MÉLANCOLIA's Alex Hill Talks Random Access Misery, Tours & Future Plans

Melbourne blackened nu-metal force Mélancolia are set to release their anticipated sophomore album, ‘random.access.misery’, Friday 29th August via Greyscale Records and Nuclear Blast.
To mark the album’s arrival, the band will embark on their ‘access.all.misery’ national headline tour this September, with tickets available now via Destroy All Lines.

The Everblack Podcast spoke to Alex Hill from MÉLANCOLIA about their upcoming album Random Access Misery, their huge touring schedule, and the band’s incredible rise from opening for Thy Art Is Murder to supporting Cattle Decapitation to international touring.

Alex also discusses how MÉLANCOLIA refined their sound, their writing process, and even some wild merch concepts (including cereal boxes!). He also talks about collaborating with special guests like Chris from Dregg and Hunter Young from Moodring, the album’s lyrical themes and production, and what the future holds as MÉLANCOLIA prepare for tours across Australia, Europe, and beyond.

Watch/listen to the interview here:

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 their debut album ‘HissThroughRottenTeeth‘, and breaking into Europe and the UK twice on tours with Suffocation (US) and Ingested (UK).

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.