Alien Weaponry release new music video for ‘Whispers’

ALIEN WEAPONRY have released a new music video!

The new music video, for the track Whispers, is taken from the New Zealand thrashers’ debut album Tū which was released back in June.

Whilst previously released singles Rū Ana Te Whenua and Kai Tangata have related to historic battles and injustices faced by their ancestors, Whispers raises much more recent instances of conflict; the Foreshore and Seabed Act passed in 2004 and the Trans Pacific Partnership, signed in 2016. Speaking about the themes behind the track, guitarist/vocalist Lewis de Jong says, “these are just a couple of examples of the government not respecting the voices of the people, especially Māori. Even though historic wrongs have supposedly been righted with compensation, when the same thing keeps happening it’s hard to believe there has really been a change.”

Watch the official music video for Whispers here:

The spoken excerpt at the beginning of the song is part of a radio interview by well-known Radio New Zealand journalist Kim Hill with Don Brash, a former leader of two right wing political parties, and current spokesperson for a lobby group set up to advocate removal of so-called special privileges for Māori. Speaking about this, drummer Henry de Jong says, “it’s kind of scary how many people share his views. They don’t seem to understand that the current policies are there to help redress the imbalance that was caused after over a hundred years of colonization. During that time, millions of acres of Māori land were stolen, they were excluded from voting and children were punished for speaking Māori in schools, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg. That sort of thing can’t be fixed with compensation alone – it takes time and goodwill from both sides.”

Tū is out now via Napalm Records.

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