Messa – The Spin

 

 

Messa – The Spin
Metal Blade Records – 2025
Metal, Doom, Postpunk, Psych
Rated: *****

Italian fourpiece Messa has been making the yearly Stoner HiVe Top 20 Countdown with both their Feast For Water record from 2018 (Number 13) and their 2022 Close album (Number 5). And maybe Belfry from 2016 should have been on there as well. Well, I think we can safely say that their new record The Spin has a great chance of making it too. Imploring some more postpunk oriented movement and weaving their haunting atmospherics in almost drone like tapestries, the new seven track, 42 minute long album displays as much of the artistry of Messa as it does of their ability to cross genres. Spinning yarns of classic metal riffs through eighties touched songs like Fire On The Roof or letting vocalist Sara Bianchin haunt and chill during the At Races song, while always giving her the room to go into whatever territory she wants to go. Captivate, enchant or wrap you around her fingers with her almost jazzy stylistics whenever the music quiets down and waits for the overture to commence, as it does during that beautiful Immolation song. Or The Dress, which will quiet your soul as you listen enthralled with all that goes on. Grandiose in gestures and offering up an entire night sky filled with shooting stars, The Spin is the velvet blanket keeping you warm. Scarlet in color and doom to the touch…

(Written by JK)

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