2x Grammy-nominated band Gojira have announced details of their long-awaited new album, Fortitude, which will be released April 30th via Roadrunner Records.
Today, the band has shared the forthcoming album’s first single, “Born For One Thing”, which is available on all streaming platforms and accompanied by a Charles De Meyer directed official music video shot in France and Belgium. Available in multiple formats for pre-order today, Fortitude stands out as Gojira’s first album in five years and the follow-up to 2016’s Grammy-nominated Magma.
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As if shedding skin and baring armour in its place, “Born For One Thing” represents a natural evolution for the acclaimed French band: hyper-focused but unhinged, confrontational and yet compassionate. Vocalist and guitarist, Joe Duplantier elaborates on the song’s anti-consumerist message, which was partially inspired by the Tibetan and Thai philosophers he read in his youth back in France:
We have to practice detaching ourselves from everything, beginning with actual things. 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.
Recorded and produced by Joe Duplantier at Silver Cord Studio – Gojira’s Ridgewood, Queens, headquarters – and mixed by Andy Wallace (Nirvana, Rage Against The Machine), Fortitude is a collection of songs urging humanity to imagine a new world and then make it happen. The band initially laid the foundation for Fortitude last year with the surprise release of the 2020 single “Another World.” and this new album continues Gojira’s career-long tradition of harnessing their music as a vehicle for environmental activism with songs like “Amazonia” and “The Chant” not only surveying critical cases, but also catalysing listeners to take action.
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On 2016’s Magma, Gojira found strength — and crossover success — through a singular commitment to self-reflection. The intensely personal record, penned in memory of the Duplantier brothers’ late mother, was a painful significant turning point for the French group. The album earned the band two Grammy nominations – “Best Metal Performance” and “Best Rock Album” and upon release, Magma took the #1 spot on Billboard’s “Hard Rock Albums” chart, a first for a French band. Magma also asserted itself as one of the most acclaimed albums of 2016, landing a spot in many year-end lists and awards.
Fortitude tracklist:
- Born For One Thing
- Amazonia
- Another World
- Hold On
- New Found
- Fortitude
- The Chant
- Sphinx
- Into The Storm
- The Trails
- Grind
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