I Was In The Other Room And I Heard Metal Being Played, I Was, Like, ‘What The F*ck?’

Gojira stunned the world with their heavy-as-hell rendition of “Ah! Ça Ira” on the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. The efficiency featured all the pieces from beheaded Marie Antoinette singers to blood cannons and loads of hearth – all the trimmings of an important steel present, however surprising when you’re unfamiliar.

One individual taken unexpectedly was Avenged Sevenfold bassist Johnny Christ, who famous in his Drinks With Johnny podcast that he was completely shocked when he heard Gojira come blaring from one other room in his home.

“That was so cool. I watched it. I did not count on it. [I was] watching it with my spouse. We watch each opening ceremony collectively. And it is all the time cool,” mentioned Christ. “You see the nation coming collectively, all of the artists of the nation, they get a group collectively and so they’re, like, ‘We’re gonna present all of the artwork and historical past of us.’ And I feel they did an important job.”

He continued: “I used to be within the different room and I heard steel being performed, I used to be, like, ‘What the fuck?’ I stroll out and I see this superb efficiency occurring on the parliament home or no matter citadel that was. And I am, like, ‘Wait a minute. That is fucking Gojira. I do know these guys. That is fucking Gojira proper there.’ And I used to be very joyful for them. I used to be, like, ‘That is fucking cool.’ After which, after all, 30 seconds later, I used to be, like, ‘Why the fuck have not I been up there doing something like that but?’ Fuck, dude. I am shifting to France. Fuck this.”

Christ later famous that he was impressed how the entire ceremony flowed out and in of Gojira‘s efficiency, in that it did not really feel completely misplaced.

“It was so cool. They usually did a cool job of — it did not really feel prefer it was, ‘Oh, now we’re simply gonna go to steel and it is gonna really feel utterly misplaced at the remainder of the ceremony.’ No, they nonetheless saved it. And with them hanging off the aspect of it, getting that shot, displaying all the pieces, going to the totally different home windows and stuff, I assumed it was very well carried out.”