“Stranded” by Gojira

"Stranded" comes from Gojira's 2016 album Magma, and the band kept it in-house: Joe Duplantier produced it and co-mixed it with engineer Johann Meyer, on top of singing and playing guitar. The whole band carries the writing credit.

It's a tight, lurching slab of metal: Duplantier and Christian Andreu lock their guitars into a riff that squeals and stomps at once, Jean-Michel Labadie's bass sits heavy underneath, and Mario Duplantier's drumming hits with machine precision and none of the machine's coldness. Brutal and weirdly catchy, it's the sound of a heavy band finding a hook without going soft.

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