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L’enfant Sauvage sold 11,000 copies and peaked at No. 34 on Billboard.
In the United States,
Fortitude also hit No. 1 on the Current Rock Albums and Current Hard Music Albums charts, and No. 2 on the Current Internet Albums and LP Vinyl Albums charts. [via Stream and Destroy newsletter / Metal Injection]
Gojira also secured the highest charting position of their career in France, debuting at No. 2.
Fortitude even managed to break into the Top 10 in Australia, Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom.
Fans will get to hear new tracks from
Fortitude live when Gojira embark on their co-headlining 2021 tour with Deftones this summer. Gojira will headline their own string of dates later in the year with supporting from Knocked Loose and Alien Weaponry.
âI feel like this is the most exciting time I have experienced in rock and metal in a long time,â says the Kerrang Radio presenter Sophie K, who founded the podcast On Wednesdays We Wear Black (OWWWB) in order to âcreate a space that felt safe for people who arenât normally representedâ in alt-culture. Alongside co-presenters Metal Hammer journalist and TikTok personality Yasmine Summan and radio presenter and musician Alyx Holcombe, she delivers the kind of frank and hilarious conversations that happen between female and non-binary metal fans behind closed doors.
âItâs always been this idea in alternative [music] that [it] is a white thing,â says Summan. âIn beauty, in music, in the culture. Itâs always been that way and no oneâs questioned it until now.â
The heaviest drummer of the universe, Gojira’s Mario Duplantier, just finished the first night of his residency on
Late Night with Seth Meyers. The ferocious and highly technical percussionist will feature as drummer for Meyers’ house band this entire week (May 3).
Late Night somehow convinced Duplantier to wear a shirt as he performed behind the kit with Meyers’ 8G Band. Mario crushed the beat in between Seth Meyers’
Late Night segments and interviews with
Saturday Night Live’s Michael Che and comic actor Richard Kind.
Sitting in with the 8G Band this week he’s a world renowned drummer from France and a founding member of the Grammy-nominated band Gojira,” Meyers said. “Be sure to check out Gojira’s new album entitled
For Gojira diehards, Revolver
has two limited-edition Spring Issue bundles featuring a numbered slipcase, alternate cover and either an exclusive Mario Duplantier art print or the band s new album, Fortitude
Gojira have announced a fall North American tour in support of their new album,
Fortitude. Shortly after their summer run with Deftones, the French titans are set to return to the road in October with hardcore beasts Knocked Loose and New Zealand thrash unit Alien Weaponry.
Two days after their October 9th appearance at Sacramento s Aftershock Festival, Gojira will kick off their headliner in Salt Lake City and then travel throughout the South before snaking up the East coast and concluding in Cleveland on October 29th. A few of the dates are in big cities like New Orleans, Orlando and Nashville, but the run also focuses on smaller markets in the Northeast like Rochester and Albany, New York.