Male Entitlement Is Challenged Via Hardcore Metal Riffs And Chic Vocals With Katy’s Wart From Ecce Shnak

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Male Entitlement Is Challenged Via Hardcore Metal Riffs And Chic Vocals With Katy’s Wart From Ecce Shnak

16/1/2026

Ecce Shnak
Katy’s Wart
New York City

Their 2025 rise in the indie art rock world has been nothing less than explosive; the NYC-based group Ecce Shnak invites intrigue and melodic introspection with a fantastic rhythm. The band released their long-anticipated Shadows Grow Fangs EP and then a subsequent live record to complete the experience. Next, they teamed up with DJ Eskei23 from Germany for a Kill ‘Em Mix of Jeremy, Utilitarian Sadboy. Then they met up with Madison Mars, the world-famous DJ, who made a remix of Prayer On Love. Both dancehall mixes took the floor like a natural and established the band even further in the field of sound exploration. To start the new year and to precede the release of the forthcoming record, Dandy Variances, Ecce Shnak present Katy’s Wart. There’s a radio friendly three and a bit minute version, and then a nearly ten-minute feature version that explores a story of bigotry and chauvinism with unpredictable consequences. Here’s what it sounds like.

A massive heavy metal riff breaks open like a crate of beer and a floodlit stage set. The beat throbs like an engine keeping a vast airship afloat with the band’s name in black lettering along the side. The riff continues with a hardcore style evolution, palm-muted hardball rhythms crash into the surge of consistent drumming. The lyrics flow in a strange telephone message, or a preacher’s reading, we sit hypnotised by the abstraction that forms within the guitar, drawn in and tied to the beat.

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