Gojira: Ranking All 6 Studio Albums
1. The Way Of All Flesh (2008)
A leading candidate for the title of “Best Death Metal Album of the Century”, The Way of All Flesh is so driven and ferocious in its diversity that it almost demands the listener to smoke a cigarette after every spin.
The hour-long magnum opus possesses the true hallmark of any great record: every song on it has a unique identity that sticks in the brain, but not to the point that the album as a whole feels inconsistent.
There is so much about The Way of All Flesh that demands to be remembered: the melodic guitars of “Oroborus”; the apocalyptic anger of “Toxic Garbage Island”; the electronic darkness of “A Sight to Behold”; the gorgeous and ever-building destruction of “The Art of Dying”; the headbangers’ nirvana that is “Vacuity”; Randy Blythe’s brutal cameo in “Adoration for None”; the climactic refrain of “Esoteric Surgery”…
Gojira’s fourth album threw as much as it could at the wall and all of it stuck, while it also finds itself seamlessly knitted together by a constant, primal fury and the overarching theme of death as a natural life process.
If anyone demanded one single piece of evidence as to why Gojira are the best extreme metal band on the planet, The Way of All Flesh is that and more.
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