Supporting the Symbolism EP the Mega guys are back with a new video for Cesspit. Craig breaks it down.
“So, very early on in the process of making this video, we had asked our friend Josh Haynes to be involved in some capacity as an actor. At that point we didn’t have any concrete ideas, just little bits and pieces of what we thought we wanted to include in the storyline of the video.”
We were really keen to have some sort of audience involved with the performance aspects of the video, but knew we wouldn’t be able to bring enough people on the short notice we had. So, Ben and Josh sat down to think up alternatives, and the idea of having one person in a theatre surrounded by balloons with static smiley faces that made up the rest of the audience, was the idea that stuck out to us the most.
The protagonist grows more anxious and agitated as the video goes on, fantasising about destroying all the balloons, until he’s left in the theatre alone…
I think initially this was just an idea we all thought would be cool to see realised on screen. But as time went on and we put more thought into it and we managed to find ways to connect it with the lyrics and the metaphor of the “Cesspit”. This being the things like depression and anxiety, constructed involuntarily in your own head… your own kind of homemade hell if you will, and how certain things that are built up in that frustration can seem like the only way to handle it.”
Filmed, Directed and Cut by Stuart Breadner
www.shootback.co.uk
Actor: Joshua Haynes
Formed in 2013, by Craig McKenzie (guitar & vox), drummer Jamie Barnes and bassist Ben Reffin, Megalomatic do indeed sing about real life issues and they do so with equal parts muscle and heart. A power trio whose musical might comes across as a mixture of Biffy Clyro by way of Mastodon, Megalomatic have proven, over the course of their young career, that heavy music can have profound emotional resonance.
