Alien Weaponry announce new album, unveil single “Mau Moko”

Alien Weaponry have introduced a brand new album, Te Rā, arriving March twenty eighth by way of Napalm Data. The video for the one “Mao Molo” may be streamed now.

The album announcement comes on the identical day Alien Weaponry kick off their tour supporting Slayer guitarist Kerry King and his solo band. The outing, which additionally options Municipal Waste, runs by means of February 14th in Austin, Texas, and you may get tickets right here.

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The only sees the New Zealand band one once more melding technical thrash steel with lyrical content material that’s pertinent to its native tradition. On this case, the lyrics are within the te reo Māori language and honor conventional Māori face tattooing whereas “delving into the prices of sustaining customs which might be at-odds with dominant cultural norms,” in line with the band’s press launch.

“Māori have a wealthy historical past of marking traditions that had been practically misplaced throughout colonization,” added lyricist/bassist Tūranga Porowini Morgan-Edmonds. “These traditions are presently within the strategy of a a lot wanted cultural revival, and I used to be impressed by that. I needed the lyrics to remind those who moko is, and all the time can be, part of who we’re. With the music’s video, we needed to indicate the darker aspect of the historical past of moko and the way the pinnacle commerce performed a component within the close to extinction of the custom. We fought by means of it and proceed to combat for its revival nonetheless right now!”

As for the brand new album, Alien Weaponry’s third full-length, Te Rā was recorded by producer/mixer Josh Wilbur (Lamb of God, Gojira, Megadeth) and encompasses a visitor vocal from one of many band’s longtime champions, Lamb of God’s Randy Blythe, on the monitor “Taniwha.”

“We actually stepped it up this time, as we understood that this album needed to go additional,” mentioned frontman Lewis Raharuhi de Jong within the press launch. “We went by means of a whole lot of songs and scrapped whole sections of songs. We saved working them and dealing them till we received them proper. Then, with the best way we had been pushing ourselves musically, I knew it was essential to problem myself lyrically as nicely. This time I delved into troublesome emotional locations and psychological states. There’s a whole lot of existential dread operating by means of the album, and I attempted to seek out the suitable phrases to explain the indescribable.”

Pre-order Te Rā by way of Napalm Data. Under you’ll be able to stream the video for “Mau Moko” and see the album artwork and tracklist.

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