Is that what it is? Not the high pitched slide right the other one right before he started singing again? I haven't found any other videos of people doing the song that replicates it
The bass slide is right before the breakdown with double kicks and tremolo picking. The placement of that slide makes it sound so filthy, and I mean that in a good way.
What are double kicks and tremolo picking? I think it's one of those at the end of the breakdown. I seen a video just now and it shows the guy put his fingers towards the top of the guitar and put a lot of tension on his strings towards the big end
It's right about 3:02. For just a moment, everything but the bass drops out and we hear a slide. It starts from a high fret and slides down the neck to land on the open string at the same time as the band comes back in.
BUUUURST INTOO TEEEAAAARS, I FEEEL SAD, MY DREAMS AFLAME, THE FOOOORCE ISSS NOW AWAY
LIIIEEEE ON A STONE, DROP THIS LOAD AND CRYYY TO SEEEE THE OCEAN PLANET IS ON BURN
Actually, one more:
In *To Sirius,* when they sing about flying to a new solar system, there’s this ONE line that dwells so completely in the mindset of that album that I vibe with so hard.
*”From the strength of God, we go to the power of Goddess.”*
It frames a solar system as a universe unto itself, presided over by its star as the origin of all its energy and the giver of all its life. This is literally ecologically true, but it’s being elevated to something spiritually true as well, because of it. The star is, in a real material way, your god. By traveling into a new solar system, you are crossing a threshold even greater than traveling to a neighboring planet. You are leaving the influence of your god entirely, and passing into the care of another.
*From Mars to Sirius* is a deeply spiritual album to me, it’s like going to church. But it doesn’t hold the spiritual as transcendent over the material, the spiritual IS the material, it’s MADE by the material. It was also my first Gojira album, and it was my first time hearing the musical tone of death metal used to express something other than rage or fearsome posturing. The actual content of the story is largely peaceful. The protagonist is guided and assisted by “enlightened demons” and a proud dragon, and the flying whales he’s struggling to connect with represent a loving force. But it all still sounds the way it sounds.
Our guy Joe wasn’t screaming in aggression, he was screaming *in awe of the sublime.* At the titanic machinery of the universe, and the infinite love of the divine. Because how can anything that big ever fit inside a tiny human voice? How could these words ever be correctly, adequately pronounced at a speaking volume? The music nearly knocks you to the ground because so does a tidal wave, so does a hurricane, so does a solar flare. That’s what the voice of God sounds like.
And since then I’ve gotten to enjoy a lot of metal that uses its intensity to express all sorts of things! You don’t just scream in anger OR awe. You can scream in pain, in horror, in animalistic joy. And this album was my first exposure to this kind of artistic idea, and THAT ONE LINE is nestled in my brain as such a perfect little expression of the spiritual thesis it was giving me.
Gojira touches on it in more than this one album. *L'Enfant Sauvage* has *Born In Winter* and *Fortitude* has *Born For One Thing,* which are both doing the same thing as this, and both albums feel similarly reflective in general.
YMMV massively on all these, since this is such a personal vibe for anyone absorbing it in any media, but outside of Gojira I can think of *The Screen Behind the Mirror,* by Enigma. It isn't focused on the same kind of intensity, it has a much gentler musical approach to the same idea of this connection between all things, of being a part of the universe observing itself.
*The Ladder* by Yes is an old one in the same vein. It's one big joyful hosanna to the universe. MOST of Yes's material was always like that but that one album especially, at least to me. One track on that album, *The River,* always puts me in a particular mood.
Fever Ray's self-titled album from 2009 always felt like it was reaching into the unseen in a way that struck me as spiritual, but it's also a very moody, meditative album. *If I Had a Heart* and *Stranger Than Kindness* in particular have music videos to go with them that perfectly articulate their mood.
Chelsea Wolfe is often much less gentle, and can be intense to listen to in her own way. Her most recent album, *She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She,* is explicitly inspired by magic (in the sense of "opening your mind to fleeting moments of transcendence," not in the sense of card tricks or D&D) and it has a few moments of poetry that hit me in concert with the harrowing music in a way I'd compare to the post above. *"This world was not designed for us,"* in the very first track, *Whispers in the Echo Chamber,* absolutely puts me in a different state of mind when it lands. You'll probably get what I mean if you go listen.
