| 4.0 excellent |
| AC/DC Back In Black |
| Aerosmith Greatest Hits |
| Aerosmith Aerosmith's Greatest Hits 1973-1988 |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill 2 |
| An Endless Sporadic Ameliorate |
| Anarchy Club The Way and Its Power |
| Ane Brun When I'm Free |
| Anthrax The Greater of Two Evils |
| Anti-Flag Underground Network |
| Arch Enemy Dawn of Khaos |
| At the Drive-In This Station Is Non-Operational |
| Beastwars The Death of All Things |
| Behemoth The Satanist |
| Between the Buried and Me Coma Ecliptic |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent II |
| Black Light Burns Cruel Melody |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| David Maxim Micic Bilo 2.0 |
| Dead Soul In the Darkness |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Dethklok Dethalbum II |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists |
| Dream Theater Images and Words |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence |
| dredg Catch Without Arms |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True |
| Falconer Falconer |
| Giant Squid Minoans |
| Gojira The Way of All Flesh |
The pros:
1. The musicians are great and show that they can do a genre crossover like this way better than I thought was possible. All the instruments are played at a very high stadard and Joe Duplantier gives us vocals that can be heard clearly even though they are dark and harsh.
2. Many of the songs have their own signature and are easy to recognize.
3. They show a great variation of heavier and softer plays. A great example of variation is the song "The Art of Dying" which changes tempo, sound and focus multiple times before ending.
4. The drummer Mario Duplantier is probably one of the best drummers ever to join the metal scene.
The cons:
"All the Tears" and "Toxic Garbage Island" sound VERY similar in the main guitar riffs already shown in their intros, and if it weren't for the drums that are a bit more different, you might have a hard time figuring out which song is which.
"The Way of All Flesh" would have been SO much better if it would have ended at around 6:40 instead of making the song with a lot of weird noises and a break for over 4,5 minute followed by MORE weird noises.
track #7 (that actually is "Adoration For None" and not "All the Tears" that actually is track #6) is the weak point of this album in my opinion - Randy Blight just doesn't fit with the Gojira sound.
Conclusion:
All band members show us that they know what they're doing. I do not mind their experimenting, I do not mind them being repetitive (they are repetitive in a GOOD way), neither do I mind their 'strangeness' with the prog elements that are represented in this album, since that's what makes them Gojira and gives them the charm we love.
Even though there are a few things that really bothers me, this album IS a very good album and deserves a lot of credit and respect. All of you thrash fans out there that want to give death metal a chance or vice versa should definitely listen to this album. On a VERY important note, this album will probably receive a lot more credit from the musicians out there. If you are a musician that likes thrash/death or both, you will most probably not be disappointed
Recommended tracks:
Oroborus
Toxic Garbage Island
The Art of Dying
Esoteric Surgery
Wolf Down the Earth |
| Haken The Mountain |
| Haken Vector |
| I Am Low Illusions |
| Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast |
| Jambinai Différance |
| Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick |
| Judas Priest Stained Class |
| Leprous Malina |
| Machine Head The Blackening |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? |
| Michael Jackson Thriller |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Novelists Souvenirs |
| Papa Roach Infest |
| Periphery Periphery II: This Time It's Personal |
| Periphery Periphery IV: Hail Stan |
| Pink Floyd Animals |
| Pink Floyd The Wall |
| Polyphia Renaissance |
| Protest the Hero Volition |
| Q5 Steel the Light |
| Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork |
| Ra From One |
| Ra Raw |
| Rammstein Sehnsucht |
| Rammstein Reise, Reise |
| Rise Against Siren Song of the Counter Culture |
| Rishloo Living as Ghosts with Buildings as Teeth |
| Rivers of Nihil Where Owls Know My Name |
| Sabaton Primo Victoria |
| Senses Fail Renacer |
| Shadows Fall Retribution |
| Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront |
| Silverstein This Is How the Wind Shifts |
| Silverstein Dead Reflection |
| Sleep The Sciences |
| Stuck Mojo Declaration of a Headhunter |
| Stygian Fair Aradia |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| TesseracT One |
| TesseracT War of Being |
| The Claypool Lennon Delirium Monolith of Phobos |
| The Halo Effect Days of the Lost |
| Therapy? Troublegum |
| Therapy? Infernal Love |
| Therapy? Crooked Timber |
| Tool 10,000 Days |
| Turmion Katilot Dance Panique |
| Vektor Terminal Redux |
| Vektor Outer Isolation |
| VOLA Monsters |
| ZZ Top Tres Hombres |
