Album Rating: 3.0

Lol wokejira

Album Rating: 5.0

Surprised you have this 3'd

Album Rating: 3.0

Wasn't my cup of tea. Was alright tho

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Album Rating: 4.7

fair

Album Rating: 5.0

goated album agreed

Album Rating: 5.0

woke wasn't a thing in 2005 but sadly, very sadly, if you take strong French albums at the time, the pattern of topics is very clear. The propaganda was already there and strong. Singers knew what to sing about in order to obtain political/cultural support.

Album Rating: 5.0

ehh, these guys were always tree-hugging hippies. At least they were consistent with it. As long as their beliefs are genuine I don't really care. Still love this fucking album

Album Rating: 2.5

Lmao

Album Rating: 4.5

Album fucks agreed

Give me more throat singing and boing boing boing and tree songs

This shit is metal af

Album Rating: 5.0

oh god kevin please 💀

Album Rating: 4.5

I feel like woke and gojira don't really mesh. woke is trendy. gojira did the hippie environmentalist thing before there was any chance it would make a positive impact on their popularity/sales. if anything, it made them even harder to market in 2005.

🌳 trees are pretty cool. I like ‘em 🌲

Album Rating: 4.7

Regarding the marketing thing: I think a bit part of Gojira's success is that they were able to appeal to so many ends of the metal spectrum, and much of that comes down to their diversity. You get a little Lamb of God here, a little Mastodon there, add some Meshuggah, with a dash of Morbid Angel, etc. I'm really glad that FMTS was one of my first metal albums, because it exposed me to so many other strains of metal in the process

Album Rating: 4.5

and a whole lot of pick slides

yeah this is a great Baby's First Metal Album. mine was Jugulator, so I'm a little jealous.

Album Rating: 4.7

The thing is, I grew up on 70s prog. So when I moved onto metal, it was mostly through prog metal, rather than the typical gateway bands. So most of my early metal records came from Dream Theater, Opeth, Gojira, Death, Queensryche, etc. I didn't get around to bands like Metallica and Iron Maiden until many years later... same goes for a lot of alt/nu-metal

Album Rating: 4.0

Fuckin sellouts.

Album Rating: 4.5

My journey through metal was kinda weird also. Started off with a mix of stuff like BFMV and Mushroomhead/Slipknot then kinda just jumped right into Cradle of Filth, Opeth and Dimmu. The rest is history lmao.

Album Rating: 1.5

BFMV was also one of my first bands. In Flames was by far the biggest reason I got into metal tho, was a complete fanboy as a teen

Album Rating: 4.7

I will say, I did enjoy at least a few gateway bands as a teenager. I was obsessed with Avenged Sevenfold in high school, for instance... especially City of Evil. And I finally got into Metallica in senior year because of And Justice for All