I've been getting into this band since I saw them open for the Olympics.

[Saul Goodman]

I like percussive. 

 

[geoff_hartwell]

Dude, if you like this band and drumming, look up the live video of “I embrace the world” for the one that shows closeups of the drummers feet- it’s an awesome crash course in double-kick drumming! 🤘😎

[Saul Goodman]

14 minutes ago, geoff_hartwell said:

Dude, if you like this band and drumming, look up the live video of “I embrace the world” for the one that shows closeups of the drummers feet- it’s an awesome crash course in double-kick drumming! 🤘😎

Wow!! That was sick. 

[specialk]

52 minutes ago, geoff_hartwell said:

Dude, if you like this band and drumming, look up the live video of “I embrace the world” for the one that shows closeups of the drummers feet- it’s an awesome crash course in double-kick drumming! 🤘😎

For those of us playing along at home:

 

[Disturber]

They sound very angry. 

[velorush]

Unfamiliar with them but a couple if ideas on listening to that:

1. Unless the drummer's name is Gojira (and of course it is not), the band is misnamed.

2. I for some reason find the title of the song difficult to comport with the song's delivery. 

[Saul Goodman]

7 minutes ago, velorush said:

Unfamiliar with them but a couple if ideas on listening to that:

1. Unless the drummer's name is Gojira (and of course it is not), the band is misnamed.

2. I for some reason find the title of the song difficult to comport with the song's delivery. 

Gojira = Godzilla

Here is the opening to the Olympics. It's EPIC!!

 

[LucSulla]

I've seen Gojira live a couple of times. Once with Opeth and Devin Towsend in 2017, and once with Kvelertak and Mastodon in 2014 I think. Good band. 

[velorush]

On 5/16/2025 at 4:10 PM, Saul Goodman said:

Gojira = Godzilla

Hence the comment "(and of course it is not)"

I think the first time I watched "Gojira" (with the guy I knew as "Ironside" no less) was around 1974 on the Saturday morning "Creature Feature." Good times.

[Saul Goodman]

34 minutes ago, velorush said:

Hence the comment "(and of course it is not)"

I think the first time I watched "Gojira" (with the guy I knew as "Ironside" no less) was around 1974 on the Saturday morning "Creature Feature." Good times.

Was that with, "Your Ghost, Dr. Paul Bearer"?

[velorush]

Had to look that one up. No, we didn't get such in our neck of the woods.

I don't think anyone even hosted it until we got cable (maybe 1980) and then it was Commander USA! 

Much earlier, WHBQ (Memphis Channel 13, also noteworthy as WHBQ is AM station 560 where Rick Dees got his start) had Sivad, host of "Fantastic Features," but that was Saturday nights (and before we moved south enough to catch the Memphis stations on the antenna).

This was the Fantastic Features intro, shot in Overton Park, midtown Memphis:

[/detour]. Back to the drumming! 

[Brooks]

That was pretty cool. Reminds me of Mastodon a little.

[Dave Scepter]

Special olympics?.. man, this sounded like crap!.. Turn that shit down!.. I made it 2:20 until the singing started 🤮

 

 

 

Yup... I'm old 🤣

[JGale]

Godzirra! Is the name of the “if you can eat it all in an hour burrito it’s free” at a local Mexican Restaurant. 
Its fukkin huge. 

[Brooks]

On 5/19/2025 at 3:11 PM, Dave Scepter said:

Special olympics?.. man, this sounded like crap!.. Turn that shit down!.. I made it 2:20 until the singing started 🤮

 

Yeah, the vocals are the hardest thing to take in a lot of extreme metal.

I prefer watching a video of stuff like that, I wouldn't listen to them in my car (same goes w/ a lot of "shred", works better visually). 

[Dave Scepter]

43 minutes ago, Brooks said:

 

Yeah, the vocals are the hardest thing to take in a lot of extreme metal.

I wouldn't listen to them in my car 

You know what's good to listen to in the car?.. Judas Priest’s PainKiller, "Hell Patrol" has some fun singing that you can sing along with LOUDLY 😃