GOJIRA’S MARIO DUPLANTIER LOOKS JUST LIKE JASON MRAZ
Thanks: Sam R.
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GOJIRA ARE A JAM BAND
It’s been a long while since Roadrunner signed a reputable metal band on the up and up. Megadeth, Dream Theater, Rush and Opeth, some of their most recent signees, are all great bands to be sure, but all four were many albums into their career before moving over to Roadrunner. You’ve got to go all the way back to Trivium or possibly Killswitch Engage to find a metal band that Roadrunner scooped up from the underground and turned into a household name. Gojira are already established to some degree, sure, but while they’re loved and adored by the metal underground (relatively speaking), they’re not as well-known to mainstream metal crowds. Signing with Roadrunner signifies that both parties are ready to change that.
Can Gojira be the next household name in metal? They’re certainly good enough and have all the good-will of the metal underground backing them. Signing with a major label worked for Lamb of God and it sorta worked for Mastodon, but it was disastrous for Shadows Fall.
Anyway, Axl totally knocked it out of the park with an incredibly informative in-studio interview with Joe and Mario Duplantier last month; if you haven’t read it yet and you’re a Gojira fan, you owe it to yourself to do so right now. Decibel Magazine recently checked in with the latter, too, and got a juicy tidbit out of him about Gojira’s writing process. Unlike most bands these days who live in different cities and send files back and forth to write, Gojira actually still assemble in a room and jam everything out the old fashioned way! Quote:
SECOND GOJIRA STUDIO WEBISODE: SEE MARIO DUPLANTIER DOOR DRUM, HEAR SECONDS OF NEW ‘JIRA
So, hey, remember a couple of weeks ago how I interviewed Joe and Mario Duplantier from Gojira about their new album? And I told you that when I arrived at the studio for my interview, Mario was drumming on the door?
Well, some footage of that has found its way into the band’s second studio webisode, which you can check out below. The video fails to convey how incredibly LOUD Mario’s drumming was, but it’s still pretty cool to see.
Cooler still: we actually get to hear some very, very small snippets of new Gojira music. It’s not nearly enough to tell us anything concrete about the new album, but at this point, I’m such a Gojira fiend I’ll take a hit however tiny, y’know?
Gojira’s Roadrunner debut will be out sometime next year.
-AR
IN WHICH WE BROKE OUT EARLY TO EAT SOME TURKEY N’ SHIT
Yep, tomorrow is Thanksgiving. So we’re leaving the MetalSucks Mansion now. We’ll be back Monday, at which point we’ll make it up to you with some very special posts… honest Injun!
‘Til then, here’s some shit we did this week:
- We spoke to The Brothers Duplantier from Gojira about their new album, signing with Roadrunner Records, and more.
- Abysmal Dawn’s Charles Elliott gave us a guided tour of his live rig.
- We debuted new-old music by Coalesce.
Y’know. It was a short week.
Okay see ya Monday by-eeeeeee!!!
-AR
EXCLUSIVE METALSUCKS INTERVIEW: GOJIRA’S JOE & MARIO DUPLANTIER ON THEIR NEW ALBUM, SIGNING WITH ROADRUNNER RECORDS, THE SEA SHEPHERD EP, AND MORE
photos by Gabrielle Duplantier
November 12, 2011. I’m in Long Island City, heading towards Spin Recording Studios, where the mighty Gojira have recently begun recording their new album with producer Josh Wilbur. It’s a big deal because a) it’s Gojira’s first album in more than three years, b) the band has just announced that they’ve signed with Roadrunner Records, and c) Gojira fucking rules, and I’m a massive, massive fan.
I’m still a good block-and-a-half away when I hear it. It’s so incredibly LOUD and metallic, it almost sounds like machine gun fire — but it’s too rhythmic to be a weapon. I decide it must be a street performer, banging on some sheet metal or something… except that I can see the street all around me, and it’s completely deserted. If it is a street performer, he’s very well concealed, and is apparently playing to an audience of no one.
By the time I arrive at the front door of Spin Studios — a large, steel entrance — the sound has become deafening. And as I peek through the small, submarine-like door window, I finally see the source of the sound: it’s Gojira skinsman Mario Duplantier, drumming on the door like the thunder god that he is.
MISHASUCKS.NET/GEAR_GEEK: HOW MISHA GOT HIS GROOVE BACK
Thursday, July 8th, 2010 at 5:00pm by Bulb
Alight guys, sorry I haven’t posted an article in a while, but I’m here now with something I think is kinda cool and rarely gets talked about in the metal world: Groove.
Some of you guys may know just how much I love a rhythm that grooves, something that just makes you want to bob your head to it, and there’s more to it than just getting playful with the accents or syncopating a beat. There are the more subtle aspects, the kind that sometimes don’t translate so well to recordings. I mean, what is groove exactly and what gives it that “feel”? Who in the band really affects the level of groove — is it just the drummer, the drummer and the bassist, or the band as a whole?
GAY FOR GOJIRA
I love Gojira. I love them the way Mel Gibson loved that lady he killed all those people for in Braveheart. I love them the way Mel Gibson loved that lady he killed all those people for in Lethal Weapon 2. I love them the way Mel Gibson loved that lady he killed all those people for in Mad Max. I love them the way Mel Gibson loved the son he killed all those people for in The Patriot. I love Gojira the way Mel Gibson hates the Jews.
