Gojira score Best Metal Performance at the Grammys for their insane Olympics Ceremony show
Gojira already thought they’d scored the jackpot opening up the 2024 Paris Olympic ceremony – then, last night, the performance bagged them their very first Grammy. The French heavy metallers won the award for Best Metal Performance for Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça Ira!), their take on a French Revolutionary classic, performed alongside experimental French-Swiss opera singer Marina Viotti.
Last year, Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça Ira!) kickstarted the Paris Olympics with a bang. With a singing, headless Marie Antoinette in tow, Gojira’s bruising riffs, blood-red streamers and frightful pyrotechnics breathed new life into French Revolution-era song Ah! Ça Ira. The performance even took place outside the Conciergerie, a former prison where Antoinette was beheaded in 1793.
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Gojira triumphed over an intimidating shortlist featuring some of metal’s finest talents – including Metallica. Alongside Metallica’s Screaming Suicide, the shortlist also featured Judas Priest‘s Crown Of Horns, Spiritbox‘s Cellar Door and Knocked Loose’s collab with Poppy, Suffocate.
While Metallica didn’t score big, other legendary rockers were honoured last night. The Rolling Stones won Best Rock Album for Hackney Diamonds, the band’s first record in 18 years. The record beat out Romance by Fontaines D.C., Saviors by Green Day, Tangk by Idles, No Name by Jack White and Pear Jam’s Dark Matter.
The Beatles‘ revived demo, Now And Then, also won the award for Best Rock Performance. The track was crafted from the bones of an old John Lennon recording, restored by WingNut Films production company. The win meant Green Day, Idles, and Pearl Jam lost out on awards yet again, with tracks The American Dream Is Killing Me, Gift Horse and Dark Matter missing out. The track also beat the The Black Keys’ Beautiful People (Stay High) and St. Vincent‘s Broken Man.
Despite losing out for Best Rock Performance, St. Vincent was one of the most successful winners of the night. She won Best Rock Song with her track Broken Man, as well as Best Alternative Music Performance for Flea. Her biggest win was nabbing the crown for Best Alternative Music Album with her brilliant record All Born Screaming.
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