Editing Gojira (band) (section)

===Influences===
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Gojira was influenced by the early albums of [[Death (metal band)|Death]], [[Metallica]], [[Sepultura]], [[Tool (band)|Tool]],<ref name="Soenen2016-06-10">{{cite news|last=Soenen|first=Marie-Hélène|date=10 June 2016|title=Les cinq albums de metal qui ont changé la vie de Gojira|trans-title=The five metal albums that changed Gojira's life|url=https://www.telerama.fr/sortir/les-cinq-albums-de-metal-qui-ont-change-la-vie-de-gojira,143153.php|url-status=live|language=fr|work=[[Télérama]]|location=Paris|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210227161623/https://www.telerama.fr/sortir/les-cinq-albums-de-metal-qui-ont-change-la-vie-de-gojira,143153.php|archive-date=27 February 2021|access-date=27 February 2021}}</ref> and [[Morbid Angel]],<ref name="Grow2017-06-29">{{cite magazine|last=Grow|first=Kory|date=29 June 2017|title=Gojira's Joe Duplantier: My 10 Favorite Metal Albums|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/gojiras-joe-duplantier-my-10-favorite-metal-albums-201839/|url-status=live|magazine=[[Rolling Stone]]|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210227162805/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/gojiras-joe-duplantier-my-10-favorite-metal-albums-201839/sepultura-chaos-a-d-1993-193622/|archive-date=27 February 2021|access-date=27 February 2021}}</ref> and have also cited [[Led Zeppelin]]<ref name="Lecaudey2004"/> and [[Rage Against the Machine]]'s [[Rage Against the Machine (album)|debut album]] as influences. Mario Duplantier called Death "an obligatory path; they are at the origin of death metal", and Andreu agreed: "It's our culture, we come from Death." One of Labadie's earliest influences was Metallica's ''[[Ride the Lightning]]'', the first metal album he listened to at age eleven. Joe Duplantier said that "''Ride the Lightning'' saved my life when I faced difficult times in high school"<ref name="Soenen2016-06-10"/> and has also cited Machine Head's 1994 album, ''[[Burn My Eyes]]'', as an influence. He described Morbid Angel's 1993 album, ''[[Covenant (Morbid Angel album)|Covenant]]'', as "beautiful, and it's full of magic and epic brutality" and praised their 1995 album ''[[Domination (Morbid Angel album)|Domination]]''.<ref name="Grow2017-06-29"/> Other musical influences,<!--To a lesser degree, according to Gojira: as mentioned in the interview.--> to a lesser degree, include [[Slayer]], [[Pantera]], and [[Meshuggah]].<ref name="Soenen2016-06-10"/> Gojira's music has been compared to that of [[Neurosis (band)|Neurosis]].<ref name="Bagot2006-02-17"/> In 2003, Joe Duplantier expressed admiration for [[Sade (singer)|Sade]].{{sfn|Portnoi|2003|p=51}} By 2016, the band had admitted their interest in the music of [[the Beatles]].<ref name="Colombani2016-06-10">{{cite news|last=Colombani|first=Franck|date=10 June 2016|title=Gojira: 'Le metal, c'est de la dentelle'|trans-title=Gojira: 'Metal, it is lace'|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/musiques/article/2016/06/16/gojira-le-metal-c-est-de-la-dentelle_4951952_1654986.html|url-status=live|language=fr|work=[[Le Monde]]|location=Paris|archive-url=https://archive.today/20160617224915/http://www.lemonde.fr/musiques/article/2016/06/16/gojira-le-metal-c-est-de-la-dentelle_4951952_1654986.html|archive-date=17 June 2016|access-date=13 November 2021}}</ref> Gojira also named [[Pink Floyd]]<ref name="Marraud2017-01-22"/> and [[Mike Oldfield]] as influences.{{sfn|Blanchard|2016|p=40}} On ''Fortitude'', they focused on the lingering influence that the "classic" rock bands of the 1970s and 1980s had on them.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kajzer |first=Jackie |author-link=Full Metal Jackie |date=22 March 2021 |title=Gojira's Joe Duplantier Wants 'Fortitude' Album to Inspire the Best in People |url=https://loudwire.com/gojira-joe-duplantier-fortitude-album-full-metal-jackie-2021-interview/ |url-status=live |work=Loudwire |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210508233713/https://loudwire.com/gojira-joe-duplantier-fortitude-album-full-metal-jackie-2021-interview/|archive-date=8 May 2021 |access-date=13 November 2021}}</ref> The British sound continued to inspire the band's writing, citing [[Radiohead]] and [[trip hop]] act [[Portishead (band)|Portishead]]. In 2021, Joe Duplantier said that [[Rock music|traditional rock]], [[blues]], and [[Americana (music)|Americana]] had been childhood influences "reawakened" by long conversations with Mastodon guitarist [[Brent Hinds]]: "The older the other guys and I get, the more we appreciate it".<ref name="Law2021-02-18"/>

