GOJIRA
ANNOUNCE NEW U.S. FALL HEADLINE TOUR DATES
WITH SPECIAL GUESTS KNOCKED LOOSE & ALIEN WEAPONRY
NEW DATES INCLUDE STOPS IN PENNSYLVANIA, VIRGINIA
TENNESSEE, WISCONSIN, MISSOURI, & INDIANA
TICKETS ON SALE NOW
NEW ALBUM FORTITUDE AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE
2x Grammy® nominated band Gojira have announced additional dates for their fall U.S. headline tour featuring special guests Knocked Loose and Alien Weaponry. Touring in support of their acclaimed album FORTITUDE, Gojira’s new tour dates include stops in Stroudsburg, PA (10/25), Richmond, VA (11/1), Knoxville, TN (11/2), Madison, WI (11/5), St. Louis, MO (11/6), and Fort Wayne, IN (11/7). Additionally, a handful of Gojira’s previously announced headline performances including stops in Albany, NY, Boise, ID and Chattanooga, TN (Sold Out) have shifted to new dates with the Albany venue upgrading to The Albany Capital Center due to popular demand. It was announced last week that Gojira’s summer run supporting Deftones has been postponed until spring 2022 with all tickets purchased for the tour honored for the new 2022 dates [updated itinerary below]. For tickets and for more information on Gojira’s live schedule visit www.gojira-music.com.
Earlier this year Gojira made a stunning global chart impact with their celebrated new album FORTITUDE. The French band’s new studio album entered Billboard’s ‘Top Albums’ chart at #1, while also claiming the #1 spot on Billboard’s ‘Top Current Albums,’ ‘Current Rock Albums,’ and ‘Current Hard Music Albums’ tallies. The release also marked a career high debut on the ‘Billboard 200’ for Gojira, arriving at #12, with several career high chart positions and Top 10 debuts in countries around the globe including: France (#2), United Kingdom (#6), Australia (#3), Germany (#8), Belgium (#2), Netherlands (#4), Denmark (#3), Portugal (#4), Finland (#2), and Norway (#10).
FORTITUDE is highlighted by the singles “Another World,” “Born For One Thing,” “Into The Storm,” “Amazonia,” and most recently “The Chant,” a slow-burning track featuring some of Gojira’s most melodic material to date. The official music video for “The Chant,” which was written/conceived by the band’s own Joe Duplantier and directed by Russell Brownley was filmed on location in India’s West Bengal region in December of 2019. The cinematic video examines the plight of refugee children from Tibet who fled their homeland in an attempt to preserve their culture following China’s invasion of the country in 1949.
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 Gojira’s first album in five years and the follow-up to 2016’s Grammy® nominated LP MAGMA. A collection of songs urging humanity to imagine a new world—and then make it happen, FORTITUDE has been earning widespread critical praise with ROLLING STONE naming it one of their “Best Albums of 2021 So Far” and remarking “It’s all the rage of death metal mixed with the conscience of punk rock and the musicality of progressive rock.” NPR hailed “Another World” as “an apocalyptic banger,” and PASTE called “Into The Storm” a “much-needed revolutionary anthem.” STEREOGUM declared, “hearing this band operating at their peak is a life-affirming thing,” while REVOLVER attested “FORTITUDE, could spark a revolution.”
On 2016’s MAGMA, Gojira found strength—and crossover success—through a singular commitment to self-reflection. The intensely personal record, penned in memory of the Duplantier brothers’ late mother, was a painful significant turning point for the French group. The album earned the band two GRAMMY nominations – ‘Best Metal Performance’ and ‘Best Rock Album,’ and upon release, MAGMA took the #1 spot on BILLBOARD’s ‘Hard Rock Albums’ chart, a first for a French band. MAGMA also asserted itself as one of the most acclaimed albums of 2016, earning METAL HAMMER’s coveted “Album of the Year” title while also landing on ROLLING STONE’s “Top 20 Metal Albums of 2016,” and CONSEQUENCE OF SOUNDS’s “Top 50 Albums of 2016” / “Top 10 Metal Albums of 2016” lists.
GOJIRA 2021 – 2022 TOUR DATES:
10/8 – 11/7: with Knocked Loose & Alien Weaponry
4/14 – 5/28: with Deftones
* Festival Date
^ with Alien Weaponry only
September 24 – Louisville, KY – Louder Than Life 2021*
September 25 – Indianola, IA – Knotfest Iowa*
October 8 – Boise, ID @ Revolution Center^
October 9 – Sacramento, CA @ Aftershock*
October 11 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Union
October 13 – Kansas City, MO @ Arvest Bank Theatre at The Midland
October 14 – Wichita, KS @ The Cotillion
October 15 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Diamond Ballroom
October 17 – New Orleans, LA @ Civic Theatre
October 19 – Tampa, FL @ Jannus Live
October 20 – Orlando, FL @ Hard Rock Live
October 22 – Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works (SOLD OUT)
October 23 – Asheville, NC @ Thomas Wolfe Auditorium (SOLD OUT)
October 25 – Stroudsburg, PA @ The Sherman Theater
October 27 – Portland, ME @ State Theatre
October 28 – Rochester, NY @ Main Street Armory
October 29 – Cleveland, OH @ The Agora (SOLD OUT)
October 30 – Albany, NY @ The Albany Capital Center
November 1 – Richmond, VA @ The National
November 2 – Knoxville, TV @ Knoxville Civic Auditorium and Coliseum
November 3 – Chattanooga, TN @ The Signal (SOLD OUT)
November 5 – Madison, WI @ The Sylvee
November 6 – St. Louis, MO @ The Factory
November 7 – Fort Wayne, IN @ Clyde Theatre
April 14 – Portland, OR @ Veterans Memorial Coliseum
April 16 – Seattle, WA @ WaMu Theatre
April 18 – San Francisco, CA @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
April 20 – Los Angeles, CA @ Greek Theatre
April 22 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Cosmopolitan *NEW SHOW*
April 23 – Phoenix, AZ @ Arizona Federal Theatre
April 25 – Denver, CO @ Ball Arena
April 28 – Albuquerque, NM @ Isleta Amphitheatre
April 30 – Houston TX @ White Oak Music Hall
May 2 – Irving, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
May 3 – San Antonio, TX @ AT & T Center
May 6 – Atlanta, GA @ Cadence Bank Amphitheatre at Chastain Park
May 7 – Nashville, TN @ Municipal Auditorium *NEW SHOW*
May 8 – Cincinnati, OH @ ICON Music Center *NEW SHOW*
May 10 – Indianapolis, IN @TCU Amphitheater at White River State Park
May 11 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Petersen Events Center
May 13 – Boston, MA @ Agganis Arena
May 14 – Asbury Park, NJ @ Stone Pony Summer Stage
May 15 – New York City, NY @ Pier 17
May 17 – Washington DC @ The Anthem
May 18 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Met
May 19 – Uncasville, CT @ Mohegan Sun Arena
May 21 – Laval, QC @ Place Bell
May 22 – Toronto, ON @ Echo Beach
May 24 – Detroit, MI @ Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill
May 26 – Milwaukee, WI @ Eagles Ballroom
May 27 – Chicago, IL @ Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
May 28 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Armory
