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TU INFINITY AND BEYOND

Aside from being the youngest people there (it’s an 18+ festival, and their oldest member just makes the cutoff), Alien Weaponry will turn heads at the 2019 Download Festival for their one-of-a-kind fusion of churlish, hair-whipping thrash metal and traditional Ma - ori culture. Hailing from the Ngati Pikia - o and Ngati Raukawa tribes, the Kiwi trio deliver their unique brand of scream ‘n’ shred in a mix of both English and Ma - ori languages, with cultural politics and real life violence at the forefront of their ire.

Between their striking landed at #5 on the New Zealand album charts, and Down Under, they’ve been revered as a persistently powerful and destructively dynamic live act.

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