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Metallica, the band that pushed the metal to the next level, had a dizzying rise to the top punctuated with tragedy and conflict. But they didn't let that stop them, and they are still going strong today. 

Everything is True (or Almost): Lana & Lilly Wachowski: Metallica

Yetundey is originally from Leipzig and mixes styles and influences. Layla Boe wants to make the German language smoother in her music.

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Es (casi) la pura verdad: Metallica

(Prawie) cała prawda: Metallica

Metallica, the band that pushed the metal to the next level, had a dizzying rise to the top punctuated with tragedy and conflict

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Metallica's 35-year career is still going strong: they are timeless. To celebrate their latest album, 
Hardwired…to Self-Destruct, TAPE revisits the history of a music group that became a global movement. 

Metallica

Metallica's 35-year career is still going strong: they are timeless

TAPE

Jinjer have established themselves as one of the most interesting metalcore bands in recent years. Founded in 2009, the Ukrainian outfit found their own style with the albums King of Everything and Macro, rich in ferocious riffs and progressive structures that serve as a showcase for Tatiana Shmayluk's voice. Their concert at Summer Breeze 2024 promises to be one to remember.

Summer Breeze 2024

Jinjer makes progressive metalcore, served up by the powerful voice of Tatiana Shmayluk.

Jinjer

The brainchild of various members of death and black metal bands Dissection, Swordmaster and Ophthalamia, Deathstars was formed in Sweden in 2000. Two years later, the band released their first album. Synthetic Generation sold well, first in its home country, then around the world. Ruthless guitars coupled with the deep voice of singer Whiplasher Bernadotte are Deathstars' unstoppable trademark.

M'era Luna Festival 2024

Ruthless guitars and the deep voice of singer Whiplasher Bernadotte are this Swedish band's signature.

Deathstars

Swedish extreme metal pioneers Meshuggah are renowned for their virtuoso style. Founded in 1987, the band has forged a unique sound, characterised by complex polyrhythms and aggressive riffs. It's almost as if the boundaries of metal are pushed further every time this band takes to the stage.

Meshuggah set Summer Breeze 2024 alight with their extreme metal, as aggressive as it is complex.

Meshuggah

Founded in 2002, Delain are a leading symphonic metal band. With their albums April Rain and Moonbathers, the Dutch group established their sound as melodic as it is powerful, combining orchestral motifs, aggressive riffs and impressive vocal parts. A thrilling proposition for audiences at Summer Breeze 2024.

Symphonic metal band Delain graces Summer Breeze 2024.

Delain

Scottish experimentalists Young Fathers bring their riotous energy to Paris for Echoes with Jehnny Beth. An incredible performance incorporating material from their latest album Heavy Heavy, a celebratory collection steeped in the joy of communal music. 

Echoes with Jehnny Beth

Sensational Scottish band Young Fathers bring their heavy indie-experimental sound to Paris.

Young Fathers

Mixing j-pop and heavy metal, Babymetal bring their unique look and sound to Hellfest 2024.

Hellfest 2024

Babymetal

JInjer are Ukraine’s official ambassadors of metal. Led by the voice and charisma of singer Tatiana Shmayluk, they are bringing their special blend of progressive groove metal to the world.

Hellfest 2022

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The 2024 presidential election looks like a dead heat between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris. The swing state of Wisconsin is a microcosm of the United States and one of the major battlegrounds for the tight contest. No surprise that the Republicans held their convention here and both Republicans and Democrats are campaigning hard to win the mid-west state. What do the people of Wisconsin want? And who will win the state this time?

The swing state of Wisconsin is a microcosm of the USA and one of the major battlegrounds for the presidential election.

US Elections: Showdown in Wisconsin

Entire generations have learned about sex through mainstream porn, blurring the lines between personal desires and platform-driven fantasies. But if our sexuality is shaped by algorithms, can’t we take back some control? The post-porn movement is doing exactly that. Aimed at creating pornography that reflects honest, consensual sex – its creators are making waves online.

Can Post-porn Awaken Our True Desires?

What if porn reflected our true desires? Post-porn aims to be more ethical, more honest and more revolutionary.

Tracks

Chinese men are suffering. There are simply not enough women to go around since China implemented its one-child policy in 1979.  This means that 1 in 5 Chinese men will not be able to find a partner in five years’ time.

ARTE Reportage

Chinese men are suffering. There are simply not enough women to go around since China implemented its one-child policy in 1979. 

China: Men without Women

Diwa is only 11 years old. She is one of the thousands of victims of a crime that is hardly reported on in Europe but which is causing havoc in the Philippines. She was raped by her parents, live on the internet, to satisfy the desires of foreign paedophiles who paid for the spectacle of her rape, giving instructions from a distance.

Philippines: Child Rape Online

Thousands of children in the Philippines have been abused, live on the internet. Report on a shocking crime.

Horses have long played an essential role for the nomadic peoples of Mongolia, but as Mongolians have adopted a sedentary way of life, they now breed horses primarily for their meat. This has had disastrous consequences, including animal abuse, overgrazing and obesity in large swathes of the population.
Naranbadrakh Batkhuu wants to revive the age-old relationship between Mongolians and their horses for the good of the people and the natural world.

