Jinnistan wrote:

 

nice

I recently picked up another of their records in yet one more blessed dollar bin. And it's also good, but not as good as this one.

Here's what you meant...



 

Paris band Gojira torches La Conciergerie at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics in a surprise treat for metal fans of the world, as a blood–soaked row of decapitated Marie Antoinettes haunt the windows behind them, climaxing in a large–scale display of traditional theatrical effects evoking the doomed queen's grisly end:


Well, at least you can click the link and see it on YouTube. The Olympic National Committee is currently scrubbing these videos from YouTube in real–time as I'm writing this; I've had to change the link three times before even publishing this post because they're so short–lived so I don't know how long that link will even work. Sorry there's currently no version out there sans commentary. 

And nobody gives a fuck if the fire was actually a separate historical incident. It works. We embrace the metaphor. Fire Itself hated the monarchy; let that suffice. Now, head–bang, motherfuckers!!!