Baiona,Progressive/Groove/Death Metal (Activa)
Formación Actual Joe Duplantier: Guitarra & Voz Mario Duplantier: Batería Christian Andreu: Guitarra Jean-Michel Labadie: Bajo |
Biografía
(Antes Godzilla)
It has always been hard to put a tag on GOJIRA, one of France’s most extreme bands the country’s musical pallet has ever known. But then again, the band has never really sought out such a tag, instead letting the music do the talking, preferring introspection and intelligence over preconceived notions and preexisting tags. Ever since the 1996 formation in town of Bayonne in the southwest of France, GOJIRA has been an ever-evolving experiment in extreme metal ultimately built upon a worldly, ever-conscious outlook with roots firmly-planted both in the hippie movement and an environmentally-conscious, new age mentality. This time, with The Way of All Flesh, GOJIRA harnesses a spiritual consciousness as well, but still culminates in a sound wholly heavy.
Originally dubbed Godzilla, after the scaly, green film star with an equally huge reputation as the newfound band’s sound, the brothers Duplantier – guitarist/vocalist Joe and drummer Mario – and fellow Frenchmen Jean Michel Labadie on bass and Christian Andreu on guitar, quickly released several demos, ultimately changing the band’s name and independently releasing the first GOJIRA album, Terra Incognita, in 2001, offering up a brief glimpse into the giant GOJIRA would eventually become through persistent hard work and years of toiling in the metal underground.
After the 2003 release of the band’s follow-up, The Link, throughout Europe and the subsequent live DVD release the next year, of the aptly-titled The Link Alive, 2005 brought the release of From Mars To Sirius, the band’s breakthrough release, garnering high praise and a North American release through Prosthetic Records in 2006. Fans of not only heavy, extreme music took notice, but so did the intellectual world, thanks to Sirius’ thoughtful and expansive inner examination of the world at hand and the consequences of humanity’s struggle to coexist without harm. The metal world was amused and amazed: much of it hadn’t yet seen an equally intelligent and pummelingly heavy release that was as expansive and open as it was dense and concise.
Following the immense praise of From Mars To Sirius and recurring trips across the Atlantic for North American touring alongside the likes of Lamb of God, Children of Bodom, and Behemoth among others, GOJIRA established its stranglehold on the extreme metal spectrum with a linguist’s touch, a lyricist’s finesse, and a crushingly heavy live show that left audiences astounded, establishing the band’s live performance as a spot-on recreation of the band’s increasingly adept and intelligent studio output.
While 2007 wrapped with GOJIRA again touring North America on the Radio Rebellion Tour alongside Behemoth to the best reaction yet, the dawn of 2008 saw a nearly 10 month wait for while the band assembled The Way of All Flesh, one of the year’s most anticipated records. This time revolving around the undeniable dilemma of a mortal demise, GOJIRA’s soundtrack to the situation seems fitting. Shifting ever-so-slightly from the eco-friendly orchestra of impending doom on From Mars To Sirius to the band’s new message of the equally uncontrollable inevitability of death, The Way of All Flesh melds the open and airy progressive passages GOJIRA has become famous for with the sonically dense sounds and bludgeoningly heavy rhythms that makes the band an equally intelligent force as it is unmatchably heavy.
Featuring a guest vocal spot on “Adoration For None” from Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe – one of GOJIRA’s most vocal supporters from their first moment making an impression in the Americas – and the now familiar Morbid Angel-isms of The Way Of All Flesh’s title track join the angular riffing more akin to Meshuggah on “Esoteric Surgery” and the epic, artful plodding of the nearly 10-minute “The Art of Dying,” showing that GOJIRA have indeed opened a new bag of tricks for The Way Of All Flesh, while not abandoning the sound that first showed a massive promise of potential on Sirius.
“It’s more inventive than From Mars To Sirius and at the same time more straight to the point,” GOJIRA frontman Joe Duplantier says of The Way of All Flesh. “The whole album is about death, death is like a step on the path of the soul. The mystery surrounding this phenomenon is just so inspiring, and death is the most common thing on earth.”
