Role Musician Name Joe Duplantier | Years active 1996–present Instruments Vocals, guitar, bass Siblings Mario Duplantier | |
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Born October 19, 1976 (age 48) ( 1976-10-19 ) Labels Gabriel EditionsBoycott RecordsNext MusicListenable RecordsProsthetic RecordsRoadrunner Records Associated acts Cavalera ConspiracyEmpalotGojiraApocalyptica Albums | ||
Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter | ||
Video interview with gojira guitarist and lead singer joe duplantier
Joseph Duplantier (born October 19, 1976) is a French musician best known as the rhythm guitarist and vocalist of metal band Gojira. He is also the former bassist of Cavalera Conspiracy, to which he was invited by Max Cavalera.
Contents
- Video interview with gojira guitarist and lead singer joe duplantier
- Gojira s joe duplantier teaching you how to play l enfant sauvage
- Career
- Personal life
- Gojira
- Cavalera Conspiracy
- Empalot
- As a guest or session musician
- References
Gojira s joe duplantier teaching you how to play l enfant sauvage
Career
Joe and his brother Mario wrote their first song, titled 'Victim,' in 1996. Their band, initially called Godzilla, was later renamed Gojira. Gojira's debut studio album, Terra Incognita, was released in 2001.
Joe Duplantier's influences include bands such as Meshuggah, Metallica, Morbid Angel, Sepultura and Slayer.
He was also in a band called Empalot from 1999 to 2004.
Max Cavalera and Igor Cavalera initially asked Jean-Michel Labadie, bassist of Gojira, to do bass duties for their band, Cavalera Conspiracy; however, Labadie was busy with prior commitments, including Gojira. Instead, Duplantier ended up being the band's bassist. He has stated that Gojira is his main priority and that is the reason he has not done extensive touring with Cavalera Conspiracy. In 2008, he was replaced by Johny Chow on bass duties for Cavalera Conspiracy. Duplantier did not appear on the band's second album, Blunt Force Trauma.
Joe is the owner of Silver Cord Studio, a recording studio located in New York, which he designed himself.
Joe also plays drums occasionally during live performances when he and his brother Mario Duplantier switch places.
Personal life
Joe Duplantier has been in two bands with his brother, Mario Duplantier; one being his main project, Gojira, and the other being Empalot.
Some of the lyrical themes of Gojira reflect Duplantier's personal beliefs in preserving the environment. He is part of the environmental corporation Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Joe is a vegan.
Though he was born and raised in Bayonne, France, he now resides in New York City where he lives with his wife and child.