Alien Weaponry

Taking their name from director Neil Blomkamp's 2009 sci-fi horror film District 9, award-winning New Zealand power trio Alien Weaponry deliver a whiplash-inducing amalgam of kinetic thrash and tribal, hook-driven groove metal that leans hard on the members' Māori heritage. The band issued their first full-length effort, Tū, in 2018, followed by Tangaroa in 2021. Founded in 2010 by teenage brothers Lewis (guitar, vocals) and Henry de Jong (drums), Alien Weaponry sport a similar trajectory to Brazilian thrash/groove legends Sepultura, another siblings-headed unit that blurred ...