ObZen Tour

The ObZen World Tour is a concert tour by Swedish Metal band Meshuggah. It was in support of the band's 6th studio album obZen. It is the biggest tour the band has done to date; and the band has travelled to places around the world they previously have not performed in. In early 2009 Meshuggah has returned to North America on a tour with Cynic and The Faceless.

ObZen World Tour
World tour by Meshuggah
Meshuggah poster for the North American 2009 part of the obZen tour.
Start dateFebruary 15, 2008
End dateFebruary 20, 2009
Legs4
No. of shows101
Meshuggah concert chronology

History

In 2007, Meshuggah returned to the studio to record their latest album, obZen, which was released in March 2008.[1] The band spent almost a year on the album; their longest recording session yet. A significant portion of the year was spent learning to perform the songs they wrote; the recording itself took six months.[2] obZen reached number 59 on the Billboard Top 200 chart and sold 11,400 copies in the United States in its first week of release, and 50,000 copies after six months.[3] With this album Meshuggah got more media attention and new fans.[4] The release was followed by a world tour, which started in the US and proceeded to Europe, Asia and Australia.[1]

Song debuts

In the first North American leg, three new songs from the new album were slated into the band's setlist: Electric Red, Bleed and Pravus. In the 2009 North American leg, Meshuggah debuted a full live version of the song Bleed. Up until then, live shows featured a shorter version, one similar to the video edit of the song. This leg also saw the debuts of the songs Combustion and Lethargica, also from the obZen album.

Typical setlist

Taken from show at Club Tochka in Moscow, Russia on October 4, 2008.

  • Perpetual Black Second
  • Bleed
  • Humiliative
  • Stengah
  • The Mouth Licking What You've Bled
  • Electric Red
  • Suffer In Truth
  • Rational Gaze
  • Pravus
  • Straws Pulled At Random
  • Future Breed Machine
  • Soul Burn (Encore)

