Jean-Michel Labadie

Jean-Michel Labadie (born 14 July 1974 in Cambo-les-Bains, Basque Country) is a French musician best known as the bassist of heavy metal band Gojira.

Career Labadie grew up in the Basque Country, and played bass in regional underground bands such as Oihuka, a band he had with his brother Vincent and gave him the experience and confidence that would characterize his stage presence in Gojira.

Since 1998, Labadie has been the bassist of the metal band Gojira, which was formed in Ondres (Landes), near Bayonne (Basque Country). He started playing bass at the age of fifteen; "Fade to Black" was the first song he learned to play. and Sepultura. Labadie said, "Playing sports helps keep up the pace. For the drummer, too, you have to train. I like to push my body and the adrenaline it gives me". Ibanez TS7 Boss TU3 MXR Smartgate Radial Headbone VT

Bass guitars Tobias Basic 6 Bass Fender American Deluxe Precision Bass Fender American Deluxe Jazz Bass Fender American Deluxe Dimension Bass Dingwall Super P Bass Sandberg California II TM4 H/J Bass

Amplifiers and Cabinets SWR Amps Fender SuperBassman 300 Amp Darkglass Amps Gallien Krueger Amps

Discography Gojira

Demos Saturate (as Godzilla) (1999) Wisdom Comes (as Godzilla) (2000)

EPs Maciste All'Inferno (Gojira) (2003) End of Time (Gojira) (2012)

Studio albums Terra Incognita (2001) The Link (2003) From Mars to Sirius (2005) The Way of All Flesh (2008) L'Enfant Sauvage (2012) Magma (2016) Fortitude (2021)