![]() ![]() Recorded and Produced by Joe Duplantier at Silver Cord Studio – Gojira’s Ridgewood, Queens, headquarters – and mixed by Andy Wallace (Nirvana, Rage Against The Machine), FORTITUDE is a collection of songs urging humanity to imagine a new world-and then make it happen. ![]() “Own less possessions, and give what you don’t need away, because one day we’ll have to let everything go, and if we don’t, we’ll just become ghosts stuck between dimensions.” “We have to practice detaching ourselves from everything, beginning with actual things,” vocalist / guitarist Joe Duplantier says of the song’s anti-consumerist message, which was partially inspired by the Tibetan and Thai philosophers he read in his youth back in France. Fortitude is Gojira’s first album in five years and the follow-up to 2016’s Grammy® nominated LP Magma (Roadrunner). The new single also has a music video, directed by Charles De Meyer, shot in France and Belgium. The entire band is given credit for writing this song, with Joe Duplantier being singled out as its producer. He is also the one who put together the single’s eye-catching cover art. And the label that gave us “Born for One Thing” is Roadrunner Records.Progressive Metal band Gojira has unleashed a new single – “Born For One Thing” from their upcoming new album! The highly -anticipated album Fortitude will arrive April 30th, 2021 via Roadrunner Records and is available for pre-order now at the link below. The entire album was recorded in a part of Queens, New York known as Ridgewood, where Joe Duplantier’s Silver Cord Studio is situated. And conspiracy theory buffs may be interested to know that only 666 copies were made of the Limited-Edited Opaque Olive Green LP version of the album, which was available via preorder. That same year, it was was nominated for a Grammy.Īt the time of the release of “Born for One Thing”, on 17 February 2021, it was the second single from “Fortitude”. The first was “ Another World“. The said 2016 project won the 2017 Metal Hammer Golden Gods Award for Best Album. And it is the first one they dropped since 2016’s “Magma”. ![]() The project which this track is featured on, “Fortitude”, marks Gojira’s seventh-studio album. ![]() When did Gojira release “Born for One Thing”? Actually the crew were originally called “Godzilla” themselves. The other members of Gojira are as follows:Īnd as for the band’s unique name, it is the Romanized Japanese spelling of Godzilla. And since 1998 the group has consisted of lead vocalist Joe Duplantier and his brother who goes by the name Mario Duplantier. The music video to this track, which was directed by Charles De Meyer, takes place inside of a museum.įor those who may be unaware of the artist at hand, Gojira is a band from France that formed back in 1996. Between then and the release of this track they’ve had only one lineup change. And it is one whose lyrics are based on a powerful anti-consumerist ideology – one mixed with references to the afterlife. In all, “Born for One Thing” can be defined as a pure religio-philosophical tune. The lyrics ultimately end with the notion that what unites us all is our mortality. So apparently, the singer’s overall purpose is to make sure that we’re spending our time on the earthly plane properly. And in his eyes, doing so involves detaching, as much as reasonably possible, from the materialistic aspect of being. Moreover, the band further goes on to imply that most of us live life in a “blur”, which reads as if we are being victimized by adherence to the rat race. And as such, we often find ourselves unhappy and discontent, or as the vocalist medievally puts it “wishing the life of another self”. So afterlife aside, even in the here and now, they are asserting that being materialistic decreases the quality of existence. Basically, although it may not come forth abundantly in the lyrics, what the band is espousing is a type of lifestyle where we do not attach ourselves to material things. For according to Joe’s personal explanation of the tune, doing so traps our spirits “between dimensions” in the afterlife. So in order to avoid this unenviable fate, the implication is that one needn’t be overly attached to anything material to ensnare them in the physical world upon passing away. ![]()
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