First post on the new blog and it's my 20 year photoversary?!
https://www.eldave.photo/blog/gigan-20-years-later

#miniaturepainting #3dprinting #godzilla #gigan #kaiju

Gigan (Trendmasters)

Gigan first appeared in 1972’s Godzilla vs. Gigan. He is originally an extraterrestrial cyborg monster used by the M Space Hunter Nebula Aliens to invade Earth, but his backstory changes a bit depending on the media he is being featured in. Gigan’s abilities include a jet pack for flight, a circular saw on his chest, and hooked blades for hands. In Godzilla: Final Wars he can also shoot […]

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𝑺eance 𝑫e 𝑴inuit 𝑫u 𝑽endredi 𝑺oir

𝐆𝐨𝐝𝐳𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐖𝐚𝐫𝐬 (Gojira Fainaru)
Film Japonais réalisé par Ryūhei Kitamura en 2004

Avec Masahiro Matsuoka , Rei Kikukawa , Akira Takarada , Kane Kosugi , Kazuki Kitamura et Maki Mizuno

#GodzillaFinalWars #GojiraFainaru #RyūheiKitamura #séancedeminuitduvendredisoir #cinegenres #journalhebdomadaire #vidéothèqueidéale #horror #horreur #Kaijū #FilmDeMonstre #Godzilla #Megalon #Gigan #JetJaguar

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𝑺eance 𝑫e 𝑴inuit 𝑫u 𝑽endredi 𝑺oir

𝐆𝐨𝐝𝐳𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐨𝐧
Film Japonais réalisé par Jun Fukuda de 1973
Avec Katsuhiko Sasaki , Hiroyuki Kawase , Yutaka Hayashi , Robert Dunham et Kotaro Tomita

#Godzilla #cinegenres #vidéothèqueidéale #Kaijū #culte
#GodzillaContreMegalon #GojiraTaiMegaro #JunFukuda
#séancedeminuitduvendredisoir #Kaijū #FilmDeMonstre #Godzilla
#Megalon #Gigan #JetJaguar

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Giant cockroach aliens from the planet M Space Hunter Nebula has it out for Big G! On this week's Monster Mondays, they send their own monster to Earth as a first part of a colonization plot in Godzilla vs. Gigan!

Listen to the new episode at https://wp.me/p9Tw3k-1ED

#podcast #MonsterMondays #Gozilla #Gigan #kaiju #70s #sciencefiction

Gigan – Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus [Things You Might Have Missed 2024]

By Maddog

Back in the early 2010s, Gigan wooed me with their lovably absurd album titles, like 2013’s Multi-Dimensional Fractal-Sorcery and Super Science. Luckily, Gigan had the musical chops to back it up. Their distinctive blend of brutal death metal, skronky technicality, and alien atmospheres made me a cult megafan. Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus interrupts a seven-year silence, and the only staffers thrilled about its arrival were myself and Alekhines Gun. In retrospect, this is understandable; AAI is a weird album by a weird band, and it’s unlikely to win over anyone who isn’t already so inclined. While Gigan’s newest is a lot to chew on, it offers a great glimpse into why I’ve stood gaping for over a decade.

If Mithras is Morbid Angel in space, then Gigan is Wormed in space. Eric Hersemann’s guitars lay the foundation, playing Defeated Sanity riffs at an Archspire pace. However, in its melodies, its composition, and its production, the album is foremost an atmospheric journey, not a riff-fest. Hersemann’s guitar and bass lines sound otherworldly through their dissonance and sudden transformations (“Erratic Pulsitivity and Horror”). Eschewing simple song structures, Gigan’s uneasy odysseys take several focused listens to make any sense. Straying from the genre’s typical clinical production, AAI opts for a reverb-laden wall of noise that resembles a muddled Mithras. This remains my biggest gripe, as the album’s cloudy guitar sound untooths its impressive melodies. Conversely, AAI’s highlight might be its drumming. Nathan Cotton’s world-class performance excels in its raw technicality, its frenzied evolution, and its cockpit role in the album’s ebb and flow. But most of all, it wows through its raw humanity. On highlights like “Trans-Dimensional Crossing of the Alta-Tenuis,” the attention to detail in Cotton’s performance shines through every beat and can only be described as beautiful. While that word isn’t common in brutal death metal reviews, it’s a testament to Gigan’s singular sound.

Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus is a wild journey. Gigan steamrolls the listener with brutal riffs, appealing to idiots like me without devolving into idiocy themselves (“Square Wave Subversion”). On the other end, Gigan’s skronky adventures are grand slams. The latter half of “Trans-Dimensional Crossing…” blends light-speed brutality with Morse Code guitars that remain the album’s highlight, while “Emerging Sects of Dagonic Acolytes” captivates me with The Velvet Underground-style chaos. Armed with bulletproof melodies in their right hand and chaos in their left, Gigan’s compositions feel like Lovecraftian narratives. Most strikingly, the shrieking melodies and distorted drum-led chorus of “The Strange Harvest of the Baganoids” evoke visceral terror for the plight of those poor Baganoids.1 Gigan fares less well when they sacrifice riffs for amorphous meanderings, especially on longer tracks (“Emerging Sects…”). But when AAI wields riffcraft and atmosphere in unison, it stands unmatched. For instance, the closer “Ominous Silhouettes…” wows with what sounds like a Deeds of Flesh riff being played by a depressed Martian, leading into dual-guitar screeches à la Pyrrhon. Engrossing and ever-evolving, Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus immerses the listener in its saga.

While snippets of Gigan bear the signatures of other bands, no one else has ever made music like this. Although its bloat and its muddy sound hold it back, Gigan’s comeback is a rewarding specimen of their unconventional brand of brutal death metal. Dissonant, brutal, grimy, and alien, Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus is tough to digest even for the Gigan-initiated. Ears shall be split, brows shall be furrowed, and poseurs shall be (strangely) harvested. Few will survive. But those that do will have quite a story to tell.

Tracks to Check Out: “Trans-Dimensional Crossing of the Alta-Tenuis,” “The Strange Harvest of the Baganoids”

#2024 #AmericanMetal #AnomalousAbstractigateInfinitessimus #AtmosphericDeathMetal #BrutalDeathMetal #DeathMetal #DeedsOfFlesh #DefeatedSanity #DissonantDeathMetal #Gigan #Mithras #Pyrrhon #TechnicalBrutalDeathMetal #TechnicalDeathMetal #TheVelvetUnderground #ThingsYouMightHaveMissed #ThingsYouMightHaveMissed2024 #TYMHM #Wormed