MESHUGGAH have roared into the American Billboard Top 200 Albums chart at #17 with first week sales of 18,342 copies sold of their brand new album, Koloss, released in North America on March 26th. Koloss has also debuted at #25 on the Canadian Top 200 chart at #24 and currently occupy the #4 slot on the Hard Music chart.

Koloss is also #2 on the Billboard Independent Albums chart, #3 on the Current Hard Music Albums chart, #3 on the Top Hard Music chart, #9 on the Current Rock chart, and #16 on the Top Current Albums chart.

In Europe, the band experienced a career first on the German album chart: a debut at #48.

In the process of accumulating said accolades, they’ve also managed to secure the highest first week sales and Billboard debut positions in the history of Nuclear Blast USA.

“Absolutely amazing!!!” exclaimed label Vice President Jochen Maass at Nuclear Blast HQ in Germany.

“Killer music and the lovely people making it is the winning formula,” states Nuclear Blast USA’s Label Manager Gerardo Martínez.

From the other side of the world, the members of Meshuggah offer the following words: “Great news!! Guess all the efforts, the covert sessions, and painstaking, soul-numbing seances performed to reach the souls of former chart toppers - now in the life beyond – have finally come to fruition!! We thank them and we thank you, our fans!!! We just made an album. You guys put it on the charts!!!”

Koloss is available as a CD digi, limited edition Magic Cube (CD digi plus DVD, exclusive to Nuclear Blast mail order) and two-LP brown vinyl.

Koloss tracklisting:

'I Am Colossus'

'The Demon’s Name Is Surveillance'

'Do Not Look Down'

'Behind The Sun'

'The Hurt That Finds You First'

'Marrow'

'Break Those Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion'

'Swarm'

'Demiurge'

'The Last Vigil'

Check out BraveWords.com's review of Koloss at this location.

Check out an album trailer below:

Audio samples for all tracks on the album can now be heard at Amazon.co.uk

Meshuggah have debuted their new video, for the track 'Break These Bones Whose Sinews Gave It Motion'.

The performance video was directed by Owe Lingvall of Sweden’s Village Road Film. Neither the band nor the director can be held responsible for any low-frequency hearing loss or bruising (internal or otherwise) which may result from watching it.

States vocalist Jens Kidman: “We were high on tacos and sodas when we recorded this video.”

Meshuggah will be taking their sonic arsenal on the road and detonating sound systems in cities across the US and Canada on The Ophidian Trek tour, which launches on April 29th in Houston. Direct support for all 19 shows will come from BARONESS; opening each night will be special guests and label mates DECAPITATED from Poland.

Tour dates include:

April

29 - House of Blues - Houston, TX
30 - House of Blues - Dallas, TX

May

1 - Emo’s - Austin, TX
3 - Marquee Theatre - Tempe, AZ
4 - House of Blues - Anaheim, CA
5 - House of Blues - Hollywood, CA
6 - The Fillmore - San Francisco, CA
8 - Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver, BC
9 - Showbox Sodo - Seattle, WA
11 - Odgen Theatre - Denver, CO
13 - First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN
15 - House of Blues - Chicago, IL
16 - St. Andrews Hall - Detroit, MI
17 - Sound Academy - Toronto, ON
18 - Theatre of the Living Arts - Philadelphia, PA
19 - Palladium - Worcester, MA
20 - Olympia de Montreal - Montreal, QC
22 - The Fillmore - Silver Springs, MD
23 - Terminal 5 – New York, NY

For more info visit the band on Facebook.