From Sabbath to Gojira
SUN, 17 MAY, 19:00
Essay Series: From Sabbath to Gojira
The archaeology of heavy - five decades of accumulated weight
Playlist
Black Sabbath – Iron Man
Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath
Deep Purple – Highway Star
Metallica – Enter Sandman
Dream Theater – Pull Me Under
Tool – Lateralus
Gojira – Stranded
The Polygon Portal Essay Series is a programme of curated immersive listening sessions, pairing themed playlists with companion essays that set the music in its cultural, technological, political and historical context.
The sessions are built on the notion that knowing the world behind a record changes what you feel when you hear it.
Each essay is presented in 360° spatial audio designed to put audiences inside the music, and experience art in new ways.
Fifty years of heavy music, from the riff that started it all to the bands carrying it now.
Sabbath.
Deep Purple.
Metallica.
Tool.
Dream Theater.
Gojira.
Not a story of louder and faster, but of what the form can hold – and what each generation chose to add.
At Polygon Portal, a curated programme from across this lineage is reimagined on one of the world’s best spatial audio systems.
Five decades of accumulated weight, played the way it was meant to be felt.
