From Mars To Sirius goes through a lot of changes, it has a lot of different sounds, atmospheres and weird tempo changes that are hard to understand at first listen. The first thing that comes to your mind is Meshuggah’s complexity…but not quite, since Gojira plays better with their tempo changes and they don’t do entire albums that sound just like one huge song.

This is one of those albums that you listen for the first time and maybe didn’t really impressed you enough to listen to it again, but it remains in your head, and many questions start to arise once you are away from it; so you go back out of curiosity and if you pay more attention the second time, you will be hooked on this band and this album.

The great thing about the record is that is has so many elements, different songs, and ideas that will blow your mind; this guys are really talented and the most important thing of all, they have creativity.

The first song “Ocean planet” is a good track but it’s confusing, or maybe too “innovative” and revolutionary for me to totally understand. “Backbone” it’s a track that really gives a better sense of the different ideas being used in the mix; the vocals are death metal, cleaner than more “traditional” death metal acts but certainly death metal; the drums keep a nice tempo and the guitars are heavy as hell. The difficult part of describing this album is that in every song they sound like a mix of two bands you have probably heard before, like in “The heaviest matter of the universe” they sound like Strapping Young Lad and Meshuggah all blend up in this, like the title implies really heavy piece. “Flying Whales” is Darkane with some speed taken out from the riffs but still goes along that line of a more thrash oriented piece than death metal, the progressive side is given by the many “whale” sounds placed in the intro of the song, nicely done by the way.

This album is hard to understand at the beginning but that’s just because Gojira has such a fresh and unique sound that makes you realize that all metal doesn’t have to sound a certain way, and that new and brilliant ideas can be placed on an extreme music album.