“This album is also a ‘requiem’ for our planet,” Duplantier continues. “We don't want to be negative or cynical about the fate of humanity, but the situation on Earth is growing critical, and the way humans behave is so catastrophic that we really need to express our exasperation about it. It's not fear, but anger. But we still believe that consciousness can make a difference and that we can change things as human beings.”
It has always been hard to put a tag on GOJIRA, one of France’s most extreme bands the country’s musical pallet has ever known. But then again, the band has never really sought out such a tag, instead letting the music do the talking, preferring introspection and intelligence over preconceived notions and preexisting tags. Ever since the 1996 formation in town of Bayonne in the southwest of France, GOJIRA has been an ever-evolving experiment in extreme metal ultimately built upon a worldly, ever-conscious outlook with roots firmly-planted both in the hippie movement and an environmentally-conscious, new age mentality. This time, with The Way of All Flesh, GOJIRA harnesses a spiritual consciousness as well, but still culminates in a sound wholly heavy.
Originally dubbed Godzilla, after the scaly, green film star with an equally huge reputation as the newfound band’s sound, the brothers Duplantier – guitarist/vocalist Joe and drummer Mario – and fellow Frenchmen Jean Michel Labadie on bass and Christian Andreu on guitar, quickly released several demos, ultimately changing the band’s name and independently releasing the first GOJIRA album, Terra Incognita, in 2001, offering up a brief glimpse into the giant GOJIRA would eventually become through persistent hard work and years of toiling in the metal underground.
After the 2003 release of the band’s follow-up, The Link, throughout Europe and the subsequent live DVD release the next year, of the aptly-titled The Link Alive, 2005 brought the release of From Mars To Sirius, the band’s breakthrough release, garnering high praise and a North American release through Prosthetic Records in 2006. Fans of not only heavy, extreme music took notice, but so did the intellectual world, thanks to Sirius’ thoughtful and expansive inner examination of the world at hand and the consequences of humanity’s struggle to coexist without harm. The metal world was amused and amazed: much of it hadn’t yet seen an equally intelligent and pummelingly heavy release that was as expansive and open as it was dense and concise.
Following the immense praise of From Mars To Sirius and recurring trips across the Atlantic for North American touring alongside the likes of Lamb of God, Children of Bodom, and Behemoth among others, GOJIRA established its stranglehold on the extreme metal spectrum with a linguist’s touch, a lyricist’s finesse, and a crushingly heavy live show that left audiences astounded, establishing the band’s live performance as a spot-on recreation of the band’s increasingly adept and intelligent studio output.
While 2007 wrapped with GOJIRA again touring North America on the Radio Rebellion Tour alongside Behemoth to the best reaction yet, the dawn of 2008 saw a nearly 10 month wait for while the band assembled The Way of All Flesh, one of the year’s most anticipated records. This time revolving around the undeniable dilemma of a mortal demise, GOJIRA’s soundtrack to the situation seems fitting. Shifting ever-so-slightly from the eco-friendly orchestra of impending doom on From Mars To Sirius to the band’s new message of the equally uncontrollable inevitability of death, The Way of All Flesh melds the open and airy progressive passages GOJIRA has become famous for with the sonically dense sounds and bludgeoningly heavy rhythms that makes the band an equally intelligent force as it is unmatchably heavy.
Featuring a guest vocal spot on “Adoration For None” from Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe – one of GOJIRA’s most vocal supporters from their first moment making an impression in the Americas – and the now familiar Morbid Angel-isms of The Way Of All Flesh’s title track join the angular riffing more akin to Meshuggah on “Esoteric Surgery” and the epic, artful plodding of the nearly 10-minute “The Art of Dying,” showing that GOJIRA have indeed opened a new bag of tricks for The Way Of All Flesh, while not abandoning the sound that first showed a massive promise of potential on Sirius.
