What you should find out about Gojira, the French steel band current on the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games | EUROtoday

Since its formation in 1996 – initially known as “Godzilla” earlier than altering to the Japanese translation – within the city of Ondres, Gojira has launched seven studio albums. Associated with dying steel in addition to progressive steel, the band stands out within the steel scene for its ecological sensitivity and its view on spirituality.

Gojira, a global success

In 2005, the discharge of their album From Mars to Sirius allowed Gojira to ascertain itself as one of the crucial acknowledged and necessary teams on the French steel scene. But the quartet is much more profitable internationally. Thus, in 2006, they toured the United States with teams corresponding to Children of Bodom, Machine Head and Lamb of God earlier than rating for the primary time within the American Billboard 200 with The Way of All Flesh (2008), and opening for legends Metallica in 2011. Since then, the decibel monster has been unstoppable. Gojira acquired two Grammy nominations in 2017 for the album Magmadarker in its style, after the dying of the mom of two of the members of the group (the brothers Joseph and Mario Duplantier, who officiate respectively on vocals/guitar and drums). In 2021, their newest album, Fortitude, additionally reached the highest of the US album gross sales charts, all genres mixed, reaching quantity 12.^e place on the Billboard 200. Gojira then turned the primary French group to achieve the highest of the Billboard Hard Rock Albums chart. The similar yr, the British month-to-month Metal Hammer praises the French and sees them because the “most important French death metal group of the decade”.