Key facts
- Also known as
- Massive
- Origin
- Bristol , England
- Genres
- Trip hop electronic
- Years active
- 1988–present
- Labels
- Wild Bunch Circa Virgin PIAS
- Spinoff of
- The Wild Bunch
- Members
- 3D Daddy G
- Past members
- Tricky Mushroom
- Website
- massiveattack.co.uk
via Wikipedia infobox
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Massive Attack are an English trip hop collective formed in 1988 in Bristol, England, by Robert "3D" Del Naja, Grant "Daddy G" Marshall, Adrian "Tricky" Thaws and Andrew "Mushroom" Vowles. As of 2025, the group consists of Del Naja and Marshall.
They released their debut album in 1991, Blue Lines, which has been included on numerous best-of lists and is generally considered the first album of the trip-hop genre. The single "Unfinished Sympathy" was a chart hit in Europe, including number one on the Dutch Top 40, and was later voted the 63rd-greatest song of all time in a poll by NME. In 1994, they released their second album, Protection. Thaws left the band later that year to pursue a solo career. In 1998, they released their third album, Mezzanine, giving them their first number one on the UK Albums Chart. Mezzanine contains the top-10 single "Teardrop". In 1999, Vowles left the band, with Del Naja and Marshall continuing as a duo. They further released the albums 100th Window (2003) and Heligoland (2010).
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