Gorod

When I blogged about Gojira, I mistakenly posted a Gorod video at the end. For this post, I'll attach the Gojira cover that was meant for the Gojira post.

Gorod are another French death metal band. Their first full-length Neurotripsicks instantly brought them on the map with their mix of groove, melody and brutality.

What's great about Gojira is that they're not afraid to be melodic. There's an ever-growing fear of melody in death metal due to the limiting nature of melody. Gorod take melody and assimilate it into the aggression and groove that metalheads love about death metal. Also, for the first two albums, Gorod featured a female drummer. There you go, dudes. Chicks can be just as brutal.



That's the first track and first song of their album Neurotripsicks. They've changed considerably since then [2005], but the Gorod feel is always there. I covered "State of Secret" from the sophomore album a few weeks ago, and it's included in the Gojira post. In lieu of this inter-French death metal alliance, here's my cover of Gojira's "Remembrance".