Man what a name "Flying Whales"... great song though

I remember blindly buying this album on a rec. from a friend out in New Brunswick.

I'd sell it for free if anyone wanted it.

Written by Troy Killjoy on 28.03.2011 at 03:26

I remember blindly buying this album on a rec. from a friend out in New Brunswick.

I'd sell it for free if anyone wanted it.

Sold:

Room 002C, East Slope
University of Sussex
Brighton, Falmer
East Sussex
BN1 9RP
England

Written by [user id=4365] on 28.03.2011 at 03:42

Written by Troy Killjoy on 28.03.2011 at 03:26

I remember blindly buying this album on a rec. from a friend out in New Brunswick.

I'd sell it for free if anyone wanted it.

Sold:

Room 002C, East Slope
University of Sussex
Brighton, Falmer
East Sussex
BN1 9RP
England

Wanna pay shipping?

Written by Troy Killjoy on 28.03.2011 at 03:43

Written by [user id=4365] on 28.03.2011 at 03:42

Written by Troy Killjoy on 28.03.2011 at 03:26

I remember blindly buying this album on a rec. from a friend out in New Brunswick.

I'd sell it for free if anyone wanted it.

Sold:

Room 002C, East Slope
University of Sussex
Brighton, Falmer
East Sussex
BN1 9RP
England

Wanna pay shipping?

I do not.

Can I not send you e-hugs instead?

Written by Troy Killjoy on 28.03.2011 at 03:26

I remember blindly buying this album on a rec. from a friend out in New Brunswick.

I'd sell it for free if anyone wanted it.

still open?

Written by JCJen7 on 18.06.2011 at 10:58

still open?

No, sorry. Sunrise Records took if off my hands for 4 bucks.

Shit.

Written by Boxcar Willy on 22.08.2011 at 19:34

The Shit.

Corrected.

Written by [user id=4365] on 22.08.2011 at 19:38
Corrected.

I'm with Willy on this one. I gave it a handful of listens and never thought of it as anything better than background noise.

And not the good kind of background noise. The annoying kind where you're begging for silence. Or to be listening to something else.

Written by [user id=4365] on 22.08.2011 at 19:38

Written by Boxcar Willy on 22.08.2011 at 19:34

The Shit.

Corrected.

No, I mean shit that he sold it :/

Written by Troy Killjoy on 22.08.2011 at 19:40

Written by [user id=4365] on 22.08.2011 at 19:38
Corrected.

I'm with Willy on this one. I gave it a handful of listens and never thought of it as anything better than background noise.

And not the good kind of background noise. The annoying kind where you're begging for silence. Or to be listening to something else.

Troy you silly boy.

^

Okay. I'm not with Willy on this one.

You love willy.

Oh I love willy, but I don't love Willy.

Yeah got here yesterday took me 5 plays to get to the second track because Ocean Planet is a WIN.

I love this album!!!all songs r fuckin awesome!

Just can't stop listening to this album since I discovered it last year.
I think it already won its place among my all time favorites.

The best french metal album ever and for ever

Backbone is a pretty decent song and then... uh.

Written by Pelagial on 01.03.2012 at 21:07

The best french metal album ever and for ever

we cannot say better

Ocean Planet it's perfect...just perfect...

Great album, very unique and original in my opinion. Feel free to challenge me as you may know music similar that i don't.

Anyway great album.

Fantastic album; changed the way I think about heavy music.

The breakdown on Backbone is what metal is all about. Straight up makes me want to headbang myself into a coma.

Absolutely perfect. There's not much more I can say about it, there's not a track on here that I don't find astounding. One thing confuses me though. Why is this band not classified as sludge metal/progressive sludge metal? They sound very sludgy to me.

Written by king_matt on 23.01.2013 at 06:29

Why is this band not classified as sludge metal/progressive sludge metal? They sound very sludgy to me.

I find their sound to be far too technical to be considered sludge. I can hear a similarity though, particularly in the longer tracks. That's where the progressive aspect comes in, they bend the typical death metal structures to unusual proportions which I'd wager is where that sludge like tone is coming from. That said I'd probably call it groove in sound rather than sludge.

Brutal riffs...probably the heaviest shit outhere

There is the colony of Whales inside this album..!!
fucking heaaavyyy!!!

I'm sure this is the case for many others, but this album was definitively my gateway to Gojira-and naturally, became one of my favourite bands for a good few years (I was around 12 when this came out). Literally wet my pants when I saw them live at my first ever gig too (supporting Annihilator and Trivium on what was a great all-round performance, and they based most of the setlist around this album. I still think back and remember how heavier "The Heaviest Matter in the Universe" sounded live than it did on the record, but it's such an amazing song too, and the same simply goes for every other track save "Into the Wilderness" and "Unicorn", two tracks which stand out as being the weakest in my opinion. Yet two tracks as such don't bring the overall quality down. Indeed, if I could summarize this album up in one word, it would be "Massive". Every song is in-your face, but no more so than atmospheric, mesmerizing and basically explosive in one way or another.

Oh, and "World to Come" hits my sweet spot every time it comes on the stereo.