Genre-defying Duo MISSIO Announces Monumental Double-Album ‘I Am Cinco’ Out 5/3; Shares “Aztec Death Whistle”

March 8, 2024 BY Emma Orland

Today, the acclaimed Texas-based alternative rockers MISSIO are proud to announce their fifth full-length, the monumental double-album I AM CINCO coming May 3rd via Nettwerk. The eclectic duo also unveil their new heavy hitting anthem “Aztec Death Whistle.” The explosive clarion call looks back at the band’s traumatic childhood and the devastating effects that their parents and church leaders had on their lives. It features ominous electronics, punctuated by recordings of locals around the ancient pyramids of Teotihuacan in Mexico. Listen HERE and watch HERE.

“An ‘Aztec Death Whistle’ makes this insane and horrifying sound,” says David. “This song is like a cry for help. Matthew and I felt a lot of anger from religious trauma. People preach a certain way, but they’re hypocritical, so you’re left picking up the broken pieces of your shattered self. It moves through different stages where you think, ‘This is fucked, let me go look for drugs as the answer. That’s not right though. Let me look for God as the answer, but it’s fucking with my head too. Let me look to my parents, but they’re going to kick me out’. You can only go, ‘What the fuck.’”

In support of the forthcoming album, MISSIO is gearing up to hit the road for a handful of headline tour dates throughout the EU and UK. Find the list of dates below and for more information on upcoming shows and to purchase tickets, visit the band’s website HERE.

WATCH & SHARE MISSIO’S “AZTEC DEATH WHISTLE” MUSIC VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FX1Jk7vyM0Y

On I Am Cinco, MISSIO fearlessly breaks the rules, fusing elements of rock, electronic, indie, and hip-hop into an unmatched and uncompromising hybrid, without losing the signature sound that garnered global radio hits on the Billboard Alternative Charts and Sirius XM’s Alt-Nation. They tie disparate threads together with honest and heartfelt lyrics meant to provoke and inspire. The album presents their most definitive and dynamic vision, collating five moods and EPs—I Am Sad, I Am High, I Am Awesome, I Am Angry, I Am Crazy, and I Am Cinco—into one. Pre-order the album HERE.

I Am Cinco took shape in Austin only to be completed on a creative sojourn to Mexico City. “We’ve been to multiple countries and had 10 different sessions to write and record these 28 songs. It’s an epic inspired by some of the great old-school double LPs like The Wall or Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness. We’re not just here to check a box; we’re here to be prolific. It puts our creativity out there in a way no other album has. It’s MISSIO,” they elaborate.

Since 2015, MISSIO released Loner [2017], The Darker the Weather // The Better the Man [2019], Can You Feel The Sun [2020], and VILLAIN [2022]. Their first global hit “Middle Fingers” debuted at #9 on the Billboard Alternative Charts as they made their national TV debut on Conan O’Brien. Their catalog has resonated with Gold-certified “Everybody Gets High” and staples, including “Twisted,” “Bottom of the Deep Blue See,” “Sing To Me,” and “I See You,” with more than six songs reaching #1 on Sirius Alt-Nation. Between selling out shows, they appeared at festivals a la ACL and Lollapalooza and incited praise from Billboard, Rolling Stone, New Noise, and Substream Magazine.

I Am Cinco Tracklisting: