Political punk metal band, HAWXX, have shared a new video for their track, “Sacred Water,” from the album, The World Splits Open, released in June. It kickstarted the London based trio’s current headline stint across the UK. Catch the new video, live listing, and more below.
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On the inspiration for the track and video for “Sacred Water,” vocalist Annouli states:
“This song is about our corrupted relationship with water. I live on a boat on the river Lea so being aware of the river and its movements is a big part of day to day life. One day, Thames Water flushed raw sewage through our community. It was terrifying to see this normalised, the audacity of this corporation to so easily contaminate our waters, to kill wildlife in the process, to prioritise profit and greed.”
“This song grieves for a time where our relationship to water was everything,” continues Annouli. “It is also part of a thread that runs through a lot of songs on this album, the powerful state that exists on the other side of grief, that even though our natural world is collapsing, we can emerge from the doom and transform into what the earth has called us to be.”
The band follows on with:
“The song starts and ends with words from the traditional Greek island song ‘Thalassaki’, and was recorded in one take live at Middle Farm studios with Peter Miles. We were lucky enough to have the amazing Lucia Tong as a dancer on this music video, whose powerful performance embodies nature and the process of contamination.”
HAWXX just hit the road on their 13 date UK headline tour, continuing across the country throughout October. You’ll be able to experience the unity, acceptance, and catharsis of a HAWXX performance in all its chaotic glory on the following dates:
Thu 8th Oct – BIRMINGHAM The Flapper
Sat 10th Oct – CHELTENHAM The Frog And Fiddle
Sun 11th Oct – MANCHESTER Gullivers
Wed 14th Oct – BRIGHTON Daltons* (venue change)
Sat 17th Oct – LEICESTER Firebug
Sun 18th Oct – NEWCASTLE Anarchy Brew
Thu 22nd Oct – TUNBRIDGE WELLS Forum Basement
Fri 23rd Oct – BOURNEMOUTH The Anvil
Sat 24th Oct – NEWPORT Le Pub
Sun 25th Oct – GUILDFORD The Star Inn
Thu 29th Oct – LONDON Signature Brew Haggerston
Tickets are available now from: https://www.hawxx.co.uk/tour
The World Splits Open is HAWXX’s response to the world right now. Songs of resistance, grief, rage, hope, hopelessness, queer love and revolution. The 10 tracks were written as a way of keeping their souls alive in a dying world, as a way of building resilience in themselves, in our communities and on our streets. This record weaves alternative metal, punk, and traditional Greek music from Annouli’s heritage.
“This album is the rawest thing we’ve ever made,” confesses Annouli. “We spent three weeks living at Middlefarm Studios in Devon with our producer Pete Miles. Every song was recorded in a room all together, a process that brings out the fire of our stage performance, where we can absorb each other’s energy and capture real magic. You can pre-order the vinyl with a beautiful booklet with lyrics, the stories behind each song with photographs of our time in Devon all beautifully designed by Milk & Bone.”
In a world where musicians, artists, and creatives are increasingly finding their platforms and livelihoods at risk of being stripped away from them, HAWXX’s fearlessness only fuels their mission to give a voice to the voiceless in the face of adversity. “Arm The Animals” closely follows previous singles “Feral Mother,” “Macho Bullshit” and the politically-charged “Resistance Is Justified,” a track that documents the arrest and detainment of The Filton 24, including Annouli’s close friend Jordan. What sets HAWXX apart from their peers is that they’re proactive about their beliefs, which saw Annouli perform “Resistance Is Justified” outside the courthouse in amongst other protesters fighting, marching, and showing support for Palestine.
The World Splits Open tracklisting:
01 Resistance Is Justified
02 Macho Bullshit
03 Feral Mother
04 We Are Nature
05 Arm The Animals
06 Bind
07 Sacred Water
08 Shriek
09 Me Her And The Birds
10 Be That Whore
More from HAWXX:
HAWXX make songs of protest, feminist resistance, grief, ecological catastrophe and queer love, they write songs to keep the soul alive in a dying world, to carve a way through the terrifying times we are in. Due 26th June, their upcoming second full-length album weaves alternative metal, punk, and traditional Greek music from Annouli’s heritage.
The band’s debut full-length album, Earth, Spit, Blood And Bones, spawned the singles “Death Makes Sisters Of Us All” (a track tackling the heartbreakingly ever-relevant topic of global femicide), “Embrace The Ugly” (a call to arms in finding beauty in disobedience of everything that’s expected of you), “Soulbreaking Machines” (with lyrics forcing us to question the blind and mislead lives we lead at the direction of the powerful and greedy), and lead single “The Worst Thing.”
HAWXX have taken their rage to stages across the country, straddling the heavy community at festivals like Download and Bloodstock and opening for the mighty Tremonti and The Raven Age, but also staying true to the topics at the root of their music from Brighton Pride, Boomtown, and GrrrFest across the pond on the continent.
HAWXX’s line-up is:
Annouli Papadimitriou – Vocals, guitars
Hannah Staphnill – Guitars, backing vox
Jessica Dann – Drums, backing vox
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