Sol Niger Within [SEP] record label
Sol Niger Within
Sol Niger Within is the first release by Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects, a side project of Meshuggah guitarist Fredrik Thordendal. The album was originally released in 1997 on the Ultimate Audio Entertainment label.
The album was remixed and re-released by Ultimate Audio Entertainment and Relapse Records in 1999 under the title "Sol Niger Within version 3.33". The re-release contains two bonus tracks but omits several parts of the original version. A number of other releases also exist.
The album is a
, although that title is not printed anywhere. Only 1000 copies were released by local record store Garageland in Umeå. After signing to German heavy metal record label Nuclear Blast, Meshuggah released its debut album "Contradictions Collapse" in 1991. Meshuggah's second album, "Destroy Erase Improve", was released in 1995.
Thordendal's side project's album, "Sol Niger Within", was released in 1997, as was the next Meshuggah EP, "The True Human Design". These were followed by the next