Gojira has always been a fascinating beast. They seem like a quiet bunch of dudes that never say much about how an album is going or what it's going to sound like. That's why it's so surprising that when frontman Joe Duplantier spoke to rocksverige.se, he revealed not only where the band were at in terms of the next record, but also said some of the riffage could be comparable to Pantera:
"We record demos, we jam, we work really hard… super hard on the songs. We wanna put out our greatest album. We do things a little differently. We dump songs, we dump riffs, which we never did before. [In the past] we would prepare 12 songs, get in the studio and record them just exactly as they are on the demos. We decided to do it differently this time. So [on previous albums] we would push each song to its maximum until it becomes really good. But this time we wanna select them right away. [If we come up a riff that sounds slightly] boring [from the start], we [get rid of it] instead of [spending time] trying to make it more interesting. So we have at least 20 songs — like, the main ideas, the core of each one. But we still need, now, to work on putting all the stuff together, but we have a lot of material that we really love this time. It's kind of challenging for us, also, 'cause the style is changing a little bit. We have some Pantera-ish kind of riffs, which is kind of new for us. But we wanna… Because we want to… We want [the riffs] to be a little punchier sometimes."
Duplantier also said he wants to produce the group's next effort. Someone give this man a medal.
"Me. I wanna produce it. I have to do it myself somehow. It makes me feel great. I love it. That's what I do. It's what I like. I wanna do it. So everybody's, like, 'Oh, you should work with a big producer.' I don't think so. It could be a very personal sound, it could be a very direct dialog with the fans, without the interaction of anyone. Even if it's a great person, this person is still between us and the fans."
Personally, I could never really pick out specifically what the groups influences were in their music considering they have such a unique sound as a band. So it'll be very, very interesting to see what they're defining as "Pantera riffs" and how they're going to fit in with the new music!
No word on any expected release date for the music.
[via Blabbermouth]
