Gojira is a French metal band that's been releasing a unique genre-blending combination of death, groove, and sludge metal since 1996.
The band has been acclaimed for their environmental themes, conceptual albums, usage of stop/start time signatures, blast beats, and their complex, atmospheric playing style.The album I'm writing about, "From Mars to Sirius" is a concept album revolving around the resurrection of a dead planet through an interplanetary quest.
With a barnburner of an opener like Ocean World (which samples whale sounds), you get a good idea of what to expect from the rest of the record.
That's not to say the record follows a certain pattern. It features crunching, heavy tracks like backbone that sound like they belong on Slipknot's "Iowa" and shorter, more atmospheric tracks like Unicorn.
Mixing a perfect blend of cleans and brain shattering growls on songs like "The Heaviest Matter of The Universe" the band continues to keep listeners interested and headbanging. Gojira continues to preach their environmental stances through thought-provoking lyricism, and while it's incredibly easy to fall into pretension when writing environmentally charged music they avoid cliche way as they seamlessly weave their messages throughout the albums plotline.
There's also quite a bit of technical death metal influence on certain tracks and the complexity found in the riffs is truly mesmerizing.
While the length of the album may be a bit much for some, the intensity and complexity of the band's work is enough to entice any lovers of heavy music to give it a full listen.
Highlight Track: To Sirius and Ocean Planet
Overall Rank: 4.5/5
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