Constant evolution is the beating heart of Messa, the band founded in 2014 by vocalist Sara Bianchin, guitarist Alberto Piccolo, bassist Marco Zanin, and drummer Rocco Toaldo. The four friends from northern Italy initially came together to challenge themselves and to stretch their musical boundaries; none of them had ever played doom metal before starting the band. Bianchin came from a punk background, Piccolo was a blues guitarist, Zanin played mostly hard rock, and Toaldo was in multiple established black metal bands. Perhaps inevitably, Messa very quickly became a band that couldn't be contained by narrow ideas of genre.