You possibly can say Gojira began a brand new French revolution on the 2024 Paris Summer time Video games.

Because the first-ever heavy metallic band to carry out at an Olympic Opening Ceremony, the head-bangin’ quartet delivered a fiery efficiency of “Ah! Ça Ira,” a track popularized through the French Revolution, on the Conciergerie on the banks of the Seine river July 26.

Not solely did their present gentle up town with pyrotechnics, it actually turned heads when a performer dressed as a decapitated Marie Antoinette popped up on display screen to sing alongside.

“Y’all of the Olympics simply took off Marie Antoinette’s head whereas enjoying French metallic music?” one viewer wrote on X, previously often called Twitter. “That is the craziest s–t I’ve ever seen.”

In the meantime, one other social media person joked, “One factor in regards to the French, they’re gonna remind you they guillotined tf out of marie antoinette within the identify of liberation.”

And that was the entire level, in accordance with Gojira frontman Joe Duplantier.