Gojira

Gojira bend extremes to their whim, emerging as an entrancing enigma equally driven by intuition and intensity. Balancing metallic proficiency, primal grooves, and otherworldly melodies, the French quartet continue to facilitate heavy music's progression into the future by burning down all boundaries. As such, they've unassumingly risen to the forefront of the genre as quiet trailblazers, earning four GRAMMY® Award nominations to date and a coveted spot on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time" with 2005's landmark From Mars To Sirius . Their catalog spans groundbreaking records such as L'Enfant Sauvage [2012] and Magma [2016]. Their most recent full length Fortitude [2021] debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top Album Sales Chart and #1 on the Top Current Album Sales Chart as the week's best - selling album in terms of pure sales. Simultaneously, it catapulted to #12 on the Billboard 200, marking a career high. The album’s “Amazonia” was nominated for Best Metal Performance at the 64th Annual GRAMMY® Awards with Fortitude named to multiple year - end lists ranging from Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Consequence, and Paste and hailed as the "#1 Best Album of the Year" by both Revolver and Metal Hammer. In 2024, they stunned the world with a stellar performance during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics where they debuted “Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)” featuring Marina Viotti and Victor Le Masne, which Consequence described as “a truly monumental moment in metal history, and the greatest heavy
song of the year.” The fiery track would debut at #1 on the US Hard Rock Digital Songs Sales chart upon its release and earn the band their fourth GRAMMY® nomination. With restless creativity and infinite vision, Gojira always inspire thought, awaken passion, and incite catharsis as heavy music's most unconventional, yet undeniable force.

Out of Columbia, Missouri, Locked Shut have been building their own little corner of the hardcore scene, putting on shows and making things happen themselves.