L'Enfant Sauvage

Gojira's fifth album is the French metal act's best work to date. This quartet's nothing if not an adroit and agile rock band, one prone to acrobatic guitar lines and rhythmic shifts capable of inducing whiplash.

Although L’Enfant Sauvage is the fifth album by French metal band Gojira, it’s the first to be released in the U.S. with a French title. And not just any title, but one taken from François Truffaut’s 1970 film about a feral youth learning to become civilized—and just as importantly, learning to speak. The choice of…

Now signed to the Roadrunner Records label that introduced the world to the brutal sounds of Sepultura, Machine Head, and Fear Factory, French metal quartet Gojira's fifth studio album, L'Enfant Sauvage, is as ferocious, frenetic, and fearless as anything their obvious influences have put their names to.

In 2008 GOJIRA came along and lit a white hot fire under our asses with "The Way of All Flesh". Four years later, that fire is not only still burning, but the band returned to pour fuel all over that flame with "L'Enfant Sauvage". Simply put, GOJIRA's fifth album is a game-changer. There has been .....

Stream the album in full at themusic.com.au If you had asked me several years ago if I ever thought a band like France’s Gojira would be signing to the same label as Slipknot and Trivium and opening up for Metallica, I would have laughed. But after constant praise from critics and fans alike, it

A review of Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage which is out worldwide from Roadrunner Records.

French metallers Gojira take the genre to a higher plane of brilliance on their new album, writes <strong>Dom Lawson</strong>

Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage review: In shedding some of their baggage, Gojira have found purpose.