Gojira - L'Enfant Sauvage (New Orange Vinyl) (2LP)

Gojira’s fifth studio album (French for “The Wild Child”) was met with universal, rating a score of 86/100 on Metacritic. The album debuted at #34 on the Billboard 200 chart, and peaked at #6 on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart and #13 on the Top Rock Albums chart.

The review in The Guardian said: “Their fifth studio album sustains their trademark blend of unfathomable heaviness, structural invention and ecological-cum-existential poetry while subtly enhancing its dramatic and emotional impact … overall this is a ferociously original piece of work that reaches its electrifying zenith on “The Gift Of Guilt”: six minutes of sledgehammer sorrow built from riffs that sound like warning shots fired from the planet’s doomed and turbulent core. This is metal taken to a higher plane of brilliance.”