was Fortitude really acclaimed?
song is fine

Ok song. Very standard modern Gojira track but definitely sounds like a B-side off Fortitude.

Fortitude helped continue to push them into the mainstream but it was widely viewed as their worst release.

Need more whales.

I thought this was pretty average outside the solo at first and then I found the riff was stuck in my head. Solid enough but nothing amazing

This is actually pretty good. Better than anything off Fortitude, feels like their take on big stadium rock.

Lol fortitude was not acclaimed. Mars to Sirius was acclaimed

Fortitude was one of the worst releases of 2021 yeah

Fortitude was technically acclaimed: "Fortitude was met with acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, the album has received a score of 80 out of 100 based on nine reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews."

I like the solo. It’s a nice touch. Otherwise this is very much a Fortitude B-side song. I like it. It would’ve fit fine on the album and I enjoy it either way but it probably literally is something they had written and done that didn’t make the record.

NHL 23. That’s cool enough for me.

gojira is gojira

Song fucking blows. "Fortitude" had some cool tracks on it, but also hinted at this kind of vibe. More power to them, though. I'll still have the other albums to rip.

Also, them being on an NHL video game is sick - hockey videogames have strangely had some banger soundtracks throughout the years. It's just more exposure for them, so I'm happy to see they're on there.

I wish I could "do nothing" as well as them.

The NHL 23 soundtrack is actually quite heavy compared to everything since NHL 15. If I was a kid right now I would probably be discovering A Day To Remember, Motionless in White, Gojira, Coheed and Cambria, Muse.

I just think basically since 2016's Magma the neutered, lifeless production could use a fair bit more 'bite' - even Sneap's production would at least make the bassier elements hit a little harder (unless it was him on the last record? nah... right? lol)... sometimes, or actually - most times, the production choices can be just as important as the songwriting/composition/arrangements themselves - some potentially good songs all over the place get the 'web of well-known bands' treatment... most bands that fall into that venus flytrap Buffalo Bill-pit do not ever return (maybe late in the game a fresh, less compromising reboot happens with some)

I'm a big hockey fan and have heard some truly crap music at arenas before, depending on the arena you could hear anything from classic rock like AC/DC's ''Thunderstruck'' all the way to shitty 90's pop music about romance (not kidding) lmao.

was not expecting gojira to cover john cena. nice.

nh L

stinks worse than ire's pussy

Rofl

magma was their first good album

^this is not a real take I refuse to believe it

Not bad but still pretty tame, which was expected

Need more whales. [2]

Hell yeah kill m/

"magma was their first good album"

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Ok now it makes sense

Man, this was so damn boring

Yeah they're really sticking to their roots

their acclaimed 2021 album Fortitude

I want to like Gojira mora than what I like them. Mars to Sirius is an absolute masterpiece, The Way of All Flesh was great but a bit too monolithic and after that they have been becoming more and more generic.

This song is the typical short, catchy, ok song to put in a videogame.

I like L'Enfant Sauvage more than Way of All Flesh. I know From Mars to Sirius is the technically better album, but I also think L'Enfant's t/t gets me amped up more than any other track they've done. That shit reminds me of Zone of The Enders lol.

I agree with that about L'enfant, that's the last one I "enjoyed"... It's just really hard distinguishing one album from another for me at this point.

They're still a good band but I do really miss songs like Heaviest Matter in the Universe and Toxic Garbage Island. Grind (last track of the last album) is kinda like that and it made me really really happy haha.

It seems this is just their direction now—mellowed and accessible. I don’t think Magma and Fortitude have managed that kind of sonic transition as admirably as Mastodon, whose releases still mostly have felt distinct since they’ve “softened” things a bit over a decade ago. You can mellow at the music without greatly simplifying your musical ideas, but Gojira seem to have struggled with this.