Ten years after the release of their debut The Deal (2015), and one year after their critically acclaimed album The Healer (2024), Sumac – a band who infect metal music with a free jazz player's unpredictability and a noise musician's penchant for chaos and texture – joined forces with a cultural icon: Moor Mother – poet and sound artist Camae Ayewa, who is coming off the back of the critically acclaimed album The Great Bailout (2024). The outcome of this special, once-in-a-blue-moon kind of collaboration was The Film (2025), an uncompromising work of sludgy metal, experimental guitar music, and cutting-edge spoken word. While amplifier hums, scattered frequencies, and barrages of power chords and drums form the spine of The Film, it's Moor Mother's verses that pump its heart: speaking her close-held truths, she shares them abundantly with a cutting clarity that strikes through the cacophonous sludge battery of Sumac . Swirling convection currents of snarling riffs flow in and around Moor Mother's poetic and punchy commentary which not just speaks but howls truth to power.