Following up on previous effort ‘Ego’, Megg Jacobs returns today with another hard-hitting, ferocious and cathartic offering, a slice of dynamic metalcore with a particularly eerie quality. ‘DEATH’ is defined by Jacobs as a ‘companion track’ to ‘Ego’, with both pieces delving fiercely into the darkest corners of human consciousness, especially around the concept of ‘ego death’. The resulting aural experience follows such heavy and introspective theming, actualising it with a stream of tumultuous scream vocals and sharp guitar tones.
Granted, this is not a record for everyone, yet we suspect that the right audience will greatly connect with Jacobs. ‘DEATH’ is a really good metal effort, a perfect display of how one can blend dooming lyricism and relatively organised and decadent sonic energy. In that sense. Megg’s boundary-breaking vocal tone completely dominated the listeners’ attention, raising the intensity to the maximum.
Widening the reasoning behind ‘DEATH’ and ‘Ego’, Jacobs explains: “A volatile meditation on all-or-nothing thinking, illusion, and the chaos that follows the rejection of nuance. It narrates the fallout of denying that middle space. It’s the exhaustion that comes from clinging to black-and-white thinking while everything around you demands complexity.”
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