Gojira - Another World

What this video is

Released on August 5, 2020, 'Another World' arrived during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a context that amplified the video's themes of a virus-stricken, collapsing civilization and humanity's desperate search for escape. The video explicitly invokes explorer Ferdinand Magellan and the 1968 film Planet of the Apes as touchstones for human resilience and planetary reckoning. As Gojira's first original…

Why it matters

This video is a landmark in heavy metal animation, demonstrating that the genre's visual vocabulary could be realized entirely through high-quality 3D CGI without sacrificing thematic weight. It reinforces Gojira's position as the foremost eco-conscious voice in extreme metal, while the Planet of…

The director

Maxime Tiberghien and Sylvain Favre are French animation directors and visual artists. They co-directed the official animated music video for Gojira's 'Another World' (2020), released via Roadrunner Records. The production credits also list fire and smoke…