This is when Gojira decided they’d go the extra mile, they’d mix it up even more. And it sounded great, and it brought them many new fans. While Magma has its issues and the album is a tiny bit frontloaded for me personally, it is still a very good album. The first half is quite epic, a versatile and interesting approach and offers progressive metal, sludge metal, and death metal — dammit, The Shooting Star itself is an atmospheric sludge metal and prog crossover, very stoner ...
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