Watch Muse jam a Gojira riff during recent headline performance at Hellfest in France

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Matt Bellamy’s hard rock powerhouse played a short snippet of Stranded at one of Europe’s biggest metal festivals last weekend

Matt Bellamy of Muse in 2025 and Joe Duplantier of Gojira in 2024
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Muse played a brief jam of Stranded by French metal titans Gojira during their headline set at Hellfest in last weekend.

Before Matt Bellamy’s rock trio performed the song We Are Fucking Fucked from their latest album, 2022’s Will Of The People, they offered an instrumental rendition of the opening riff and first verse from Gojira’s 2016 single.

The Brits did a short take on Heart-Shaped Box by grunge luminaries Nirvana directly afterwards, and also did portions of Slipknot’s Duality and Rage Against The Machine’s Calm Like A Bomb during the 19-song set.

Watch footage of the Gojira jam below.

Muse headlined the second night of Hellfest in Clisson, France, on Friday, June 20. Korn, Scorpions and Linkin Park also topped the bill during the four-day extravaganza, which, with a capacity of 60,000 people, is one of the biggest hard rock and heavy metal festivals in Europe.

Muse played the weekender as part of their ongoing summer European tour. The band headlined Pinkpop in Landgraaf, Netherlands, on Sunday (June 22) and their run continues on Wednesday (June 25) at Tons Of Rock in Oslo, Norway.

Gojira released Stranded in April 2016 as the lead single of their sixth album Magma, which came out the following June. The album charted at number 10 in the band’s native France, down slightly from the number seven rank reached by 2012 predecessor L’Enfant Sauvage. However, it was a breakthrough release internationally, seeing the band reach new commercial heights in the UK, the US, Switzerland, Canada, Germany and more.

The Bordeaux-founded four-piece, who released their latest album Fortitude in 2021, have only grown further in popularity since Magma. Last year, they played the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympic Games. The song they performed, a take on French revolutionary anthem Ah! Ça Ira, won the 2025 Grammy Award For Best Metal Performance.

Gojira will embark on a European tour later in the summer, during which they’ll headline Bloodstock Open Air in Derbyshire on August 10.

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Matt Mills
Matt Mills
Online Editor, Metal Hammer

Louder’s resident Gojira obsessive was still at uni when he joined the team in 2017. Since then, Matt’s become a regular in Metal Hammer and Prog, at his happiest when interviewing the most forward-thinking artists heavy music can muster. He’s got bylines in The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, NME and many others, too. When he’s not writing, you’ll probably find him skydiving, scuba diving or coasteering.

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