MESSA will play Incineration Festival 2027 in London on 8 May 2027, joining Mayhem and Akercocke on the festival line-up. The Italian doom quartet will perform across the event’s venues, with tickets already available through the festival’s official website.
Five London venues on 8 May
MESSA are scheduled for the festival’s 2027 edition on Saturday, 8 May, which will take place at Roundhouse, Electric Ballroom, Underworld, Black Heart and The Dev. Mayhem and Akercocke are the other announced bands named alongside them in the confirmation.
The booking follows MESSA’s first headline European tour, which included Barcelona and Madrid in October 2026. We previously covered the band’s shows at Salamandra on 28 October and Copérnico on 29 October in our report on their first headline European tour. The group also announced a nearly month-long European run with The Night Eternal, beginning at the end of October.
Sara Bianchin leads the doom quartet
Sara Bianchin is MESSA’s vocalist and has been part of the band since its formation in 2014. She fronts a line-up completed by guitarist Alberto Piccolo, bassist and guitarist Marco Zanin, and drummer Rocco Toldo. The band formed in Cittadella, Italy, and released its fourth full-length album, “The Spin”, through Metal Blade Records in 2025.
MESSA began with the album “Belfry” in 2016, followed by “Feast for Water” in 2018 and “Close” in 2022. Their music draws on doom metal alongside jazz, psychedelic rock, drone and dark ambient influences, a combination the band has described as “Scarlet doom”. Incineration Festival 2027 tickets are on sale now.
