We had a bunch of great footage left over from the video shoot for the Hadal Maw track ‘Vile Veneration’ (see previous post), so we decided to put together a drum playthrough. As the original intention wasn’t to film a drum playthrough, there’s a few parts where the drums or cymbals I’m hitting don’t exactly line up with the recording, but hey, who cares eh? Filmed and edited by the very talented Ian Ritter.

The new Hadal Maw EP came out on NYE (pick up a vinyl, CD, digital copy or merch from www.blighttownrecords.com or https://hadalmaw.bandcamp.com/) and we will be launching it at The Workers Club in Melbourne on the 4th of February. This will be my first interstate show since the start of the epidemic so I’m excited! More shows to come in April including the massive New Dead Fest in Adelaide.

The night after (5th of Feb) I’ll be playing at the Evelyn with Freedom of Fear (FoF) who I have played a couple of shows with now including one in Alice Springs a few months ago. I also filmed two very epic music videos with FoF at the end of 2021 which will be released in the coming months to promote their new album.

On the Dyssidia front, we were lucky to play a show at The Gov in Adelaide in early January to 300 people supporting the always awesome Twelve Foot Ninja. Given capacities are reduced to 25% in Adelaide, this was quite favourable that we were able to play this show to so many people (The Gov was able to have 150 inside and 150 outside which was 25% for both). Check out a live drum cam from the show below. We also started demoing tracks for our next album in December which we’re very excited about. Check out some footage of the drum demo recording below as well.

Cheers and stay safe!