Fredrik Thordendal

Fredrik Thordendal, born 1970 in Umeå, Sweden, is the lead guitarist and a founding member of Meshuggah, and to me he is simply the wizard of odd time. His knotted, shifting rhythms and those gloriously alien, weightless solos don't sound like a guitar being played so much as a new instrument being invented. Guitar World ranking him No. 35 among metal's greatest feels almost conservative. He helped birth the entire djent vocabulary, and for ears bored by conventional metal his playing lands like a controlled dose of something hallucinogenic. I hold him in genuine, deep reverence.

Name (English)

Fredrik Thordendal

Name (Japanese)

フレドリック・トーデンダル

Reading

ふれどりっく・とーでんだる

Born

February 11, 1970 (age 56)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Dog

Origin

Umeå, Västerbotten County, Sweden

Occupation

guitarist / composer

• Official sitehttps://www.meshuggah.net
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrik%20Thordendal
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%AC%E3%83%89%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%88%E3%83%BC%E3%83%87%E3%83%B3%E3%83%80%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q507959

Tags

• Västerbotten County
• guitarist
• composer

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.