The Link

by Gojira

Overview

While Gojira's 2000 debut album, Terra Incognita, left many listeners confused about what to make of its schizophrenic combination of extreme metal styles (death, groove, thrash, prog, even metalcore), the French band's second full-length, 2003's The Link, helpfully revealed that this was simply how Gojira "rolled," man. Deal with it, or move on. And so, as it was the first time around, here too, simultaneously intricate and sonically punishing compositions like "Death of Me," "Remembrance," and "Embrace the World" consistently challenged listeners to withstand their dizzying array of Cuisinart-ed styles, presented with a quasi-industrial aesthetic and near-atonal brutality. To enlightened metal heads, such songs will mostly recall Sweden's Meshuggah, minus the distinctive, exotic rhythmic patterns; to neophytes they'll seem like the work of angry machines, grinding along eternally in a post-humanity future. But the aforementioned versatility was also reflected in a few brief, gear-shifting interludes ("Connected," "Torii," "Wisdom Comes"), slower songs augmented by evanescent melodies and white noise sound effects (the title track, "Dawn"), and a pair of unusually concise and less oppressive "singles" in "Indians" and "Over the Flows." All in all, there was just enough variety and discernible human emotion on hand to broaden Gojira's creative reach; though not yet as much as the band would develop on subsequent albums, beginning with the eye-opening leap forward of 2005's From Mars to Sirius. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia

Product Details

Release Date:	03/20/2017
Label:	Bfd
UPC:	3760053841841
Rank:	25601

Tracks

1. The Link
2. Death of Me
3. Connected
4. Rememberance
5. Torii
6. Indians
7. Embrace the World
8. inward Movement
9. Over the Flows
10. Wisdom Comes
11. Dawn

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Gojira   Primary Artist
Christian Andreau   Guitar
Mario Duplantier   Drums
Joe Duplantier   Guitar

Technical Credits

Gabriel Editions   Audio Production
Gojira   Composer,Lyricist
Laurentx Etxemendi   Audio Engineer