To justify the exhibition “Metal. Diabolus in musica”, Olivier Mantei, director of the Philharmonie de Paris, speaks of openness to all aesthetics which the institution he directs has guaranteed for several years. But why summon the devil? Because “Diabolus in musica” designates the tritone, this interval between two notes known to be diabolical, present in music since the Middle Ages and widely used by “metallic” musicians.
After concrete music and electronics, now is the time to make room for a fifty-year-old genre, a variation of rock: metal. One of the rare musical aesthetics to have never gone out of fashion since its emergence in working-class Britain at the end of the 1960s, with three flagship groups: Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple. Past a wall of Marshall amps typical of the scenes of the 1970s and 1980s, we are greeted by concert videos of these three groups whose influence remains colossal
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