Super Mario Duplantier is a god. He just makes it all perfect up there. Joe says "Go!" and Mario...he goes and goes and into overdrive he goes. Perfection as always.
Saw Gojira open for Mastodon in Portland, OR. They stole the show and had the crowd eating out of the palm of their hands. Mario put us in a trance with his solo. It was...transcendental
oh damn he's doing the hertas from Meshuggah's bleed at like 00:33 onward with pauses for fills. I feel like it must have been something he heard and wanted to learn and then just used it as a fundamental groove to get started.
Esoteric Surgery by Gojira has hertas in it, and that was released the same year as bleed so he wouldn't have heard it before he wrote the song. Mario has also been using hertas in fills since terra incognito so it's nothing new to him
Just checked that track out and you're right, so cool thank you! The tempo in esoteric surgery is a bit lower than bleed but that's clearly not a barrier for Mario@@badge6211
Mario has been the best metal drummer EASILY for lowkey the last 20 years. He’s the Lebron James of drumming. He somehow finds ways to be better despite the age. It’s unbelievable.
@@Tritoness I think with more time, Eloy, Garska etc may get there. Problem is with all these incredible modern drummers, I can't see them contributing as much as the likes of Haake, Carey, Mario etc. Don't get me wrong, Eloy is probably technically the best metal drummer, and Garska is just super human, like Spencer Prewitt is, I just can't see them getting to the level of the 3 I named as musicians.
I don’t think this has a pattern off a song of theirs in it to be honest. Just a solo he practiced and mastered for the 2018 tour. It’s absolutely insane, feels like 2 drummers playing at the same time.
Yes, it is Into the Storm pattern played on floor tom, youre right. Its actually pretty common for Mario, his solos are usually his mad practice excercises combined together into something extremely impressive. And as Mario stated in interviews, Gojira songs come to live by Mario playing things he came up with during practice to Joe and then Joe jams some riffs and they think about song structure after that. So both his solos and Gojira songs are born during Mario's practice therefore you can find a lot of his chops and rhytms from solos cleverly implemented into Gojira songs years after. Probably most of his crazy fills he plays he used in some solos years prior without any of us realizing that its the same thing but played in a different context. For example the syncopated snare intro at the beginning and before breakdown in Born for One Thing was actually played by Mario back in 2017 as an intro for his solo, you can hear it on Red Rocks recording. Its really cool that he somewhat recycles his own patterns into the songs, you can watch old live footage then and have those moments of realization that he actually teased the upcoming songs in his solos and nobody knew back then
@@jez_77 Yes that is so cool! Gonna check out the red rocks solo now. I think I've heard in an interview that for example the doublekick pattern in Toxic Garbage Island where he just plays 16ths but skips the last beat, that was just an exercise at first.
@@gabrielallert One of his most famous excercises turned into songs is the Art of dying intro ofc, Im pretty sure Ive heard him talking that he used to play it for years as a practice to train independence between limbs (constant 4/4 on ride and groups of 3's and 5's on double bass and snare). Ive heard about that double bass part from Toxic Garbage Island as well, I think it was an exercise to master switching between right and left as a leading foot during fast double bass sections as the missing beat kinda forces you to swtich from leading right to leading left. Its always so fascinating and inspiring to hear Mario talking about his practice routine and how he comes up with stuff Gojira plays, Ive learned and improved so much thanks to him
0:49 is the very first time I think I might have heard some scruffy sounds of him. The more I hear it the more I'm not shure If it came out as intended...
I remember also noticing that but didn’t think too much of it. Could have been intended, could have been a small moment of fatique and in a split second went for something easier, or just went blank for a split second. Imagine doing shows which could vary between 1h or almost 2 hours, almost every night when touring.
Je suis pas fan de Métal, mais je suis fan de Gojira. Plus un public merveilleux à ce concert , Pol'And'Rock Festival 2018 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ISJtvWhkMFQ.html
He’s better than Danny Carey. My opinion. Tool is so boring to me. Danny is a very cool dude though. Mario doesn’t get recognized as much because it’s metal while tool is, well, not metal.
Tool’s last album totally won me over, i like the longer instrumental songs compared to their earlier work. As for Danny, different drummers, I love Carey’s playing actually. But Mario is such a powerhouse behind that kit.