The French death metal-heads of Gojira will bring their North American tour to Tucson's Rialto Theatre on Monday.
The band is touring to promote its months-old fourth album, "The Way of All Flesh," an angrier, heavier, noisier, more aggressive and arguably more violent disc that reflects the band's growing angst over what it sees as the world's self-destruction, vocalist-guitarist Joe Duplantier told Pitchfork magazine. The album has sold a few thousand copies Stateside since its October 2008 debut at 138 on the U.S. Billboard charts.
The band peddles in crunching guitar riffs married to a throbbing, percussive heartbeat that does much to mask Duplantier's scream-o vocals. It's harsh and jagged and is, according to some critics, finding its way to the top of the heavy-metal heap.
Gojira takes its name from the Japanese pronunciation for Godzilla, although no one in the band can agree on whether it's pronounced "go-hear-ah" or "go-gee-rah" or "go-gee-dah." The band will share the Rialto stage with The Chariot and Car Bomb. The 8 p.m. show is labeled all-ages. Tickets are $19 in advance, $21 the day of the show, through the Rialto, www. rialtotheatre.com
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