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Our experienced team has worked for some of the biggest brands in music. From testing headphones to reviewing albums, our experts aim to create reviews you can trust. Find out more about how we review.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n From Blackbraid<\/a> to Alien Weaponry<\/a>, metal is increasingly becoming a space for disaffected Indigenous peoples to rage against colonialism while championing their cultures\u2019 music and values. Mawiza \u2013 based in Santiago, Chile \u2013 join the scene from the Mapuche Nation: a South American group who spent centuries fighting off oppression from European settlers.<\/p>\n The groove metal band \u2018formed\u2019 in 2021, after vocalist Awka Mondaka got more in touch with his heritage and decided their previous, Spanish-language name was no longer appropriate. Since then, they\u2019ve re-recorded their old material in Mapudungun, the Mapuche tongue. Plus, in the last two years alone, they\u2019ve signed to Season Of Mist and supported Slipknot<\/a>, King Diamond<\/a> and Gojira<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u00dcl (\u2018Chant\u2019) marks the four-piece\u2019s first original music under the \u2018Mawiza\u2019 moniker, and it suggests more staggering milestones will come. Sung entirely in Mapudungun, it\u2019s as thematically enlightening as it is musically distinct. Opener and lead single Wingkawnoam, for example, pairs its barrelling guitar chords with the kultrung, a traditional drum, while Awka shouts about the sanctity of Indigenous territory.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n The rest of the album is full of lessons on culture and myth, from Ngulutu\u2019s narration of Spanish\/Mapuche conflicts to Pinhza \u00d1i Pewma relaying a dream about the natural world. All the while, the melodies of Mapuche rituals are embedded amid the scraping, stomping metal. Mam\u00fcll Reke pairs its discordant opening notes with folkish whistling in seamless fashion.<\/p>\n The most affecting track, though, is finale Ti Inan Paw-Pawkan. With a climax that layers hulking riffs and the screams of Gojira\u2019s Joe Duplantier atop native chanting, it\u2019s brutal, poignant and the strongest statement of Mawiza\u2019s potential to date. Even at this early stage, these up-and-comers feel fully formed and vital to listen to.<\/p>\n \u00dcl is out now via Season Of Mist. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You can trust Louder Our experienced team has worked for some of the biggest brands in music. From…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[49,48,75,341],"class_list":["post-11112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}