Artist: GOJIRA
Album: MAGMA (CD)

Year: 2016
EAN/UPS: 16861747923
Media type: CD

Magma is the sixth studio album from French metal band Gojira. The album was released on 17 June 2016 through Roadrunner Records.

In November 2014, Gojira relocated to New York City and construction began on their own music studio in Queens. By April 2015, the studio was complete and the band began recording music. However, recording of the album was put on hold when Joe Duplantier and Mario Duplantier's mother fell ill and died. The band spent some time touring before returning to studio to continue recording. Mixing of the album was completed in February 2016.

Mario Duplantier stated about the lyrical aspect of the album: "When you read Joe's lyrics, for me, I cry right away. They're very deep and to the point. No bullshit. We recycle our sadness and depression in the music."

Joe Duplantier stated about the albums general direction: "We want a short album. Something less epic than what we usually do. People's attentions are shorter now. So a lot of the songs are four minutes."  He also stated: "We have some Pantera-ish kind of riffs, which is kind of new for us. But [...] we want riffs to be a little punchier sometimes."

He also explained that the writing process for Magma differed from previous albums, saying that "We do things a little differently. We dump songs, we dump riffs, which we never did before. [In the past] we would prepare 12 songs, get in the studio and record them just exactly as they are on the demos. We decided to do it differently this time."
Release

Magma was released on 17 June 2016, via Roadrunner Records. On 22 April 2016, the band released an official video for the track "Stranded" and on 20 May 2016, the band released an official video for the track "Silvera".

TRACKLIST:
No.     Title     Length

1.     "The Shooting Star"       5:42
2.     "Silvera"       3:33
3.     "The Cell"       3:18
4.     "Stranded"       4:29
5.     "Yellow Stone"       1:19
6.     "Magma"       6:42
7.     "Pray"       5:14
8.     "Only Pain"       4:00
9.     "Low Lands"       6:04
10.     "Liberation"       3:35


LINE-UP:

    Joe Duplantier – vocals, guitar, flute
    Christian Andreu – guitar
    Jean-Michel Labadie – bass
    Mario Duplantier – drums