Terra Incognita is the debut album released by French

France

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 death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 band Gojira

Gojira (band)

Gojira is a heavy metal band formed in 1996 in Bayonne, France. The band was known as Godzilla until 2001. Gojira is composed of Joe Duplantier on vocals and guitar, his brother Mario Duplantier on drums, Christian Andreu on guitar and Jean-Michel Labadie on bass...

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According to text on the album inlay, the title (Latin

Latin

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 for "unknown land") refers to the area inside of each man, where, according to Hindu legend, Brahma

Brahma

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 hid the divinity that he had taken from humanity for the punishment of its abuse. In 2009, the album was re-released in a limited edition digipack including three bonus tracks.

Track listing

1. "Clone" − 5:00
2. "Lizard Skin" − 4:32
3. "Satan is a Lawyer" − 4:25
4. "04" − 2:11
5. "Blow Me Away You(niverse)" − 5:12
6. "5988 Trillions de Tonnes" − 1:20
7. "Deliverance" − 4:56
8. "Space Time" − 5:23
9. "On the B.O.T.A" − 2:49
10. "Rise" − 5:12
11. "Fire Is Everything" − 4:59
12. "Love" − 4:22
13. "1990 Quatrillions de Tonnes" − 4:17
14. "In the Forest" − 12:11

Bonus Tracks:

1. "Clone (Live)" - 4:46
2. "Love (Live)" - 4:15
3. "Space Time (Live)" - 5:22

Personnel

• Joe Duplantier
  Joe Duplantier
  Joseph Duplantier is a French musician who is the guitarist and vocalist of Gojira and was the bassist for Cavalera Conspiracy.-Music:Joe Duplantier's influences include bands such as Meshuggah, Metallica, Morbid Angel and Sepultura....
  
   – vocals, guitar
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• Christian Andreu – guitar
  Guitar
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• Jean-Michel Labadie – bass
  Bass guitar
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• Mario Duplantier – drums
  Drum kit
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