Messianic Era’s 10-year journey to culminate in debut album

Progressive band Messianic Era have seen their share of vicissitudes throughout the years. The talented underground band, inspired by the likes of Dream Theatre, Opeth and Porcupine Tree, will release their self-titled debut album on June 18.

"It has been a long road", says the band's vocalist and frontman, Navid Ehsan, known by his stage name EB. "We started recording for it in 2017, and we've been able to finish the album. There's no feeling like it."

Ehsan had the opportunity to share his musical chops with world-renowned guitarist Guthrie Govan in 2017, claims that this was the turning point in his musical career. "This was when I was inspired and finally took the initiative to aim for an album, the practice of which is declining nowadays."

The album, which will have 9 songs, comes with an intro and outro as the first and last tracks respectively.

The band has released two of the tracks, "Barzakh" and "Osshikar", as singles. Once the album is out, they will release physical variants of it on a limited scale.

Messianic Era consists of Navid Ehsan, Rafeed Redwan Roktim, Tahmid Rahman Jim and Sheikh Rafayyat Kabir Jim.

The band started their journey in 2011, as a rock band. As the years went on, they embraced their own inspirations to switch to the much more experimental progressive genre. "Our drummer Jim had a huge impact to play in the genre change, as it is impossible to play progressive rock/metal without a skilled drummer," says Ehsan.

The reigns of heavy music were popularized by bands like Cryptic Fate, Artcell, Metal Maze and De-Illumination. Messianic Era, however, was most inspired by Vibe. "Vibe's influence on our music, even if not on an outward level, is deeply evident," says Ehsan.

The band, however, promises to not stop at just a single album, like their inspirations. The album release on July 18 will dictate that future.