Meshuggah has opted to not reschedule their canceled 2020 shows and festival appearances in favor of working on a new album. Originally they were going to try and play the same festivals re-confirming them for the same dates in summer 2021. Full Force Festival is one of these festivals that has already been re-confirmed and re-announced. However, after seeing some of the other festivals move to completely different weekends in 2021, we eventually found it impossible to go ahead with the tour next summer due to logistical reasons. This also means that Meshuggah has to cancel their planned appearance at Full Force 2021.

The band released a statement on social media. 

“As previously communicated our intent was to keep our commitment to all festivals and shows planned for summer 2020, that couldn’t take place due to the Covid-19 pandemic, by 

“Another influential part of the decision to not tour in summer 2021 is that Covid-19 restrictions have also affected MESHUGGAH’s progress with a new studio album, to a point where we now see the need to keep summer 2021 clear to put finishing touches to the album.

“MESHUGGAH and their management would like to apologize to all fans and promoters being affected by this.

“Some good news is to be found in here though: there is a new MESHUGGAH album coming…”

MESHUGGAH’s last disc, “The Violent Sleep Of Reason”, came out in 2016 and resulted in a “Best Metal Performance” Grammy nomination for the song “Clockworks”.

“The Violent Sleep Of Reason” was produced by the band and was engineered by Tue Madsen of Puk Studios in Kaerby, Denmark.