– January thirtieth, 2025 –
New Video / Single Now Enjoying + Pre-Orders Out there
Photograph by MESSA
Watch / Stream MESSA’s “At Races” HERE
Italian doom metallic alchemists MESSA will launch their new full-length, The Spin, on April eleventh by means of their new label house of Metallic Blade Data.
Crusing previous their tenth anniversary in 2024, MESSA takes one other step in direction of legendary standing with their majestic fourth album The Spin, which takes its listeners on a panoramic journey throughout the wide-open skies of their artistic creativeness and over a compelling panorama of moods, twists, and kinds. Based mostly within the band’s eclectic, self-defined “scarlet doom” sound, The Spin rises, falls, broods, bites, comforts, and destroys, all of the whereas resounding with each instinctive magic and obsessive, concerted onerous work. After lighting up the underground with a triptych of more and more distinctive and wondrous information – 2016′s Belfry, 2018′s Feast For Water, and 2022′s Shut – MESSA is audibly outfitted for the proverbial huge leagues.
Palpably assembled with love and care, MESSA‘s heightened craftsmanship rings loud from the album’s elegant structure. Written over six weeks of intensive every day classes, in a 500-year-old villa near the quartet’s stunning hometown of Bassano Del Grappa (VI) in Northern Italy, MESSA utilized scrupulously excessive requirements to the method, even whereas difficult themselves to alter the way in which they work. “After we recorded Shut again in 2021, we wished to be all in the identical room collectively,” explains the band. “This time we determined to do the precise reverse. We recorded the album in three completely different places and timings. This document has seen a number of rearrangement of the identical musical materials with a purpose to make a coherent work from begin to end. We additionally geared toward making the songs work with essentially the most minimal construction whereas attempting to not repeat ourselves an excessive amount of. We utilized a easy rule: in the event you hear the identical factor twice it’s sufficient. Thrice? It will get boring.”
MESSA‘s signature sound absorbs influences from jazz and blues, punk and prog, and black metallic and darkish ambient, however their stressed experimentalism has terribly clean and guaranteed outcomes. The Spin incorporates one other new component, interpolating an ’80s goth rock vibe in sometimes full-blooded vogue. “We don’t prefer to repeat ourselves and we continually attempt to discover a new language to specific whereas maintaining our id,” stresses the band. “This time we delved right into a territory we had by no means explored earlier than, which is the last decade of the Eighties. We’re conscious that many bands earlier than us took inspiration from that period, however we determined to be careless and run away with it primarily as a result of we become involved and query what we do. We aren’t a part of the ‘darkish scene’ in any method. The affect for this document seems to be again to the early goth rock/darkish wave somewhat than the later emanations of the style.” Along with Sisters Of Mercy and Virgin Prunes, the band cites information by Killing Joke, Mercyful Destiny, Jimmy Web page, Journey, The Sound, Boy Harsher, and Vangelis as impacting considerably upon the creation of The Spin.
Prematurely of the discharge of The Spin, MESSA at this time unveils a video for the document’s first single, “At Races.” The band elaborates, “This track is in regards to the stress we really feel coming from the skin world. Expectation usually is the foundation of ache and we sense the pressure of the burden different individuals lay upon our shoulders. This track is born from our devotion to Killing Joke’s sonic language: our use of chorus-laden guitar tapestries and synthesizers is a nod to their work through the ’80s.”
Watch MESSA‘s video for “At Races” HERE.
The Spin was partly recorded, produced, blended, and mastered by Maurizio “Icio” Baggio and features a trumpet solo by Michele Tedesco on “The Costume,” synth work by Andrea Mantione (Nuovo Testamento) on “Fireplace On The Roof,” and canopy artwork by Nico Vascellari.
The document might be launched on CD (jewel case within the US and digipak in EU) and digital codecs in addition to vinyl within the following coloration variants:
White (US)
180g Black (EU)
Night time Blue Marbled (EU – Ltd. 1000)
Clear/Black Splatter (EU – Ltd. 500)
Pic-LP (EU Roadburn Unique – Ltd. 300)
Alternate Cowl – Crystal Clear (EU Band Unique – Ltd. 500)
Alternate Cowl – Silver/Black Splatter (EU – Ltd. 500)
Discover all pre-orders at: metalblade.com/messa. Discover band unique vinyl at: messa.bandcamp.com/album/the-spin
The Spin Monitor Itemizing:
01. Void Meridian
02. At Races
03. Fireplace on the Roof
04. Immolation
05. The Costume
06. Reveal
07. Thicker Blood
MESSA has confirmed exhibits throughout Europe this Spring together with a particular efficiency at this yr’s version of Roadburn the place the band will play The Spin stay in its beautiful entirety.
MESSA Dwell:
4/15/2025 Feierwerk – Munich, DE
4/16/2025 Gebäude 9 – Cologne, DE
4/18/2025 Roadburn Competition – Tilburg, NL * Performing The Spin stay
5/09/2025 DesertFest Oslo – Oslo, NO
6/26/2025 Resurrection Competition – Vigo, ES
6/27/2025 Nazca Dwell – Madrid, ES
6/28/2025 Sala Add – Barcelona, ES
6/29/2025 Molotov, Marseille FR
8/08/2025 Alcatraz – Kortrijk, BE
MESSA:
Sara – vocals
Marco – guitars/bass
Alberto – guitars
Rocco – drums
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