Full album units are pretty widespread as of late, particularly if an album is celebrating an anniversary. Although could be assured Gojira is not going to be taking part in any of their albums entrance to again, and that features their 2005 album From Mars to Sirius.
Gojira frontman Joe Duplantier defined in a current interview with Rolling Stone France that listening to a recorded album is a completely completely different expertise than seeing a band dwell: “We already tried it in rehearsal, nevertheless it would not work.
“For me, listening to an album is like mendacity on a mattress, headphones on, following a narrative, with some loopy issues occurring.” Which is a good way of it – recorded music and dwell power are two various things, and attempting to make one into the opposite might actually make for an unconvincing dwell present. Plus we simply acquired a live-in-studio anniversary set around Gojira‘s From Mars to Sirius, so no less than there’s that.
Duplantier additionally touched on the long-awaited new Gojira record (apparently due out in 2026), which he mentioned is being labored on each on and off the highway: “We have now a cellular studio, so we are able to additionally work on it whereas on tour. [The album is gradually taking shape and] we have now some strong foundations and a few tracks have already got demos.”
Regardless of the progress, Duplantier famous there have been some disagreements inside Gojira that resulted in new concepts being born: “These are valuable issues, as a result of it means the band’s message is turning into extra refined.”
At this 12 months’s Bloodstock Open Air pageant, Gojira drummer Mario Duplantier confirmed that the band’s long-awaited new album will lastly arrive in 2026: “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 ensure we’re all on the identical web page, ensure that what Gojira is bringing subsequent is robust 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 does not imply that we could be lazy — it does not imply that — nevertheless it’s very essential to take the time to convey one thing recent and new and highly effective.”
He added: “For the brand new songs, we took a lot time simply to ensure all the things is okay and highly effective sufficient and — I do not know — sensible sufficient as effectively. But it surely’s on the best way, it is on the best way. 2026, for certain.”
In a separate interview with Le Parisien, Duplantier teased what followers can count on from the as-yet-untitled album. “It is nearly completed. We’re going again to large guitar riffs and a extra steel, however extra fashionable, sound,” he mentioned. “There are two extra songs to refine. We needed to maneuver rapidly, however we did not succeed. We thought of it a lot that we nearly acquired misplaced. It is tougher to match our tastes than after we have been 20, and that is regular.”
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