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Jul 30, 2024 · The progressive French metal band turned heads with their French Revolution-inspired performance of “Ah! Ça Ira” — a French anthem dating back to the late 1700s.
Jul 26, 2024 · French heavy metal band Gojira was the talk of Friday’s Olympics Opening Ceremonies for the band’s headbanging reenactment of the French Revolution featuring opera singer Marina Viotti....
Performing at La Conciergerie – a palace and former prison on the River Seine – Gojira played French Revolution-era song Ah! Ça Ira alongside experimental opera singer Marina Viotti as part of a segment celebrating a landmark moment in the country’s history.
Jul 26, 2024 · You could say Gojira started a new French revolution at the 2024 Paris Summer Games. As the first-ever heavy metal band to perform at an Olympic Opening Ceremony, the head-bangin' quartet...
Aug 3, 2024 · “Ah! Ça Ira” is the name of the song performed by Gojira, and came to popularity during the French Revolution. The key phrase comes from American polymath Benjamin Franklin, who was known to say the phrase as, "It'll all work out" during the American Revolutionary War.
Jul 26, 2024 · July 26, 2024. Gojira, a leading French heavy metal band, became the first hard rock act to perform in an Olympic Games opening ceremony when it did a metal version of “ Ah! Ça Ira ,” a song...
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Jul 30, 2024 · The three-minute playthrough was an acknowledgement of France’s insurrectionary history. Gojira were introduced by an actor/vocalist dressed as Marie Antoinette, whose head was famously liberated from her neck in 1793 following the French Revolution. Ah! Ça Ira was penned during said revolution, and the metal band pelting it out did so on ...
