Gojira annouce new album ‘Fortitude’

GOJIRA have announced a new album!

Titled Fortitude, the upcoming album from the French metal heavyweights is the hugely anticipated follow-up to 2016’s critically acclaimed Magma and is scheduled to be released in April this year, via Roadrunner Records.

The upcoming album was recorded and produced by Joe Duplantier at Silver Cord Studio – the band’s Ridgewood, Queens, headquarters – and mixed by Andy Wallace [NIRVANA, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE] and it intends to be a collection of songs urging humanity to imagine a new world; and then make it happen.

Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Born For One Thing. “We have to practice detaching ourselves from everything, beginning with actual things,” vocalist/guitarist Joe Duplantier says of the song’s anti-consumerist message, which was partially inspired by the Tibetan and Thai philosophers he read in his youth back in France. “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.”

Watch the official music video for Born For One Thing here: 

Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:

Track List: 

1. Born For One Thing
2. Amazonia
3. Another World
4. Hold On
5. New Found
6. Fortitude
7. The Chant
8. Sphinx
9. Into The Storm
10. The Trails
11. Grind

Fortitude is set for release on April 30th via Roadrunner Records. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.

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