# The Best Meshuggah Guitar Solos

> The 18 best Meshuggah guitar solos, ranked. #1 is Bleed (2008), then Future Breed Machine and Sublevels. Every video starts at the solo.

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Meshuggah pioneered polymetric, extended-range riffing that spawned the djent movement. Above that machinery, Fredrik Thordendal's Holdsworth-inspired legato solos brought an alien, fusion-derived voice to extreme metal.

Informed by: [Wikipedia: Meshuggah discography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meshuggah_discography), [Wikipedia: Fredrik Thordendal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrik_Thordendal)

1. [Bleed](https://greatestsolos.com/song/meshuggah-bleed/) — Meshuggah · solo by Fredrik Thordendal · 2008
2. [Future Breed Machine](https://greatestsolos.com/song/meshuggah-future-breed-machine/) — Meshuggah · solo by Fredrik Thordendal · 1995
3. [Sublevels](https://greatestsolos.com/song/meshuggah-sublevels/) — Meshuggah · solo by Fredrik Thordendal · 1995
4. [New Millennium Cyanide Christ](https://greatestsolos.com/song/meshuggah-new-millennium-cyanide-christ/) — Meshuggah · solo by Fredrik Thordendal · 1998
5. [Rational Gaze](https://greatestsolos.com/song/meshuggah-rational-gaze/) — Meshuggah · solo by Fredrik Thordendal · 2002
6. [Straws Pulled at Random](https://greatestsolos.com/song/meshuggah-straws-pulled-at-random/) — Meshuggah · solo by Fredrik Thordendal · 2002
7. [Stengah](https://greatestsolos.com/song/meshuggah-stengah/) — Meshuggah · solo by Fredrik Thordendal · 2002
8. [Demiurge](https://greatestsolos.com/song/meshuggah-demiurge/) — Meshuggah · solo by Fredrik Thordendal · 2012
9. [The Hurt That Finds You First](https://greatestsolos.com/song/meshuggah-the-hurt-that-finds-you-first/) — Meshuggah · solo by Fredrik Thordendal · 2012
10. [Clockworks](https://greatestsolos.com/song/meshuggah-clockworks/) — Meshuggah · solo by Fredrik Thordendal · 2016
11. [Combustion](https://greatestsolos.com/song/meshuggah-combustion/) — Meshuggah · solo by Fredrik Thordendal · 2008
12. [Electric Red](https://greatestsolos.com/song/meshuggah-electric-red/) — Meshuggah · solo by Fredrik Thordendal · 2008
13. [Corridor of Chameleons](https://greatestsolos.com/song/meshuggah-corridor-of-chameleons/) — Meshuggah · solo by Fredrik Thordendal · 1998
14. [Soul Burn](https://greatestsolos.com/song/meshuggah-soul-burn/) — Meshuggah · solo by Fredrik Thordendal · 1995
15. [The Abysmal Eye](https://greatestsolos.com/song/meshuggah-the-abysmal-eye/) — Meshuggah · solo by Fredrik Thordendal · 2022
16. [They Move Below](https://greatestsolos.com/song/meshuggah-they-move-below/) — Meshuggah · solo by Fredrik Thordendal · 2022
17. [Transfixion](https://greatestsolos.com/song/meshuggah-transfixion/) — Meshuggah · solo by Fredrik Thordendal · 1995
18. [I Am Colossus](https://greatestsolos.com/song/meshuggah-i-am-colossus/) — Meshuggah · solo by Fredrik Thordendal · 2012

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