Gojira plan to launch a brand new album in 2026, marking the acclaimed French metallic band’s first LP since 2021’s Fortitude. The information comes courtesy of a brand new interview with drummer Mario Duplantier
Whereas Gojira may have rapidly capitalized on the worldwide consideration they acquired after final 12 months’s mind-blowing efficiency of the track “Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)” on the Olympics opening ceremony in Paris, the band selected to take its time to excellent the forthcoming album.
“It took us a very long time,” Duplantier informed Bloodstock TV of the inventive course of for the upcoming LP (as transcribed by Blabbermouth). “We would have liked that point, I believe, simply to ensure we’re all on the identical web page, be certain that what Gojira is bringing subsequent is powerful sufficient. Additionally, we don’t have that a lot strain. We’re not a younger band anymore. We’re not like Sleep Token or Lorna Shore the place the subsequent album is so essential. We’ve been a band for 30 years, so Gojira is already a longtime band.”
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He continued, “It doesn’t imply that we might be lazy — it doesn’t imply that — however it’s very essential to take the time to deliver one thing contemporary and new and highly effective. For the brand new songs, we took a lot time simply to ensure all the pieces is okay and highly effective sufficient and, I don’t know, sensible sufficient, as effectively. But it surely’s on the best way, it’s on the best way. 2026, for positive.”
The aforementioned “Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)” received the 2025 Grammy for Greatest Steel Efficiency, and was named Heavy ipromiseyoumedia‘s No. 1 metallic/arduous rock track of 2024. Duplantier, in the meantime, landed at No. 56 on ipromiseyoumedia‘s listing of the 100 Greatest Drummers of All Time.
Gojira will embark on a Canadian tour supporting Korn in September, in addition to play a headlining present in Madison, Wisconsin, on September twenty third and the Aftershock pageant in Sacramento, California, on October 4th. Tickets to their upcoming live shows can be found right here.
Watch Mario Duplantier’s interview with Bloodstock TV under.
