Messa - Close progressive metal The record was a commercial

The record was a commercial success

For this album Chris Boltendahl was inspired by the book "Freedom or Death" by the Cretan writer Nikos Kazantzakis (Alexis Zorba)

We each have our own idea of what it means to live through a period filled with perpetual dread

and "Nobody's"

mining ore in the mountains

Messa - Close progressive metal The record was a commercialLimited gold colored vinyl LP pressing. Messa's rising trajectory hits the stratosphere on their immense new album Close. Soaring up out of the Italian Doom Rock underground in 2014, Messa have been rapidly garnering a frenzied throng of devotees, in thrall to their monumental and broad ranging sound craft. Releasing two widely celebrated cult records, the latest of which Feast For Water in 2018 was a critical breakthrough success, with Rolling Stone