Metal, devil in music

The catalog of the first exhibition dedicated to Metal music in France, from April 5 to September 29, 2024 at the Philharmonie de Paris For fifty years, Metal resists all its changes. Decade after decade, it conquers new audiences and reinvents itself, drawing on both popular art and classic aesthetics. The first exhibition dedicated to the genre in France, Metal, Diabolus in Musica takes over the walls of the Philharmonie de Paris from April to September 2024 and draws up a documented picture of this movement, where dialogue takes place music, popular culture, anthropological and artistic visions. Backwards caricatures to which metal is often reduced, the exhibition explores its codes and the richness of its myths. Extension of the exhibition but also and above all a reference work on a music with many facets, this richly illustrated and carefully produced catalog (marbling, cover textured and metallic iron, 8-page leaflet) summons around the commissioners from the exhibition of specialists and big names of the scene: Robert Trujillo (Metallica), Max Cavalera (Soulfly), Seth Anton (Septicflesh), Nergal (Behemoth), Stéphane Buriez (Loudblast), illustrator Eliran Kantor, the artists Élodie Lesourd and Chloé Trujillo and comic book author Damien MacDonald; as well as sociologists Deena Weinstein and Gérôme Guibert, the PhD student in modern literature Sixtine Audebert or the director of collections from Hard Rock Café, Chase McCue. Afterword by Mario Duplantier (Gojira).