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The GRAMMY Award-winning French progressive metal giants Gojira‘s third studio album, “From Mars To Sirius,” will be commemorated this year with a new 20th anniversary vinyl version, as per theprp. A limited edition deluxe version of that record was released by Listenable Records, which included a double gatefold zoetrope picture disc with previously unreleased band images. Listenable.net is the place to order the initial edition, which is limited to 3000 copies globally. Gojira released a live music video for their song “Global Warming,” which they performed in Lyon, France, in December of last year. Due to an injury, Car Bomb guitarist Greg Kubacki filled in for Joe Duplantier during the performance. The band has recorded 12 live performances of that song from “From Mars To Sirius” all of which took place towards the end of last year.
Ondres is home to the French heavy metal group Gojira. The band was founded in 1996 under the name Godzilla. Since the band changed its name to Gojira in 2001, its lineup has remained the same: brothers Joe (vocals, guitar), Mario Duplantier (drums), Christian Andreu (guitar), and Jean-Michel Labadie (bass). Gojira is well-known for their technical and advanced death metal genres and lyrics, which frequently touch on topics of environmentalism, philosophy, and spirituality. The band has gone “from the utmost obscurity during the first half of their career to widespread global recognition in the second”.
Gojira became known as a top French metal band thanks to its first two albums, “Terra Incognita” (2001) and “The Link” (2003), as well as its stirring live performances. The silent film score for Maciste All’Inferno was written and performed for a one-night performance in Bordeaux. The British metal press highlighted its third album, the highly regarded “From Mars to Sirius” (2005), which featured “Backbone,” “The Heaviest Matter of the Universe,” and “Flying Whales.” After that, the band became well-known in North America after signing with Prosthetic Records. “The Way of All Flesh” (2008), the band’s follow-up album, debuted on the Billboard 200, and Gojira subsequently embarked on their first international headline tour.
