Concerts: Gojira Release New Video, Announce March UK Tour
Gojira, the French quartet whose latest album, The Way Of All Flesh, ended up hundreds of best of lists worldwide (Revolver - #2, Metal Hammer - #4, Rock Hard - #2) and wowed US audiences on a recent run of dates with In Flames, have unveiled a visually stunning video to accompany "All The Tears," directed by Spanish artist Jossie Malis. Drummer Mario Dupliantier commented, "When we first came across Jossie's work, with his astounding animated films Bend It To Machine, and we really liked the way he told stories in a very mysterious and unusual mannger. His enigmatic animations deal with serious issues and are yet always permeated with a sense of poetry. We, as music writers, are trying to mix very different emotional atmospheres. We are happy to present a visual/audio work that gathres the sort of brutality of our music with the sensibility of his drawings."
The band continues to tour with a French tour in February and more dates to be announced for the rest of Europe and another round of US dates. For current French dates please visit Gojira's MySpace page. See below for a pair of "screenshots" of the new video (courtesy Speakeasy PR).
Gojira will embark on a headlining tour of the U.K. in March. Confirmed dates are as follows:
March 10 - Leeds, UK - Cockpit
March 11 - Birmingham, UK - Barfly
March 12 - Glasgow, UK - Classic Grand
March 13 - Sheffield, UK - Corperation
March 14 - Dublin, UK - Academy
March 15 - Belfast, UK - Lime Light
March 17 - Stoke, UK - Sugarmill
March 18 - Norwich, UK - Waterfront
March 19 - Portsmouth, UK - Wedgewood rooms
March 20 - Oxford, UK - Zodiac
March 21 - Bristol, UK - Academy 2
March 22 - London, UK - Underworld
March 24 - Colchester, UK - Arts Centre
"All The Tears," the new animated video from Gojira, can be viewed here. The clip was directed by Spanish artist Jossie Malis and is "really something that fits what we want to create artistically as a band," according to guitarist/vocalist Joseph Duplantier." [...]
When asked what the song is about, Joseph Duplantier replied, "It's all about all the tears that we cry through life. Because life is so hard, the simple fact of being alive is [there is always a constant] struggle. And it's about that ? how hard it is."
Gojira sold around 4,200 copies of the band's new album, The Way Of All Flesh, in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 138 on The Billboard 200 chart. The CD's cover artwork was created by Joseph Duplantier, who was also responsible for the artwork for Gojira's previous album, 2005's From Mars To Sirius.
[Source: Speakeasy PR, Robert - Rock N Roll Cola]