Darsombra is another incarnation of Baltimore's Brian Daniloski, a member of the long-running theatrical noise metal outfit Meatjack, as well as a recent addition to Dadaist math metallers Trephine. Much like Joe Preston's Thrones, Darsombra is just Brian, armed with drum machine, guitar, synths and electronics, and vocals, crafting massive trudge metal anthems and sinister droning currents. The album starts off with a Troum-gone-space-rock vibe, just looped electronics and distant guitar figures cycling in the darkness, but then moves into heavy drum-machine patterns interlocked with crushing guitar riffage and a strangely pseudo-Middle Eastern feel, like an exotic Thrones/Swans fusion with clean anthemic vocals.Ecdysis keeps up this dynamic throughout it's six tracks, shifting between heavy robo indie-metal sludge, spacey guitar-crush space drones, deranged vocal loops, and lots of eerie amp ambience and meandering effects heavy guitar exploration. Very cool stuff, fans of axe-heavy droneologists Sunn O))), Earth, Troum, etc., and Thrones / Black Mayonnaise robotic sludge should check out.