Mario Duplantier

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Mario François Duplantier (born 19 June 1981 in Bayonne, France) is a French musician and singer best known as the drummer for progressive death metal band Gojira.

Early life

Mario Duplantier was born in Bayonne, France, on June 19th, 1981. He grew up in Ondres, France's southwest coast, near the Basque country. He was born in a family where the arts played a major role in innovation. Patricia (née Rosa), an American with Azorean roots, was born in Wisconsin and grew up in Los Angeles. Dominique Duplantier, a French painter and architectural drafter, is his father. Patricia, a 23-year-old student in the United States, was 23 years old when she first met Dominique Duplantier while travelling in Europe in the early 1970s. The couple married and settled in Ondres.

The old family house with his father's adjoining workshop was isolated in the Landes forest, which was difficult to reach. His father devoted his life to painting, and he was charged with surrection. He worked with mayors of southwest France, drawing landscapes, street plans, and native habitats while still focusing on architectural details. His father has written books and held art shows in France. Joe Duplantier has a brother and a sister, fine-art photographer Gabrielle. His mother referred to him as a "expansive, funny, lovable, and transparent boy," adding that "he was a hit." He spent the majority of his childhood in his father's workshop and in the one of his sister, who started photography at the age of seventeen. After swimming in polluted water that resulted in surgical intervention, Duplantier's degeneration suffered at a young age. He was able to choose a career in music, but his parents nevertheless encouraged him to obtain his diploma. As a result, he received a French Baccalauréate in literature (L); later, he said, "We had completed the deal, we could do what we wanted."

Personal life

In France and the United States, Duplantier (and his brother) have dual nationality. He is a franco-américain (French-American) based on the principle of jus sanguinis (right of blood), based on attribution à la naissance (attribution at birth), but he obtained his nationality through the condition stipulating that "at least one of his parents is American" because he was born outside of the United States but not necessarily American. He has two passports, one from each nation. He is married to French videographer Anne Deguehegny (responsible for Gojira's live footage) and his daughter and son together, and they have a daughter together. The family lived in New York City for five years, and their daughter grew up and went to school there.

Patricia Rosa Duplantier, his mother, died of cancer in France on July 5th, 2015.

Duplantier, who does not exercise enough, does not run less than one hour a day or every other day, in place of abdominal exercises to maintain his cardiovascular endurance and enhance his cardiovascular endurance. He lives in the French Basque Country and practices bodyboarding and surfing one hour per day. Since he was a boy, Duplantier has been bodyboarding. When Robert Trujillo arrives in California and Biarritz on holiday, he surfs with him occasionally.

Duplantier, a French entrepreneur who lived in Biarritz in southwestern France, said he lived there in February 2022.

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Career

Michael Jackson was born in a household where his mother brought rock music, the Beatles, Tina Turner, and Michael Jackson into the house, who was greatly influenced. Duplantier recalled that the first song that inspired him was "Another One Bites the Dust," by Queen, and then, a Metallica cassette tape belonging to his brother led him to discover heavy metal. He was first impressed as he watched his brother play the guitar, but the family knew immediately that they would join a band. While listening to Metallica, he had his first introduction to the drums: "I took some chopsticks and started to beat pretty much on the table." Patricia, a very generous person, bought him his first drum kit. He started playing drums at the age of 11. He was inspired by his parents to develop his imagination. He formed his first band with his school friend, Nirvana, Metallica, and Sepultura covers, but then discovered more experimental metal.

Duplantier, a thirteen-year-old drummer, began playing in earnest the double bass drums and became a death metal drummer with his band Putride (death-thrash). He was known for his musical maturity. "I was already a true perfectionist tyrant in the rehearsal room," he said. "I wanted it to be perfect." "They were ten times better than my band at the time," his brother said. He was really good at the drums for the first time. He was better than the drummer I had at the time," the drummer said.

