Gojira are set to turn out to be the primary metallic band to carry out on the Olympics, after they play on the Paris opening ceremony this night (26 July).

The French rockers will carry out alongside Swiss opera singer Marina Viotti – who has experimented with jazz, heavy metallic and gospel – for an “unique” collaboration, in accordance with Time Out. 

We’re not completely certain what songs Joe Duplantier and co will convey to the ceremony – which will probably be held on the River Seine – but when they’ll convey the likes of Silvera and Amazonia to an in any other case metal-averse crowd, we’d like to see it.

Beforehand, a handful of rock bands and musicians have carried out on the Olympics together with Kiss, (2002 Salt Lake Winter Video games), Jimmy Web page (2008 Beijing Olympics), Alanis Morisette (2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics), Snow Patrol (2012 London Olympics), The Who (2012 London Olympics), Paul McCartney (2012 London Olympics), Queen (2012 London Olympics), and Muse (2012 London Olympics).

Different artists confirmed to carry out on the 2024 Olympics embrace Woman Gaga, and Celine Dion, who will duet with French singer Édith Piaf’s La Vie En Rose. 

The opening ceremony will start in the present day (26 July) at 6:30PM BST.

This yr, the Olympic Video games will current its first-ever non-stadium occasion, presenting its opening ceremony open air.

The occasion will start with athletes travelling down the River Seine on custom-made floats passing historic landmarks such because the Eiffel Tower, Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral and the Louvre.

Orchestrated by French stage director Thomas Jolly, the landmark ceremony will embrace worldwide and native artists to have fun and showcase the nation’s musical tradition.

Jolly instructed Various Press he desires to “present France in all of its range” and “that it is going to be very significant for the artists that may carry out”.

Outdoors of their Olympics present, the French metallers will probably be showing at KoRn’s Thirtieth-anniversary stadium present, on 5 October, which can happen at Los Angeles’ BMO Stadium.

Gojira will probably be showing as assist acts alongside Evanescence, Scars On Broadway, Spiritbox, Vended and Daron Malakian.