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Gojira - Win Grammy Award For 'Best Metal Performance'


The 67th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony, held on Sunday, February 2nd, 2025, saw French metal band Gojira receive a Grammy in the Best Metal Performance category for their track "Mea Culpa (Ah! Ça ira!)". This is the first time Gojira has won a Grammy, after being nominated three times in the past.



The French Revolution-era song was performed at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris on July 26, 2024. Co-composed with Victor Le Masne, the musical director for the games, the track featured French-Swiss mezzo-soprano opera singer Marina Viotti, who also performed at the event, alongside nearly 300 classical musicians. The elaborate performance, rich in France’s revolutionary history and marked by macabre imagery—including a beheaded Marie Antoinette—provoked global controversy.




The nominees in the Best Metal Performance category were as follows:







Source: grammy.com
Band profile: Gojira
Posted: 03.02.2025 by Thryce


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03.02.2025 - 07:49
Ch'ti
Even though I generally don't give a damn about the Grammys, on this occasion I had to be interested because Gojira really became a legend with this performance at the Olympics. For how important it was to metal history, no one else deserved this award.
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03.02.2025 - 09:40
Luneth
I wish they'd just do the metal categories on the main show instead of some back room. Are arseholes like Taylor Swift and Beyonce intimidated by real musicians? Glad they won a Grammy, but stop keeping it away from the main ceremony like it's some kind of contagious disease. Metal is a legitimate genre too.
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03.02.2025 - 11:39
corrupt
With a lowercase c
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Written by Luneth on 03.02.2025 at 09:40
Are arseholes like Taylor Swift and Beyonce intimidated by real music

Huh? Is contemporary pop music suddenly not music anymore? You realize that Taylor Swift writes or co-writes all of her own songs and plays multiple instruments? How is her music not "real music"?

That kind of rhetoric will definitely not help creating acceptance for more fringe genres like metal. Or at least not for its community. Nor does this kind of elitism further the discussion in any way.
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03.02.2025 - 11:40
Thryce
Retired Staff
Elite
Of course, the Grammys are... well, you know, the Grammys. And everyone will have their own take on how much value they place on them.

That said, it’s pretty clear that Gojira stands out as the real winner this year, there's no debate there.

Judas Priest, and especially Metallica, feel more like nominations based on their legacy and stature within the industry, rather than anything groundbreaking in the current moment – which is pretty on-brand for the Grammys.

But let’s take a moment to appreciate Spiritbox’s nomination. I’ll admit, they’re a more high-profile band and definitely have a lot of mainstream acclaim, especially since it feels like suddenly everyone and their mom has been a huge all-time fan of Iwrestledabearonce (a stark contrast to the disapproval they faced back in their early days, I recall). Anyway, the song they’ve been nominated for is far from straightforward or commercial – my point being, it’s not what you’d expect from a "Grammy-nominated" easy-listening track. All in all, I’m genuinely excited to hear what they’ll bring with their upcoming sophomore album.

Lastly, from a broader perspective, it’s great to see a metallic hardcore band getting some recognition at the Grammys. That said, it's too bad that Knocked Loose are just a flat-out terrible band at that... If you’re looking for a better metalcore release to consider for the Metal Storm Awards, I’d highly recommend Boundaries' Death Is Little More – a solid and standout album.
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03.02.2025 - 16:15
Stormm
Written by Ch'ti on 03.02.2025 at 07:49

Even though I generally don't give a damn about the Grammys, on this occasion I had to be interested because Gojira really became a legend with this performance at the Olympics. For how important it was to metal history, no one else deserved this award.

Yeah, they've been awarded for 3 minutes on some 4 hours show performing some cover version and not awarded for great and original music they've been making for last 30 years or for an album. That's why I don't care.
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03.02.2025 - 16:19
Boxcar Willy
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Judas Priest should have won, but it is the Grammys.
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14:22 - Marcel Hubregtse
I do your mum

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04.02.2025 - 00:19
Khold Baroness
I don't like Grammy's awards and they don't mean nothing to me. But Im writing this to congratulate the amazing performance of Gojira at the opening ceremony of the Olympics
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