6:17
  10. "Ayahuasca Experience" – 4:32