MECHA MESSIAH, the Delta, BC-based act featuring TYRANTS BLOOD singer Brian Langley (ex-INFERNAL MAJESTY), have issued the following update from Brian:

"10 years of Bloody History...

Until recently, I hadn't given much thought about how long I've kept this band going. Most people in the Vancouver area have never even seen this band play live, but they have heard of it. We were never a band to play alot of shows. The busiest year we ever had for shows was probably 2003. We played 8 shows that year.

The start of the band was early 2000. I was in Grade 11. The original lineup was:

Brian Langley - Guitar and Vocals

James Macfarlane - Guitar (Currently plays in LEAGUE OF CORRUPTION)

Jeff Greig - Bass

Mike Morin - Drums

This line-up was unofficially known as Mecha Messiah (the drummer Mike and guitar player James didn't like the name). The bass player Jeff came up with the name. Although half the band didn't like the name the 3 shows that the band played with this lineup the crowd called us Mecha Messiah anyway.

Late 2000/early 2001 - The MM mark II lineup when we were officially going by Mecha Messiah is when things really started to shape up:

Brian Langley - Guitar and Vocals

Mike Fezza - Guitar

Jeff Greig - Bass

Adam Baldwin - Drums (ex- SHIVER, currently plays in PEDWELL)

We recorded our horrible sounding 2001 twelve song demo Mechanized. We recorded it ourselves at our highschool (North Delta Senior Secondary). We had no help and no idea how to make a record and it shows. This lineup played our first downtown show the day after 9/11 at the Cobalt. Due to a shoulder injury Jeff had to leave the band in late 2002. Jerad Fennell joined on bass. Roughly 3 months later guitarist Mike Fezza announces he'll be leaving the band.

2004-2005 MM mark III:

Brian Langley - Guitar and Vocals

Chris Barlow - Guitar and Vocals (Currently plays in League of Corruption)

Jerad Fennell - Bass and Vocals (Ex-League of Corruption)

Adam Baldwin - Drums

This lineup recorded 2004's What It Should Have Been. We went to a basement studio at a shady person's house. It was a nightmare. Again, little to no help from the soundman. Another horrible sounding album. We also recorded a couple of songs for the 2 compilation CDs Shake your Foundation 1 and 2. Adam Baldwin was fired/quit in 2005. In 2006 drummer Chris Shuh (currently plays in you guessed it! League Of Corruption).

2006 - Unhappy with the direction of the band I decided I wanted to take a break from it and Chris Barlow agreed that the music I wanted to play and the music he wanted to play just wasn't meshing. It's around this time that Chris Barlow went on with Chris Shuh, Jerad Fennell and old MM alumni James Macfarlane.
2007 - 2010 - I felt the time was right and that I had found the right musicians to start the band up once again. While "taking time off" I recorded and produced the 2007 EP Sacrifice, I play all instruments on this as well as drum loops edits. Sadly, the sound on this EP is far superior to any other recordings of the band.

The mark IV and current lineup:

Brian Langley - Guitar and Vocals

Mike Fezza - Guitar (That's right he came back for more)

Darin Wall - Bass and Vocals (currently plays in ENTROPIA)

Ryan "Zeus" Mackie - Drums (ex-OMEGACROM, ex-CRADLE TO GRAVE, currently plays in COCAINE MOUSTACHE)

I've had the most fun playing in this incarnation. The whole reason this band has existed for 10 years is because it was fun. From our crazy Halloween shows and DEATH tributes... It still is fun. However, we just can't seem to find the time to give it it's proper due anymore. I can't give it the time anymore. I hope someday down the road that we can but none of us can put a date on when that will be.

It is looking like July 16 at Funky Winkerbeans will be our last show for the next foreseeable future, (unless someone comes forward to book us in August or we find a show to get on at which point that will be our last show).

I really hope as we celebrate 10 years of Mecha Messiah and quite possibly the last show with our friends FALLEN DECACE, THEOCIDE and FOR YOUR LIBERATION, that everyone comes out to give this band the proper send off I feel it deserves.

This band has meant the world to me, anyone that knows me, knows this. I hope you can come out and show us that it meant something to you to."

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