Gojira released the 2012 album L’Enfant sauvage.
Gojira is a French metal band formed in Ondres in 1996 by brothers Joe and Mario Duplantier, originally under the name Godzilla. The band changed its name to Gojira in 2001, partly because of trademark concerns.
L’Enfant sauvage was the group’s fifth studio album and was issued internationally through Roadrunner Records. Its title is French for “The Wild Child,” and the record continued Gojira’s combination of death-metal intensity, progressive structures, environmental themes, and precise drumming.
The band is sometimes described simply as death metal, but its music also incorporates progressive metal, groove metal, and technical elements. Gojira’s French origin is another common point of confusion, since many internationally prominent extreme-metal bands associated with similar styles come from Scandinavia or North America.