Gojira, Bloodstock Festival 2025 REVIEW: After a weekend chock full of every bold and beautiful shade of metal brilliance, it only seems right that this year’s Bloodstock is closed out with something that takes that heaviness up another notch. And from the moment that Gojira take up residence on the Ronnie James Dio Stage and burst into a cataclysmic ‘Only Pain’, it is clear that they are in a monolithic mood, ready to squeeze every last bit of energy out of this field. To produce songs that feel like the tectonic plates shifting beneath you is one thing, but then to deliver them with such elegance, such poise, such undeniable passion is a whole other ball game indeed. From the marriage of the delicate and devastating that holds ‘Flying Whales’ together to the stratospheric vision of a better tomorrow that defines ‘Another World’, every beat is as bludgeoning as it is beguiling. A display that makes you stop and stare in frozen wonderment, defrosted instantly by the outrageous amount ...