The Link Alive is the first live concert

Concert

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 DVD

DVD

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 released by the French

French people

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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...

. The show was filmed in Bordeaux

Bordeaux

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, France

France

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 in 2003. The material is mostly older songs from The Link

The Link (album)

The Link is the second album released by the French death metal band, Gojira. A re-mastered edition of the album was released in 2005 by the band's current label, Listenable Records...

and Terra Incognita, as well as earlier demos. The extra features include several behind-the-scenes documentary, music videos, history, a photo gallery and some short clips, The DVD also contains some hidden 'Easter Eggs'.

The Link Alive was also released as a live album

Live album

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 CD on October 30, 2004. It features identical track listings and credits to the DVD. The sole difference is that the starting song "Connected" has a different track time at 1:19 compared to the 1:09 track time on the DVD. The album was limited to only 500 copies.

Track listing

1. "Connected" − 1:09 on the DVD, 1:19 on the CD
2. "Remembrance" − 4:59
3. "Death of Me" − 5:46
4. "Love" − 4:22
5. "Embrace the World" − 4:40
6. "Space Time" − 5:23
7. "Terra Incognita" − 4:36
8. "Indians" − 3:57
9. "Wisdom Comes" − 2:25
10. "Blow Me Away You (Niverse)" − 5:12
11. "Lizard Skin" − 4:32
12. "Inward Movement" − 5:51
13. "The Link" − 5:08
14. "Clone" − 5:00
15. "In the Forest" − 12:11

Easter Eggs

There are a number of videos hidden in the DVD menus, These short clips are about Tchang & Tangui, fictional characters played by Mario Duplantier and Stéphane Chateauneuf. The stories usually depict mock martial arts fights between the two characters. Some of the locations where the videos can be found are listed below.

Video 1: On the 'Bonus' page, Highlight 'Gojira is...' and press right on your DVD remote to reveal the letters 'T&T1' and press enter.

Video 2: Unknown!

Video 3: On the main menu highlight 'Bonus' then press right, followed by down on your DVD remote to reveal the letters 'T&T3' and press enter.

Video 4: On the 'Bonus' page, Highlight 'Menu' and press up on your DVD remote to reveal the letters 'T&T4' press enter, you will notice you remain on the same page, at this point press 'Menu' or the button that resumes the video to play this selection.

Video 5: Unknown!

Video 6: On the 'Live' page highlight 'Terra Inc.' and press right followed by left on your DVD remote to reveal the letters 'T&T6' and press enter.

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, rhythm guitar
  Rhythm guitar
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• Christian Andreu – lead guitar
  Lead guitar
  Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...
  
  
• Jean-Michel Labadie – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Mario Duplantier – drums
  Drum kit
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