After releasing their album ÜL last year, Mawiza are bringing us even more Indigenous Metal in 2026. The modern day Mapuche warriors paid a visit to Gojira frontman Joe Duplantier’s Silver Chord Studio and performed to in Santiago before taking the stage alongside Mr. Bungle and Avenged Sevenfold.

The new video for their song “Ngulutu” is out now, taken from their album ÜL. It’s a track whose title translates as “The Western Storm” and which “declares war on encroaching urban decay.”

Mawiza’s vocalist and guitarist Awka says:

In Mapuzugun, ‘Ngulutu’ comes from Ngulu, which means West. The song refers to an abysmal storm born in the turbulent Pacific Ocean that reaches the land in the form of bursting, shattered clouds. It’s a declaration of war on the so-called progress of large cities, merging ourselves as a single entity with nature.

Mawiza wrote “Ngulutu” six years ago in response to a social uprising in Chile, but the source material that inspired the latest single from ÜL dates as far back as the 16th century.

Akwa explains:

Both historical records and our oral tradition remember the ancient Mapuche war toki Michimolongko, who, together with his kona and weychafe, managed to destroy Santiago in 1541. This song is a tribute to those ancient warriors and to the power of the natural territory that lies beneath the city.

The song is closely tied to ancestral land, as Akwa comments:

The two rivers named in the chorus of ‘Ngulutu’ are both vital for life in the territory and even for the lives of city dwellers. Yet when it rains enough, the rivers overflow, causing the collapse of the urban order. It reminds us that nature is an active entity that cannot be tamed, one that sets the path we must follow as Mapuche people.