{"id":335102,"date":"2025-12-07T13:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/335102\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T13:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T13:29:08","slug":"slipknot-endorsed-mapuche-metal-champions-mawiza-have-recorded-a-live-session-in-gojiras-studio-and-you-really-need-to-watch-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/335102\/","title":{"rendered":"Slipknot-endorsed Mapuche metal champions Mawiza have recorded a live session in Gojira\u2019s studio \u2013 and you really need to watch it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rising groove metal<\/a> four-piece Mawiza have recorded a new live session at Gojira<\/a>\u2019s recording studio, Silver Cord.<\/p>\n

On Friday (December 4), the Santiago, Chile-based band released footage of them tearing through six songs, including a cover of Gojira\u2019s Amazonia, in the Brooklyn space owned and operated by Gojira singer\/guitarist Joe Duplantier. Watch the footage below.<\/p>\n

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Mawiza formed out of the ashes of extreme metal band Nunca Seremos Dichosos (\u2018We Will Never Be Happy\u2019 in Spanish). After the release of Nunca Seremos Dichosos\u2019 single Mawiza \u00d1i Piwke in 2019, the band decided to restart. The song was sung in Mapudungun, the language of South America\u2019s Indigenous Mapuche people, leading the members to explore their Mapuche heritage and reject their Spanish-language name.<\/p>\n

Mawiza supported Slipknot<\/a> at Knotfest Santiago in 2023, and they supported Gojira in the same city that same year. They released their debut album, \u00dcl<\/a> (Mapudungun for \u2018chant\u2019), this July. The final song, Ti Inan Paw-Pawkan, features Joe Duplantier on guest vocals.<\/p>\n

Talking to Metal Hammer in the summer<\/a>, singer\/guitarist Awka Mondaka said that the collaboration with Duplantier came about through Mawiza\u2019s manager. \u201cHe has a relationship with Gojira, because they played a lot in Spain, in the Basque Country [not far from Gojira\u2019s hometown of Ondres in southwestern France], and our manager is Spanish,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

Awka also outlined Mawiza\u2019s mission to preserve the Mapuche culture and language, which is being threatened by the Chilean government. \u201cWe are searching for our own identity within our music,\u201d he said. \u201cHere in Chile, for the Mapuche Nation, it\u2019s difficult to find your identity, because in the Chilean state it\u2019s like, \u2018You are all Chilean. There is no Mapuche, there is no Indigenous, there is no identity \u2013 just Chile.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Maiiza will play at Pumapu Rock Fest in Chile on January 10, before jetting over to Europe to play at Midsgardsblot festival in Norway in August.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Gojira are currently touring their native France. Their recent shows have attracted attention by having elaborate, drone-powered, inflatable whales that fly above the crowd<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rising groove metal four-piece Mawiza have recorded a new live session at Gojira\u2019s recording studio, Silver Cord. On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":{"0":"post-335102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}