Author Topic: Gojira (Read 3500 times)

BloodMountain · « **on:** April 21, 2007, 05:39:19 PM »

holy shite.

went to see them last night in Plymouth with trivium etc.

and they blew all of the other bands away! very heavy, cool melodic ideas, and nice pinched harmonics too!

anyone else have any love for them??

BM

gingataff · « **Reply #1 on:** April 21, 2007, 05:51:26 PM »

Damn, I was expecting a post about a bloke in a rubber dinosaur suit smashing up cardboard cities.

Davey · « **Reply #2 on:** April 21, 2007, 06:30:22 PM »

no, that's godzirra :roll:

Philly Q · « **Reply #3 on:** April 21, 2007, 06:58:30 PM »

I've got one of their albums, it was an impulse buy because I liked the name (Gojira = Godzilla's original Japanese name) and the picture of a whale on the cover (oh, I'm so shallow...).

Didn't like it, but I must give it another go.

BloodMountain · « **Reply #4 on:** April 21, 2007, 07:02:50 PM »

ah, ok...

i really like the whole whale/environment theme, and that makes the music amazing!! because they use that theme to write the music

i love their percussive bits and their soundscape bits too... it's an ideal band for me :D

MDV · « **Reply #5 on:** April 21, 2007, 07:05:47 PM »

Great band.

Philly Q · « **Reply #6 on:** April 21, 2007, 09:02:57 PM »

Apologies for my flippant comment up the page, BM. I didn't mean it to sound like "Gojira sucks", they're good but just not my cup of tea.

There's some very good stuff on From Mars To Sirius - I like the melodic parts and some of the big repetitive "cinematic" riffs. But I have my usual problem with the growly vocals and the fast drumming bits (and those squealing harmonics do my head in!

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Sekhmet · « **Reply #7 on:** April 22, 2007, 10:45:26 AM »

Wern't Annihilator playing at that gig?

I really wanted to go just to see them but had work :-( (Annhilator that is)

BloodMountain · « **Reply #8 on:** April 22, 2007, 11:44:39 AM »

Annihilator were shite.

apart from alice in hell, but the rest didn't get the crowd going.

MDV · « **Reply #9 on:** April 22, 2007, 02:27:36 PM »

Quote from: Philly Q

Apologies for my flippant comment up the page, BM. I didn't mean it to sound like "Gojira sucks", they're good but just not my cup of tea.

There's some very good stuff on From Mars To Sirius - I like the melodic parts and some of the big repetitive "cinematic" riffs. But I have my usual problem with the growly vocals and the fast drumming bits (and those squealing harmonics do my head in! ).

Apologising for what now?

If you dont like it, you dont like it. Tis as fair enough as the day is long.

But, yes the melodic work is cool. I love the heavy groove riffs, though. Those guys have excellent senses of rhythm: simple, catchy, destructive :twisted:

BloodMountain · « **Reply #10 on:** April 22, 2007, 04:02:48 PM »

Quote from: MDV

Quote from: Philly Q
Apologies for my flippant comment up the page, BM. I didn't mean it to sound like "Gojira sucks", they're good but just not my cup of tea.

There's some very good stuff on From Mars To Sirius - I like the melodic parts and some of the big repetitive "cinematic" riffs. But I have my usual problem with the growly vocals and the fast drumming bits (and those squealing harmonics do my head in! ).

Apologising for what now?

If you dont like it, you dont like it. Tis as fair enough as the day is long.

But, yes the melodic work is cool. I love the heavy groove riffs, though. Those guys have excellent senses of rhythm: simple, catchy, destructive :twisted:

+1 for all said.

if you don;t like it, you don't like it. no one's going to say "you $%&#ing idiot, go and buy some new ears"

yeah, great rhythms! i love the main riff to Ocean Planet, and the intro/main riff to Backbone.... they are genius!

Philly Q · « **Reply #11 on:** April 22, 2007, 05:00:39 PM »

Quote from: MDV

Apologising for what now?

If you dont like it, you dont like it. Tis as fair enough as the day is long.

Thanks guys. I don't have a problem saying I don't like something (indeed, people often say to me "do you actually like any music/books/films/celebrity-based reality TV shows" etc :roll: ), but I always feel I should at least try to explain why.

I just thought my first comment read a bit like Comic Book Guy ("Worst. Band. Ever.") and I know that would annoy me.

BloodMountain · « **Reply #12 on:** April 22, 2007, 05:16:44 PM »

Quote from: Philly Q

I just thought my first comment read a bit like Comic Book Guy ("Worst. Band. Ever.") and I know that would annoy me.

:lol:

yeah, but if "Didn't like it, but I must give it another go." annoys someone, then they have serious anger problems!

Simon D · « **Reply #13 on:** April 22, 2007, 09:11:34 PM »

I got the album late last year and I absolutely love it. Heavy, complex but still manages to be melodic. Fearsome musicianship too, I tried figuring out some of the riffs and gave up after about 5 minutes!