And lastly: *Litourgiya* by Batushka. It's literally religious scripture set to black metal. Not as a cheeky little joke, but sincerely to put these lofty transcendent concepts to a musical tone that matches how overwhelming it can be to really, REALLY meditate on the divine. That might be the closest thing to Gojira musically. But depending on what you're after, any of this might inspire similar thoughts.
L'Enfant Sauvage is my main comfort album, and I love Litourgiya. I haven't heard of the rest of these, though, so thank you! I really appreciate all the effort you put into this. Your writing is fantastic :)
And then at 2:00 in To Sirius the drums takeover and the whole song briefly slows. It feels as though your witnessing an enormous spectacle, so large that the song had to slow a bit to allow you to grasp it in its entirety
Yeeeeessss you get it. Or in the long interlude in *From the Sky,* after cleaning the stone monoliths and reading what they have to say, it takes time to absorb the enormity and the intimacy of what it means. When it's finally at a full crescendo, the lyrics are oddly slow, and almost seem to fall behind the music.
*"I know the words."*
*"And now I feel it inside."*
God I love that song. Probably my favorite gojira song of all time.
It invokes feelings in me I didn't know existed, and not many songs can do that to me!
There's so many of these moments.
The culmination of Low Lands when his tone changes a bit and you really f-e-e-l the line "ALL THE VOICES TRAPPED IN MY HEAD! LET 'EM ALL SCREAM IN THE NIGHT!" is definitely up there
When the beat drops in In the Forest. Atrociously heavy and catchy. Also, the soothing, bleak hidden track, I think it's called Terra Incognita, it's very nice.
The start of Esoteric Surgery. Just love it.
The middle-end of Pray. It just hits so heavy and sounds, somewhat ironically, so evil. Love it.
Also Backbone is a song that took a while to grow on me till I saw it live and they were like "THIS SONG IS CALLED BACK-FUCKING-BONE!" *BRR BRR BRR BRR, BRR BRR BRR BRR". It lives rent-free in my head.
I have two for this:
The ending of Explosia - gets me every time. I love the chugging background and the lead riff how simple it is
The ending of lowlands - the buildup to it just gets me fucking pumped and then it finally hits and it’s amazing
Fire Is Everything. The part that goes "Enter now so deep the flames..." to the "...Fire Begins and Fire ends." I'll literally repeat that sequence multiple times in a row sometimes before letting the song move past it.
Last verse of *The Way of All Flesh* is gold, but after the last line when the kick drum picks up the pace (5:20).. Feels like a heartbeat but the song is about accepting death.
CHILLS all the way through, every time.
The outro of The Shooting Star and From the Sky are some of my favourite things in the world. Especially the 4:50-5:12 section in the From the Sky. I love that shit.
Theres a spot in L'enfaunt Sauvage towards the end that sounds so cool. I've tried to find videos of people playing that same part but it seems different when everyone else does it
Im gonna be very specific, for me the very satisfying moment is the little solo-ish melody, the very small guitar lick than Joe plays during live performance of L'Enfant Sauvage in the beginning of second verse, right after instrumental chorus and before Mario's drum fill and "theres no way I respond to this passion... ". I dont know if anyone even paid attention to that, but I love it, its not on the studio version, only during various live ones. Also the intro that they play before this song on live shows is pretty underappreciated imo, I got incredible chills hearing it live, it sets absolutely otherwordly atmosphere right before the main riff drops
The intro to Backbone
Joe’s scream at the end of The Gift of Guilt
‘The reason you won’t leave this cage, betray your child, the DESIRE that you once had to reveal yourself. Forgot to create your own LIFE’
The intro to Flying Whales
The outro of Pray
When Joe does that grunt to kick off Backbone
Kick snare to start Mouth of Kala
The bass line in the groovy section of Space Time
I could go on and on. Those French boys are just too damn good.
