SINCE FORMING GOJIRA with his brother Mario in 1996, Joe Duplantier has proved himself a modern metal icon. He’s sensitive, thoughtful and passionate about the preservation of the environment, not to mention a modern guitar hero and a riff machine, responsible for a back catalogue of stunning, crushingly brutal death metalinspired bangers. But what has the great man learned throughout all of it? “I’m nearly 50 and I’m still continuing to learn and grow,” he tells us by way of introduction, as we catch up over Zoom. These are the teachings that have steered him best so far…
EMPATHY IS KEY
“As a kid I was struck by the interaction between people, how they choose not to relate, how they don’t listen to each other, how they try to step on each other. The competition, you know? I was always full of questions, and
