Last fall, Massive Attack promised we’d be getting new music from them in 2026 and it looks like that will be coming this week. The Bristol, UK group posted to their social media today, teasing something titled “Boots on the Ground” along with a date, April 16, which is this Thursday. They’ve also updated their social media profile image. The post, which features a little audio that may be from the song, also included the hashtags #IceOut and #NoWar. Check that out below.
If it is a song, this will be Massive Attack’s first new music since 2020, and if it’s an album it will be their first in 16 years. Stay tuned.
Meanwhile, Massive Attack’s 3D, aka Robert Del Naja, was one of over 500 protesters arrested in London’s Trafalgar Square on Saturday as part of a Palestine Action protest. He was holding a sign that read “I Oppose Genocide, I Support Palestine Action.”
He told the Associated Press earlier in the day, “Being a musician, obviously, there was a lot of trepidation around how we might not be able to travel and get visas,” adding, “But I thought ‘this is ridiculous’ and then the police making that U-turn to arrest people again, I thought that is even more ridiculous. So I’m going to hold a sign today. If I get arrested, I feel very confident that if I stand up in court with the right guidance and say, ‘This was an unlawful arrest and, therefore, I don’t accept it.’
“I think that the actions of Palestine Action were highly patriotic because they were pretty much protecting our country from getting involved in serious war crimes and breaking international law, ” Del Naja also told the AP. “How much more patriotic can you be than that?”
After the arrest, Del Naja released a statement:
Throughout the Israeli genocide in Gaza most people, myself included, felt like they were gradually going mad. How could the world, including the British government, possibly allow this to happen?
That sense of madness was compounded by the inexplicable policies of many British news outlets (including the BBC) who refused to name the identity committing one atrocity after another, after another. It was Israel, & everybody knew it was Israel. Why wouldn’t they say so?
On the topic of madness, in Britain in 2026 you can be arrested under the Terrorism Act for sitting in silence, holding a cardboard sign stating that you oppose genocide & support non-violent action to prevent it.
Of course, everyone knows this is total madness (including many of the police officers making these arrests, and the High Court judges who recently ruled them unlawful), and yet, somehow it continues.
Everyone also knows that the sheer desperation of ‘Palestine Action’ activists vandalising military equipment isn’t terrorism. No one actually believes that.
Many members of, & senior advisers to this government belong to a ‘war is peace’ ideological party block that ignored millions of peaceful marchers to illegally invade Iraq. Their brand of arrogance & callous indifference creates the human desperation they’re hellbent on crushing in the courts.The sense of madness can be overcome. We can demand that our government upholds international laws that previous generations sacrificed their lives for. UK citizens will feel less desperation (& our overwhelmed courts will be quieter) if our country acts with the integrity of neighbours such as Spain; calmly declining the use of their territory & assets for illegal US / Israeli war crimes.
To these vital ends, a few hours in police custody under unlawful arrest is a very small price to pay.
Our democracy, & the civil rights & liberties that now sit in constitutional law were literally built on small actions like these. Perhaps that’s why this draconian government wants to crush them?
Free Palestine. No wars.
Robert Del Naja.
Massive Attack have tour dates lined up, including Primavera Sound. Check out their full schedule below.
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Massive Attack – 2026 Tour Dates
May 27, 2026 – Helsinki, Finland – Veikkaus Arena Parkhallen
May 30, 2026 – Rättvik, Sweden – Dalhalla
Jun 1, 2026 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Royal Arena
Jun 4, 2026 – Barcelona, Spain – Primavera Sound 2026
Jun 7, 2026 – Berlin, Germany – Freilichtbühne Zitadelle (Spandau)
Jun 8, 2026 – Brussels, Belgium – Forest National
Jun 11, 2026 – Porto, Portugal – Primavera Sound Porto 2026