“It’s more inventive than From Mars To Sirius and at the same time more straight to the point,” GOJIRA frontman Joe Duplantier says of The Way of All Flesh. “The whole album is about death, death is like a step on the path of the soul. The mystery surrounding this phenomenon is just so inspiring, and death is the most common thing on earth.”
“This album is also a ‘requiem’ for our planet,” Duplantier continues. “We don't want to be negative or cynical about the fate of humanity, but the situation on Earth is growing critical, and the way humans behave is so catastrophic that we really need to express our exasperation about it. It's not fear, but anger. But we still believe that consciousness can make a difference and that we can change things as human beings.”
Discografía
Tracklist 1. Clone 2. Lizard Skin 3. Satan Is A Lawyer 4. 04 (Instrumental) 5. Blow Me Away You (Niverse) 6. 5988 Trillions De Tonnes (Instrumental) 7. Deliverance 8. Space Time 9. On The B.O.T.A. 10. Rise 11. Fire Is Everything 12. Love 13. 1990 Quatrillions De Tonnes (Instrumental) 14. In The Forest 15. Clone (Live) (Bonus Track) 16. Love (Live) (Bonus Track) 17. Space Time (Live) (Bonus Track) |
Tracklist 1. Maciste01 2. Maciste02 3. Maciste03 |
Tracklist 1. Indians 2. In The Forest |
Tracklist 1. The Link 2. Death Of Me 3. Connected (Instrumental) 4. Remembrance 5. Torii (Instrumental) 6. Indians 7. Embrace The World 8. Inward Movement 9. Over The Flows 10. Wisdom Comes 11. Dawn |
Tracklist 1. Connected 2. Remembrance 3. Death Of Me 4. Love 5. Embrace The World 6. Space Time 7. Terra Inc. 8. Indians 9. Wisdom Comes 10. Blow Me Away You (Niverse) 11. Lizard Skin 12. Inward Movement 13. The Link 14. Clone 15. In The Forest |
Tracklist 1. Connected 2. Remembrance 3. Death Of Me 4. Love 5. Embrace The World 6. Space Time 7. Terra Inc. 8. Indians 9. Wisdom Comes 10. Blow Me Away You (Niverse) 11. Lizard Skin 12. Inward Movement 13. The Link 14. Clone 15. In The Forest |
Tracklist 1. Ocean Planet 2. Backbone 3. From The Sky 4. Unicorn (Instrumental) 5. Where Dragons Dwell 6. The Heaviest Matter Of The Universe 7. Flying Whales 8. In The Wilderness 9. World To Come 10. From Mars 11. To Sirius 12. Global Warming 13. Escape (Metallica Cover) (Bonus Track) |
Tracklist 1. Oroborus 2. Toxic Garbage Island 3. A Sight To Behold 4. Yama's Messengers 5. The Silver Cord (Instrumental) 6. All The Tears 7. Adoration For None 8. The Art Of Dying 9. Esoteric Surgery 10. Vacuity 11. Wolf Down The Earth 12. The Way Of All Flesh |
Tracklist 1. Of Blood And Salt |
Tracklist 1. End Of Time 2. Bleeding |
Tracklist 1. L'Enfant Sauvage |
Tracklist 1. Oroborus 2. The Heaviest Matter Of The Universe 3. Backbone 4. Love 5. From The Skye 6. A Sight To Behold 7. The Art Of Dying 8. Drum Solo 9. Clone 10. Flying Whales 11. The Way Of All Flesh 12. Terra Incognita 13. Vacuity 14. Lizard Skin 15. Indians 16. Toxic Garbage Island 17. World To Come 18. Documentary: The Way Of All Flesh Inside 19. Oroborus 20. The Heaviest Matter Of The Universe 21. Backbone 22. Flying Whales 23. Toxic Garbage Island 24. The Way Of All Flesh 25. Terra Incognita 26. Vacuity 27. Oroborus 28. The Heaviest Matter Of The Universe 29. Backbone 30. Love 31. From The Sky 32. A Sight To Behold 33. The Art Of Dying 34. Clone 35. Flying Whales 36. The Way Of All Flesh Inside 37. Terra Incognita 38. Vacuity |
