Song · Meshuggah
“Rational Gaze” by Meshuggah
From the album Nothing (2002)
“Rational Gaze” by Meshuggah appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2002. It was first released in 2002 on the album Nothing. Its best result is #80 on the KNAC Top 105 Songs of 2002. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #142 hard rock song of 2002.
"Rational Gaze" comes from Nothing, the fourth album by Swedish extreme metal band Meshuggah, released by Nuclear Blast in August 2002, and it rides the kind of riff people keep coming back to: in 2013 Loudwire's staff counted its main riff among the 10 best metal riffs of the 2000s. Fredrik Thordendal wrote the music and Tomas Haake the words.
The album around it was finished in a sprint. When Meshuggah decided at the last minute to join that year's Ozzfest, they had two days to mix the record and one to master it, which is why the guitars and drums were recorded again for a remastered reissue in 2006.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 80 | KNAC Los Angeles, CA | KNAC Top 105 Songs of 2002 | 105 |
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