“Flying Whales” by Gojira

"Flying Whales" comes from From Mars to Sirius, which the French metal band Gojira released in 2005 as their third full-length. The music is credited to the whole band and the words to Joe Duplantier, and it lives inside a record with outsized ambitions: a concept album that sends its story out into space to bring a dead planet back to life, with worry for the environment and a passage from war to peace running underneath.

By Mario Duplantier's account the band produced the album entirely on their own, with Jean-Michel Labadie weighing in on how his bass held the songs together as they went after a warmer sound. They also left more room for melody and interludes, a journey with calm stretches between the storms. Critics loved it, and Rolling Stone later ranked it among the 100 greatest metal albums of all time.

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