Latest about Joe Duplantier
“Historic for Gojira and metal”: Why the Olympics played an unlikely host for some of the biggest guitar moments of the year
2024 Year in Review: Mainstream metal, historic guitar partnerships and solos while Tom Cruise abseiled – sports and music collided this year, with spectacular results
ESP officially unveils Gojira’s Joe Duplantier as a signature artist
After setting the world ablaze with a custom-made, chromed-out XJ-1, the metal hero has now joined the ESP ranks
Gojira’s Joe Duplantier sparks rumors he’s signed with another guitar brand after playing a custom ESP during the Paris Olympics opening ceremony
Could the heavy metal riffsmith be leaving Charvel, or is his show-stopping new axe the sign of a new dual-brand relationship with ESP?
Add Joe Duplantier’s city-leveling guitar tone to your pedalboard with KHDK’s limited edition Gojira Drive
Limited to 333 units worldwide, the Joe Duplantier signature overdrive unlocks his fearsome tone for a select few
![[L-R] Joe Duplantier and Jake Kiszka](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/WujTgB8cKHHos9tiy95scf-840-80.jpg.webp)
Joe Duplantier says Greta Van Fleet's latest album gave him “more faith in humanity”
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”
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!"
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
The frontman details how a grounding problem forced him to play with a rather unconventional technique
![[L-R] Joe Duplantier, James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/mQHdqMovzLGPGFfWrPVcZb-840-80.jpg.webp)