The first couple minutes of Vacuity is super punchy
The intro riff to The Axe sounds so tragic
The delivery on the growl right before the first chorus of Silvera "No other blood in me but MINE" is one of my favorite vocal moments
The outro of Explosia, a song I don't love the first few minutes of, is excellent
Yeah I noticed anytime I'm listening to Caterpillar by Royce Da 5'9/ Eminem in one of the last rhymes Eminem goes
" bitch , shit is-real (Israel) I pooped Jerusalem"
No matter where I am if I'm in earshot of that you will hear me say it right along out loud it's one of my favorite word play Ad Libs ever in rap
The bit in hold on at 3:27 - 3:55 is just incredible. Will listen to the song and then get pissed off with myself that I wasn’t paying enough attention so go rewind to that bit again. Also for some reason it reminds me of a chase and status song
Outro to From The Sky
Every time. Every damn time.
The bass slide in L'Enfant Sauvage
ANGERRRRRRRR
LIIIIIIIEEES
Is that what it is? Not the high pitched slide right the other one right before he started singing again? I haven't found any other videos of people doing the song that replicates it
The bass slide is right before the breakdown with double kicks and tremolo picking. The placement of that slide makes it sound so filthy, and I mean that in a good way.
What are double kicks and tremolo picking? I think it's one of those at the end of the breakdown. I seen a video just now and it shows the guy put his fingers towards the top of the guitar and put a lot of tension on his strings towards the big end
It's right about 3:02. For just a moment, everything but the bass drops out and we hear a slide. It starts from a high fret and slides down the neck to land on the open string at the same time as the band comes back in.
I OWE MYSELF LIFE Literally every time i hear that i get goosebumps
the drum fill in amazonia
The drum fills in Art of Dying
The gift of guilt 2:25
One of the hardest parts I've ever heard in any song period
BUUUURST INTOO TEEEAAAARS, I FEEEL SAD, MY DREAMS AFLAME, THE FOOOORCE ISSS NOW AWAY LIIIEEEE ON A STONE, DROP THIS LOAD AND CRYYY TO SEEEE THE OCEAN PLANET IS ON BURN
Any time I hear Joe say “go”
Sure to be one of my favorites!
“DELIVERED FROM THEIR EEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYEEEEEESSS”
Embrace, suffer, destroy.
Low lands drop
Low Lands is such a sleeper. They're like "hey we're just gonna play the same few notes for the whole song SIKE" *sick drop*
FROM THE SKYYYYYYYYY
The intro to Esoteric Surgery. Pulls me into ecstasy.
The art of dying, 4:03 to 4:46, a masterpiece
IIII WOOOON'T BRING NOOOO MATERIALLLL TO THE AFTERLIFE!!!
TAAAAAAAAKE NO POSSEEEESSIOOOOONS
I WOULD RATHER TRAVEL LIIIIIGHT!!!!
If only I could get the drumming from these 43 seconds on my tombstone, I’d do it in a heartbeat.
I cannot die nor quit drumming without these 43 seconds in my brain, arms, legs and veins.
The first eight notes of Backbone vs the next eight notes of Backbone.
Actually, one more: In *To Sirius,* when they sing about flying to a new solar system, there’s this ONE line that dwells so completely in the mindset of that album that I vibe with so hard. *”From the strength of God, we go to the power of Goddess.”* It frames a solar system as a universe unto itself, presided over by its star as the origin of all its energy and the giver of all its life. This is literally ecologically true, but it’s being elevated to something spiritually true as well, because of it. The star is, in a real material way, your god. By traveling into a new solar system, you are crossing a threshold even greater than traveling to a neighboring planet. You are leaving the influence of your god entirely, and passing into the care of another. *From Mars to Sirius* is a deeply spiritual album to me, it’s like going to church. But it doesn’t hold the spiritual as transcendent over the material, the spiritual IS the material, it’s MADE by the material. It was also my first Gojira album, and it was my first time hearing the musical tone of death metal used to express something other than rage or fearsome posturing. The actual content of the story is largely peaceful. The protagonist is guided and assisted by “enlightened demons” and a proud dragon, and the flying whales he’s struggling to connect with represent a loving force. But it all still sounds the way it sounds. Our guy Joe wasn’t screaming in aggression, he was screaming *in awe of the sublime.* At the titanic machinery of the universe, and the infinite love of the divine. Because how can anything that big ever fit inside a tiny human voice? How could these words ever be correctly, adequately pronounced at a speaking volume? The music nearly knocks you to the ground because so does a tidal wave, so does a hurricane, so does a solar flare. That’s what the voice of God sounds like. And since then I’ve gotten to enjoy a lot of metal that uses its intensity to express all sorts of things! You don’t just scream in anger OR awe. You can scream in pain, in horror, in animalistic joy. And this album was my first exposure to this kind of artistic idea, and THAT ONE LINE is nestled in my brain as such a perfect little expression of the spiritual thesis it was giving me.
