According to Roadrunner Records, GOJIRA have premiered a live video for “The Gift of Guilt” from their album L’Enfant Sauvage, exclusively at MetalSucks! Head over there to check it out, and while you’re there, sign up to download a free live EP that includes three tracks from Gojira (“L’Enfant Sauvage,” “The Axe,” and “The Gift of Guilt”) and three from Kvelertak (“Kvelertak,” “Bruane Brenn,” and “Evig Vandrar”)!
Gojira are on tour with Slayer and 4Arm beginning October 25—find a show near you!
Roadrunner announces that Spin.com has issued its list of the 20 Best Metal Albums of 2012, and Gojira‘s L’Enfant Sauvage came in at #12. Even better, they’ve put together a free 20-song mixtape that includes the song “The Axe”, from that album, alongside tracks from all the other albums on the list. Download it here!
Gojira‘s L’Enfant Sauvage, which came out last Tuesday, June 26, has sold nearly 11,000 copies in its first week, vaulting the band all the way up to #34 on the Billboard Top 200 album charts! They went Top 10 in their native France, landing at #7 there. By comparison, the band’s last album, 2008’s The Way of All Flesh, sold just over 4000 copies in its first week.
“L’Enfant Sauvage”, the fifth album from French progressive metallers GOJIRA, has entered the official chart in the band’s home country at position No. 7 (No. 17 on the digital chart). The band’s previous CD, “The Way Of All Flesh”, debuted at No. 28 back in 2008. “L’Enfant Sauvage” (which translates to “The Wild Child”) features 11 tracks of mind-bending, thunderous metal. The CD was recorded at Spin Recording Studios in Long Island City, New York with co-producer Josh Wilbur (LAMB OF GOD).
In a recent interview with Metalshrine, GOJIRA guitarist/vocalist Joseph Duplantier stated about the new album title, “We couldn’t call it ‘The Wild Child’, because it’s hard to translate ‘L’Enfant Sauvage’. It’s not really the wild child as understood in English, because a wild child for me, has an aspect like someone out of control somehow. ‘L’Enfant Sauvage’ in French… ‘Sauvage’ is something that is not educated or something that is like free and completely free in nature. A wild flower that goes wherever she wants and becomes something beautiful. The idea with ‘L’Enfant Sauvage’ is like with a human that would grow up in nature, raised by wolves, for example, without the influence from others and the influence from institutions or society in general. Without a social security number. [laughs] Not even a name. This is what you are and I am on the inside, right? How much the education and the culture, emotions and the guilt are interacting with us and it changes us and how far are we from this pure child inside? That’s the question we had on this album.”
Gojira‘s crushing new album L’Enfant Sauvage comes out tomorrow, June 26 (though you can pre-order it now), and we sat frontman Joe Duplantier down recently and had him go through it, track by track. He explains the lyrical messages of each song, the approach they took to the music, and more.
Here’s the third and final part, in which he discusses tracks 9-11 – “Pain is a Master,” “Born in Winter,” and “The Fall.” In case you missed them, check out Part 1 and Part 2, or check them out below:
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