Formed just this past January, Brazilian four-piece Melissa will present their debut album, Devil’s Mask, next week. I’ll be streaming it — I think? — so this post is really just something of a heads up for that, but the first single from the thing is out today, and whether or not the subsequent stream is happening, “Swallowed by Blame” is a fascinating blend of goth atmosphere, raw doom and other cult-derived heavy. The band is fronted by Melissa Rainbow of Dirty Grave and finds her joined by that band’s drummer Henrique Lima and guitarist Pedro Barros, as well as newcomer bassist Anderson Vaca, also of Pesta. The record is formative but aware of where it wants to go, and loaded with potential in its level of craft. It’s not an entirely unfamiliar sound, but a fascinating one just the same. You might dig it.

So stay tuned for more on that, and in the meantime, here’s release info and whatnot below, courtesy of the PR wire:

Slow heavy music project MELISSA release debut single and announce album “Devil’s Mask”

Brazilian “slow heavy music” project MELISSA release first single “Swallowed by Blame” and announce debut album “Devil’s Mask”

In this May 13 the Doom-guided project MELISSA release their debut single “Swallowed By Blame”, part from their first studio álbum “Devil´s Mask”. Born in January and described simply as “Slow Heavy Music”, the project Melissa is a new work of Melissa Rainbow, the mind and heart behind bands like Dirty Grave, Enxofre and Mães Morrendo, all of them travelling through the paths of heavy music and touchin genres like Doom, Death Metal and Grunge.

Completed by their DIRTY GRAVE’S bandmates Henrique Lima (drums) and Pedro Barros (guitar) and the bass player Anderson Vaca (PESTA), the new project walk through the Doom Metal, Postpunk, Gothic and other sonorities, with the debut álbum “Devil’s Mask” due to May, 19 release in Bandcamp featuring seven dense and blazing tracks.

DEVIL’S MASK tracklisting:
1. Perfect Soulmate
2. Buried in a Body
3. Swallowed by Blame
4. The Fire Eats
5. I, The Witch
6. Pulse
7. Devil’s Mask

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Melissa, “Swallowed by Blame”

Tags: Brazil, Devil's Mask, Melissa, Melissa Devil's Mask, São Paulo

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