– January thirtieth, 2025 –
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Watch / Stream MESSA’s “At Races” HERE
Italian doom steel alchemists MESSA will launch their new full-length, The Spin, on April eleventh via their new label house of Metallic Blade Data.
Crusing previous their tenth anniversary in 2024, MESSA takes one other step in the 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 inventive creativeness and over a compelling panorama of moods, twists, and types. 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 arduous 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 geared up for the proverbial large 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 lovely hometown of Bassano Del Grappa (VI) in Northern Italy, MESSA utilized scrupulously excessive requirements to the method, even whereas difficult themselves to alter the best way 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 numerous rearrangement of the identical musical materials as a way to make a coherent work from begin to end. We additionally aimed toward making the songs work with probably the most minimal construction whereas attempting to not repeat ourselves an excessive amount of. We utilized a easy rule: for those who 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 steel and darkish ambient, however their stressed experimentalism has terribly easy and guaranteed outcomes. The Spin incorporates one other new aspect, interpolating an ’80s goth rock vibe in sometimes full-blooded vogue. “We don’t prefer to repeat ourselves and we consistently attempt to discover a new language to specific whereas conserving our identification,” 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 get entangled and query what we do. We’re not a part of the ‘darkish scene’ in any means. The affect for this document appears again to the early goth rock/darkish wave slightly 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.
Upfront of the discharge of The Spin, MESSA in the present day unveils a video for the document’s first single, “At Races.” The band elaborates, “This tune is concerning the stress we really feel coming from the surface world. Expectation typically is the foundation of ache and we sense the pressure of the load different individuals lay upon our shoulders. This tune 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 “Hearth On The Roof,” and canopy artwork by Nico Vascellari.
The document can be launched on CD (jewel case within the US and digipak in EU) and digital codecs in addition to vinyl within the following colour variants:
White (US)
180g Black (EU)
Evening 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. Hearth on the Roof
04. Immolation
05. The Costume
06. Reveal
07. Thicker Blood
MESSA has confirmed reveals throughout Europe this Spring together with a particular efficiency at this 12 months’s version of Roadburn the place the band will play The Spin stay in its gorgeous entirety.
MESSA Stay:
4/15/2025 Feierwerk – Munich, DE
4/16/2025 Gebäude 9 – Cologne, DE
4/18/2025 Roadburn Pageant – Tilburg, NL * Performing The Spin stay
5/09/2025 DesertFest Oslo – Oslo, NO
6/26/2025 Resurrection Pageant – Vigo, ES
6/27/2025 Nazca Stay – 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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