Recorded and produced byJoe Duplantierat Silver Cord Studio –Gojira’sRidgewood, Queens headquarters and mixed byAndy Wallace(Nirvana, Rage Against The Machine),Fortitudeis a collection of songs urging humanity to imagine a new world and then make it happen. Voted by fans as the No.1 release onRevolver’s“5 Most Anticipated Albums of 2021,”FortitudecontinuesGojira’scareer-long tradition of harnessing their music as a vehicle for environmental activism with songs like “Amazonia” and “The Chant” not only surveying critical cases, but also catalyzing listeners to take action.

The band initially laid the foundation forFortitudewith the surprise 2020 single “Another World” whichNPRhailed as “an apocalyptic banger.”As if shedding skin and baring armor in its place, fellow single, “Born For One Thing” represents a natural evolution for the acclaimed French band: hyper-focused but unhinged, confrontational and yet compassionate. “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.”

Tracks

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. Trails
11. Grind