NYC-based quintet Ecce Shnak (pronounced Eh-kay sh-knock) presents ‘Fight Song’ (Live), a hard-hitting track with a potent message, presenting an ironic take on violence and addressing today’s rampant spread of hate-filled vitriol.
This is the second taste of their Backroom Sessions EP, following the downtempo groove-inducing opus ‘Prayer On Love’ (Live). Recorded at the Backroom Studios in Rockaway, NJ, the EP is out May 22 via Records, Man Records).
Rejecting conventional aesthetics, Ecce Shnak whimsically incorporates diverse artistic expressions, tackling profound subjects and intriguing minutiae with remarkable clarity. Building on the success of their recently-released debut ‘Shadows Grow Fangs’ EP, this new release previews June’s West coast tour with platinum-selling legends Spacehog and EMF.
Ecce Shnak is David Roush (composer, bassist and one of two singers), Bella Komodromos (vocals), Chris Krasnow (guitar), Gannon Ferrell (guitar), and Henry Buchanan-Vaughn (drums). Where fervent brilliance blurs into absolute, uncontainable madness, there resides Ecce Shnak, balanced precariously upon an illuminated sonic high wire.
“The hardcore slammer ‘Fight Song’ is not a Katy Perry cover. Instead, it is a djent-forward ramble on the ubiquity of violence in human life, be it literal or metaphorical. It was originally an ironic joke when it was released on our first EP, Letters to German Vasquez Rubio in 2012,” says David Roush.
“We decided to change the lyrics and release a new version in reaction to the rancid bigotries that so plague the human spirit nowadays, in America and elsewhere. The final line is a call to defend our basic human freedoms while we still have them: ‘Fight for your right to fight!’”
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