Contradictions Collapse

Contradictions Collapse
Studio album by Meshuggah
Released	October 1, 1991
Recorded	Umeå, Sweden
Genre	Thrash metal, progressive metal
Length	56:38
Label	Nuclear Blast
Meshuggah chronology
Meshuggah (EP - "Psykisk Testbild") (1989) Contradictions Collapse (1991) None (1994)

Contradictions Collapse is the first album by Swedish metal band, Meshuggah. The album was released on October 1, 1991, by Nuclear Blast. Contradictions Collapse was originally titled All This Because of Greed. The album leans more towards a thrash metal sound than the band's later works though it does have many of the band's characteristic elements such as the jazz fusion sounding guitar solos and complex precision. It was re-released as a digipak with an incomplete version of Meshuggah's second EP, None in 1998 and no liner notes or lyrics included in the booklet.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Paralyzing Ignorance"	4:28
2.	"Erroneous Manipulation"	6:21
3.	"Abnegating Cecity"	6:31
4.	"Internal Evidence"	7:27
5.	"Qualms of Reality"	7:10
6.	"We'll Never See the Day"	6:03
7.	"Greed"	7:06
8.	"Choirs of Devastation"	4:00
9.	"Cadaverous Mastication"	7:32
10.	"Humiliative" (1998 Bonus Track)	5:17
11.	"Sickening" (1998 Bonus Track)	5:46
12.	"Ritual" (1998 Bonus Track)	6:17
13.	"Gods of Rapture" (1998 Bonus Track)	5:10

Personnel

Meshuggah

• Jens Kidman − rhythm guitar, lead vocals
• Fredrik Thordendal − lead guitar, backing vocals
• Peter Nordin − bass
• Tomas Haake − drums