OK dudes, I gotta get more regular on my blog posts…this is lame that I’m using my new job as an excuse. Screw that!!!!

Next up is one of this Tuesday’s new releases: Gojira’s “L’enfant Sauvage”. I’ll be kind and post a pic of the cover right here:

if you don’t know, go get a glass of milk, loser…

I’m gonna name drop James Hetfield here and say the guy personally pulled me aside one day to tell me that Gojira is a “great band”…Yes, Mr. Hetfield (wingtips and three-piece suit and all), I am aware you asked them to be main support on one of your tours (I think, too many strong beers to be sure), and yes they are a great band. I used to believe their ground-breaking “From Mars to Sirius” is what I’d suggest to everyone…Not any longer…

The new album, “L’enfant Sauvage”, is a freaking masterpiece. It’s to the ’10s Metal scene what Soundgarden was to Grunge: it injects a much-needed dose of INTENSITY and INNOVATION into what has rapidly devolved into a stale genre. Sure, we Metalheads have umpteen sub-genres to applaud and laud, but rarely does a band encompass all of what is “Metal” and put something out there that can cohesively pull us all into the Borg-like collective-conscious of Heavy Metal. Gojira has accomplished this in a way few can and will and have…

go ahead, I double-dog-dare you…

The pervasive use of natural harmonics, pick-scrapes and other minor-level-brought-to-top-tier guitar histrionics are what sets these Gauls above some of their peers. The little pieces here and there that define what Gojira does, also gives their music “life”…They are trying some new stuff, they don’t give a rat’s ass if you like it, and they’ll bet a bottle of top-end Bordeaux that you fucking love it…Frontman Joe Duplantier is a force of nature live, and there is no denying it. Hell, when they toured with Polish masters Behemoth, Gojira gave them a run for their money, and that’s saying something…


copyright 2012 someone other than me…

This album takes Meshuggah and pares it down somewhat, makes it accessible, then turns the intensity up a notch by basing the whole in Metal. Not your younger brother’s Metal, but HEAVY FUCKING METAL…Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, and Black Sabbath-style METAL!!!! It’s as up your ass as current Metal can get, and it takes no prisoners.

This album is possibly the best thing that will be put out in the Metal World in 2012 (unless Pig Destroyer has anything to say about it…OK, and MAYBE Cattle Decapitation, but that’s another story…), and you, as brothers and sisters in Metal, NEED it…

Today’s beer: Ballast Point (San Diego) Big Eye IPA. If there’s a better beer – and I’m talking all-around, drink it a few times a weekend with your BBQ pals beer – I can’t find it. That’s saying something from a Santa Rosa local (think Russian River Pliny the Elder…).

no joke, biotch!

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