Gojira : Fortitude
The album of militant maturity: more melodic, more varied, and a historic Grammy win.
The album of militant maturity: more melodic, more varied, and a historic Grammy win.
The touring machine at its peak: the live CD/DVD of the L'Enfant Sauvage era.
Gojira on home soil: communion with the crowd of France's biggest metal festival.
The record of mourning: Gojira strip back and sign their most moving album.
The first live document: Gojira on the road, before the international breakthrough.
The masterpiece of consecration: a world-record on the death and rebirth of the Earth.
Entering the top rank: a more direct, sharper Gojira, losing none of its depth.
The Duplantier brothers' debut: an angular death metal, still green but already singular.
The record of the moult: Gojira trade speed for groove and atmosphere.
After the cosmos, death: a dark, monumental record on accepting the end.
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Bordeaux tech-death dares to be vulnerable. The craft is unanimous; the pacing divides.
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Trilogy finale bordering on critical genuflection: 9.8/10 at Sonic Perspectives. Out September 4.
English folklore and the Hammond organ: 85/100 for an irresistible occult heavy-rock record.
Green Lung's occult doom takes on London. The press flirts with perfection, the public follows. Consensus: 9/10.
The debut by Germany’s Guano Apes, Proud Like a God, burst forth in 1997 as one of the major triumphs of European…
80.2/100 and four reviews in unison: Manchester delivers Europe's pit record of the year.
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The London collective cross virtuosity with an imaginary bestiary: 82/100 for a playful, learned record.
Slimmed to a trio, Haken reinvent themselves in 27 minutes: "ingenious and classy", yet "the least Haken-y" release of their career.
86/100: Faroese death/doom reaches an overwhelming solemnity.
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Before refining its industrial aesthetic, Harm’s Way first made its mark through brute force. Isolation, released in 2011, shows the Chicago band…
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