It has not been that long since Italian genrespanners Messa, whose 2022 album, Close (review here), has been another enthusiastically-received notch in their collective belt, were in a van wreck on tour in Europe. That was early October and in addition to needing a new conveyance to get from one show to the next, members of the band required surgery to recover. A not-insignificant event in the life of a band, and something that obviously one hopes any band never has to deal with.

Toward the end of last week, they announced their first time getting back out on the road to continue to support Close in a stream of live dates happening across Jan., Feb. and March. The earliest shows will be in Greece, followed by a run through Germany, France, the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands and (more) Germany. Goes without saying but I’ll say it anyway, best wishes to Messa as they head out again after suffering a genuine trauma. I hope that the crash becomes subsumed by killer memories of the tour to come, and that sooner or later they make their way to American shores. Hard to imagine they haven’t come to the attention of Psycho Las Vegas, if not others besides. We’ll see.

Dates and links and audio follow, as seen on socials:

We’re very happy to announce we’ll be touring Europe again in almost three months!

We will be sharing the stage with opening act @julinko.imago

Below the tour dates. We can’t wait to see you again!

Presales at this link:

https://linktr.ee/MESSAgigs

Thu 26.01 GR Athens, Kyttaro Live *
Fri 27.01 GR Thessaloniki, Eightball Club *
Thu 16.02 DE Karlsruhe, P8
Fri 17.02 DE Berlin, Urban Spree
Sat 18.02 DE Bochum, Die Trompete
Sun 19.02 FR Paris, Le Petit Bain
Tue 21.02 UK London, The Black Heart
Wed 22.02 UK Manchester, White Hotel
Thu 23.02 UK Preston, The Continental
Fri 24.02 UK Liverpool, Quarry
Sat 25.02 UK Sheffield, Record Junkee
Tue 27.02 BE Antwerp, Kavka
Wed 28.02 NL Nijmegen, Merleyn
Thu 01.03 NL Utrecht, DB’s
Fri 02.03 DE Hannover, Cafè Glocksee
Sat 03.03 DE Dresden, Chemiefabrik
Sun 04.03 DE Regensburg, Alte Mälzerei

* Messa only

Info e Booking : @swampbooking

https://www.instagram.com/messa_band/
https://www.facebook.com/MESSAproject
https://messaproject.bandcamp.com/

http://www.auralwebstore.com/shop/index.php

www.svartrecords.com
www.facebook.com/svartrecords
www.youtube.com/svartrecords

Messa, Close (2022)

Tags: Close, Italy, Messa, Messa Close, Svart Records

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