Gojira have released an official music video for their electrifying performance of “Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)” at the Olympics opening ceremony in Paris this past summer.
The video captures the performance in all its glory, with the members of Gojira playing the song from platforms outside the windows of the Conciergerie building, a former prison and courthouse that sits along the River Seine. As they deliver the metal version of the French Revolution-era song “Ah, Ça Ira!,” they are joined by opera singer Marina Viotti, who floats down the river in a wooden ship.
This new official version of the video gets rid of the semi-annoying commentary from the original broadcast’s NBC announcers, and lets the music and visuals do the talking.
At the end of August, Gojira released an official single version of the song, which went on to be nominated for Best Metal Performance at the upcoming 2025 Grammy Awards.
Reflecting on the Olympics performance, Gojira drummer Mario Duplantier told Heavy Consequence in a video interview, “It’s mind-blowing, actually. We are still a bit high in the band. We are still trying to understand what really happened.”
He added, “In terms of the impact on the world of metal, we felt like the stars were aligned, because we are a French band, the ceremony was in France, and two of the creators of the ceremony were big Gojira fans.”
Gojira will play a series of European festivals in the summer, and embark on a tour of their native France in late 2025. Tickets to their upcoming shows are available here.
Watch the official video for “Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)” below.