Joe La Truite
Country: France
Genre: Psychedelic Punk Metal
Founded: 2017
Joe La Truite set out pre pandemic as a fun music adventure created by Julien Liphard, Charles Roussel and Martin Denquin.
The origin of the band’s name Joe La Truite is no more than a pretext to their song-writing that allows this trio total freedom in the direction and the mood of each song.
After releasing 2 EPs in 2017 and 2019 respectively, Joe La Truite’s recorded and released their debut album “Trapped In The Cosmos” in 2020. An introspective descent tinged with humour, violence, illusions, and questioning… Trapped In The Cosmos, as with the band was not exploited outside of the South of France, however the album received great reviews and critique in the media that did attain copies. This album created metal energy that related to both media and music fans.
The feedback and solid reviews pathed the way for the band to take the trio seriously and though the members had other projects, Joe La Truite became the focus for writing new songs. In 2022 the band met an Australian at a gig at the Mi6 club in Aix En Provence. It turned out he was the ex-manager of Australian Hall Of Famers, The Angels and he suggested the band expanded their touring and asked the band to stay in touch. And they did just that. Live music fans absorbed the bands ‘Cosmic’ energy which emanated from the stage and in particular the new songs caused heavy audience reaction. The songs caused such lively reactions, the term ‘Zguen Bangers’ evolved from the fans picking up on the bands previous 2017 song ‘Zguen Around’ which related to the psychedelic cosmic energy that causes head-banging, ‘Zguen’ and it stuck.
Julien Liphard built dBd Studio’s in La Barben in the south of France and the band recorded 13 new songs. Once the album was produced and mastered the first person Joe La Truite sent the music to was the Australian they met 2 years before. Joe La Truite were signed to a management deal with Blue Tongue Management in October 2024. Since then the band has picked up representation for the 2025 new music
release with SLH Agency in Lyon and representation in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Denmark for touring and PR with Rola Music based in Vienna.
The first Video Single launches on the 1st of March 2025 in the band stomping ground of Marseille and Aix with the second Video Single ‘Light Speed’ April 14th 2025 and the album Ultimate Ninja Storm 2 : Full Zguen in-store June 13th 2025 with a full media campaign in support. https://joelatruite.com
“Joe La Truite’s live show slapped me in the face and I found myself head banging like a teenager. And that just doesn’t happen anymore. Two years later they sent me their new songs. I signed them almost immediately.” Darrel Baird 2024 extracts Noise 11
Members of the band:
Julien Liphard — Guitar/Vocals
Charles Roussel — Bass/Vocals
Martin Denquin — Drums
Links:
Website: https://joelatruite.com/fr/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/joelatruiteband
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joelatruiteband
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@joelatruiteband