Guess what! Gojira‘s From Mars To Sirius is 20 years outdated this 12 months, which additionally means you are outdated. Not Gojira although – they’re eternally youthful. Or at the least that is what I have been led to consider due to this model new dwell in-studio session from Silver Twine Studios. It is particularly cool as a result of they did not simply rip out the hits. The session runs as follows:
- “Ocean Planet” 00:00
- “From The Sky” 06:17
- “The place Dragons Dwell” 12:12
At this 12 months’s Bloodstock Open Air competition within the UK, Gojira drummer Mario Duplantier confirmed that the band’s long-awaited new album will lastly arrive in 2026. The follow-up to 2021’s Fortitude has been within the works for a number of years, with recording classes already underway.
“We already did report some drums and guitars and basses,” Duplantier instructed Bloodstock TV’s Oran O’Beirne. “It took us a very long time. We wanted that point, I believe, simply to verify we’re all on the identical web page, be sure that what Gojira is bringing subsequent is powerful sufficient.
“Additionally, we do not have that a lot stress. We’re not a younger band anymore… We have been a band for 30 years, so Gojira is already a longtime band. It doesn’t suggest that we might be lazy — it doesn’t suggest that — but it surely’s very essential to take the time to deliver one thing recent and new and highly effective.”
He added: “For the brand new songs, we took a lot time simply to verify all the things is ok and highly effective sufficient and — I do not know — sensible sufficient as nicely. But it surely’s on the way in which, it is on the way in which. 2026, for positive.”
In a separate interview with Le Parisien, Duplantier teased what followers can count on from the as-yet-untitled album. “It is virtually completed. We’re going again to large guitar riffs and a extra metallic, however extra fashionable, sound,” he stated. “There are two extra songs to refine. We needed to maneuver shortly, however we did not succeed. We thought of it a lot that we virtually acquired misplaced. It is more durable to match our tastes than after we had been 20, and that is regular.”
Additionally, the truth that new Gojira might be going to be silly heavy is thrilling. Give me From Mars To Sirus 2: Fuck You, This Is Even Heavier.
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