Metalcore artist, Megg Jacobs, is preparing to drop her new single “ego,” along with an offical music video. A Short teaser clip was already shared via the artist’s Facebook page. Keep reading below to find out more.
Watch the teaser clip here: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BimNQrmLC/
Megg Jacobs encourages listeners to plunge deeper into their own struggles and experiences. “ego” explores the concept of ego death, not the serene, spiritual kind, but a forced unraveling of self that is violent, chaotic, and deeply unsettling. “Lyrically, the song deals with forced ego death,” Jacobs shares. “It’s about what happens when your sense of self is stripped away, and you’re left to confront the messy, inescapable gray that life actually exists in. Fighting the gray doesn’t bring clarity, it just shoves you into a different extreme.”
The track highlights the illusions encountered when forced into positions of apprehension. Through down-reaching lyrics, a powerful and vigorous outlook, Jacobs conveys the story of someone caught in an endless loop between a sterile, whitewashed world stained by filth and a glittering, enchanted forest that hides rot beneath beauty. Both are illusions. Both are prisons.
At its core, the song dissects how rejecting nuance and refusing to live in the gray can become its own kind of hell. Living in a world where you are placed into the cycle of feeling compelled to sit with the tragedies of your reality, while at the same time being influenced to look for the silver lining, causing existence to be agonizing. Beginning with heavy tones, boisterous vocals, intensifying drums, and thunderous guitars, the track grabs the consciousness of listeners and transports them into a roaring ambience. The edgy instrumentation and rambunctious vocals stay consistent, rasping in each line, immediately enticing the listener, carrying them into a storm of emotional reckoning. Using worms as the unofficial mascot for her brand, Jacobs threads dark irony woven into the work, where worms, long and strange, become agents of transformation, consuming the ego instead of flesh. Produced in collaboration with Spicehouse out of Sanford, NC, the outcome is exuberant and bold.
Follow Megg Jacobs:
https://www.instagram.com/megg_jacobs/
https://open.spotify.com/artist/28rMPSXmqmtl37Wr92T98S