[Cover photo credit to MESSA]

Italian Doom Metal band MESSA will release their new full-length album, The Spin, on April 11th, 2025 through their new label home of Metal Blade Records. Celebrating their tenth anniversary in 2024, the band move forward with their self-defined “scarlet doom” sound on The Spin. The single and video “At Races” is out now.

The album was written over six weeks of intensive daily sessions, in a 500-year-old villa close to the quartet’s hometown of Bassano Del Grappa (VI) in Northern Italy.

The band explains:

When we recorded Close back in 2021, we wanted to be all in the same room together. This time we decided to do the exact opposite. We recorded the album in three different locations and timings. This record has seen a lot of rearrangement of the same musical material in order to make a coherent work from start to finish. We also aimed at making the songs work with the most minimal structure while trying not to repeat ourselves too much. We applied a simple rule: if you hear the same thing twice it‘s enough. Three times? It gets boring.

Regarding their first single “At Races”, the band elaborates:

This song is about the pressure we feel coming from the outside world. Expectation often is the root of pain and we sense the strain of the weight other people lay upon our shoulders. This song 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 during the ’80s.

MESSA Live:
4/15/2025 Feierwerk – Munich, DE
4/16/2025 Gebäude 9 – Cologne, DE
4/18/2025 Roadburn Festival – Tilburg, NL * Performing The Spin live
5/09/2025 DesertFest Oslo – Oslo, NO
6/26/2025 Resurrection Festival – Vigo, ES
6/27/2025 Nazca Live – Madrid, ES
6/28/2025 Sala Upload – Barcelona, ES
6/29/2025 Molotov, Marseille FR
8/08/2025 Alcatraz – Kortrijk, BE