French metal band Gojira’s performance was one of the highlights of the Olympic opening ceremony – and the band was feeling the pressure.
Frontman Joe Duplantier told the New York Times he felt like he was representing “the whole metal community on the world stage.”
The band performed a metal cover of the French Revolution-era song “Ah! Ça Ira”, accompanied by opera singer Marina Viotti and dozens of headless Marie Antionette figures.
Duplantier said the French Revolution was “a very bloody era of French history, so it was very metal.”