French metal star Gojira will return to Czech Republic to present the new album!
French metal band nominated for Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance and Best Rock Album, Gojira, is coming back to Czech Republic to present their latest album Magma. The show will take place on June 7th in Prague’s Lucerna Music Bar. As a support will perform Czech band Atari Terror. Tickets are sold on www.ticketpro.cz.
On the new album Gojira successfully expanded its soundscape. Magma is presented like the most passionate, strongest and purest album of their career, but it’s also certainly the saddest. The recording process was heavily influenced by the unfortunate demise of the Duplantier brothers mother.
Gojira impressively oscillates between the extremes, trying to find the beauty in difficulty and being aware of the fragility of life, all accompanied by striking guitar riffs. The album Magma was intentionally created without a producer. The band wanted to return to their beginnings, when everything was done by themselves. This time in a bit better conditions of their own, newly built Silver Cord studio in New York. Differing from the inexorability of death metal on previous recordings, the band now came with more lyrical, melodic lines. It’s not so surprising that Magma is the most accessible recording for listeners. However, without the band being forced into lowering their standards.
The band got together in 1996. It originally started under the name Godzilla, but five years later, the name got changed into the Japanese transcription, Gojira. The uniqueness of the group lies in the sympathetic and delicate accentuation of such themes like nature preservation, environmental issues are as frequent subject of their texts as are politics or spirituality. Besides favorable reviews in Pitchfork, Q Magazine and The Guardian, there is something else that shows the qualities of Gojira. Not only that they also got invited to support such musical behemoths like Metallica, Slayer or Mastodon, there is also the fact that Deftones, Slash and Lamb of God are among many of Gojiras enthusiastic fans.