Gojira has since received three Grammy Award nominations. In 2017, Rolling Stone magazine named the band’s 2005 album “From Mars to Sirius” the 97th greatest metal album of all time. Two of the songs on the album featured “themes of marine-mammal preservation.”
“An immediate hit in their native France, the band soon became spokes for environmental causes and Joe became the country’s first bona fide guitar hero in decades,” Rolling Stone reported.
Le Parisien reported that Gojira, which holds the record for the loudest concert at Stade de France, would perform with Franco-Swiss opera singer Marina Viotti.
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