Band Information

Music: Electronic Music, Ambient music
Country: England
Years: 1988-present
Website: www.massiveattack.co.uk

Band Line-up:

Robert Del Naja ("3D")
Grant Marshall ("Daddy G")

Massive Attack Biography

Massive Attack is an English band founded in Bristol in 1988. Members are Robert Del Naja and Grantley Marshall. They were critically acclaimed for successfully combining jazz, hiphop, rock and soul into a new genre. Years after, they also integrated forms of electronic music into their sound.

Their music is usually used in soundtracks of films and TV series such as Sliver, The Matrix, Charmed, Blade II and House. Their song Unfinished Sympathy has been consistently listed as one of the top ten songs of all time in British media polls.

Massive Attack Discography

Blue Lines (1991)
Protection (1994)
No Protection (1995) - remixes
Mezzanine (1998)
100th Window (2003)
Danny The Dog (2004) - soundtrack
Bullet Boy (2005) - soundtrack
Collected (2006)

Massive Attack Trivia

The song "Teardrop," from the group's 1998 album Mezzanine, is featured as the theme to the hit TV show "House."

Massive Attack uses a variety of vocalists. The singer of Teardrop is Elizabeth Fraser, who was in the middle of a breakup when she wrote the lyrics.

"Unifinsihed Sympathy" is considered a very innovative song in the electronic dance genre. It features a string section and various orchestral elements (the title is probably a play on the term "Unfinished Symphony"), as well as samples and layers of vocals.

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