
Meshuggah cornered the market in head-spinning tech metal a long time ago. By the time they released their sixth studio album, obZen, in March 2008, they were streets ahead of most other bands in terms of pushing the genre to dazzling new extremes. In this classic interview from that year, the Swedes sat down with Metal Hammer in Stockholm to reveal the secrets of their success – and their fondness for punking other bands