MESS ÄNGER

MIAMI BASED GLAM/GOTH ROCKER BLASTS THROUGH THE INDIE FLUFF WITH A HEAVILY RAGING, INTENSELY CATHARTIC TOUR THROUGH THE DARKNESS ON HIS HARD DRIVING DEBUT DISC BLACK HOUSE MESS

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Well Known For His Explosive Performances Throughout Miami And In New York and New Orleans , The Deeply Spiritual, Makeup Wearing Singer/Songwriter Is About To Shoot A Video For “Angry Little Angel,” The First Single Going To Active Rock Radio In Mid-April

Hard hitting and intense enough to blast through tons of concrete and the local indie music scene, there's a dark and heavy, hard charging and emotionally blistering mess happening in South Florida these days—one that goth and heavy metal fans alike have no interest in cleaning up!

For the past few years, they've been in a delirious rage, connecting in a big way with Miami based glam/goth rocker Mess Änger (www.myspace.com/messangerrock), who's channeling his deep seated frustrations with life into a dominant, crunch-guitar driven vibe. It's full of raw passion, searing vocals and—on his highly anticipated debut album Black House Mess, due for release later this spring—a twisted roller coaster of personal emotions, he says, “from my private hell.”

Everyone's got the same deeply confused, livid look on their faces these days, but the black haired, heavily made up Mess Anger's chosen to be the guy up there giving voice and catharsis to a generation trying to find its spiritual bearings somewhere between the darkness and light. For the past few years, he's been blowing the lid off Miami hotspots like Churchill's Pub (“This is our CBGB's,” he laughs) and the legendary Tobacco Road.

Last summer, he and his ball-busting bandmates Mizzin Lynk (guitars) , Edward Ona (bass) and “Spyder Monky” (drums) jammed at the Rockin' Miami Festival at Miami Arena, and the singer-songwriter's also made a “Mess” up in New York in The Red Room, Antigua in Queens and One Eyed Jacks in the East Village . The past two years, Mess Änger has performed at the well-known Cutting Edge Music Conference in New Orleans . He's currently gearing up to headline more shows in Orlando and Tampa before doing showcases in New York and L.A. leading up to a summer tour.

The music is a sledgehammer in your face and for the wild at heart only, but a huge part of Mess' dark, cutting edge appeal is visual. The camera loves his fashionable and mysterious, black on black style, and he's about to shoot a video for “Angry Little Angel,” the first single from Black House Mess that's going to Active Rock radio starting in mid-April.

A blazing swirl of crackling guitar fire, hard rhythms and melodic coolness, “Angry Little Angel” perfectly represents his uniquely eclectic songwriting influences, which range from his idol Alice Cooper and Metallica to Ozzy Osbourne and Marilyn Manson. As guitar-centric as Mess' tracks are, the multi-faceted musician initially funnels his boiling thoughts while pounding at the piano. The track is about a confused woman with a past that probably includes being left at the altar; now she's a nun in the convent by day, a sexy vampire girl going out on the town at night.

“When you listen to Black House Mess, you have to be careful because the overall melodic rock sensibilities of that song only last a short time,” he says. “The listener's taking a little trip from soft to hard, and the poppy vibe of that song gives way to a visit to the private hell of my inner psyche on ‘What Are You Looking For,' where I'm asking everyone from a little kid to the devil to a priest to try to make sense of my life. It's got this 60's go-go groove underneath the layers of guitars. But then the sweetness is gone and I'm kicking down the door and getting right up in your face, going wild on ‘Voodoo Doll.' This one's a time traveling, out of body experience taking myself back hundreds of years to when folks would sit around by the fire dancing with drums and adoring their gods. It's all about wanting to take the person out of the pain of the moment, so it's really one of the most intense hardcore tracks on the album.

“I was going through one painful experience after another during the time I was writing the songs,” he adds. “I leave some things open to the listener's interpretation because I don't like to get overly personal in explaining these situations, but suffice to say these things were crushing me. I was trying to escape my emotional pain by letting these three and a half minute songs become catharsis for me. Every time I perform these songs, I feel I'm capturing just what I went through and I am more and more relieved. Funny thing is, being depressed is actually great for my songwriting because I get in touch with those inner demons and find a way to let them out. It's like I'm possessed by something in that magical moment, and it's an incredibly natural high.”

“I've spent my life questioning everything and no matter how much I learn about myself and the world, I'm never satisfied,” Mess Änger says. “I'm that total Bohemian party animal that loves to go out and experience everything and get to know people and their cultures. Having a mixed heritage is an asset because it's driven me to learn more about the old world. You know that for an American, a trip to Europe is like a return to the homeland. That makes my life journey more interesting than say, just being born in the Midwest and being an angry white man. Fans of my music find it interesting that I'm into everything from Italian opera to metal to new age, but ultimately, the cutting edge killer rock on this album is what comes out of me when I'm expressing myself musically. It's my way of channeling my feelings of anger, despair and craziness.”

With the release of Black House Mess, Mess Änger is looking forward to hitting the road and sharing these exploding emotions with fans across the country. “It's great moving forward, living all of these frustrations and then getting through them via the power of music,” he says. “The best thing about this is that every time I perform, I get rid of a little more of these issues and I feel better. I get a lot of feedback from fans that completely relate. They know I'm intense but they connect with where I'm coming from. My fans and I feed off each other emotionally in a very cool way. We may both come into the gig feeling angry, but when we leave, we feel really powerful!”