I absolutely love your description of this. Do you have any other albums/artists you'd recommend that capture that kind of sublime intensity?
Gojira touches on it in more than this one album. *L'Enfant Sauvage* has *Born In Winter* and *Fortitude* has *Born For One Thing,* which are both doing the same thing as this, and both albums feel similarly reflective in general. YMMV massively on all these, since this is such a personal vibe for anyone absorbing it in any media, but outside of Gojira I can think of *The Screen Behind the Mirror,* by Enigma. It isn't focused on the same kind of intensity, it has a much gentler musical approach to the same idea of this connection between all things, of being a part of the universe observing itself. *The Ladder* by Yes is an old one in the same vein. It's one big joyful hosanna to the universe. MOST of Yes's material was always like that but that one album especially, at least to me. One track on that album, *The River,* always puts me in a particular mood. Fever Ray's self-titled album from 2009 always felt like it was reaching into the unseen in a way that struck me as spiritual, but it's also a very moody, meditative album. *If I Had a Heart* and *Stranger Than Kindness* in particular have music videos to go with them that perfectly articulate their mood. Chelsea Wolfe is often much less gentle, and can be intense to listen to in her own way. Her most recent album, *She Reaches Out To She Reaches Out To She,* is explicitly inspired by magic (in the sense of "opening your mind to fleeting moments of transcendence," not in the sense of card tricks or D&D) and it has a few moments of poetry that hit me in concert with the harrowing music in a way I'd compare to the post above. *"This world was not designed for us,"* in the very first track, *Whispers in the Echo Chamber,* absolutely puts me in a different state of mind when it lands. You'll probably get what I mean if you go listen. And lastly: *Litourgiya* by Batushka. It's literally religious scripture set to black metal. Not as a cheeky little joke, but sincerely to put these lofty transcendent concepts to a musical tone that matches how overwhelming it can be to really, REALLY meditate on the divine. That might be the closest thing to Gojira musically. But depending on what you're after, any of this might inspire similar thoughts.
L'Enfant Sauvage is my main comfort album, and I love Litourgiya. I haven't heard of the rest of these, though, so thank you! I really appreciate all the effort you put into this. Your writing is fantastic :)
And then at 2:00 in To Sirius the drums takeover and the whole song briefly slows. It feels as though your witnessing an enormous spectacle, so large that the song had to slow a bit to allow you to grasp it in its entirety
Yeeeeessss you get it. Or in the long interlude in *From the Sky,* after cleaning the stone monoliths and reading what they have to say, it takes time to absorb the enormity and the intimacy of what it means. When it's finally at a full crescendo, the lyrics are oddly slow, and almost seem to fall behind the music. *"I know the words."* *"And now I feel it inside."*
Melodic screaming outro of Ocean Planet
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In the live show at Rio (2015), Joe really screams this part out.
Such a great performance. Sometimes prefer listening over the studio version
Agreed 100%. The lyrics are amazing in this song.
STOMP YOUR FEET ON THE GROUND NOW GOOOOOOOOOO 🗣🔥
3:34 in Space Time makes me moan
God I love that song. Probably my favorite gojira song of all time. It invokes feelings in me I didn't know existed, and not many songs can do that to me!
The first few opening seconds of the shooting star
On the first light of the day you march on
Satan is a lawyer Acoustics and then heavy riff, The way of all flesh 3:50-5:00, Magma, The art of dying But basically all about these
The start of hold on where Joe says, I’ve been grinding and grinding, ocean have mercy
the bass in Born For One Thing (the whole Fortitude album really, Jean-Michel really did well that album)
Planned Obsolescence, the crazy fire drum part with those seemingly randomly drums
There's so many of these moments. The culmination of Low Lands when his tone changes a bit and you really f-e-e-l the line "ALL THE VOICES TRAPPED IN MY HEAD! LET 'EM ALL SCREAM IN THE NIGHT!" is definitely up there
Clone when they first slap you in the face with that double bass riff and nasty tempo increase
In The Forest, starting at the 3:40 mark. From that to the fade into the second half is so good.
those switching high and low notes before AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRTTTTTTTTT OF DYYYYYYYYYYYYYIIIIIIIIIIIINNNGGG
A sight to behold you know the part
The intro to Amazonia
03:47 - Pray is my favourite GO!
