GOJIRA

There were points during the shows Gojira played in 2021 when Joe Duplantier realised everything was going to be alright. It usually came during The Chant, the stately modern metal hymnal that appears on the French band’s seventh album, Fortitude. That song was designed as a coming together, a kind of communion whose wordless chorus acted as a blank canvas for other people’s personal turmoil.

“I ask people to put their own meaning to it”, says Joe. “To think about loved ones or someone they’ve lost or if they are aching inside. To do a chant for their own hearts,