Saturation, distortion, voices from beyond the grave, shocking iconography: metal is subversive in both form and content. Since its genesis nearly fifty years ago, the genre has resisted any form of institutionalisation, but its following continues to grow. After electro and hip-hop, the Philharmonie explores this new territory, its codes and the wealth of its myths. Contrary to the caricatures to which metal is often reduced, the exhibition presents, for the first time in France, a documented picture of this movement, where music, popular culture, anthropological vision and contemporary art are in dialogue.