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Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects

Submitted by StervendeWens on Sat, 05/09/2009 - 23:07
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  • Morgan Ågren
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Fredrik Thordendal is the lead guitarist and a founding member of the swedish metal band Meshuggah.

Under the name Fredrik Thordendal’s Special Defects, Thordendal released his first and only solo album in 1997 titled “Sol Niger Within” with Ultimate Audio Entertainment. The album featured Tomas Haake (drummer of Meshuggah ) on “spoken vocals”, as well as Morgan Ågren on drumkit and Mats Öberg on keyboards, who both have played for “Mats and Morgan” and ” Frank Zappa “. The style of music is best described as very a very similar style to Meshuggah’s thrashy poly rhythmic Metal with Jazz elements and some obscure noise effects such as high pitched shrieks and screams.

The album was remixed and re-released by Ultimate Audio Entertainment and Relapse Records in 1999 under the title “Sol Niger Within version 3.33”. The re-release contains two bonus tracks but omits several parts of the original version, most noticeably, the church organs. The Bonus tracks include “Missing Time” and “Ooo Baby Baby”.

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Title Type Rating Label Release datesort icon
Sol Niger Within Full-length
9.35
 Ultimate Audio Entertainment, Relapse Records February 22, 1999

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Comments

Submitted by Iamasingularity on Sat, 19/05/2012 - 06:19.

When Fredrik has the time off his other band to work on it... Sol Niger is really unknown, even among the Meshuggah fanbase. If more people had picked up a copy 14 years ago it wouldn`t have been long before he could have released another album....

Submitted by dhinged on Fri, 18/05/2012 - 20:03.

When the fuck is Sol Niger Within II coming out?!

Submitted by benanne on Wed, 22/02/2012 - 22:23.

You are right, dunno why I didn't notice this before. Please do not encourage people to illegally obtain copyrighted material, do not sollicit links to it, and especially, don't post any links to it. Doing so is disrespectful towards the artists and we run the risk of being shut down since we are held liable for all content on this website.

Submitted by Iamasingularity on Wed, 22/02/2012 - 16:30.

mod edit: quote removed

No,no,no. Don`t point people to sources of pirated music. Especially Sol Niger Within. ಠ_ರೃ Buy yourself a copy and support the work. If this keeps up, Special Defects 2 will never come out. >: /

Submitted by dbilidb on Fri, 28/10/2011 - 11:03.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fredrik-Thordendals-Special-Defects/104037702967260?sk=info
I don't know reason why I can't access their facebook, but I put this link. Sorry. =(

Submitted by symbeyonddr on Thu, 24/03/2011 - 17:45.

Released 1997 (Ultimate Audio Entertainment)
February 22, 1999 (Ultimate Audio Entertainment & Relapse Records)

Submitted by Djentdrummer on Thu, 03/02/2011 - 22:18.

mod edit: please do not encourage people to download copyrighted material illegally.

Submitted by Valhalladjent on Sun, 30/01/2011 - 20:20.

How do i get my hands on this?

Submitted by xVictimOfADownx on Thu, 20/01/2011 - 00:20.

I like this instrumental project more than Meshuggah, the instrumentals are more progressive and there aren't vocals that barely ever change. I like Meshuggah but this instrumental project has all the aspects of Meshuggah that I love without the negative aspects in my opinion.

Submitted by benanne on Wed, 19/01/2011 - 16:33.

Please at least post your comments in English.

Submitted by MthS-MlndN on Wed, 19/01/2011 - 16:29.

Chronique de l'album de Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects (en français), sur le blog musical Modern Zeuhl, à cette adresse :

http://modernzeuhl.blogspot.com/2011/01/fredrik-thordendals-special-defects.html

Submitted by Kalium on Mon, 10/05/2010 - 08:19.

oh thank god, I really hated those church organs. I'm definately looking into this, and to see how it sounds now that Fredrik has 15 years more experience as a producer (given that he produced this re-mixed version as well, of course).