Tour dates
Date City Country Venue
North American Leg I
February 15, 2008 Umeå Sweden House of Metal Headlining
In support of: Ministry and Hemlock on the C-U-LaTour[5]
March 25, 2008 Spokane United States Big Easy
March 26, 2008 Calgary Canada Whiskey Nightclub*
March 27, 2008 Vancouver Croatian Cultural Centre
March 28, 2008 Commodore Ballroom
March 29, 2008 Seattle United States The Showbox
March 30, 2008 Portland Roseland Theatre
April 1, 2008 San Francisco The Fillmore
April 2, 2008
April 5, 2008 Los Angeles House of Blues
April 6, 2008
April 7, 2008 San Diego House of Blues
April 8, 2008 Tempe Marquee Theatre
April 9, 2008 Las Vegas House of Blues
April 11, 2008 Salt Lake City SaltAir
April 12, 2008 Denver Ogden Theatre
April 15, 2008 Austin La Zona Rosa
April 16, 200 Tulsa Cain's Ballroom
April 17, 2008 Dallas Palladium
April 18, 2008 Houston Verizon Wireless Theater
April 19, 2008 New Orleans House of Blues
April 22, 2008 Orlando House of Blues
April 23, 2008 St. Petersburg Jannus Landing
April 24, 2008 Charlotte Tremont Music Hall
April 25, 2008 Atlanta The Masquerade
April 26, 2008 Baltimore Rams Head Live!
April 27, 2008 Worcester The Palladium
April 29, 2008 Philadelphia Theatre of Living Arts
May 1, 2008 New York City Irving Plaza
May 2, 2008
May 3, 2008 Montreal Canada Metropolis
May 4, 2008 Toronto Kool Haus
May 5, 2008 Cleveland United States Agora Theatre
May 7, 2008 Detroit Emerald Theatre
May 8, 2008 Chicago House of Blues
May 9, 2008
May 10, 2008
May 11, 2008
European Leg
Supported by: The Dillinger Escape Plan and Between the Buried and Me
June 20, 2008 Brussels Belgium VK
June 21, 2008 Tilburg Netherlands 013
June 22, 2008 Clisson France Hellfest
June 24, 2008 Winterthur Switzerland Salzhaus
June 25, 2008 Prague Czech Republic Roxy
June 26, 2008 Warsaw Poland Progresja
June 27, 2008 Lindau Germany Vaudeville
June 28, 2008 Bologna Italy Gods of Metal
June 29, 2008 Bolzano Palasport
July 2, 2008 Saarbrücken Germany Roxy
July 3, 2008 Aschaffenburg Colos-Saal
July 4, 2008 Leipzig With Full Force
July 5, 2008 Maribor Slovenia Metalcamp
July 20, 2008 Athens Greece Rock 'Em All Festival
July 31, 2008 Storås Norway Storåsfestivalen
August 8, 2008 Mikkeli Finland Jurassic Rock Festival
August 15, 2008 Hasselt Belgium Pukkelpop
August 16, 2008 Budapest Hungary Sziget Festival
August 29, 2008 Bergen Norway Hole in the Sky
August 30, 2008 Gothenburg Sweden Brew House
August 31, 2008 Malmö KB
Supported by: Trigger the Bloodshed and others.
September 1, 2008 Hamburg Germany Logo
September 2, 2008 Wiesbaden Kulturzentrum Schlachthof
September 3, 2008 Amsterdam Netherlands Melkweg
September 4, 2008 Brighton England Barfly
September 5, 2008 London Astoria 2
September 6, 2008 Newcastle Academy
September 8, 2008 Glasgow Scotland Garage
September 9, 2008 Manchester England Manchester Academy
September 10, 2008 [[Sheffield] Corporation
September 11, 2008 Birmingham Academy 2
September 12, 2008 Bristol Academy 2
September 13, 2008 Nottingham Rock City
September 15, 2008 Brussels Belgium Ancienne Belgique
September 16, 2008 Köln Germany Underground
September 17, 2008 Lucerne Switzerland Schuur
September 18, 2008 Vienna Austria Szene Wien
September 19, 2008 Munich Germany Backstage
September 20, 2008 Berlin Kato
Supported by: Scarpoint and CB Murdoc
September 22, 2008 Stockholm Sweden Debaser Medis
October 4, 2008 Moscow Russia Club Tochka
October 5, 2008 Saint Petersburg Orlandina
Oceania & Asia Leg
Supported by: New Way Home
October 10, 2008 Auckland New Zealand Transmission Room
Supported by: Alchemist
October 12, 2008 Brisbane Australia The Arena
October 13, 2008 Sydney Roundhouse
October 14, 2008 Adelaide HQ
October 15, 2008 Melbourne The Palace
October 16, 2008 Perth Capitol
October 18, 2008 Tokyo Japan Loudpark Festival
October 20, 2008 Osaka Club Quattro Headlining
North American Leg II
Supported by: Cynic and The Faceless[6]
February 1, 2009 Anaheim United States House of Blues
February 2, 2009 San Diego House of Blues
February 3, 2009 Los Angeles House of Blues
February 4, 2009 San Francisco Slim's
February 6, 2009 Seattle El Corazón
February 7, 2009 Portland Hawthorne Theatre
February 8, 2009 Vancouver Canada Commodore Ballroom
February 9, 2009 Spokane United States Knitting Factory
February 11, 2009 Englewood Gothic Theatre
February 12, 2009 Des Moines People's Court
February 13, 2009 Saint Paul Station 4
February 14, 2009 Milwaukee Eagles Club
February 15, 2009 Chicago House of Blues
February 17, 2009 Toronto Canada Phoenix Concert Theatre
February 18, 2009 Montreal Club Soda
February 19, 2009 New York City United States Irving Plaza
February 20, 2009 Towson Recher Theatre
European Leg II
April 8, 2009 Uppsala Sweden Konsert & Kongress
April 9, 2009 Oslo Norway Inferno Festival
April 10, 2009 Karlstad Sweden Arena Nattklubb
April 11, 2009 Örnsköldsvik Musikhuset
April 12, 2009 Umeå Scharinska
April 13, 2009 Tampere Finland Klubi
April 14, 2009 Helsinki Nosturi
April 25, 2009 Stockholm Sweden Melloboat
June 12, 2009 Donington Park England Download Festival
June 26, 2009 Gothenburg Sweden Metaltown Festival[7]
June 27, 2009
June 28, 2009
July 11, 2009 Nijmegen Netherlands Fortarock Festival
July 12, 2009 Kraków Poland Knock Out Festival
July 16, 2009 Dour Belgium Dour Festival
July 18, 2009 Hultsfred Sweden Sonisphere Festival
July 24, 2009 Lorca Spain Lorca Rock Festival[8]
July 25, 2009
  • Meshuggah missed their date at the Whiskey Nightclub, with the official story that they did not have their paperwork in order and they were delayed trying to cross the border into Canada.
gollark: What if you have a runaway trolley which is heading toward a track with a number of people equal in size to the set of the real numbers, but which can be diverted to a track with aleph_1 people on it instead?
gollark: Good idea.
gollark: I see.
gollark: I don't believe in objective morality, since 1993.
gollark: What do you mean? "Inherently evil" people or actions?

References
  1. Jason Ankeny and Bradley Torreano. "Meshuggah Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 2008-05-11.
  2. Jon Wiederhorn. "MESHUGGAH". Revolver. Retrieved 2008-09-02.
  3. "MESHUGGAH's 'obZen' Cracks 50,000 U.S. Sales Mark - Sep. 17, 2008". Blabbermouth. Archived from the original on 2008-09-18. Retrieved 2008-09-24.
  4. "MESHUGGAH Guitarist: 'We're Always Experimental In One Way Or Another'". Blabbermouth.net. Archived from the original on 2008-12-26. Retrieved 2008-07-25.
  5. "MESHUGGAH: Perth Soundcheck Footage Available - Oct. 23, 2008". Blabbermouth. Retrieved 2008-10-25.
  6. "MESHUGGAH, CYNIC: More North American Dates Announced - Dec. 9, 2008". Blabbermouth. Retrieved 2009-01-12.
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