Gojira have launched the official video for ‘Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)’, the track they carried out on the Paris Olympics this summer time.
The band made historical past in July as the primary metallic band to ever carry out at an Olympics opening ceremony. They carried out a track that was in style through the French Revolution, throughout a section titled ‘Liberté’ (in reference to France’s famed motto ‘Liberté, égalité, fraternité’) that celebrated one of the vital well-known occasions in French historical past, in addition to the nation’s emphasis on freedom.
Gojira carried out from the home windows of the Concierge, accompanied by experimental opera singer Marina Viotti and almost 300 classical musicians.
The track has since been nominated for the GRAMMY Award for Greatest Steel Efficiency. In September, it was projected on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
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The spectacle left viewers asking themselves in the event that they’d simply seen “one of the vital memorable moments of 2024” or a “freakshow”. As heightened reactions on social media swirled, Gojira have been pressured to reply to claims their efficiency was “Satanic”.
Frontman Joe Duplantier informed Rolling Stone: “It’s French historical past. It’s French allure, you understand, beheaded individuals, pink wine and blood all over — it’s romantic, it’s regular. There’s nothing satanic.”
Regardless of the controversy, it massively elevated Gojira’s streaming numbers, with their month-to-month listeners capturing as much as just below 2.7million every week after their efficiency, a progress of just about 50 per cent.
In different information, Duplantier just lately shared an replace on Gojira’s “formidable” subsequent album, saying: “We’re very formidable when it comes to writing songs and the standard of it. And we wanna take a transparent step ahead and upward with this album. So we’re placing all our love and vitality on it.”