Add Joe Duplantier’s city-leveling guitar tone to your pedalboard with KHDK’s limited edition Gojira Drive By Sam Roche published 27 July 22 Limited to 333 units worldwide, the Joe Duplantier signature overdrive unlocks his fearsome tone for a select few
Joe Duplantier says Greta Van Fleet's latest album gave him “more faith in humanity” By Sam Roche published 2 December 21 The Gojira frontman explains why The Battle at Garden's Gate blew his mind, and says it “doesn't matter” to him that people compare GVF to Led Zeppelin
Gojira’s Joe Duplantier: “I think humans are pretty shitty sometimes, but we’re as horrible as we are incredible” By Ellie Robinson published 24 June 21 The modern metal titans in Gojira take aim at the root of all evil on their convulsive new album
Gojira's Joe Duplantier: "My approach to guitar is very physical… but not sexual!" By Brad Angle published 3 June 21 The pick-scraping frontman details the themes, tones and influences behind Fortitude, and talks songcraft, Death, Whammy pedals and that fine-looking mahogany Charvel...
Joe Duplantier played a solo on the new Gojira album with a guitar string in his mouth By Sam Roche published 20 April 21 The frontman details how a grounding problem forced him to play with a rather unconventional technique
Gojira’s Joe Duplantier: James Hetfield barely has drums in his in-ear monitors, Lars Ulrich follows his lead onstage By Richard Bienstock published 8 April 21 The Gojira leader discusses the Metallica frontman’s rhythm guitar dominance in a new interview
Neural DSP unleashes Archetype: Gojira, the “heaviest plugin in the universe” By Richard Bienstock published 19 January 21 New software for Gojira guitarist Joe Duplantier offers high-gain crunch and, of course, wild pitch shifting and octave effects
Interview: Gojira Frontman Joe Duplantier Talks Touring, Gear, India Gig and More By Andrew Bansal published 20 February 13