GOJIRA 'L'ENFANT SAUVAGE' 2LP - FOREST GREEN

LABEL: ROADRUNNER RECORDS
VINYL RELEASE DATE: 03/28/2025
ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 6/26/2012
VARIANT: ORANGE VINYL 2LP

Gojira’s fifth album — likewise their major label debut — leveled-up the French force’s already astounding bedrock of progressive metal heaviness. L’Enfant Sauvage is an album that punctures the skin through oppressively percussive moments of extreme-metal trilling and tribal drum bounding, but the band also contrast that highly-concentrated savagery with spacey late-album highlight “Born in Winter.” Gojira nurtured their inner child with this metal masterwork, which still stands as one of the tightest and most furious statements of their celebrated career.