Australian blackened tech-death outfit Ecdysis have unleashed “Dawn Of The Smegmadon”, a brutal new single paired with a gloriously deranged music video.
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The track does not waste time with a slow build. It launches straight into razor-sharp riffs, blast beats, snarling vocals and enough technical firepower to make clear that Ecdysis know exactly what they are doing. Yet for all its intensity, “Dawn Of The Smegmadon” never disappears into pure complexity. The riffs stick, the chaos has shape, and the guitar solo brings a genuinely memorable melody into the middle of the carnage.
That balance is what makes the single work. It is extreme, but it is also catchy. Ecdysis can throw down serious musicianship without losing the fun, and “Dawn Of The Smegmadon” has plenty of both.
The video matches the track’s warped energy. Loaded with gross-out humour, wild practical-looking effects and a Troma-style sense of comic horror, it feels like a bad science experiment that should never have left the lab. It is over-the-top, disgusting and exactly as entertaining as it should be.
Jack Hartley handled the recording, mixing and mastering, giving the track a huge, detailed sound. The guitars bite, the drums hit hard and every element has enough room to land, even when the song is moving at full speed.
“Dawn Of The Smegmadon” is Ecdysis at their most unhinged: brutal, funny, technically sharp and impossible to ignore.
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Killer.
