ALIEN WEAPONRY - Rū Ana Te Whenua (Official Music Video)

***Click the CC button on the right to turn on English subtitles for the Maori lyrics***
Produced By Tom Larkin
Mixed by Samuel K Sproull at Studios in The city Melbourne.
Recorded at Roundhead Studios New Zealand.
Videography by Greg Page & Simon Raby for Fish&Clips.
Art Direction by Hammerhead.

[SidFerguson]

Today I was inspired by three kids, who sang in a language I do not understand, to translate and research a history I never heard of, because their music is powerful!

[thereisnofood]

I fucking adore how theyre keeping their language and culture alive with a genre that was also thought to be dying...THAT is metal as fuck and I support it hard

[anothersettlementneedsyour]

Whether it’s American, New Zealandian, Mongolian, British, Indian, German or Scandinavian... metal, metal never changes.

[dabhaskie]

My dad is over 80 years old, but when he was a younger man, he lived in New Zealand in the mid 1950's and late 1960's teaching high school. He learned some Te Reo Maori, and later on, as a math teacher in the US, he would start out each school year with a ground-shaking haka for his students.

One of the first things I did when I heard this song was show it to him and my mom. It brought tears to his eyes! He loved that it sounded to him like a traditional Maori haka. Well done @Alien Weaponry!

[saurabhcent]

Bands singing in their native tongues is the purest form of metal

[stolman]

Three small town kids from rural NZ rocking it.

[EndTimeDreams]

This song is about the Maori defeating the British at the Battle of Gate Pa in 1864 but How? The Maori learnt early on that guns were effective so bought them from traders, they used double barrelled shot guns at close range from trenches when the British stormed their Pa (fortress) the Maori traditional weapons were also lethal at this range as muskets took too long to reload. The British and Maori had a mutual respect for each other after that battle.

[jimsinister]

3 kids makin all that noise ? yup, the future of metal is gonna be just fine !

[WormA]

These boys brought a tear to this old metalheads eye knowing that heavy music will live on. Well done boys, well done.

[ZiettoTV]

Maori heavy metal is the best combination I've ever heard in my life

[viennperidot]

Moved to the other side of the planet, to a small town in rural America and one of the cops knew where I was from because he's an Alien Weaprony fan. Tu meke!!

[KittyO_Oq]

Bro whole germany just had you guys as our final exam topic you know how crazy that is?

[ghostexorcist]

As a metalhead and anthropologist, I can't love this song enough.

[dustindiaz]

This is the kind of music we need in this era... There is still a future

[dwainfarmery]

This wave of native tongue metal reminds me of the hardcore punk scene of the 80's, bands from all over the world together doing the same stuff. That's unity kids, keep rocking xx

[jimsinister]

gene simmons: rock music is dead, the internet killed it. there are no new bands people will remember in 20 years, and my back hurts.
Alien Weaponry: hey old man, hold our diet cokes.

[melissaf.]

40 year old metal head grandma here and I couldn’t agree more with all the comments that I can now be at peace that metal is and and will not die. Now it’s my job to teach and educate my granddaughter what real music sounds like. The talent and passion. 🤘🏼

[spoopypleb]

How badass as a culture do you have to be for someone to say “death is coming” and your response is “Lol your mistake bro”

[Widolo]

Holy shit, the young people are not completely lost.

[crazyharkonnen]

What Sepultura is to Brazil, you are to New Zealand. Fantastic!
Cheers from Polish fan!