During an interview conducted by Rocksverige.se, brothers Mario and Joe Duplantier from the French progressive death metal band Gojira shed some light regarding their upcoming album, which they started recording earlier this year at Joe’s new studio Silver Cord in NYC. Mario commented the following on the subject:

The drums are done. Part of the guitars… almost all the guitars are done also. So we need the bass and the vocals at this point. Because… We were supposed to record around February, something like this. But we made a statement of the songs in February, and we thought the songs were not enough good, you know?! So we decided to… ‘Let’s put this song in the trash. Let’s just…’ We were super picky, like [we] never [were] in the past. We worked on each song super long. Usually we have ten songs, and we record ten songs and that’s it.

This time we were so picky that we decided around February to just… ‘Let’s push the limit. Let’s do another song — maybe a better song.’ And Joe brought some crazy ideas, and I brought some cool ideas too, and together we built four new songs we thought were better than the [ones were had already written]. So we pushed the recording process and finally we started in April. So it’s why we couldn’t finish everything — because we had this tour also. It’s a summer tour planned — three months on the road. So we had two options: we can cancel the summer tour, but we didn’t wanna do that. So, finally, we did the drums and the guitar.

When asked about when the album will be released, guitarist Joe stated:

We’re thinking early next year. We were aiming for October this year, but, like Mario said, we had to push the recording. I think the difficulty was… Mario brought a lot of ideas on the table… very challenging drum patterns. It’s less complicated than before. It’s more… I wanna say it’s more straight to the point. That’s what we were doing since we started. We’re getting rid of layers and complicated things, just to keep the core of the idea. There’s always an idea behind a song, and sometimes it gets too crowded.

The band will embark on an extensive tour across Europe this month, including many summer festival appearances like Tons of Rock, Copenhell and Kristonfest, in addition to other festivals in America like Heavy Montreal, Rock in Rio and Santiago Gets Louder.

[via theprp.com]