Gojira-Fortitude-CD-FLAC-2021-GRAVEWISH

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  Artist...: Gojira                                                
 Album....: Fortitude                                             
 Year.....: 2021                                                  
 Rel.Date: 2021-04-29                                            
 Genre....: Metal                                                 
 Label....: Roadrunner Records                                    
 Source...: CD                                                    
 Encoder..: FLAC 1.3.1                                            
 Quality..: 44.1kHz, 2 channels                                   
       1.  Born for One Thing                                     4:20
       2.  Amazonia                                               5:00
       3.  Another World                                          4:20
       4.  Hold On                                                5:30
       5.  New Found                                              6:36
       6.  Fortitude                                              2:07
       7.  The Chant                                              5:12
       8.  Sphinx                                                 4:00
       9.  Into the Storm                                         5:02
       10. The Trails                                             4:07
       11. Grind                                                  5:34
                                                                 51:48
        Gojira never seemed like a band built for the mainstream. A cult act,
        yes, but in this century at least perhaps only Mastodon before them have
        taken a strand of metal so obviously built for the underground and
        dragged it kicking and screaming into the sunlight. Its a long while
        since Gojira could legitimately be called a death metal band, but
        theyve retained an uncompromising sense of self that has not always
        been the most accessible. Dense, complex and oblique, theyve
        nevertheless hammered their way to the forefront of modern metal relying
        on quality and sheer bloody-mindedness.
        Fortitude sounds like the album that could propel them the rest of the
        way to the top. Theyre no strangers to melodies and hooks, but theyve
        never crafted anything quite like this before. Combining the
        comparatively direct approach of The Way Of All Flesh with the more
        expansive atmospherics of last album Magma then throwing in a few
        complete curveballs, this is the most immediate yet surprising
        full-length theyve produced to date.
        Its still built around a solid steel core, with opener Born For One
        Thing arriving on a slow build of taut dynamics. It also has that
        stretched, echoing melody thing they do so well, but when the riffs
        catch fire theyre truly vicious. Only two songs in the first departure
        hits, as Amazonia addresses the devastation of deforestation via a
        crunching groove peppered with indigenous instrumentation thats
        straight out of Sepultura?s Roots-era playbook. ?Its very clearly a
        tribute, nothing more! frontman Joe told Kerrang!, but its an
        excellent homage painted with a stripe of Duplantier DNA.
        Follow-up Another World is more classic Gojira, with that drilling
        technicality slicing through the middle, but it also has big sing-along
        hooks that you could picture levelling an arena. Into The Storm is even
        more anthemic, but its the set-piece double-act of Fortitude and The
        Chant that head into new roof-raising territory. The title-track has a
        campfire groove and the loosest vibe theyve ever allowed themselves
        while The Chant is a huge bluesy hymnal that the band describes as a
        ?healing ritual. It proves you dont have to unleash the heaviest
        matter of the universe to have power and this is set to be a very
        special moment when live shows and especially festivals are a thing
        again.
        Lyrically theyve emerged from the introspection and meditations on
        mortality that characterised Magma, turning back out to the world around
        them. Gojira have always addressed environmental themes and they return
        to them here. Despite the fact that mankind appears to be lurching
        towards disaster, though, the overall feeling is not despondency, or
        even rage. Instead theres a sense of hope and positivity  an
        invocation of the power that still resides in both the individual and
        the collective as the planet faces an existential crisis.
        This is an important album, not only because it extends Gojiras palette
        and cements their place as one of metals most skilled and
        uncompromising bands. Theyre also one of the most inspiring as they
        call for strength, for action and above all for fortitude. Hang in
        there, and Gojira will be right beside you.

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36M	02-gojira-amazonia.flac
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38M	04-gojira-hold_on.flac
47M	05-gojira-new_found.flac
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39M	07-gojira-the_chant.flac
29M	08-gojira-sphinx.flac
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