Mongolia: The Man Who Loved Horses

Naranbadrakh Batkhuu wants to revive the age-old relationship between Mongolians and their horses.

360° Reportage

It is one of the seven pivotal states in the US presidential election - along with Nevada, Arizona, Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia and North Carolina. It's also the state with the most electoral votes. What is it about the geography and sociology of Pennsylvania that explains why Trump and Harris are neck and neck there? Join us for another episode of Mapping the World.

Pennsylvania: US Election Battleground

Is Pennsylvania the decisive state in the American election? 

Mapping the World

There have never been more opportunities to meet new sexual partners in our liberated world of dating apps, sex parties and queer liberation. But how come we are having less sex today than in the past?

Why Do We Have Less Sex?

There have never been more opportunities for sex in our liberated world. But how come we havz less sex today than in the past?

42: The Answer to Almost Everything

Kamala Harris or Donald Trump. Which US election candidate has the best plans for European interests and the best outcome for the EU in terms of economy, defence and climate change?

Depending on who wins, it will have a different impact for European partners.

Harris vs. Trump: What does it mean for Europe?

The unclassifiable Róisín Murphy shows how difficult it is to pigeonhole her once again at Paris' Ground Control, where she displays all the richness and eclecticism of a discography stretching back to the 90s.

Ground Control

Protean pop star Róisín Murphy on stage at Paris' Ground Control.

Róisín Murphy

The eastern mediterranean island is a top tourist destination but also, due to its proximity to the Middle East, welcomes refugees from Israel and Palestine and acts as a base for humanitarian operations.

Cyprus welcomes refugees from the war in Gaza and acts as a base for humanitarian missions.

Re: Cyprus and the War in Gaza

In 2019, Quincy Jones came to Paris to celebrate his prolific career and his special place in pop music history. The man with 27 Grammy Awards arranged, composed, produced and orchestrated for some of America's most legendary artists such as Louis Armstrong, Barbara Streisand and Michael Jackson: Here his greatest hits are performed by a host of talented musicians including Ibrahim Maalouf, Shelea, Selah Sue and Véronique Sanson.

A Musical Celebration

In 2019, Quincy Jones came to Paris to celebrate his prolific career and his special place in pop music history.

Quincy Jones

All in their mid-twenties, models Vivian, Lisa, and Tanja chase personal fulfillment and career triumphs. As they grapple with societal pressures, their friendship turns into rivalry, their bodies becoming battlegrounds in a relentless pursuit of beauty, love, and success.

Three models juggle the pressures of love, career, and self-image in a seemingly glamorous world.

Models

It’s the sound from South Africa that went global during lockdown: Amapiano mixes deep house with traditional music to create a sound that is spiritual and celebratory, and for some its a way of life. Tracks went to find out more about it.

Amapiano: The Sound of South Africa

House music was born in Chicago but South Africa has given the genre its own spin: Amapiano.

In recent years, works by photographers who lived in the GDR before the fall of the Berlin Wall have been rediscovered and reappraised.  An exclusive look at a world that no longer exists.

Propaganda and Daily Life

An exclusive look at photography from the GDR, a world that no longer exists.

GDR Photo Shoot

During the Cold War, when Germany was split between West and East, people still fell in love across the physical and ideological border. Some risked everything to cross over to join their partners.

Despite the Berlin Wall, people from East and West fell in love and wanted to live together. But how?

Love in the Cold War

In the last 50 years, the proportion of asthma and allergy sufferers in industrialised countries has risen from five to 30 per cent. This is likely due to the lack of diversity of microbes in our increasingly germ-free environment. This documentary look at how microbes affect our health and how we can plan urban space to renew our contact with the natural world.

Could microbes hold the key to understanding the increase in a number of chronic conditions and allergies?

The Power of Microbes

Thousands of Spanish people have been protesting the lack of affordable housing in Spanish cities. Europe’s housing crisis is getting worse: Across the continent it is getting harder to find a place to live at a reasonable price, pushing many into poverty. What solutions are out there?

How can we solve Europe’s housing crisis?

Across the continent it is getting harder to find a place to live at a reasonable price. What solutions are out there?

ARTE Europe Weekly

In homage to the composer who died a hundred years ago, on 4 November 1924, Thomas Hengelbrock conducts his celestial Requiem under the dome of the Panthéon in Paris. A musical event introduced by an orchestral version of Beethoven's String Quartet No. 15.

Paris Pantheon

The Orchestre de Chambre de Paris under the baton of Thomas Hengelbrock.

Thomas Hengelbrock and Orchestre de chambre de Paris

Yekutiel Epstein is a 17-year-old Israeli. He identifies with the views of Rabbi Meir Kahana, a radical Israeli-American whose Kach party was banned in Israel in the 1990s for racism. His ideas were marginal for a long time, but are now making a comeback, more than 30 years after his death. On the ground, on social networks and even in the Israeli parliament, Yekutiel Epstein and his far-right allies are pushing to extend Israeli sovereignty over all the occupied territories and to expel the Palestinians entirely.

Israel's Ultra Nationalist Youth

Religious ultra-nationalist youth dream of a Greater Israel with no space for the Palestinians.