Biografia
Viking Moses, AKA Brendon Massei, achieves a special balance of warmth and command, with familiar melodies that draw listeners in and oblige them to stay. Strongly lyrical songs are played out through tunes that flirt with pop, folk, indie, grunge and Americana, all strung together with a unique pulsing guitar, and by Massei's robust voice, which ebbs from delicate whispers to throaty howls.

20 years and counting, Massei has won over fans and critics with the delicate melodies of his songs, and through his versatility as a performer. His live show is as compelling in a living room as it is in a major venue, and his songs as natural in a movie soundtrack as on a record player. The lore of Massei's outsider lifestyle has won him interest and praise.

2013 saw the release of Werewolves Across America, a documentary by UK Production Company Pulse Films about Massei's life and lifestyle as a touring musician. Massei's music also features on 2014's BAFTA-winning UK film Kelly + Victor, and documentary film The Legend Of Masty Huba (2011).

Each Viking Moses release has etched a progressively weightier musical trench, ranging from the acoustic Crosses (2005), to the euphoric slow pop of 2009’s The Parts that Showed, to the markedly rocking The Conquest Night (2012). These releases laid serious bedrock that has won Viking Moses years of acclaim. Jahiliyah digs beneath this bedrock. A set of songs crafted out of the subterranean, Jahiliyah is unassuming, as though it has been happening before meeting the listeners’ ears and will continue to crank away for evermore.

Viking Moses's album Jahiliyah (an Arabic word meaning, "the age of ignorance") is a deeply contemplative work. The narrative, mythical at times, employs cinematic desolation as motif and follows a character that, harnessing his instinct, challenges his upbringing. We watch his struggle to influence by ideal, his abandonment of community, and his submission to a great unknowable beyond. As he traverses this beyond, we share in his fearful obstacles, courageous discoveries, and inspirational boons.