MIND INVERSION

Gojira, the peerless French progressive metal with a proactive message, has found a captive audience during the last few years in the United States. After opening some of the best attended small “big” metal package tours to cross the country (with bands such as Lamb of God, Behemoth, Job for a Cowboy, and In Flames), a young audience of fans has been turned on to the ultra-heavy, technical, groovy death metal attack of Gojira. Finally, after releasing the most ambitious and successful album of their career, these veteran Frenchmen have booked their first headlining tour of the continent. For those of us who have followed Gojira’s developing career from afar for the last decade, these full-length shows will be our first chance to see the band bring their complete, complex concert to an American audience. It’s great that the success of The Way of All Flesh has finally afforded them with this opportunity, and fans both old and new will undoubtedly be very excited for these shows.

Although, I’m not sure how well Gojira fans will respond to the chaotic hardcore stylings of The Chariot (fronted by former Norma Jean vox man Josh Scogin) or the grindcore of Car Bomb, it should be an exciting show for open-minded fans. They’ll be at Station 4 in St. Paul on May 11th, but you can keep reading for all of their tour dates… 

May 01st Springfield, VA – Jaxx
May 02nd Worcester, MA – Palladium
May 03rd Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore at The TLA
May 04th Cleveland, OH – Peabody’s
May 06th New York, NY – Blender Theatre @ Gramercy
May 07th Montreal, QC – Club Soda
May 08th Toronto, ON – The Mod Club
May 09th Detroit, MI – Harpo’s
May 10th Chicago, IL – Logan Square Auditorium
May 11th St. Paul, MN – Station 4
May 14th Murray, UT – Murray Theater
May 17th Vancouver, BC – Richards On Richards
May 18th Seattle, WA – El Corazon
May 19th Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theatre
May 21st San Francisco, CA – Slims
May 22nd Pomona, CA – The Glass House
May 24th Hollywood, CA – The Key Club

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