| 4.0 excellent |
| ABBA Arrival |
| ABBA Voulez-Vous |
| AC/DC Back In Black |
| Aerosmith Aerosmith's Greatest Hits 1973-1988 |
| Aerosmith Greatest Hits |
| Agalloch Ashes Against the Grain |
| Akira Yamaoka Silent Hill 2 |
| Alcest Spiritual Instinct |
| Allegaeon Damnum |
| 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 |
| Ayreon The Human Equation |
| Beastwars The Death of All Things |
| Beastwars Beastwars |
| Behemoth The Satanist |
| Billy Talent Billy Talent II |
| Black Light Burns Cruel Melody |
| Black Sabbath Black Sabbath |
| Black Sabbath Master of Reality |
| Breaking Benjamin Phobia |
| Caligula's Horse Rise Radiant |
| Clawfinger Deaf Dumb Blind |
| David Maxim Micic Bilo 2.0 |
| Dead Soul In the Darkness |
| Deftones Diamond Eyes |
| Dethklok Dethalbum II |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists |
| Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence |
| Dream Theater Images And Words |
| dredg Catch Without Arms |
| Elder (USA-MA) Dead Roots Stirring |
| ERRA Augment |
| Every Time I Die Ex Lives |
| Every Time I Die Radical |
| Fair to Midland Fables From a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times is True |
| Falconer Falconer |
| Fit for an Autopsy The Great Collapse |
| Frightened Rabbit The Midnight Organ Fight |
| 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 Vector |
| Haken The Mountain |
| I Am Low Illusions |
| In Flames The Jester Race |
| In Mourning Shrouded Divine |
| In Mourning The Weight of Oceans |
| Insomnium Anno 1696 |
| Invent Animate Greyview |
| Invent Animate The Sun Sleeps, As If It Never Was |
| Iron Maiden The Number Of The Beast |
| Jambinai Différance |
| Jethro Tull Thick as a Brick |
| Karnivool Sound Awake |
| Leprous Malina |
| Machine Head The Blackening |
| Megadeth Countdown to Extinction |
| Megadeth Peace Sells... But Who's Buying? |
| Michael Jackson Thriller |
| Night Verses From the Gallery of Sleep |
| Nirvana Nevermind |
| Novelists Souvenirs |
| Opeth My Arms, Your Hearse |
| Opeth Still Life |
| Opeth Blackwater Park |
| Papa Roach Infest |
| Pearl Jam Ten |
| 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 |
| Queensryche Operation: Mindcrime |
| Ra From One |
| Ra Raw |
| Rammstein Reise, Reise |
| Rammstein Sehnsucht |
| 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 |
| Shakti Natural Elements |
| Silent Planet Iridescent |
| Silverstein Discovering the Waterfront |
| Silverstein This Is How the Wind Shifts |
| Silverstein Dead Reflection |
| Sleep The Sciences |
| Spiritbox Eternal Blue |
| Stuck Mojo Declaration of a Headhunter |
| Stygian Fair Aradia |
| System of a Down Toxicity |
| TesseracT War of Being |
| TesseracT One |
| 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 |
| Underoath Ø (Disambiguation) |
| Unearth Watchers of Rule |
| Van Canto Hero |
| Vektor Outer Isolation |
| Vektor Terminal Redux |
| VOLA Monsters |
| VOLA Live from the Pool |
| VOLA Friend of a Phantom |
| VOLA Glasswork |
| Wheel (FIN) Moving Backwards |
| Wheel (FIN) Resident Human |
| ZZ Top Tres Hombres |
