GOJIRA Are The Gold Medal

Slipknot percussionist Clown – much like the rest of the world – was completely blown away by Gojira‘s performance at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony. If you somehow missed that seismic event in the metal world, you can at least check out an audio-only version of their song right here.

In an interview with Metal Hammer, Clown revealed his deep pride for Gojira and even named their drummer Mario Duplantier as one of his favorite drummers in all of hard rock. Which I guess shouldn’t be too surprising – have you ever seen that guy drum? It’s inhuman.

“I got goosebumps,” said Clown. “I know this is going to sound stupid, but I’m just so proud of them. I know the word ‘proud’ probably sounds weird coming from me, but that band is so incredible, and they’re friends of ours, and Mario [Duplantier] is one of my favorite drummers in hard rock.”

He continued: “When I saw the performance, I was just proud to have them do that. What a huge, huge honor, what a huge performance. And what an enormous metaphor: you have all these wonderful athletes, the best of the best of the best together, and someone involved thought, ‘We should get Gojira to open this up…’ Like, Gojira are the gold medal.”

Clown was hardly the only one that was shocked and overjoyed by the performance. Avenged Sevenfold bassist Johnny Christ literally came running into the room when he heard what he (rightfully) believed was metal blaring through his TV speakers.