On this week’s Mike James Rock Show on Friday Mike will be joined in the studio with Plymouth based band Athura who have been hauled up in the studio for some months now and are coming up to the show to let the listeners hear what they have been up to now the recording is done.
Checkout the guys ahead of them coming on the show here www.facebook.com/athura
Mike will also be chatting to French metal pioneers Gojira ahead of the new album being released globally on Roadrunner Records this month.Gojira,
Gojira is a progressive metal band formed in 1996 in Bayonne, France. The band was known as Godzilla until 2001. Gojira is composed of Joe Duplantier on vocals and rhythm guitar, his brother Mario Duplantier on drums, Christian Andreu on lead guitar and Jean-Michel Labadie on bass. Since its first studio album, Gojira has had no changes in line-up, and has released four studio albums, one live album, one single, and one DVD. Their new EP will be released in 2011.
Gojira, known for their environmentally-themed lyrics, “have risen from utmost obscurity during the first half of their career to widespread global recognition in the second, including regular mention amongst the genre’s leading new millennium upstarts”, according to Allmusic
Check out the band here http://gojira-music.com/
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