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NJ screamo band Massa Nera have announced their third album, The Emptiness of All Things, the followup to 2022’s Derramar | Querer | Borrar. It also follows the Derramar | Querer | Borrar remix album D//Q//B[2.0] from 2023 and the split LP with Quiet Fear from last year. The new record drops on October 31 via Persistent Vision (pre-order).
The Emptiness of All Things was co-produced, engineered, and mixed by Matthew Michel (of NØ MAN/Majority Rule), and (per the band’s bio) it came into existence after the band, through bassist Aeryn Jade Santillan, was given a commission by the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music (as part of its Composing Earth series) to write music that addresses the climate crisis. “This album was a true undertaking, exciting and torturous in equal measure,” the band says. “It was not cathartic in the least. We hope people feel better listening to it than we did
making it… not too much better, though.”
The first single is “Mechanical Sunrise,” which premieres in this post, and it’s an intense offering with some chaotic screamo, some dance-punk, some dramatic spoken word, and more. The band tells us, “‘Mechanical Sunrise’ is our comment on greenwashing, the neoliberal delusion of ‘green growth,’ and the increasingly absurd idea that we can innovate our way out of any problem, no matter how seemingly insurmountable said problem might be. The narrator of this song answers our collective despair vis-a-vis the climate crisis with a slick smile and a sales pitch for an EV.” Check it out below.
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