Before all this "djent" business turned from the sound of a low tuned palm muted guitar, into a frickin' genre of music (thank you sevenstring.org Periphery fanboys!), Meshuggah really stood alone, as the pioneers of using 8 string guitars for crushing, complex time-signatured metal.
This song is from the first album that Meshuggah used 8 string guitars tuned half a step down to F.
Technically the 8 strings were first used when Meshuggah re-recorded the guitar parts for the 2006 re-release of "Nothing".
The original came out in 2002, and at this point, Meshuggah's guitarists had to make do with down tuned 7 string guitars, to get that low F.
The link below is the 2006 version of the song Rational Gaze, and I still cannot get over how heavy and powerful the groove of the opening riff is.
Enjoy
Rational Gaze (2006)
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