Doomed Confessionary: Daniel Cammarota (Blind Mess / DeadClockWork Records)

Blind Mess is a stoner/hardcore/punk rock trio from Munich, Germany, known for blending aggressive punk energy with heavy stoner rock riffs since 2016. Their sound is characterized by gritty vocals, thunderous guitar riffs, and driving rhythms, creating a raw and energetic musical experience. Blind Mess are Daniel Cammarota (guitar, vocals), Oskar Sirbu (bass) and Martin Hoerschelmann (drums).

The band recently released their third full-length album, »After The Storm«, through DeadClockWork Records. This album showcases their evolving sound, blending punk intensity with heavier, more atmospheric stoner rock influences. Their recent single »Bleeding Hearts« and »Sick Society« highlight their confrontational lyrical style, addressing themes of societal frustration and rebellion. Blind Mess will release their new full-length album »The Storm Within« on May 9th, 2025.

Blind Mess has gained recognition in the European underground rock scene, frequently performing at music festivals and earning positive reviews for their high-energy live shows. Their relentless DIY ethic and passionate performances have solidified them as a rising force in the stoner and punk rock community. You shouldn’t miss a live show of the band in any case, the raw power of the songs comes best live!

Can you please say a few words about your band?
We’ve been around since 2016 and we’re very happy that there are only three of us. It makes everything much easier. We can always make any songwriting appointments or other decisions relatively quickly. It’s a fortunate position to be in. We’ve all been making music for quite a long time and have played in many bands with different people. For example, I started making music with Jan Oberg. We had our first metal band called Safer Roots. Jan is now well known with his hit Planet Studio or with Earth, Ship Green or Slow Shine. He’s a nice guy, and I’m glad that we’ve remained friends to this day.

What was the biggest challenge for the band?
Our band emerged from the previous band Rudebox. That was more rock pop orientated music. When our keyboarder and bass player left, we found ourselves in a crisis. Somehow the air was gone and there were no new songs. We then considered either quitting the band completely or reinventing ourselves. We decided in favour of the second option. Thank God. In order to continue making music together, we then decided to cover our favourite songs. And from all this cover stuff, a new style emerged in the end. Our own style. A mishmash of many different things.

What can you be most proud of so far?
Oh, we’re proud of all the albums we’ve recorded ourselves. We’re proud that we’ve been able to play with bands like Colour Haze or Acid King or Sacre Monti, this summer we will support The Atomic Bitchwax. And we’re proud of the people who listen to our stuff and spread it around the world, just like you.

What was your biggest regret?
Regrets, I’ve had a few. But then again, too few to mention (Sinatra) 😉 No, there’s not much to regret. At most perhaps that we had to cancel one or two gigs because our family commitments got in the way. That’s always a bit of a shame.

What was the best concert/tour so far and why?
Our cool concert that sticks in my mind was at Sunny Red in Munich. It’s a really small place and it fills up pretty quickly and there’s no stage, you’re basically standing in the middle of the audience and while we were playing, sweat was dripping from the ceiling. It was a great evening, Sunny Red is always good.

What was the biggest surprise on the music scene for you?
So the biggest surprise in the music scene right now? Maybe that Oasis got back together and did such a terrible tour with unspeakable ticket prices and it’s a pure money machine, like. I despise that. By the way, I’m currently creating a new DeadClockworkRecords Sampler. The first one went well back then, I think it was 2017. Now I’m making a new one that will be released next month. And I’ve really found a sensation. The band Hauch. I can only recommend a German band with German lyrics. Have a listen.

What is currently in your heavy musical rotation?
Our new album was in my heavy rotation until last week. As I was still in the process of finalising the whole thing. Apart from that, I’m listening to a lot of Don’t Sleep and also a lot of hardcore at the moment: Agnostic Front, Terror and so on.

What was the best advice you’ve ever been given as a musician?
My best advice so far has been to fuck the notes and play from the gut. And don’t play what others want to hear, but play what you like and stay true to it.

What are your guilty pleasures?
I’m not sure if my mum is reading this. But yes, I think smoking is definitely part of it. And collecting vinyl. I’m a bit of a victim from time to time. The industry really has me by the balls sometimes.

Can you say something more about the current music scene in Munich?
Munich has a music scene, of course. The stoner and hard rock scene in particular is quite small and basically everyone knows everyone else. That makes it quite interesting, but I think a city like Munich could do more. Because Munich should be able to offer more culture with such a small scene. The problem is also the clubs. More and more clubs are being closed because residents who live above the club for a lot of money are complaining. That’s a shame. But people in the scene help each other out and that’s wonderful. That’s what I’m trying to do with DeadClockworkWork Records.

Where can we see you live this year (concerts/tours)?
Well, as I said, we’re playing our release show in Munich on 15 May. And then in the summer we’re playing a show as a support act for The Atomic Bitchwax and Kant, another German band. And then there’s the Munich Hardcore Festival. We’ll also be guests at that again.

What are your plans for the future as a band?
Next year we will be celebrating our tenth anniversary. We’ve come up with something very special for the occasion: we’re going to pick out our favourite songs from all our albums and re-record them. The whole thing will then be released as a kind of “Best of”, which of course won’t be called “best of”. We’re already talking to a label about this, but I don’t want to reveal any more at the moment. But you know the label and it’s not DeadClockWork 😉

How can people best support your band?
The best way to support us is to come to our shows, simply stream, share and blast our songs out into the world. Or buy some merch on our Bandcamp page. We have some great t-shirts for the summer, check them out.

Do you have any message for your listeners?
Add us to your playlist and listen to our music. Come to our concerts and support each other in such a shitty time we live in today. Dear Bojan, thank you for the great interview and have a good time. See you then!

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Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well