The amalgamation of indigenous culture and metal

I have always been interested in the tribal and indigenous cultures and how they've forever been changed at the hands of the white man. I remember blowing my brains into smithereens back in the day, when it dawned on me that not all countries have been white since time immemorial. Countries like Australia, New Zealand were never white to begin with. They're made into what it looks like now, being fed to your world view by this white, global north based hypocrisy. And this is despite, the presence of minority (read: indigenous) however, low in quantitative terms but large enough to hear their histories, cultures through bloodshed at the hands of colonialism.

And this is the same reason why I completely agree to Shashi Tharoor's marvellous speech at the Oxford Union Debate regarding Britain owning reparations to India, or its former colonies so to speak. The western white world needs to understand that there's a huge moral debt here in this debate intertwined in what one would refute as the improbable. After all it's been so long and its history. Well, it's easy to opine so sitting on top of that hegemonic throne. Therefore, native cultures should at all costs be protected from further dilution, or at worst it's extinction. Native and indigenous cultures need to be thrown some limelight upon because only then one can know how was history shaped and told. Preservation of native cultures help in protection of their rights, geographies, dialects, food habits and it should be done at all costs. The horrors of colonialism has shown enough as to why it should be protected.

And this is why I love this band so much. These are white boys with Maori ancestry born in New Zealand from a band called Alien Weaponry. They're not full blood indigenous. But they know how history was shaped, they know beneath their land, the blood of the forefathers of the land flow. Alien Weaponry is the "sorry" that Shashi Tharoor was asking from Britain as a tool of moral obligation for the horrors of colonisation. This band has gone a long way in showcasing the Maori culture to the world. And what a great medium to do so by choosing music, an universal dialect that one can certainly connect to. These guys apparently do the haka on stage as well as far as I've heard and read. What a band and most importantly, massive respect on projecting such untold excerpts of human history that often goes under the rug. They're like Maori Sepultura, that's what the media houses like to tag them along. I want to see this band live so bad!Alien Weaponry