Joe Duplantier

Joseph Andrew Duplantier (born 19 October 1976 in Paris) is a French-American musician best known as the rhythm guitarist and vocalist of metal band Gojira. He is also the former bassist of Cavalera Conspiracy, to which he was invited by Max Cavalera.
Career.
In high school, at around seventeen years of age, Duplantier formed his first band, named Eclipse; then another band, named P4; and he had already acquired a reputation as a composer.
Duplantier and his brother Mario wrote their first song, titled "Victim" in 1996. Their band, initially called Godzilla, was later renamed Gojira. Gojira's debut studio album, "Terra Incognita", was released in 2001.
Duplantier's influences include bands such as Death, Metallica, Morbid Angel, Sepultura, and Slayer.
He was also in a band called Empalot with his brother Mario Duplantier which toured from 1999 to 2004.
Max Cavalera and Igor Cavalera initially asked Jean-Michel Labadie, bassist of Gojira, to do bass duties for their band, Cavalera Conspiracy; however, Labadie was busy with prior commitments, including Gojira. Instead, Duplantier ended up being the band's bassist. He has stated that Gojira is his main priority and that is the reason he has not done extensive touring with Cavalera Conspiracy. In 2008, he was replaced by Johny Chow on bass duties for Cavalera Conspiracy. Duplantier did not appear on the band's second album, "Blunt Force Trauma".
Duplantier is the owner of Silver Cord Studio, a recording studio located in New York, which he designed himself.
Duplantier also plays drums occasionally during live performances when he and his brother Mario Duplantier switch places.
In 2016, he gave an interpretation of the thematic in his songs: "My lyrics speak above all about the liberation of the soul, encourage to see the beauty of things."
Personal life.
Duplantier was born in Paris but raised in Ondres, South-West France near the Basque country. He started playing his mother's classical guitar, which only had three strings. His mother, Patricia Rosa Duplantier, an American, played and sang country music, having grown up in Wisconsin and Los Angeles, Due to this, Duplantier has dual citizenship of France and the USA.
When he was young, he distinguished himself by picking up trash on a beach and scattering it in a parking lot, attracting the attention of the local media. Duplantier said, "I found it so weird; people aren't bothered by what's on the beach, but when it's in a parking lot, it becomes a problem".
His mother was a yoga instructor, his father, Dominique, is a French architectural drafter–painter, and his sister Gabrielle is a fine-art photographer. Duplantier went to university for two years and spent four years in an art school, after which he started working as a graphic designer. Later, he decided to live in a cabin that he had previously built. He lived with his girlfriend in this cabin in a forest for two years without income or electricity. "Terra Incognita" was written during this experience.
Some of the lyrical themes of Gojira reflect Duplantier's personal beliefs in preserving the environment. He supports and he is part of the environmental corporation Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. Lyon's "Radio Metal" asked him what he would do in life if he wasn't in Gojira – or even if he wouldn't make music at all, he responded, "I would be an activist in Greenpeace or Sea Shepherd, an action that defends the planet or the animals. Without any hesitation." Joe is a vegan. 
Duplantier no longer believes in politics, saying that "people spend too much time thinking about politicians", wondering "what they can do for them." He said, "I believe in revolution, but the revolution must come from each individual, from within".
Though he lived in the outskirts of Bayonne, France, he now resides in Brooklyn, New York City, where he lives with his wife and two children.
Equipment.
When playing with Gojira in 2009, Duplantier's equipment was listed as the following: