GOJIRA To Sign With ROADRUNNER RECORDS?

According to a posting on the Facebook page of Spin Recording Studios, French progressive metallers GOJIRA are currently holed up at the Long Island City, New York-based recording facility working on their new album with producer Josh Wilbur (LAMB OF GOD) for an early 2012 release via Roadrunner Records. It should be noted, however, that neither GOJIRA nor Roadrunner has officially confirmed a partnership between the two parties.

GOJIRA parted ways with Listenable Records after the release of 2008's "The Way Of All Flesh".

"Listenable did an amazing job with us, we're very good friends with the owner and we are still working with them on stuff, but now it's time for us to move on to something a bit bigger; we need to bring some fresh energy and new blood into GOJIRA," GOJIRA guitarist/vocalist Joseph Duplantier told U.K.'s Terrorizer magazine in a recent interview. "A few record companies have now put a bit more money on the table, so it feels like something really important is happening."

Duplantier revealed that, rather than the heavily researched themes of the last CD, lyrics for the upcoming, yet-to-be-titled effort are a lot more spontaneous, with "stream of consciousness"-style "spiritual" compositions.

"I've been about spirituality since the first album," he said. "It's hard to define what spirituality is, but it's more like getting closer to [oneself]. It's where each thing we do is sacred; not like going to a church or when you are with a dying person, but waking up in the morning I've tried to take this dimension when I've written the music, like sometimes I don't even know what I'm going to sing and the words come out fluently. It's not a concept album like in the past, it's more about being spontaneous with feeling, and it's more true and honest."

GOJIRA last year entered the studio to record a new four-song EP, the proceeds from which will benefit Sea Shepherd, an anti-whaling organization. The CD will feature guest appearances by Devin Townsend (STRAPPING YOUNG LAD),Fredrik Thordendal (MESHUGGAH),Randy Blythe (LAMB OF GOD),Anders Fridn (IN FLAMES) and Max Cavalera (SOULFLY, CAVALERA CONSPIRACY, SEPULTURA).