Gojira release video for Grammy nominated single "Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)"
Acclaimed French metal band Gojira have unveiled the official music video for their Grammy® nominated single Mae Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!), captured during their jaw-dropping performance at the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.
Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!) is currently nominated for Best Metal Performance at the upcoming 67th Annual Grammy® Awards, marking the band’s fourth Grammy® nomination to date.
You can watch the official video below:
Gojira made history as the first metal band ever to perform at the Olympic Games during this past summer’s star-studded opening ceremony which also included performances by Lady Gaga and Celine Dion. Working with composer Victor le Manse and French-Swiss mezzo-soprano Marina Viotti, the quartet injected their signature heavy riffs and punishing rhythms into the French Revolution-era song Ah! Ça ira!. Joined by Viotti and nearly 300 classical musicians, Gojira performed from the windows of Paris’ iconic Concierge amidst a grand spectacle of pyrotechnics, making international headlines and being widely regarded as one of the most talked about moments from the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Gojira recently wrapped up a North American tour providing direct support to Korn, and are in the midst of working on the follow-up to their critically acclaimed 2021 album “Fortitude”, which featured Grammy®-nominated single Amazonia and was heralded as one of the best metal albums of the year by Rolling Stone, Consequence, The Guardian, and more. They will headline the U.K.'s Bloodstock Open Air Festival in August 2025.
Gojira bend extremes to their whim, emerging as an entrancing enigma equally driven by intuition and intensity. Balancing metallic proficiency, primal grooves, and otherworldly melodies, the French quartet continue to facilitate heavy music's progression into the future by burning down all boundaries. As such, they've unassumingly risen to the forefront of the genre as quiet trailblazers. Thus far, they've earned three Grammy® Award nominations and even claimed a coveted spot on Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time" with 2005's landmark “From Mars To Sirius”. Their catalog spans groundbreaking records such as “L'Enfant Sauvage” [2012] and “Magma” [2016]. However, the band leveled up again with “Fortitude” in 2021.
Upon release, it arrived at #1 on the Billboard Top Album Sales Chart and #1 on the Top Current Album Sales Chart as the week's best-selling album in terms of pure sales. Simultaneously, it catapulted to #12 on the Billboard 200, marking a career high. "Amazonia" also garnered a Grammy® Award nod in the category of "Best Metal Performance”. “Fortitude” closed out 2021 on year-end lists from Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Consequence, and Paste and would be hailed as the "#1 Best Album of the Year" by Revolver and Metal Hammer. Along the way, they've headlined legendary venues such as Red Rocks Amphitheater and more. The group capped off 2022 by contributing the standalone single Our Time Is Now to EA's NHL 2023. Gojira captivated the globe with a fiery performance during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics debuting Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!) featuring Marina Viotti and Victor LeMasne, charting #1 on the US Hard Rock Digital Song Sales upon release. With restless creativity and infinite vision, Gojira always inspire thought, awaken passion, and incite catharsis as heavy music’s most unconventional yet undeniable force.
