Gojira was formed in 1996 in Bayonne, Franceer since forming in a garage of the southwestern French town of Bayonne in 1996. They were orginally named Godzilla but soon later changed the named to Gojira. Gojira has been an ever-evolving experiment in extreme metal built upon a worldly-conscious outlook with roots firmly planted partially from the hippie movement, partly from an environmentally-conscious new age mentality, but wholly heavy. "From Mars To Sirius" is an album that does the talking for those that can't talk for themselves, an album that takes everything you know about heavy music and somehow reinvents the sound into something new, refreshing, and unrelentingly heavy.Musically, the band plays a mixture of several different types of music, including death metal, thrash metal, progressive metal, and metalcore, but there are also more atmospheric sections to many songs in a similar style to the American metal band Mastodon. They also utilize a range of different vocal styles, from deep death grunts, to higher pitched screaming, and from coarse singing, to much cleaner vocals. It has some of the best drum work I have heard in metal bands today, minus what the new Slayer and Mastodon albums, which I have yet to hear drumming, but it's still top notch.
Lyrically, the band deals with subjects such as the environment and how people treat it. In particular, their latest album From Mars To Sirius has many songs which lyrically show a concern about human-induced climate change and how it could affect our planet.
Gojira has managed to create a distinct sound that manages to break out of the status quo for today’s metal scene and they are breath of fresh air to the massive popular and over-rated metal scene trend that has been putting out a few amazing band and a shit bag full of crap.
Gojira, From Mars To Sirius (Prosthetic Records, 2005)
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