The cover of Italian doom-rock band Messa’s third album, Close, depicts a ritual dance performed by North African women—one which consists of flicking their hair up and down, back and forth repeatedly. Nakh, as it is known, is said to send its participants into altered, trance-like states. Watching it performed, one can’t help but to recognize the similarity to the modern heavy metal tradition of headbanging, with concertgoers swinging their hair to and fro in rhythmic unison, getting lost in the power of the music. The relationship between these two eerily similar, yet distinctively different, rituals certainly wasn’t lost on Messa, whose music calls upon both these cultures in intriguing ways. Throughout Close the band fuses Mediterranean and Middle Eastern scales and melodies into their...
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