Meshuggah reunited for 1998's Chaosphere, a thunderous, almost unbearably dense album in its compositional makeup and dynamic scope. In 1997, Meshuggah returned with The True Human Design EP that same year, Thordendal's side project, Special Defects, released their LP Sol Niger Within.

Destroy Erase Improve appeared later in 1995, and won over critics with its heady tempos and abstract approach. Second guitarist Mårten Hagström was recruited for 1993's None EP, followed two years later by Selfcaged in the interim, however, the group was forced to maintain a low profile - first Thordendal severed a finger in a carpentry accident, then Haake injured his hand in a mysterious grinder mishap. After signing to Nuclear Blast (and swapping Lundgren for drummer Tomas Haake), they issued the full-length Contradictions Collapse in 1991. In 1989, the band released a three-song mini-LP. When the vocalist left his own outfit, he and Thordendal agreed to reclaim the Meshuggah mantle. A handful of demos followed before Kidman left to form Calipash the surviving members of Meshuggah soon disbanded. The original Meshuggah roster also included vocalist Jens Kidman, guitarist Johan Sjögren, bassist Jörgen Lindmark, and drummer Per Sjögren. Thordendal continued with a different lineup and name. After their demos made the rounds, they group split. Meshuggah's roots were planted in 1985 originally named Metallien, the founding lineup included frontman Roger Olofsson, guitarists Peder Gustafsson and Fredrik Thordendal, bassist Janne Wiklund, and drummer Örjan Lundmark. After several world tours, and the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown, they returned with Immutable in 2022. 2016's The Violent Sleep of Reason kept the groove but offered even more intricately constructed compositions. Meshuggah, ever aware of imitators, shifted gears again on 2012's Koloss, moving to a slower, more groove oriented approach without sacrificing their technical mastery. 2008's obZen marked a return to thrash and received a Swedish Grammy nomination. 2004's I EP was comprised of a single, spiraling, 21-minute track. 2002's controversial Nothing slowed tempos, introduced eight string guitars, and explored tonal dissonance. Only two more albums appeared in the 1990s. A touring juggernaut they record sporadically. Meshuggah's 1991 debut Contradictions Collapse changed the course of the genre. Early on, the term 'intellectual death metal,' was used to describe their albums.

They are both celebrated and maligned for the creation of the 'djent' metal sound. They combine sweeping math rock, prog, syncopated polyrhythms, and chromatic harmonies drawn from jazz, technical death metal, and brutal thrash in polymetered compositions. Sweden's experimental metal band Meshuggah play a complex hybrid music of their own design.

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