MISSIO

MISSIO is a dark electronic music project formed when Matthew Brue, a recovering alcoholic who had just exited a band, played some of his demos for David Butler – who had also just left a different band. The band’s lyrics are mostly based on Brue’s experiences as a teen addict. He has had the latin word ‘missio’ (which means ‘mission’) tattooed on his wrist for years to serve as a reminder of his mission to stay sober.

After their first single “I Don’t Even Care About You” reached #7 on Spotify’s Top 50 Global Viral Chart in early 2017, the airplay on SiriusXM of their follow-up “Middle Fingers” not only took them to #9 on Billboard’s Alternative Songs chart in April, but also got them signed to RCA Records, landed them a spot on Lollapalooza and found them headlining shows with hundreds of fans throwing middle fingers in the air.

Loner, a full-length album, was released in May 2017. Their next single “Bottom Of The Deep Blue Sea” gave the group its second appearance on Billboard’s Alternative Songs charts that October. Their sophomore album The Darker The Weather The Better The Man (originally intended as two separate albums) was announced in early 2019, preceded by three advance singles “Rad Drugz”, “Temple Priest”, then “I See You” – the latter giving the band a third top 40 song on the Alternative Songs chart in July 2019. A new single “Sing To Me” appeared later that year, featured on the soundtrack for the video game Death Stranding: Timefall.

On March 20, 2020, the duo released a documentary titled Love Me Whole about the making of The Darker The Weather The Better The Man. In it, Brue confesses he has not actually been sober like he claimed, and it is also revealed that Missio is no longer with RCA. A soundtrack for the film, titled Love Me Whole, was also released to streaming platforms and includes an updated version of the song “Anthem For The Broken”, a song that was removed from the Internet when the band was signed three years earlier.

In summer 2020, Missio released two singles, “Wolves” and “Hoodie Up”, in advance of their third album Can You Feel The Sun. The third release of their Skeletons EP series appeared in 2021. Villain was released independently in 2022. A fourth EP I Am Sad appeared in 2023.