GOJIRA Frontman Talks About Upcoming U.K. Tour

January 15, 2009

Metal Hammer recently spoke to guitarist/vocalist Joseph Duplantier of French progressive metallers GOJIRA about the band's upcoming U.K./Ireland tour, which is scheduled to kick off in early March. "It will be the first time we've done a big headline show in the U.K., with the video backdrop and our proper backline and our real set," he said. "It will be the first real GOJIRA shows. We did a tour with HATESPHERE, but we were co-headlining and we didn't have a lot of gear or our real backline or a screen."

"We'll be focusing on the last album, but we'll also play songs from 'Terra Incognito', 'The Link' and 'From Mars To Sirius'," Duplantier continued.

"With the English audience, it's very special. Playing in the U.K., it was the first time that we got a lot of very young kids asking for autographs and screaming and going crazy. It was the same in Ireland too. I don't know how to describe it in English! It would be much easier in French. But it's from the gut, not from the mind. It's a really strong relationship."

"All The Tears", the new animated video from GOJIRA, can be viewed below. The clip was directed by Spanish artist Jossie Malis and is "really something that fits what we want to create artistically as a band," according to guitarist/vocalist Joseph Duplantier. Drummer Mario Duplantier explains: "We first came accross Jossie's work with his astounding animated films, 'Bend It To Machine' and we really liked the way he told stories in a very mysterious and unusual manner. His enigmatic animations deal with serious issues and are yet always permeated with a sense of poetry. We, as music writers, are trying to mix very different emotional atmospheres. We are happy to present a visual/audio work that gathers the sort of brutality of our music with the sensibility of his drawings."

When asked what the song is about, Joseph Duplantier replied, "It's all about all the tears that we cry through life. Because life is so hard, the simple fact of being alive is [there is always a constant] struggle. And it's about that — how hard it is."

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