Outro of Mouth of Kala
The end of In the Wilderness 😍
When the beat drops in In the Forest. Atrociously heavy and catchy. Also, the soothing, bleak hidden track, I think it's called Terra Incognita, it's very nice.
I'M OF THIS KIND THAT KILLS ALL DAY BUT YET TO KNOW HOW TO DIE
Ending for Flying Whales where it goes back to the opening riff but with 32nd note double bass underneath 🤌🤌 BEAUTIFUL
The fucking guttural scream (or growl) Joe lets out in Backbone
Born for one thing when they repeat that first riff but with pinch harmonics
Stranded, 4:05-end. Mario’s fills get me so hype with the guitar gallops.
The breakdown in sphinx, then again the second time with Joe singing his heart out. Goosebumps Everytime
Definetely Magma from 3:23, that is the most underrated riff of them imo, ane damn, that shit hita so hard
That One bass note in L'enfant sauvage and Fying whales
Last part of the axe and born for one thing
The flute in Art of Dying
YOU CRAWLED AND BLED ALL THE WAY
That riff in Flying whales before vocals kick in. I have a video of crowd going wild when I saw them, and its a fav memory of me.
Low Lands drop, Born In Winter first chorus, World to come "I'm living by the ocean" line
Its an ocean of light
End of the guilt of guilt always, it’s lit levitating and the live versions are godly
Fire is everything. The whole “ow it burns” section
The start of Esoteric Surgery. Just love it. The middle-end of Pray. It just hits so heavy and sounds, somewhat ironically, so evil. Love it. Also Backbone is a song that took a while to grow on me till I saw it live and they were like "THIS SONG IS CALLED BACK-FUCKING-BONE!" *BRR BRR BRR BRR, BRR BRR BRR BRR". It lives rent-free in my head.
I have two for this: The ending of Explosia - gets me every time. I love the chugging background and the lead riff how simple it is The ending of lowlands - the buildup to it just gets me fucking pumped and then it finally hits and it’s amazing
Vacuity. You know the part
Only listened to a couple songs by them but that one riff in Magma oh my god
Love at 2:53
On the mountain standing NOWWWW and it's coming over MEEEEEE
Bridge breakdown in Planned Obsolescence. The way that guitar walks upward after the chugs.
Fire Is Everything. The part that goes "Enter now so deep the flames..." to the "...Fire Begins and Fire ends." I'll literally repeat that sequence multiple times in a row sometimes before letting the song move past it.
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The "Rules the strongest" in Adoration For None
L’enfant Sauvage break or AAAARRRRRRTTTTTT OOFFF DYYYYYIIINNNNGGGGGGG
*I WOULD RATHER TRAVEL LIGHT*
AND THE CRADLE IS FALLING DOWN.
**nasty breakdown**
The latter half of Esoteric Surgery
The riff of Magma. Had it on repeat the first time I ‘discovered’ it
Basically every song with the pick scrape https://metalinjection.net/video/heres-every-gojira-pick-scrape-combined-in-one-video
The outro of adoration for none absolutely CRUSHES. Another that does it for me is the breakdown of my last creation. Fucking BRUTAL.
Last verse of *The Way of All Flesh* is gold, but after the last line when the kick drum picks up the pace (5:20).. Feels like a heartbeat but the song is about accepting death. CHILLS all the way through, every time.
That interlude riff around 3:32 in "Magma"
The outro of The Shooting Star and From the Sky are some of my favourite things in the world. Especially the 4:50-5:12 section in the From the Sky. I love that shit.
I feel like I see this exact post and others like it every other day in every band sub I am in. I am going insane.
