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Having the opening spot for Slayer probably isn’t the easiest task, but Gojira seem to be up to the challenge. The guys from Gojira had a chat to the Houston Pressabout what it’s like to tour with bands that have acted as inspirations and how being signed with Roadrunner Records has helped their career.
“We get lucky,” says drummerMario Duplantier. “We tour with Metallica, we tour with Machine Head, we did a couple of shows with Sepultura, and now, doing this tour with Slayer, we feel like, ‘OK, we did it! Finally!’ When I was a child, it was my dream, so I’m living a dream right now.The fact that Roadrunner put us on the front of the communications and media, I’m sure this was very important for us, to sign on a big label,” Duplantier says. “Now we have a very strong support of the band.L'Enfant Sauvage, this album is also part of our new success. But I’m sure the fact we signed with Roadrunner Records was also the biggest step for us.”
“We don’t feel the pressure because we are, like, in the bubble,” he says. “We are just in the bus composing without thinking about anything else, only what we want to express right now. Pressure is sometimes dangerous because you block the inspiration; you think too much. You just have to let emotions and temptations to go out of you.We try just to have fun doing music without thinking for a moment,” he adds.
Make sure you catch Gojira at Soundwave 2014!
