Massive Attack

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Collaborative British music production group from Bristol, England.

The band currently consists of Robert Del Naja, Tricky, and Daddy G. The original lineup also included Andrew Vowles. The group name is taken from a slogan sprayed by New York graffiti artist 'Brim', who sprayed 'Massive Attack' underneath a 'piece' in Bristol, UK in 1985. 'Brim', along with 'Balogun' and 'Bio' were part of the TATS CRU from NYC who sprayed a 'piece' each together at the Malcolm X Centre, St. Paul's in Bristol. Robert Del Naja, who was an upcoming graffiti artist at the time, with the tag 3-D, has stated that he/they had adopted the slogan initially as a name for a record label, and then later took it on as a band name. During the 1991 Gulf War the group name was shown on some releases as 'Massive' in order to maintain airplay after pressure from the British Government on radio programmers.

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massiveattack.co.uk, dailymotion.com, Facebook, instagram.com, SoundCloud, Twitter, vimeo.com, Wikipedia, YouTube

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Adrian Thaws, ~~Andrew Vowles~~, Grant Marshall, Robert Del Naja

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All | Massive Attack

Massiv Attack, Massive, Massive Attac, MassiveAttack, The Massive Attack, 強烈衝擊

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Image	Title	Label	Catalog Number	Year	In Your Collection, Wantlist, or Inventory	Actions
	hi-8		Massive Attack	Pre-release ‎(Cass, Promo, Smplr)	Circa	hi-8	UK	1990	Sell This Version
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	WBRLP 1		Massive Attack	Blue Lines (Album)	Wild Bunch Records, Circa	WBRLP 1	Europe	1991	Sell This Version
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	CDVIR (WR) 180 (8398832)		Massive Attack	Protection (Album)	Wild Bunch Records, Circa	CDVIR (WR) 180 (8398832)	South Africa	1994	Sell This Version
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	wbrcd3, WBRCD3, 7243 8 40290 2 9		Massive Attack V Mad Professor	Massive Attack V Mad Professor - No Protection (Album)	Wild Bunch Records	wbrcd3, WBRCD3, 7243 8 40290 2 9	Europe	1995	Sell This Version
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	TCD 1208		Massive Attack	In Concert 682 ‎(CD, Transcription)	BBC World Service, BBC Radio International	TCD 1208	UK	1996	Sell This Version
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	7243 8 45599 2 2		Massive Attack	Mezzanine (Album)	Circa, Circa, Virgin, Virgin	7243 8 45599 2 2	Canada	1998	Sell This Version
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	724358132144		Massive Attack	100th Window (Album)	Virgin, Virgin	724358132144	Thailand	2003	Sell This Version
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	CDIVDJ 2967		Massive Attack	100th Window (Interview Disc) ‎(CD, Promo)	Virgin	CDIVDJ 2967	UK	2003	Sell This Version
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	CDVDJ 2988, 0724387418523		Massive Attack	Danny The Dog (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Album)	Virgin, Virgin	CDVDJ 2988, 0724387418523	UK	2004	Sell This Version
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	7243 8 74397 2 6		Massive Attack	Unleashed (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Album)	Virgin, Virgin	7243 8 74397 2 6	US	2005	Sell This Version
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	1766401		Portishead / Massive Attack	Portishead / Massive Attack - Third / Collected ‎(CD, Album + CD, Comp + MP, Sup)	Island Records	1766401	Europe	2008	Sell This Version
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	5099962863629		Massive Attack	Heligoland (Album, EP)	The Vinyl Factory	5099962863629	Australia	2010	Sell This Version
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	B07VJWW5KV		Massive Attack V. Mad Professor	Massive Attack V. Mad Professor - Massive Attack V. Mad Professor Part II (Mezzanine Remix Tapes '98) (Album)	UMC, Virgin EMI Records	B07VJWW5KV	Japan	2019	Sell This Version

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jtottersen

September 23, 2021

A nod towards their legacy and importance is the appeal across genres, i.e. famed metal acts Sepultura and Dillinger Escape Plan have both covered "Angel" from Mezzanine.

Scrit

August 31, 2021

The dropping of 'Attack' from their name during the first Gulf War wasn't about album sales but a measure of protest against the war, all wars. If anything MA is well known to be very socially & politically engaged in activism and campaigns.