Massive Attack don’t release new music often, but that could change in 2026. On social media, the band shared, “from next year we will release a cache of work created in the recent past,” adding that “tracks will be available physically and digitally via a new label.” The caveat, of course, is that the music will not be on Spotify, the digital streaming platform from which Massive Attack are trying to pull their catalog. The band has also directed fans to a new WhatsApp channel where there will be “direct announcements on 2026 releases and special performances.”
Massive Attack self-released the Eutopia EP in 2020. It marked their first new music since 2016’s “The Spoils,” “Come Near Me,” and Ritual Spirit EP. The band released its most recent studio album, Heligoland, in 2010. The album, along with the 2016 tracks, all arrived via Virgin.
Massive Attack will perform at the São Paulo arena Espaco Unimed, on a bill with the Sepultura side project Cavalera, on Thursday, November 13. They timed the event to coincide with the COP30 International Climate Change Summit taking place in the Brazilian city of Belém. The bands partnered with the Indigenous Peoples of the Amazon to put on the show, in support of their fight to achieve climate justice and secure immediate recognition and protection for Indigenous lands.
Representatives of Indigenous movements will appear at the event itself, a press release notes, and the two bands will also work within Brazil to support Amazonian Indigenous movements. Sepultura founders Max and Iggor Cavalera will perform the band’s Chaos AD album in full at the show.
Robert “3D” Del Naja added that he is honored to work with the brothers “in support of the extraordinary integrity and vital role of the Indigenous people of Brazil and the wider Amazon region. This is more than a passing of the mic. It’s an opportunity to listen to the knowledge, moral authority and wisdom of the Indigenous alliances and help ensure they are heard in the negotiation rooms of COP30. We’ve never needed their presence within that distorted political space as much as we do right now.”
The announcement comes with a joint statement from three Indigenous bodies: the G9, the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon, and the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil. It reads: “We, Indigenous peoples, step onto the stage as if lighting an ancient fire in the heart of the night. Together with Massive Attack and Cavalera, we turn sound into uprising. Our voices—alive, ancestral, untamed—will cut through the air, cross every border, and unite peoples, from the Amazon to the Pacific. We are the roots that resist, the future that insists. We have never left. We are here to remind you: The Earth remembers. And through us, it demands—dismantle the machine that devours her. The answer is already here. It rises from the very ground we walk together. The Answer Is Us. All of us. And we will advance.”
Russia launched a “massive” overnight attack on Ukraine’s southern and central regions, authorities said, as Kyiv struck Russian oil refineries.
One woman was killed in Zaporizhzhia and 28 people were injured – including three children – according to local officials.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow launched over 500 drones and 45 missiles, hitting 14 regions across the country.
Following the attack Russia’s defence ministry said in statement all “targets of the strike have been achieved” and “designated objects have been hit”.
It comes amid ongoing international efforts to secure peace – and days after Ukraine faced the second biggest aerial attack of the war so far, with a least 23 killed on Thursday.
In Dnipropetrovsk, Governor Serhiy Lysak said overnight the region was “under massive attack” as he warned people to take cover.
Firefighters tackled blazes in Zaporizhzia in the early hours of Saturday morning [STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE OF UKRAINE]
Railway infrastructure was damaged near Kyiv, but it was central and south-eastern Ukraine that bore the brunt of the latest strikes.
Emergency services were seen putting out fires in Zaporizhzhia, while explosions were heard in the central eastern regions of Dnipro and Pavlohrad.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s military said it hit Russia’s Krasnodar and Syzran oil refineries overnight. Both refineries have been targeted before.
The Ukrainian military said there were “numerous explosions and fires were recorded at the facility,” which they said produces a volume of three million tons per year.
Russian authorities in Krasnodar acknowledged the drone strikes from Kyiv hit its oil refinery. It said one of the process units was damaged and a fire occurred in the area. It said there were no casualties.
The Russian defence ministry added it had shot down 20 Ukrainian drones overnight, including 18 over Moscow-annexed Crimea.
The Russian military also said it captured a rural settlement in Donetsk – Komyshevakha on Saturday morning. Ukraine has not confirmed this.
The blows between the warring sides follow US-led diplomatic efforts aimed at bringing an end to the war, which so far remain at a standstill.
Zelensky said the latest attacks showed Russia’s “disregard for words”, adding that the only way to deal with Russia is to impose sanctions.
“We expect action from the US, Europe, and the entire world,” he said.
European foreign affairs ministers are in Denmark this weekend to discuss international developments – including the war in Ukraine.
One of the key issues is the possibility of freezing approximately €210bn (£181.7bn) worth of Russian assets.
EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas who is at the gathering said it is clear “Russia does not want peace” despite diplomatic efforts.
France said it would use the gathering to table new proposals for sanctions against Russia, with the aim of depleting “the resources that Russia is investing in this war” foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot was quoted by Russia’s state-owned news agency Tass as saying.