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Flagpole Premieres: ESCA, “Victory Position”

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Today, metalcore band ESCA (formerly known as The Enemy Within) shares the music video for its single “Victory Position” ahead of its streaming release tomorrow. The track is a redux from the former iteration of the band, so it will be familiar to longtime fans but revitalized into a proper introduction of where the band stands now.

“‘Victory Position’ has been a high-energy staple and great opener at live shows since the song’s initial release. The instrumentals have been revamped to modernize at times and rethink what the song would sound like in 2025. Not too much has changed other than the vocals. This is the debut (technically) of our new vocalist, Johnmark Hendrix. He has been a member for the past year, working day and night to get the band rolling again and providing vocals for this and our upcoming EP,” says the band.

The music video is a gritty production inspired by cartoonist Kris Straub’s horror web series “Local 58” and other online analog horror.

“We are drawn to the ultra-realism of ‘Local 58.’ It has an element of analog horror that lends the idea of forgetting it is entertainment media. Straub’s very breaching satire of the concept of state-controlled media and surveillance is gripping. The song itself is a short-form unofficial story for the ultimate goal of the antagonists in the series and the implied responses from dissidents. We believe it unofficially carries on the narrative of that series, restructuring what the ‘victory position’ means to us. Standing up for your neighbors and growing community. We’d think and hope that Kris Straub sees this and giggles. He’s a great artist, and it’s a mortifying series,” says the band.

ESCA plans on releasing another single and music video this fall that leads into its four-song EP due out at the end of the year. “It’s a project that has seen vocalist changes, complete re-writes and years locked inside a Macbook,” says the band, and it’ll feature other musicians that might be familiar faces to fans, too.

Keep up with ESCA at instagram.com/escabandofficial and facebook.com/escabandofficial.

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