Mario Duplantier’s drums resonate across the rib cage. Joe Duplantier and Christian Andreu’s guitars carpet bomb the mix with riffs, harmonic squawks and string scrapes.

Mario Duplantier: I respect the fact that Joe has visions, we have many examples in our career of where Joe proposes some stuff and at first we were like, “Are you sure?

We are deeply saddened to report that the brothers Joe and Mario Duplantier's mother, passed away last night. As a result, Gojira will be postponing their upcoming performances this week in ...

As children growing up in Ondres, a bijou, tranquil town on France’s south-west coast, Joe Duplantier and his younger brother Mario were forever building dens, collecting driftwood from the ...

For metal fans who grew up consuming the same influences as the brother Joe and Mario Duplantier – Joe the senior by four-and-a-bit years – this was fresh, exhilarating, surreal, like watching an ...

In October last year, drummer Mario Duplantier confirmed they were working on the next album and said it would be different than Fortitude, ... to say but I have a feeling it is going to be heavier.” ...

For years, Duplantier has been involved in environmental efforts, working with causes like the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and Boyan Slat’s “The Ocean Cleanup.” The story goes that the ...

Alien Weaponry: Kua Tupu Te Ara – which also features Lamb Of God singer Randy Blythe, Testament vocalist Chuck Billy and Gojira members Joe and Mario Duplantier – will get a theatrical ...

On the topic of new Gojira material, drummer Mario Duplantier said in an October 2023 interview with El Expreso Del Rock that the new stuff is "different. It's a bit early to say but I have a ...

The French band’s drummer Mario Duplantier told Prog they’d made their name by staying true to their creative instincts – and also to their sense of social values.

That record was written in the aftermath of the death of Joe and Mario Duplantier’s mother, and the album reflected the weight and grief of that event. This time around, the record has a much ...

Joe Duplantier (2nd left) and Mario Duplantier (2nd right) with Christian Andreu (left) and Jean-Michel Labadie in Gojira. Simon Bracken. Tue Apr 27 2021 - 05:00.