Pharmakon is again together with her first new album in 5 years: Maggot Mass arrives October 4 through Sacred Bones. Main the return of Margaret Chardiet’s experimental industrial mission is “Wither and Warp,” the album’s nine-minute-long debut single. Give it a hear under.
“The lyrics for this track started with a euphoric and vividly hallucinatory dream. In it, ‘I’ didn’t exist, merely was,” defined Chardiet. “I had handed away into the earth, turning into a part of it, or many elements of it—by means of the divine transfiguration of decay. And I used to be extra content material on this mode of being than I ever was with life as a human. This dream logic hinged upon the hope that after we die, the physique merely breaks down again into the power that was trapped inside its matter.”
Over the course of its 5 songs, Maggot Mass explores Chardiet’s repulsion for the way in which people use and abuse the atmosphere. It’s Pharmakon’s fifth album, following 2019’s Devour.
This autumn, Pharmakon will embark on a European tour timed to the report’s launch. She is going to carry out in Austria, London, Berlin, Oslo, Prague, and extra cities earlier than ending with a set at Italy’s Improved Sequence II Competition on October 26. Discover her full record of tour dates under.
Examine Pharmakon’s 2013 full-length, Abandon, in “The 33 Best Industrial Albums of All Time.”
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Maggot Mass:
01 Wither and Warp
02 Methanal Doll
03 Purchaser’s Regret
04 Splendid Isolation
05 Oiled Animals
Pharmakon:
09-30 Innsbruck, Austria – p.m.okay
10-01 Zurich, Switzerland – Jugendkulturhaus Dynamo
10-02 Frankfurt, Germany – WW2 Bunker
10-03 Hamburg, Germany – Hafenklang
10-05 Uppsala, Sweden – Otherworldly Competition
10-06 Oslo, Norway – Vaterland Bar
10-07 Jönköping, Sweden – The Hush Hush Membership
10-08 Gothenburg, Sweden – Kulturhuset Oceanen
10-09 Copenhagen, Denmark – Loppen
10-11 Nijmegen, Netherlands – Soulcrusher
10-12 Anderlecht, Belgium – Magasin 4
10-13 London, England – The Underworld
10-15 Dunkirk, France – Les 4Ecluses
10-17 Berlin, Germany – Cassiopeia
10-18 Poznań, Poland – Pawilion
10-19 Lodz, Poland – DOM
10-20 Prague, Czech Republic – Bike Jesus
10-21 Brno, Czech Republic – Kabinet Múz
10-22 Budapest, Hungary – Immediate-Fogas Advanced
10-23 Zagreb, Croatia – Močvara
10-25 Ljubljana, Slovenia – Klub Gromka
10-26 Bologna, Italy – Improved Sequence II Competition
