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It doesn't get much better than artful French demolitionists Gojira when it comes to progressive, brutal and experimental metal. The band's 2006 album, From Mars to Sirius, was an inventive showcase of pulverizing death, sludgy doom and spacious psychedelia. The band's new record, The Way of All Flesh (out October 14) incorporates all of these elements with even more skill to create a bleak, barren landscape of pollution and decay that intersects an open, gleaming sky of promise and potential. It's a striking juxtaposition, but one that never feels forced or ill-advised. Lyrically, the album addresses the process of death, the physical and emotional effects of loss and the alarming environmental conditions that threaten the future of mankind.
We tracked down Gojira frontman Joe Duplantier at his home in France to discuss the creation of The Way of All Flesh, what inspired him to write an album about death, what he thinks awaits beyond the abyss, his contributions to the Cavalera Conspiracy and why the French metal scene is stronger now than it has been in years.
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