REVIEWING GOJIRA’S MOST recent album, Fortitude, in 2021, Hammer concluded: “If they aren’t playing arenas at the end of this album cycle, it’s probably your fault.” That’s because those songs were genetically engineered for big rooms. They condensed the French behemoth’s technical prog/groove metal bludgeonings into anthems accessible and socially conscious enough to ignite a revolution.
In the two years since, the heavy metal masses have lifted Gojira to monolithic status. tracks have been streamed a total of 97 million times, and the band’s firstsneak in a rampage of their own. The metalcore hellraisers let the material of new album live up to its name by taking over the venue. Single