He wanted to start a band with his brother Joe, who was nineteen, with the intention of creating a technical and melodic death metal at his age fourteen. Both brothers placed an advertisement in a local music store for a guitarist and a bass player and then met the Lando-Catalan, Christian Anders. His buddy Alexandre Cornillon joined them shortly after. The band called themselves Godzilla in 1996. "We immediately began to play in a very rigorous, almost obsessive manner," Duplantier recalled. Duplantier outlined the band's tactic: the band's strategy:

Victims, Godzilla's first demo on cassette tape, appeared in 1996. Despite its amateur production "but above average," the demo displayed "an art of syncopated groove"; the band would debut on the underground circuit.

When the band had passed out of the experimental stage, but Duplantier began to develop his drumming style in 1997. Duplantier had no drum lessons at this time. He began attending Agostini drum school in France and spent seven years exposed to jazz, Afro-Cuban, and rock drumming; taught to "fineness, less-is-more" dynamics; still aided by his mother. He will also study music theory and learn to write drum sheet music.

Cornillon died in 1998 and Jean-Michel Labadie, the Basque, Jean-Michel Labadie, replaced the band.

Saturate in 1999 and Wisdom Comes in 2000, which marked the end of the "amateur" period. He then began a "brutal lifestyle regime."

Empalot was a side project of the Duplantier brothers, who included friends in the line-up and represented Gojira in France in the early years. The band, which featured nine musicians on stage, toured France between 1999 and 2004. The project was then suspended, but it was then suspended.

Empalot's music had inspired him to play "groovy" with all the hi-hat openings and the ghost notes, which he had not seen before. Double bass drums were almost non-present in music.

In 2001, Godzilla renamed itself Gojira. Terra Incognita's debut album was released the same year and already had their trademark; "ultra-heavy, rhythmically precise crunching."

With "a quasi-industrial aesthetic and near-atonal brutality," Gojira's second album, The Link, showcased more versatility and a focus on melody.

Duplantier knew he had to "go to a new degree" and started his double bass drum workout to increase speed and control at that time. Except on the weekend, he did a two-hour workout doing paternddles on the double kick. He began his second daily exercise consisting of thirty minutes of paddles and then one hour of constant double bass. For ten minutes, he had "straight singles on each foot."

Gojira's critically acclaimed breakthrough album, From Mars to Sirius, was released in 2005.

He embarked on his first North American tour with Gojira as one of the Children of Bodom support groups in December 2006.

In 2008, the Way of All Flesh, the band's fourth album, was released.

The band's first North American headlining tour, which placed them as the leading band of the French metal scene, began in 2009.

Gojira's fifth album, L'Enfant Sauvage, was released in 2012. Duplantier's drums set on this album was more upbeat on this record, but still maintaining a "live" atmosphere. All of these songs were recorded in one take, with fine adjustments on few tracks.

Magma, the band's first commercial success, debuted in 2016. The band had toned down their complexity on Magma, but AllMusic's John D. Buchanan said that "the music is still incredibly heavy." The album's general tone came from a desire to "change the dynamic" and to go "straight to the point" in the case, with the intention of adding "more colors" in the compositions. He and Gojira had been on tour around the United States in late 2016.

While keeping some polyrhythmic patterns, Duplantier emphasized the groove on Fortitude, saying that the songwriting was more about band cohesion than drum performance. The drum recording process was similar to L'Enfant Sauvage's. His double bass workout was still practiced in 2021. On the eighth album, he also mentioned a "return of the drums to the forefront" with more advanced and experimental drum styles. As part of his stay with the 8G Band during the first week of May 2021, Duplantier appeared on NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers to play drums.

The bulk of Gojira's songs were derived from Duplantier's drum arrangements, including "Remembrance," "The Art of Dying," "Explosia," "Into the Storm," and "Into the Storm." Among others, "Sphinx," "Born for One Thing," "New Found," and "Amazonia" were among the four singers' spontaneous jams.

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Awards and nominations

• Bernhard Castiglioni of Drummerworld (the "website No. 1 in the world as reference for drummers"), has included Duplantier on his list of 24 names titled "The Metal Drummers" (in alphabetical order).
• 2012: He won the "Best Drummer of Modern Metal" by MetalSucks.
• 2020: Duplantier was awarded the No. 5 ranking on the Revolver's list of the "5 Greatest Metal Drummers of All Time". He was ranked No. 21 on Loudwire's list of "The 66 Best Metal + Hard Rock Drummers of All Time".