Vildhjarta Cover Meshuggah At Awards Show Where Djent Pioneers Earned A 500k SEK Endowment

Swedish progressive metal group Vildhjarta performed a Meshuggah medley featuring tracks ‘Rational Gaze’ and ‘Sum’ at an event honouring the Djent pioneers with a 500k SEK endowment for their contributions to Swedish culture.

Multi-cam footage of Vildhjarta‘s medley performance featuring Meshuggah’s ‘Rational Gaze’ and ‘Sum’ has been shared online by the band themselves. The progressive metal group performed their tribute to the Djent legends earlier this week at the Gennevik Scholarship awards ceremony, which had members of Meshuggah present.

If you’ve ever wanted to watch an impressively faithful rendition of Meshuggah performed in what looks like a high school performance centre with an entirely seated audience, then this video is sure to scratch your itch.

As you can expect, there are several shots of audience members covering their ears, and others expressing visible discomfort throughout the performance. This could honestly be an ‘I Think You Should Leave’ skit with Tim Robinson. I highly recommend everyone check it out.

Meshuggah themselves honoured at the event, and were awarded a 500,000 SEK endowment ($81,295 AUD) for their contributions to Swedish culture and arts.

You can watch Vildhjarta’s multi-cam performance below:

Vildhjarta would share their third studio album + där skogen sjunger under evighetens granar + in May earlier this year, which fans of the group would go on to call their best album yet. In their review, Heavy Blog is Heavy would say that “this is one of those albums where you think ‘how does one even begin to write music like this?'”

Meshuggah themselves would release an all-new remaster of their 2022 album, Immutable, in April. The new album was remastered for “sonic enhancement, redefining the album’s depth and clarity” and would feature three live tracks, ‘Kaleidoscop’, ‘Ligature Marks” and ‘God He Sees In Mirrors’ recorded in 2023 and 2024.

So, if you weren’t a fan of the usual “wall of noise” production the album’s original release had, perhaps the remaster will help ease you into the new music instead.