![]() ![]() ![]() In particular, "The Chant" is a breezy but lightweight affair, with stoner rock shades and a sweet but unremarkable vocal refrain, while both "The Trails" and "Hold On" seem to occupy territory that GOJIRA have previously mastered and moved away from, albeit with the vocal melody thrust to the fore in a way that previous albums had only hinted at. "Fortitude" is no different in that regard, but this album's supposed curveballs fall short of delivering startling revelations. GOJIRA have always been driven by a desire to experiment and expand their sound. Even better, "Sphinx" sounds like classic GOJIRA, but upgraded and somehow even gnarlier than previous highpoints. "New Found" is another gem, with an opening riff to kill for and a mid-song drop in tempo that facilitates a genuinely gorgeous and epic climactic fade. "Amazonia" is GOJIRA in languorous groove mode, evoking KILLING JOKE's scorched earth power in the verses before serving up a lurching, descending riff that feels destined, in the not-so-distant future, to have huge crowds banging their heads in unison. As ever, Joe Duplantier's voice spirals through the melee, shrouded in reverb but grimly authoritative nonetheless, and both songs' central hooks soar, underpinned by yet more dexterous, percussive genius from Mario Duplantier. Both "Born For One Thing" and "Another World" delivered the goods in advance of the full album, and while neither leapt out as an instant classic, both are full of nimble but cudgeling rhythms and those unmistakable churning riffs and bursts of harmonic scree. On the plus side, "Fortitude" offers plenty of those joyous, none-more- GOJIRA moments that no other band could hope to emulate. Five years on, the Frenchmen have a much bigger audience to serve, and while "Fortitude" will undoubtedly delight those for whom "Magma" was a first taste of the band, this is not quite the unequivocal triumph that diehard fans have been anticipating. That record was arguably a little less adventurous than some of the band's earlier efforts, but via the irresistibly catchy likes of "Stranded" and "Silvera", GOJIRA confirmed that they could deliver anthems and crowd-pleasers while maintaining the individuality and creative integrity that has always been a hallmark of their work. "Fortitude" arrives amid a flurry of entirely justifiable hype, much of it elicited by the huge success of the band's previous album, "Magma". As a result of all this pioneering brilliance, much more is expected of GOJIRA than perhaps any other mainstream metal band. ![]() There probably are people out there who think that they suck, but those people are wrong and a bit weird. A consistently astonishing live band, GOJIRA have conquered the metal mainstream by pursuing a singular course and dragging everyone along with it. Even ignoring the French band's humility, humanity and inspirational devotion to noble causes, the metal world has thralled to nearly everything they have done since breaking into the broader consciousness with 2005's "From Mars to Sirius" and then going genuinely stratospheric with 2012 big-label debut "L'Enfant Sauvage". Gojira is also set to tour this August and September.Discerning metalheads may be inclined to agree that GOJIRA are one of the best things to happen to heavy music over the last 20 years. Their latest studio album Magma came out in 2016 and saw the group blend some elements of psychedelic rock with metal. Their 2020 single “ Another World,” which was accompanied by an animated music video, will also be present on the forthcoming album. “Own less possessions, and give what you don’t need away, because one day we’ll have to let everything go, and if we don’t, we’ll just become ghosts stuck between dimensions.”įortitude‘s announcement was preceded by a couple of teasers that revealed its tracklist and release date. “We have to practice detaching ourselves from everything, beginning with actual things,” frontman Joe Duplantier explained in a press release. While the track has an egalitarian message, it still retains Gojira’s confrontational style. The lyrical content from “Born For One Thing” is heavily inspired by Tibetan and Thai philosophers, which reinforce the song’s anti-commercialist stance. These shots are cut between images of the band performing this hard-hitting heavy metal track, with strong riffs and harsh vocals in the beginning, which fades out into eerie high-pitched guitar chords by its end. “Born For One Thing” features crisp cinematography, with a sharp cinematic style that fits its thriller concept, as a man is shown chasing a woman throughout a museum. ![]()
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