Ɗaya daga cikin sabbin ƙungiyoyi masu tasiri da tasiri na tsararrakinsu, Massive Attack wani duhu ne mai ban sha'awa gauraye na hip hop, karin waƙa da dubstep.
Farfesa
Ana iya kiran farkon aikin su 1983, lokacin da aka kafa ƙungiyar Wild Bunch. An san shi don haɗa nau'ikan nau'ikan kiɗan kiɗa daga punk zuwa reggae zuwa R&B, wasan kwaikwayon ƙungiyar cikin sauri ya zama abin sha'awa ga matasan Bristol.
Sannan membobin Wild Bunch guda biyu Andrew Mushroom Voles da Grant Daddy G Marshall sun haɗu tare da mai zanen rubutu na gida (an haife shi Robert del Naja) don ƙirƙirar ƙungiyar Massive Attack a 1987.
Wani memba na Wild Bunch, Nellie Hooper, ya raba lokacinsa tsakanin sabon rukunin da sauran aikin sa, Soul II Soul.
Babban Attack na farko
Waƙar farko ta ƙungiyar, Daydreaming, ta bayyana a cikin 1990, tare da zazzage murya daga mawaƙa Shara Nelson da ɗan rapper Tricky, wani tsohon abokin haɗin gwiwar Wild Bunch.
An bi shi da abun da ba a gama ba.
Ko da yake kundin bai kasance babban nasara ta kasuwanci ba, yawancin masu suka sun karɓe rikodin kuma ya zama sanannen nan take a da'irori da yawa.
Shara Nelson, wadda ta fito a yawancin waƙoƙin kundin waƙoƙin da ba a mantawa da su ba, ta yanke shawarar ci gaba da sana'ar solo jim kaɗan bayan haka.
Daga nan sai kungiyar ta canza suna zuwa Massive don gujewa duk wani tasiri daga manufofin Amurka game da Iraki.
Komawa mataki
Bayan dakatarwar shekaru uku, Babban Attack (cikakken suna yanzu an dawo dashi) ya sake dawowa tare da Kariya.
Aiki kuma tare da Hooper da Tricky, sun kuma sami sabon mawaƙa, Nicolette.
Mawaki uku: Karmacoma, Sly da taken taken an fito da su akan LP, wanda shima mahaukacin Farfesa ya sake hadewa gaba daya kuma aka sake shi da sunan Babu Kariya.
Wani dogon rangadi ya biyo baya, kuma na ƴan shekaru masu zuwa, aikin solo na Massive Attack yawanci ya iyakance ga remixes ga masu fasaha daban-daban, gami da Garbage.
Sun kuma yi aiki tare da Madonna akan waƙa don kundin harajin Marvin Gaye. A ƙarshe, don haɓaka ayyukansu a bikin Kiɗa na Glastonbury na shekara-shekara, ƙungiyar ta fito da Risingson EP a lokacin rani na 1997.
Kundin babban Attack na uku mai cikakken tsayi, Mezzanine, ya bayyana a tsakiyar 1998.
Mezzanine ya zama babban nasara kuma ya haɗa da nasara guda kamar Teardrop da Inertia Creeps.
Kundin ya mamaye sigogin Burtaniya kuma ya shiga Top 60 akan Billboard 200 a Amurka. Yawon shakatawa na Amurka da Turai ya biyo baya, amma Woles ya bar kungiyar bayan rashin yarda da jagorar fasaha na rikodin Mezzanine.
Del Naja da Marshall sun ci gaba da zama duo, daga baya suna aiki tare da irin su David Bowie da Dandy Warhols.
Amma daga baya Marshall ya bar ɗan lokaci don ɗaukar lokaci don iyalinsa.
A cikin Fabrairu 2003, bayan jira na shekaru biyar, Massive Attack ya fitar da kundi na hudu, Window 100th, yana nuna haɗin gwiwa tare da jagorar mai fasaha Horace Andy, da Sinead O'Connor.
Waƙar Danny the Dog, wanda aka saki a shekara ta 2004, ta nuna alamar shigar ƙungiyar cikin aikin kiɗan fim kuma, ba abin mamaki ba, sau da yawa yana ƙara kama da kiɗan baya.
Kundin Massive Attack na biyar Heligoland, wanda aka saki a cikin 2010, ya fito da Horace Andy, mai watsa shirye-shiryen rediyo Tunde Adebimpe, Guy Garvey na Elbow da Martina Topley-Bird. Binnewa ya sake haɗa kundi na Aljanna Circus da bangon Hudu da ba a fitar ba.
Ƙungiyar ta dawo a cikin 2016 tare da 4-track EP Ritual Spirit, tare da Tricky da Tushen Manuva.
