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GOJIRA’S JOE DUPLANTIER PICKS HIS FAVORITE METAL VIDEOS

 Thursday, October 1st, 2009 at 9:30am by

Mere hours before Gojira played the best show of 2009, our friends at Metal Injection interview G to the Jira main man Joe Duplantier, and even got him to pick his favorite metal videos. No shock: the man has good taste. So, needless to say, this is pretty awesome.

Vince’s own interview with Joe should go up sometime next week. You’ll wanna read that, too. Trust me.

-AR

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  • joshkid

    Gojira fuckin rules! No matter how many times I say or hear that, it won’t get boring. Gojira fuckin rules!

    • DidgeryDo

      1

  • Zoker

    This guy looks to me like some open-minded science professor.

    • DidgeryDo

      He’s French and playing a stereotypically American brand of music. Right there that says a lot.
      He’s really cool to his crowds too in concert.

  • bucketochicken

    Ok. I am now a Trepalium fan.

    • ceth carter

      Yeah, that shit tripped me out when it got going,I have not heard anything quite like that. i immediately wrote that name down for some checking into later.

    • DidgeryDo

      +1 me too.

      This is the first I ever heard of them and I was definitely impressed.

      Metalsucks guys: Please put these dudes on your radar if you haven’t allready. I want to hear more.

    • Shinaain

      Trepalium and Manimal are the 2 French bands they name-drop the most, when asked. Joe has mentioned in the past that he’s such a firm supporter of these bands that he would like to one day be in the position to be able to bring them to the States to tour with Gojira. Others, mentioned only in passing: Gronibard and Dagoba. French metal has exploded lately, so I can no longer separate which other bands I know of because the Gojira guys have mentioned them or because I found them in other places.

      • bucketochicken

        Yeah, I’ve searched around for Manimal, but haven’t had any luck. Granted, that was quite awhile ago, and I probably didn’t try very hard…

        Awesome name, though.

        • bucketochicken

          Yep, I’m retarded:

          http://www.myspace.com/manimale

          • Shinaain

            I was just logging in to tell you’re they’re on Joe’s top friends on myspace. Good work! lol

          • bucketochicken

            Ok, I like this too. Gojira-y with FNM-ish (or even, like Faster Pussycat, maybe) vocals. Sick.

          • bucketochicken

            Ok, fuck me, these guys are great. I think I like Manimal even better than Trepalium…

            Nice hearing death-y metal w/out traditional growly-gravelly death vocals.

            Viva la France!

          • Shinaain

            Bucket: I think I’ve plugged them here before, but you should check out Joe and Mario’s side project, Empalot (www.myspace.com/empalot). Brief overview: Sort of like the French Mr Bungle, only different – jazz, avant garde, and the kitchen sink thrown in over prog-metal tunes. The way a song begins is not guaranteed to be the way it ends, and there’s often 3-4 songs in 1.

            Also, if you look on YouTube, you can find at least one video of Joe performing “Dead Meat” with Manimal at a live show in France a few years ago.

          • bucketochicken

            Cool, thanks! I’ll check em out. I love Mr Bungle.

  • MikeAdam

    that 3rd vid is a bugout but the song is fuckin awesome

  • NoNameNoSlogan

    the man has good taste

  • Kyle

    Gojira certainly lived up to all the hype about their live show. Amazing. Saw then in Atlanta last week and seeing them again tomorrow night in Orlando. Can’t wait!

    • MikeAdam

      at the social right? i’m going to man

      • Kyle

        Nice. Yup, the Social. Never been there before, but I hear its a cool little venue. I’m driving in from Jacksonville.

  • DidgeryDo

    Joe is the shit. I loved all the songs except maybe Despised Icon. I was also really hoping he’d pick a Tool song. Also I have to say wow, Trepalium. Never heard of these guys and I LOVE that song. So crazy to have a working fusion of Death Metal and boogie. That’s like a peanut butter and sardine sandwich that surprisingly tastes delicious.

    2011 huh Joe? It’s OK being a Tool fan for so long I know how to wait.

    One more thing is that this guy is chill as fuck and really down to earth. He’s a credit to the French people for sure. I saw him and his awesome band early May in Manhattan and it was amazing. I just hope that they decide to drop Volbeat off the Metallica tour and have Gojira come the entire way because seeing Metallica, LOG and Gojira in one night would be so sick. I live near NYC and I don’t feel like driving south to see this.

    • http://iand Iand

      Despised Icoon >YOU

      • DidgeryDo

        Me > Dog Turd > You > Despised Icon

  • Shinaain

    I meant to ask you guys last week if you’d managed to get another interview.

    Post haste, sirs. You know what I’m telling you to do.

  • Facebook User

    “G to the Jira” = Gjira? BEING “URBAN” FAIL.

    • DidgeryDo

      You do realize the metalsucks guys like me are based out of the NYC area right?

      You = FAIL

  • alliaphagist

    aaaah Sick Boogie Murder is such a good song

  • DidgeryDo

    I think this article is a great counter-point to what Eyal Levi posted last. Obviously metal is exploding in France thanks to Gojira.

    • djabthrash

      Well… not really

  • Shinaain

    I subscribe to The Fix podcasts over iTunes and then listen to them at work on my iPod. For those who can’t watch videos at work: At the end of this, Rob asks Joe whether or not he will continue to work with Cavalera Conspiracy and Joe said he’s not allowed to say just yet, since it’s not his band. He then reiterated that Gojira is taking time off next year (A BREAK, *NOT BREAKING UP* – taking time writing, NEW ALBUM PROJECTED 2011).

    In an interview he gave last week, he said the shows in France in November would be the last for Gojira this year before they take a break. I kept hoping they would announce a few more US dates before the end of the year; alas, it will not be.

    The pictoral series they’re doing over the band’s MySpace for the US tour is pretty sweet. You all should check it out – the guys are actually multi-talented artists and more than just amazing musicians…as though that weren’t enough, but still…..

    • rayray

      Gojira could be the best band on the planet right now. In any genre. The most humble nice dudes maybe ever in metal. Sucks that they are not doing another US run this year. Would love to go out and see them again.

      • Shinaain

        I agree, although in their defense they’ve already done 3-4 US tours (one headlining, with some intermittent headlining dates lately) in the last year alone. I want them to come back because (1) I’m greedy and (2) I haven’t gotten see them yet (my own stupid fault). But if calling this album cycle after this tour increases the chances that they’ll have more to give us the next go ’round, I’ll take it and be fully supportive.

        The Metal Hammer podcast for July 10, 2009 (no link from work, find it somewhere on http://www.metalhammer.co.uk or iTunes, fast forward to 50:25 for a 10-minute interview with Joe) illustrates how badly this band needs a break. Joe sounds uncharacteristically weary in it, and I can’t help but hope that the Metallica tour has perked him up at least a little bit since that interview was given.

  • uLy

    Fuck 2011 =(