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MESHUGGAH Guitarist Talks About 'Alive' DVD

February 10, 2010

LimeWire Music Blog recently conducted an interview with guitarist Mårten Hagström of Swedish experimental extreme metallers MESHUGGAH. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

LimeWire Music Blog: What made you want to finally do a DVD?

Mårten Hagström: We just wanted to present something that is a good representation of MESHUGGAH live. People have been asking for a live DVD for a long time so we just felt that maybe it was about time.

LimeWire Music Blog: How did you select director Ian MacFarland (who has done videos for FEAR FACTORY, GOD FORBID) to do the DVD?

Mårten Hagström: Ian has a great eye for these things and, being in a band himself (Boston hardcore band BLOOD FOR BLOOD),he knows how to make it authentic — make it feel real rather than a propped up rock myth video. And we really saw eye to eye on that. And obviously we made the right choice. We're really happy with the way it turned out.

LimeWire Music Blog: How are things different for the band today than in the beginning?

Mårten Hagström: Well, let me put it like this: everything is different, apart from the most important thing and that's our inspiration to keep exploring and having fun with our music. Now we make a living off this and we're doing so many things we were only dreaming of back then. But the core of it all is still us guys just going with our creative flow. We've hopefully matured a lot musically through the years but the drive is still the same.

Read the entire interview from the LimeWire Music Blog.

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