Benny Ng, Author at Shadowary

“Hourglass”: A Journey of Redemption and Reinvention”

by Benny NgBlog October 26, 2025October 26, 2025No Comments

Listen to Hourglass SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/shadowary/hourglass Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4hYH6bPN106oBUk4hKMHS6 Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/album/hourglass-single/1777569257 After a five-year silence, Shadowary returns with “Hourglass”, a single that melds haunting piano melodies with crushing guitar riffs to tell a story of redemption. This track marks a new chapter for the band, encapsulating frontman Benny Ng’s journey of musical discovery and reinvention. Shadowary …

Initialize – Exclusive Instrumental Track

by Benny NgUncategorized July 23, 2020January 4, 2023No Comments

Initialize is a rock instrumental track that I wrote with contributions from two of our loyal supporters, Issa Tejima and Oliver Iwakura. During the lockdown period, I had a lot of free time so I decided to work on my production and composition skills. At around that time, Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park started doing …

MANIFEST _ Debut EP Released Worldwide

by Benny NgUncategorized August 30, 2019September 14, 2019No Comments

Today, our debut EP _ MANIFEST has been released to all major streaming services worldwide. “The production process for this EP started around 4 years ago. It’s just a great feeling to finally share it with our fans,” Benny says. Fans have used words like “empowering”, “godly” and “innovative” to describe Shadowary‘s music. “It feels …

ALL ALONE _ Debut Single

by Benny NgUncategorized May 31, 2019June 5, 2019No Comments

Our debut single – ALL ALONE – is released worldwide today. Stream/download: Spotify Apple Music iTunes YouTube Don’t leave us ALL ALONE. Add ALL ALONE to your playlist.

ALL ALONE – Music Video Shoot

by Benny NgUncategorized April 18, 2019April 18, 2019No Comments

3 weeks ago, we filmed the music video for our debut single: “ALL ALONE”. Shot on location in Redfern NSW, Peter Yu (our director) helped turn our vision into a reality. The whole shoot lasted for 6 hours. We got footage in daylight and night time. Fun fact: we filmed some of the scenes in …

Just In: MANIFEST Out To Supporters

by Benny NgUncategorized January 9, 2019February 4, 2019No Comments

Our crowdfunding campaign supporters have received their digital copy of our debut EP, MANIFEST. We were thrilled by the wonderful feedback about the tracks. It was such a satisfying feeling – writing, recording, raising $$ and ultimately, manifesting the EP into reality. We’re now choosing the debut single off the EP and our campaign supporters …

And It Is All Over! Now, The Real Work Begins

by Benny NgBlog October 10, 2018January 31, 2019No Comments

Our crowdfunding campaign has ended. We’ve successfully raised enough $$ to finish our EP 🙂 I’m super grateful for your support. I worked hard for the 37 days of the campaign (and many more days before that). I’ve learned to deal with rejection. There were non-believers who would give me ‘advice’ on something they knew …

Where To From Here?

by Benny NgBlog October 2, 2018October 10, 2018No Comments

Our crowdfunding campaign ends in less than a week. We are so grateful for all the support we’ve received so far. What’s next for us? Well, we’ll finish recording our debut EP and start recruiting band members to complete our lineup. We’ll be looking for a guitarist, bassist, drummer and keyboardist. After that, it will …

How Do I Write Songs?

by Benny NgBlog September 28, 2018No Comments

I started writing songs when I move to Australia in 2007. I still remember the first song that I wrote. It was a love song. I showed it to my singing teacher at that time and he was impressed. From then on, I have written close to 30 songs and instrumentals. I also took composition …

Why I Write Songs

by Benny NgBlog September 19, 2018No Comments

People make and compose music for different reasons. Some enjoy interweaving chords and melodies to make beautiful compositions. Some like the freedom of creating music that they enjoy listening to. For me, the main drive to write music is to express my emotions. Music is my outlet for all the frustration and anger I feel …