Red Mess Premiere “Intravenous” Video; Hi Tech Starvation Out Friday
Posted in Bootleg Theater on July 30th, 2025 by JJ Koczan
Berlin-by-way-of-Brazilian heavy rock trio Red Mess will release their third long-player, Hi Tech Starvation, on Aug. 1 through Noisolution. From its early-Mastodonic call to arms at the start of “Huntress” to the elephantine tonality that ensues from there, turns grunge on “Inexistent Color,” and finds an expression that’s born of desert rock at its heart and has — like the genre itself — grown outward from there.
The band’s last album was 2022’s Breathtaker, which was similarly brash if perhaps not as efficient about it as on this seven-song/31-minute collection, wherein the three-piece of bassist/vocalist Lucas Klepa, guitarist Thiago Franzim and drummer Douglas Labigalini embrace proggier grooveriding on “Intravenous” (premiering below) and with the two-minute “Xenon,” they remember the oft-forgotten punk rock underlying the desert crunch of Kyuss-influenced anything. The swagger there is a recurring theme, not only that carries into the penultimate “Kind Villain” and the start-stops of the closer “Uncanny Valley” with its due push to the finish, but that underscores the growth of craft in the first place, as well as the band’s confidence, chemistry and individuality.
The centerpiece and longest track, “Intravenous” — did I mention that it’s premiering below? oh good — runs 5:28, but apart from the aforementioned “Xenon,” everything else is in the four-to-five-minute span. But where sometimes that can signal a kind of structural uniformity, Red Mess avoid sounding staid with a vital execution as well as in-genre creative range. The reach of “Ransomware,” for example, feels like a patient, atmospheric precursor to “Uncanny Valley” especially in its more lumbering second half, where “Inexistent Color” takes a riff that could’ve been 
on Spirit Caravan‘s Jug Fulla Sun and rolls it out with all due warmth of tone.
There are hints of drift and of scorch — a relative spaceout in the back end of “Ransomware” and a bit of I’m-burning-this-bridge-and-I-don’t-care arrogance in “Kind Villain,” and so on — but Red Mess are more refined as songwriters, and so able to evoke these ideas without letting their purposes get lost in them. Maybe that’s not shocking for a band who’ve been around more than a decade and relocated across an ocean to full-commit to what they do, but if it wasn’t in the character of the material, it would be missing, and it’s not missing. That is to say, Red Mess‘ songs aren’t lacking scope in balance with the rampant cohesion in their work.
At the same time, they don’t come across as trying to be all things to all people, just perhaps continuing to see the places they can make their sound go. Hi Tech Starvation is nothing if not topical as humans watch other humans get murdered on food lines and do nothing about it, but if it’s heavy sounds for heavy times, they are multifaceted enough in their take to bring their listener through without being bogged down. Momentum is a factor very much on their side.
“Intravenous” is a little rougher-edged in the vocals than some of the fare Red Mess have on offer, and that gives a turn-of-the-century-style sludge rock impression to the nod as it unfurls that’s a standout from a lot of what surrounds, but the truth of the record is there isn’t one track that really encapsulates it all, so if you’re picking singles you might as well just go with a banger, as they did.
Preorder links and PR wire info follows the video on the player below.
Please enjoy:
Red Mess, “Intravenous” video premiere
“Intravenous” is one of the two singles released for the album “Hi-Tech Starvation” out on August 1st by Noisolution Records.
Directed and produced by Lucas Klepa; Song composed and performed by Red Mess.
Buy “Hi-Tech Starvation” LP/CD on Noisolution’s website: noisolution.de/shop
Listen to “Hi-Tech Starvation” on all streaming platforms or support us on Bandcamp: https://redmess.bandcamp.com
Website: https://www.redmess.com.br
The extremely likeable band combines the raw sounds of 90s grunge with the heaviness of stoner rock and the experimental spirit of progressive rock. Their distinctive, distinctive voice remains recognizable, conveying a haunting and emotional account of their inner selves. The band’s musical finesse, skill, and energy are equally impressive.
Seattle meets Palm Springs and Brazil’s third-largest city, Londrina, where singer and bassist Lucas Klepa, guitarist Thiago Franzim, and drummer Douglas Labigalini hail from and, ten years after the band’s founding, ventured to Berlin together.
Their sound palette has gradually expanded; heavy guitar walls, flowing psychedelic passages, and doom overtones blend with the wild emotionality and soundscape of the early Sub Pop era. RED MESS occupy a niche and can bring a pleasant breath of fresh air to the dusty desert rock scene.
Tracklist:
1. Huntress
2. Inexistent Color
3. Ransomware
4. Intravenous
5. Xenon
6. Kind Villain
7. Uncanny Valley
