‘A community effort’: Alien Weaponry on their most complex Māori metal album yet

‘A community effort’: Alien Weaponry on their most complex Māori metal album yet

Troy Rawhiti-Connell talks to Alien Weaponry about living and creating as Māori, and the toxicity of social media. It’s a Friday morning in Tāmaki Makaurau when Lewis de Jong and Tūranga Morgan-Edmonds of Northland metal band Alien Weaponry join our Zoom call. They’re inside their tour bus, somewhere else on Earth, at some other time. “We’re in Houston, Texas,” they announce as if they’re on the tourism board. Bassist Tūranga’s voice booms overh…

The New Zealand alien Weaponry have already made a name for themselves thanks to their first two records: with a strange mixture of modern metal, raging thrash guitar riffs and the super interesting influence of the indigenous people of New Zealand. Because the trio comes from the Maori and leaves its little-used language in [...] So if that's not a clear increase! The New Zealand alien Weaponry have already made a name for themselves thanks to …

By Javier B. The New Zealand trio of groove metal ALIEN WEAPONRY will launch its heaviest and most powerful work so far, Te Rā, this Friday, March 28, 2025, through NAPALM RECORDS. In this album ALIEN WEAPONRY expands its distinctive messages of cultural, social and environmental resilience while offering its most powerful and focused musical production to date. You can hear the band redouble the bet on aggressiveness in the verses before applyi…