Artist: Alien Weaponry
Title: Te Ra
Label: Napalm Records
Cat #: NPR88525DP
Release Year: 2025
Duration: Album
Format: CD
Packaging Type: Digipak

Te Ra is the third full-length studio album from the New Zealand modern groove metal trio Alien Weaponry.

Since releasing their acclaimed debut Tū (2018), New Zealand-based two-time Aotearoa Music Award winners Alien Weaponry have been lauded for their kinetic presence and sound, as well as their vital blend of culturally profound lyricism in both English and te reo Māori, the indigenous language of New Zealand. Rising even higher with the release of their second acclaimed album, Tangaroa (2021), the band has amassed millions of streams, video views and success at SiriusXM Liquid Metal, was hailed the “future of metal” by Metal Hammer, and has performed with the likes of Guns N' Roses, Gojira, Slayer and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Most recently, the band capped off 2024 with the release of a documentary film, Kua Tupu Te Ara, which premiered at the renowned Tribeca Film Festival.

Recommended if you like: Machine Head, Soulfly, Lamb Of God, Trivium, Jinjer, DevilDriver, Hatebreed, Orbit Culture

Track Listing:

01. Crown
02. Mau Moko
03. 1000 Friends
04. Hanging by a Thread
05. Tama-nui-te-ra
06. Myself to Blame
07. Taniwha
08. Blackened Sky
09. Te Riri o Tawhirimatea
10. Ponaturi
11. Te Kore