Mélancolia share dark new single “SPIT!” featuring Christopher Mackertich of DREGG

Melbourne blackened nu-metal outfit Mélancolia share new single “SPIT!“ featuring Christopher Mackertich of DREGG, off their sophomore album ‘random.access.misery‘ out Friday August 29 via Greyscale Records and Nuclear Blast. The band join Thy Art Is Murder on a regional tour of Australia starting this week.

“SPIT!” is a shift in Mélancolia’s established sound, expanding on the nu-metal-influenced direction the upcoming album promises. It’s the first track in their catalogue to feature clean singing and the first to include a guest feature. The new single adds another layer to the dark atmosphere they’re becoming known for and was written to be played live—specifically to cater for sing alongs, mosh pits and stage dives.

Leading single “ALL_IS_RUST“ came before “SPIT!” and released as both a declaration of evolution and a warning: Mélancolia are not here to follow trends—they’re here to dismantle them. Mélancolia’s forthcoming album ‘random.access.misery’ melds metalcore, deathcore, industrial noise, blast beats and DJ scratching and blends into a hellish sonic cocktail. “ALL_IS_RUST” and “SPIT!” welcomes listeners to the band’s new sound and a genre the band have coined as “Blackened Nu Metal”.

Picked as one of four 4 “brilliant new metal bands you need to hear” by Metal Hammer in April, the band are primed and ready and unleash their defining new album this August; “We are bringing a fresh sound to an otherwise stale scene, you will not hear what we are doing from anyone else,” says the band. “We are setting the trend as we set the bar for modern heavy music. Love us or hate us, you will fucking remember us.”

Momentum is at an all time high for the band, having toured Australia three times over off the back of ‘HissThroughRottenTeeth’, and breaking into Europe and the UK twice on tours with Suffocation (US) and Ingested (UK). The band will join Thy Art Is Murder on a regional lap of Australia this June and July and will debut some of their new music for the very first time. Tickets on sale now.

Mélancolia is Alex Hill (vocals), Joshua Taafe and Billy Morris (guitars) Mason Page (drums) and Toby Thomas (bass). After establishing themselves in 2022 with their debut single “Horror_Ethereal“, the band announced the following February their signing to both Greyscale Records for Australia/New Zealand and Nuclear Blast for the rest of the world. They released their debut album ‘HissThroughRottenTeeth’ in April 2023, crafting a unique sound that has already catapulted them to new heights. Their very first show was in 2023 supporting Thy Art Is Murder on their Decade Of Hate Australian Tour alongside Starve and Justice For The Damned. Since this they’ve toured with To The Grave, Fallujah (US), Cattle Decapitation (US), Ingested (UK), Vulvodynia (SA), Suffocation (US) and many more.

“SPIT!” is streaming everywhere now. ‘random.access.misery’ will be out everywhere via Greyscale Records and Nuclear Blast on Friday August 29.

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