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Gojira wanted to represent ‘the whole metal community’ with their performance at the Olympics in France, and the band was feeling the pressure.

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.”