You may say Gojira began a brand new French revolution on the 2024 Paris Summer season 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 in the course of 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 to sing alongside.

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

In the meantime, one other social media consumer joked, “One factor concerning 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, based on Gojira frontman Joe Duplantier.