In recollecting the band's early history, Joe Duplantier explained how they were "nourished by the rock energy of the Basque Country, fairly unique in France," but, by contrast, compared it to the broader context of their lifestyle, secluded in a forest with their American musical influences while being detached from the local scene. He said: "Thus, we created our own language, our own musical codes. The Gojira sound comes from there."<ref name="Soenen2016-06-24"/> Andreu and Joe and Mario Duplantier described [[classical music]] as a particular inspiration;<ref name="Colombani2016-06-10"/> Andreu said, "I listen to 70 percent classical music".<ref>{{cite magazine|author1=Jagunk|author2=Yoch|date=24 August 2009|title=Discussion − Gojira (Interview with Christian Andreu)|url=https://issuu.com/zyva/docs/zyva1/28|language=fr|magazine=Zyva Magazine|location=[[Lyon]]|publisher=[[Issuu]]|issue=1|page=28|oclc=743017035|access-date=29 January 2022|archive-date=17 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220917152616/https://issuu.com/zyva/docs/zyva1/28|url-status=live}}</ref> About Gojira's songs, which rely on [[syncopation]] and ''contretemps'' ([[Beat (music)#On-beat and off-beat|on- and off-beats]]), Mario Duplantier said: "Joe and I were introduced to classical very early on. There was a love and an understanding of this music in the family. There is a strong link between metal and classical music through [their] solemn side and attention paid to existential subjects: life and death. Pop [music] is more focused on romantic feelings."<ref name="Colombani2016-06-10"/> The Duplantier brothers said that their upbringing in a Landes house "lost in the forest, with no neighbors," was reflected in Gojira's music and lyrics. Their father, Dominique Duplantier, was a French [[Architectural drawing|architectural drafter]] and painter; their mother, Patricia, was an American with [[Azores|Azorean]] roots. Mario Duplantier described his mother as

<blockquote>... a very free spirit, who has always encouraged our creativity. On the one hand, we had this extroverted mother who drew, sculpted, and made magnificent paintings out of driftwood; on the other hand [we had] a silent, 'workaholic' father who could spend whole days on gigantic drawings in Chinese ink with an almost-worrying rigor. These two aspects of our upbringing are found in Gojira, a mixture of discipline and something more extroverted, wacky, and chaotic.<ref>{{cite news|last=Soenen|first=Marie-Hélène|date=8 July 2016|title=Gojira, une affaire de famille|trans-title=Gojira, a family affair|url=https://www.telerama.fr/musique/gojira-artistes-de-mere-en-fils-et-de-pere-en-fille,143998.php|url-status=live|language=fr|work=[[Télérama]]|location=Paris|archive-url=https://archive.today/20201212133248/https://www.telerama.fr/musique/gojira-artistes-de-mere-en-fils-et-de-pere-en-fille,143998.php|archive-date=12 December 2020|access-date=20 November 2021}}</ref></blockquote>