Gojira
From Mars To Sirius

THE REVIEW

I'm sorry deBaser, but this is a metal album (!!!).

But, luckily for you, my good deBaser - who I obviously love as well and would never be cruel to you - this is not just any metal.

These Gojira are French, young (I think), and determined. Determined to do what they do, definitely. And what they do is evolve what has been death metal in a direction, however, opposite to what has now become common: I am referring to the extremeness that later led to brutal death, Nile, etc., etc., all that stuff basically.
Anyway, as I was saying, no, Gojira take another path: they weigh down and tear apart death metal by spreading hyper-riffed and massive structures through a wall of sound that travels on high and low levels, melodic and harmonic on some occasions, claustrophobic and furious in other instances.

It is a sludge attitude that permeates the entire beauty of a truly valuable work. These Gojira hold dear space-science fiction, spiritual, and especially environmentalist (?) themes, as our friends had already mentioned with their previous albums "Terra Incognita" and "The Link" (which I haven't listened to, but knowing the band I recommend them anyway). Here it talks about journeys for salvation, the search for lost paradises, the mystery of creation, in short, this is heavy metal.

See deBaser, how I love you? This CD, in a word, is beautiful. It is strong, large, furious, melodic, speeds up, slows down, pauses, advances, progresses creating, I repeat just because it's a striking phrase, something beautiful.