Crunchy and polished modern extreme metal (From Mars To Sirius - Gojira)

Member Name: Burning_Darkness

Product:	From Mars To Sirius - Gojira
Date:	12/11/09 (26 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: some great riffs, satisfyingly crunchy guitars, good song structure

Disadvantages: can get a little bland in places

The third release by French modern extreme metal act Gojira, 'Mars To Sirius' mixes crushingly heavy chugging sections and periods of brutal and mechanical death metal set to booming growled vocals with wide-open and spaced out melodic sections complete with clean singing, this latter musical aspect bringing to mind the output of US cyber-metal band Fear Factory.

The production is big and clean yet also very powerful with some great crunchy guitars, and genearlly speaking the album does a great job of merging immensely heavy and catchy riffs with some great melodic sing-along choruses, although it can sound a little bland and unengaging on occasion.

By and large however there are enough enjoyable riffs and tempo-changes throught the songs for it to remain entertaining right through, whilst the environmentalism-oriented lyrics and aesthetic make for a nice change as well.

Clocking in at just under 67 minutes the album is perhaps somewaht overlong, but far as highly polished, mainstream modern metal goes, From Mars To Sirius remains an album that is well ahead of the pack.

Tracklisting

1. Ocean Planet 05:32
2. Backbone 04:18
3. From The Sky 05:48
4. Unicorn 02:09
5. Where Dragons Dwell 06:54
6. The Heaviest Matter Of The Universe 03:57
7. Flying Whales 07:44
8. In The Wilderness 07:47
9. World To Come 06:52
10. From Mars 02:24
11. To Sirius 05:37
12. Global Warming 07:50

Total playing time 01:06:52

Summary: A great modern mainstream metal album