The way of all flesh

Production has always been as important to Gojira's attack as note choice, and the metal band's new album is an audiophile's wet dream.

Rarely ones to work with the most accelerated of timetables to begin with (especially when touring opportunities kept on beckoning) France's Gojira kept fans waiting all of three years between their breakthrough album, From Mars to Sirius, and its all-important successor, The Way of All Flesh.

It is by no means a mind blower, but "The Way of All Flesh" by New York City's ASRA (as in "Alleged Satanic Ritual Abuse") succeeds at tearing a few new assholes with its death metal tinged grindcore attack. No frills and raw as hell, the 11 tracks, many of which fall in the one ...