Messa, who will celebrate their tenth anniversary in 2024, take another step towards legendary status with their majestic fourth album »The Spin«. The album takes listeners on a breathtaking journey across the vast skies of their creative imagination and across a captivating landscape of moods, twists and styles. Based on the eclectic, self-defined »Scarlet Doom« sound, The Spin rises, falls, ponders, bites, comforts and destroys while resounding with both instinctive magic and obsessive, concerted hard work. After making the underground glow with a triptych of increasingly distinctive and wondrous albums - »Belfry« (2016), »Feast For Water« (2018) and »Close« (2022) - MESSA are audibly ready for the proverbial big league. Messa's versatility has always been a factor in its success; their signature »Scarlet Doom« sound absorbs influences from jazz and blues, punk and prog, black metal and dark ambient, but their restless experimentation has extraordinarily smooth and confident results. «The Spin« contains another new element, which in typical fashion incorporates an 80s gothic rock vibe. » We don't like to repeat ourselves and are constantly trying to find a new language to express ourselves - without losing our identity," the band emphasizes. This time, we've ventured into an area we've never explored before, namely the decade of the 1980s. We are aware that many bands before us were inspired by this era, but we decided to be careless and break away from it. Especially because we get involved and question what we do. We are not part of the "dark scene" anyway. The influence for this record goes back to early Goth Rock/Dark Wave rather than the later offshoots of the genre.« In addition to Sisters Of Mercy and Virgin Prunes, the band cites records by Killing Joke, Mercyful Fate, Jimmy Page, Journey, The Sound, Boy Harsher and Vangelis as important factors influencing the creation of The Spin.