Gojira’s Mario Duplantier Says New Album is Almost Done Will Have a “More Metal Sound”

To say the French progressive metal band Gojira‘s been having a moment would be an understatement. They regularly play huge tours to great success, they’ve earned massive industry recognition, and they opened the fucking Olympics and broke the internet in the process. So of course, now’s the time to start talking about new music.

IN a recent interview with Le Parisien, Gojira drummer Mario Duplantier shared a pretty quick update on the band’s work toward a follow up to 2021’s Fortitude. And from what he said, I know a lot of us are going to be ridiculously excited.

“It’s almost finished. We’re going back to big guitar riffs and a more metal, but more modern, sound. There are two more songs to refine. We wanted to move quickly, but we didn’t succeed. We thought about it so much that we almost got lost. It’s harder to match our tastes than when we were 20, and that’s normal.”

The band’s more recent output has been good, but not as balls to the wall heavy as say their older releases. If we’re going to get closer to L’Enfant Sauvage and The way of all flesh style Gojira, count me the fuck in. I’m sure a lot of you would agree.

In the meantime, Gojira’s got a long ass list of tour dates set up for the rest of 2025 and a huge chunk of 2026. If you’d like to try to catch ’em live, check out the list of dates below and get your tickets today.

Gojira only

8/10 Walton-on-Trent, UK Bloodstock Open Air 2025
8/12 Oberhausen, Germany Turbinenhalle
8/14 Dinkelsbühl, Germany Summer Breeze Open Air 2025
8/15 Sulingen, Germany Reload Festival 2025
8/17 Eindhoven, Netherlands Dynamo Metal Fest 2025
8/19 Krakow, Poland Tauron Arena
8/21 Vilnius, Lithuania Lukiškių kalėjimas 2.0

w/ Korn & Loathe

9/17 Ottawa, Canada Canadian Tire Centre
9/19 Quebec City, Canada Centre Vidéotron
9/20 Montreal, Canada Bell Centre
9/22 London, Canada Canada Life Place
9/23 Madison, WI The Sylvee
9/25 Winnipeg, Canada Canada Life Centre
9/28 Calgary, Canada Scotiabank Saddledome
9/29 Edmonton, Canada Rogers Place
10/1 Vancouver, Canada Rogers Arena
10/4 Sacramento, CA Aftershock 2025

Gojira only

11/27 Reims, France ReimsArena
11/28 Lille, France Zénith de Lille
11/30 Paris, France Bercy Accor Arena
12/1 Rouen, France Zénith de Rouen
12/2 Saint-Herblain, France Zenith Nantes Metropole
12/4 Toulouse, France Zénith de Toulouse
12/5 Clermont-Ferrand, France Zénith de Clermont-Ferrand
12/6 Marseille, France Dome Marseille
12/8 Nice, France Palais Nikaïa
12/9 Bordeaux, France Arkéa Arena
12/10 Lyon, France LDLC Arena
12/12 Strasbourg, France Zenith of Strasbourg

w/ Metallica & Knocked Loose

5/9 Athens, Greece Athens Olympic Stadium
5/13 Bucharest, Romania Arena Națională
5/19 Chorzów, Poland Śląski Stadium
5/22 Frankfurt, Germany Deutsche Bank Park
5/24 Frankfurt, Germany Deutsche Bank Park
5/27 Zürich, Switzerland Stadion Letzigrund
5/30 Berlin, Germany Olympiastadion Berlin
6/3 Bologna, Italy Renato Dall’Ara Stadium
6/11 Budapest, Hungary Puskás Aréna
6/13 Budapest, Hungary Puskás Aréna
6/19 Dublin, Ireland Aviva Stadium
6/21 Dublin, Ireland Aviva Stadium
6/25 Glasgow, UK Hampden Park
6/28 Cardiff, UK Principality Stadium
7/3 London, UK London Stadium
7/5 London, UK London Stadium

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