When venerable sock manufacturer Scion speaks, we listen. So when Scion posted the above image via their Facebook page last night we couldn’t help but get very excitebike [thanks to Metal Injection]:

We’ve got something special coming to you from Meshuggah next Tuesday.

Releasing free EPs is the Scion way — they’ve recently done it with Revocation, Arsis, Enslaved, Magrudergrind and Immolation, just to name a few — so I think we can safely assume that the image we’re seeing above is indeed a cover for a new EP. Will it be a live EP culled from the band’s Scion-sponsored U.S. tour last year or will it consist of entirely new material? Our bet’s on the latter as that, too, is the Scion way. In either case the timing is perfect given Meshuggah’s pending U.S. tour with Animals as Leaders and Intronaut.

In conclusion: MESHUUUUUUGGGGAHHHHHHHH