MESHUGGAH: New Video Interview With MÅRTEN HAGSTRÖM Available

February 20, 2009

Before Swedish experimental extreme metallers MESHUGGAH itook the stage last night (Thursday, February 19) in New York City for the second-to-last show of their U.S. headline tour with CYNIC and THE FACELESS, HeadbangersBlog.com pinned down guitarist Mårten Hagström for a brief on-camera interview about the highlights of the tour, the concert DVD on which the band is currently working and preliminary plans for the next studio opus. Watch part one of the interview below.

MESHUGGAH and the support band on the band's North American trek, CYNIC, are opening the tour video player to their fans, and calling on them to send in pictures and footage (camera phone or otherwise) from the shows, documenting their own (fan) experience of the tour. All concert-goers need to do is send their video shots to [email protected], and if accepted, the clips will be available for the entire metal world to see.

Released in March 2008, MESHUGGAH's "obZen" album debuted at No. 59 on The Billboard 200 chart and at No. 14 on the iTunes Top Rock Albums chart. "obZen" has sold more than 50,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

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