Gojira- From Mars to Sirius (Prosthetic)

What is Gojira? What do they mean, and what do they stand for?...Who cares, they're French and that sucks to begin with.  This band stole their name from the real translation for Godzilla (lame series of movies).  I can hardly get into this band in any sense.  They do not keep my attention for more than 30 seconds.  It is not that they are untalented, and or sloppy, it is just that they are extremely boring. I would have to say, just to be fair, is that they are good at what they do.  Everything sounds preciously clear and precise.  It sounds as if they know what the want, and get the job done. That still does not constitute a good album.  This IS metal, but at it's most boring attempt.  The musicianship is flawless, and I can see that they know what they are doing. But it lacks originality. To me this just sounds like stoner metal, yes it is metal, but instead of it being intense with maybe a slow and or melodic part to set the mood it is the opposite.  It extremely slow, with the occasional hint of brutality and so forth.  It will not please the stereotypical metal head.  It is just not intense enough.  To me it sounds like a nature conscious version of Nerosous or Eyehategod.  It's doom/sludge metal at it's best.  The only audience that I can see listening  to this is metal heads who smoke a lot of pot.  I feel that this is the most risky attempt to sell an album brought to you by Prosthetic records, considering their very profitable brutal metal attempts.  I see this album as something being passed as a way to diverse from the pack but I feel that the path that they have been on is more credible.  I  applaud you for the risk, but this album is not something the average brutal metal fan can appreciate.  Stick with the chaos, and you will succeed.  This album intended for sludge/doom/stoners only.  Listen at your own risk.

Sam Nastasuk