Three people sharing a rehearsal space in Thessaloniki for years, playing in different bands, eventually deciding to make noise together isn’t exactly a shocking origin story. But Automassive — Yiorgos (guitar, vocals), Sotiris (bass), and Stratos (drums) — took their time getting here. “Parasite,” their debut album out October 8, 2025 on Nothing to Harvest Records and Distro K94, doesn’t try to announce anything grand. It just lands. And we’re here to tell you about it.
Meanwhile, feel the organic weight of beautiful ugliness — noise, post-hardcore, and sludge colliding to pin your chest down with a wall of sulfuric guitars, untreated bass, and drums that hit like concrete.
The three have history across Thessaloniki’s DIY experimental scene — Plebah, Autumn Acid, Anasarka, Ξερα, Millions of Dead Tourists, among others. “Before Automassive was formed, all three of us shared the same rehearsal space for many years, playing in various other bands,” they say. So when they finally started writing together, nobody needed a crash course.
Their aim was straightforward. “We wanted to create something heavy and visceral that tells a story. We tried to shape our sound without limiting it to specific genres and patterns, reflecting the style of bands we like and channeling our influences — from noise rock and hardcore punk to sludge and post metal.” The writing happens collectively — they bring separate ideas, synthesize, experiment until it clicks. They describe their process as being about flow, contrast, and narrative.
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The recording matches the attitude. After months of prep, they tracked guitar, bass, and drums live in one day — June 7, 2025 — at Stereotype Studio with Tasos Karadedos. Vocals and an extra guitar went on the next day. Done. “We wanted the album to have that live and raw feeling of a concert or rehearsal,” the band says. “It just feels more honest and direct this way.” You can hear that decision throughout — nothing’s smoothed over, nothing’s hiding.
The whole thing exists inside a framework that’s worth noting. Automassive’s scene is, in their words, “strictly non-commercial.” They play self-managed venues, squats, solidarity gigs — no tickets, no managers, no club owners. The album isn’t in shops. You get it through the band, a few DIY distros, or the non-profit labels that co-released it. The physical run is 100 copies — silkscreen-printed digisleeve CD with an A4 lyric leaflet and a bookmark. That’s the whole operation.
They point out that Thessaloniki’s local scene is “saturated with hardcore punk, although there are quite a few examples of bands that stray from that genre.” Automassive fall into the straying camp. “Parasite” pulls from sludge, noise rock, and post-metal without settling comfortably into any one of those. It’s heavy and deliberate, but not in a way that feels like it’s performing heaviness. The songs have structure and movement — they go somewhere, even when they drag.
It’s a first album that doesn’t overcomplicate things. A band with enough collective mileage to know what they’re after, recorded in conditions that leave nowhere to hide.
