Massive Attack hopes to release new music in 2025

Ready to return to concert in Italy next summer, i Massive Attack they hope to release new music during 2025. In a recent interview granted to the NME, Robert Del Naja has in fact made it known that the group he formed together with Grant Marshall, whose latest publications date back to 2016, has kept in the drawer of unreleased material for four years, due to what the musician describes as a “label dispute”.

“Hopefully we can release new music next year before we do any shows,” the 59-year-old British artist said in the interview. During the chat, sharing his thoughts on Massive Attack’s new music, Del Naja explained:

“I hate keeping things aside for too long because I’m the first one to get bored of them. I don’t play some things deliberately for months so I can keep some enthusiasm. The new material is good, I can’t wait to release it.”

However, it did not emerge from the interview whether Massive Attack have an album, an EP or any singles in store. The group hasn’t released an album since “Heligoland” in 2010, which marked collaborator Grantley “Daddy G” Marshall’s return to the studio after his absence from 2001 to 2005. Since then, only three songs have been released: “Four Walls ” (with electronic musician Burial) in 2011, as well as “The Spoils” and “Dear Friend” with James Massiah in 2016. In Furthermore, a remix EP, “Eutopia”, was released in 2020.

In the same interview for NME, Robert Del Naja also discussed why Massive Attack turned down the offer to play Coachella in 2025. “We said no to Coachella next year because, once again, we’re there been there once, and once was enough,” the musician explained: “It’s in Palm Springs. It’s a golf resort built in a desert, powered by an irrigation system, using public water supplies. If you want to see something that represents the most absurd human behavior is precisely that.”