Tracklist 1. Explosia 2. L'Enfant Sauvage 3. The Axe 4. Liquid Fire 5. The Wild Healer (Instrumental) 6. Planned Obsolescence 7. Mouth Of Kala 8. The Gift Of Guilt 9. Pain Is A Master 10. Born In Winter 11. The Fall 12. This Emptiness (Bonus Track) 13. My Last Creation (Bonus Track) 14. Oroborus 15. The Heaviest Matter of the Universe 16. Backbone 17. Love 18. A Sight To Behold 19. The Art Of Dying 20. Drum Solo 21. Clone 22. Flying Whales 23. Toxic Garbage Island 24. Vacuity |
Tracklist 1. Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage 2. Gojira - The Axe 3. Gojira - The Gift Of Guilt 4. Kvelertak - Kvelertak 5. Kvelertak - Bruane Brenn 6. Kvelertak - Evig Vandrar |
Tracklist 1. Intro 2. Explosia 3. Flying Whales 4. Backbone 5. The Heaviest Matter Of The Universe 6. L'Enfant Sauvage 7. Toxic Garbage Island 8. Wisdom Comes 9. Jam 10. Oroborus 11. Drum Solo 12. The Axe 13. The Gift Of Guilt |
Tracklist 1. Intro 2. Explosia 3. Flying Whales 4. Backbone 5. The Heaviest Matter Of The Universe 6. L'Enfant Sauvage 7. Toxic Garbage Island 8. Wisdom Comes 9. Jam 10. Oroburus 11. Drum Solo 12. The Axe 13. The Gilt Of Guilt |
Tracklist 1. The Shooting Star 2. Silvera 3. The Cell 4. Stranded 5. Yellow Stone 6. Magma 7. Pray 8. Only Pain 9. Low Lands 10. Liberation |
Tracklist 1. Another World |
Tracklist 1. Born For One Thing 2. Amazonia 3. Another World 4. Hold On 5. New Found 6. Fortitude 7. The Chant 8. Sphinx 9. Into The Storm 10. The Trails 11. Grind |
Tracklist 1. Our Time Is Now |
Resto Discografía
Tracklist 1. A Day To Remember - Miracle 2. Bishop Briggs - Revolution 3 Chilli Jesson - Carolina Reaper 4. Coheed And Cambria - The Liars Club 5. De’Wayne Ft. Poorstacy - Die Out Here 6. Death Lens - Swing For The Fences 7. Frank Turner - Punches 8. Games We Play - St. Girlfriend 9. Ghost - Kaisarion 10. Gojira - Our Time Is Now 11. Highly Suspect - Natural Born Killer 12. Holy Wars - Battery Life 13. Iann Dior Ft. Travis Barker - Obvious 14. Kasabian - Rocket Fuel 15. Korn - Forgotten 16. Lozeak - Word Vomit 17. Matt Maeson - Blood Runs Red 18. Missio - Say Something 19. Mod Sun - Rich Kids Ruin Everything 20. Motionless In White Ft. Caleb Shomo - Red, White & Boom 21. Muse - Kill Or Be Killed 22. Nobro - Better Each Day 23. Nova Twins - Fire & Ice 24. Panic! At The Disco - Say It Louder 25. Pengshui - Idkwybt 26. Pup - Totally Fine 27. Real Friends - Tell Me You’Re Sorry 28. Safari - Youth Animal 29. Shinedown - No Sleep Tonight 30. Sports Team - The Game * Stick To Your Guns – «A World To Win» * Sueco – «Loser» * Surf Curse – «Tvi» * Ten Tonnes – «Go» * The Amazons – «Wait For Me» * The Mysterines – «Hung Up» * The Snuts – «Burn The Empire» * Turnstile – «Wild Wrld» * Wage War – «Manic» * Windwaker – «Beautiful» * Yonaka – «I Want More» * Yungblud Ft. Willow – «Memories» |