VIOLENT SLEEP OF REASON GREY/BLACK SPLATTER 03/21/2016 3 Feet High and Rising

3 Feet High and Rising is often viewed as the stylistic beginning of 1990s alternative hip hop (and especially jazz rap)

Largely overlooked now

It went on to chart at number 5 in the US Billboard 200 and was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album

Happy Again [Explicit Content] (Parental Advisory Explicit Lyrics

Richard Gottehrer (piano)

VIOLENT SLEEP OF REASON GREY/BLACK SPLATTER 03/21/2016 3 Feet High and RisingMeshuggah are simultaneously credited and maligned for the creation of "djent," a sound that has spawned countless and mostly bad imitators. But these Swedes have never tried to sound like anyone but themselves, each album carving that track further into metal history. A year shy of their 30th anniversary, the quintet offers another set of intensely syncopated, technical, hard grooving metal that is not remarkably different than anything they've done