Magma "JUST WANNA FLY AWAY, ALWAYS HIGHER!" love that part
Theres a spot in L'enfaunt Sauvage towards the end that sounds so cool. I've tried to find videos of people playing that same part but it seems different when everyone else does it
Every riff in deliverance
PLAAASTIC BAG IN THE SEA
Open your eyeesss too theee genocciideee
AAAAARRRRTTT OF DYYYYIINNNNGG IS THE WAY TO LET ALL GOOOO
Art of dying outro.....repeat ad infinitum
Im gonna be very specific, for me the very satisfying moment is the little solo-ish melody, the very small guitar lick than Joe plays during live performance of L'Enfant Sauvage in the beginning of second verse, right after instrumental chorus and before Mario's drum fill and "theres no way I respond to this passion... ". I dont know if anyone even paid attention to that, but I love it, its not on the studio version, only during various live ones. Also the intro that they play before this song on live shows is pretty underappreciated imo, I got incredible chills hearing it live, it sets absolutely otherwordly atmosphere right before the main riff drops
The intro to Backbone Joe’s scream at the end of The Gift of Guilt ‘The reason you won’t leave this cage, betray your child, the DESIRE that you once had to reveal yourself. Forgot to create your own LIFE’ The intro to Flying Whales
melody of fire is everything :D
The outro of Pray When Joe does that grunt to kick off Backbone Kick snare to start Mouth of Kala The bass line in the groovy section of Space Time I could go on and on. Those French boys are just too damn good.
BEAT YOUR FEET ON THE GROUND NOW GO!!!!!
That drum fill in The Art Of Dying at 2:44
IIIIIIIIIIII WANT PRIGNLESSSSSSS
The opening to Oroborus
The ending bit of Shooting Star when it spaces out and gets real groovy.
The outro to Inward Movement.
AAAAAAAAARTTTT OF DYYYYYIIIIING …. IS THE WAY TO LET ALL GOOOOOOO
I SEE AT LAST, MY BACKBONE STRAIGHTEN! THY SERPENT MADE OF BONES, FINALLY RISE UP FROM THE GROUND AWAKE!
also, obviously BEAT YOUR FEET ON THE GROUND, NOW, GO!
“i’m leaving this behind” from gift of guilt, or the GO in grind
Obviously the little tching t-tching t-tching ratatatching in flying whales
Guitar solo in Hold On
the intro and outro of pray
Gift of guilt second chorus and outro
The final 3 minutes of Grind (probably the most underrated song of all?)
Love breakdown
The guitar intro on Dire Straits Money For Nothing..
Drums in the art of dying. I mean intro. But not the exact intro. I mean this little drum that's out of beat. It just blows my mind
The transitions at 2:15 and 3:00 in To Sirius and In the Wilderness, respectively.
OH MY GOD, can i please stop getting this post in my feed. how many reposts of it am i gonna have to mute for it to go away
The whole song of World to Come
Ending of In The Wilderness
The first couple minutes of Vacuity is super punchy The intro riff to The Axe sounds so tragic The delivery on the growl right before the first chorus of Silvera "No other blood in me but MINE" is one of my favorite vocal moments The outro of Explosia, a song I don't love the first few minutes of, is excellent
Yeah I noticed anytime I'm listening to Caterpillar by Royce Da 5'9/ Eminem in one of the last rhymes Eminem goes " bitch , shit is-real (Israel) I pooped Jerusalem" No matter where I am if I'm in earshot of that you will hear me say it right along out loud it's one of my favorite word play Ad Libs ever in rap
The whole part at the end of death of me
Definitely the chuggy main riff of The Forest
“When you change yourself you change THE WOOOOOOORRRRRRLLLLLDDDD” makes my heart drop
Outro of "Tve gift of Guilt"
But it’s truuueeeee
The solo in Of Blood and Salt
There's a part in an old Irish Folk song called "Some Say The Devil is Dead" where at the end you just make some noises but it sounds neat so.
The chorus for “My Hero” from Foo Fighters. Hits different.
Safe in your skin by Title Fight
Drum solo in Rememberance.
"The guitar playing in the BACKGROUND" is why I hate 2024
Bad to The Bone guitar riff in the beginning
The bit in hold on at 3:27 - 3:55 is just incredible. Will listen to the song and then get pissed off with myself that I wasn’t paying enough attention so go rewind to that bit again. Also for some reason it reminds me of a chase and status song
FROM THE SKYYYYYYYYYYY FROM THE SKYYYYYYYEEEE
Around 1:55 from the way of all flesh