From Mars to Sirius by Gojira

From Mars to Sirius, the third album from French metal band Gojira, came out in 2005, and it's a monster: a concept record about environmental ruin and the rebirth of a dead planet, told through a space-travel saga whose deeper thread is the move from war toward peace. Brothers Joe and Mario Duplantier, on vocals and guitar and on drums, lead the charge, with Christian Andreu on guitar and Jean-Michel Labadie on bass, the lineup from Ondres that had stayed the same since they took the Gojira name.

The sound is technical death metal that keeps sprawling into progressive and post-metal territory: seismic grooves, riffs that grind like tectonic plates, and passages that open out into strange, eerie space. "Backbone", "The Heaviest Matter of the Universe" and "Flying Whales" are the peaks. Critics loved it, the British metal press took notice, and it has since been ranked among the greatest metal albums ever made.

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