Maggot Heart special feature on MILK ME: interview and performance

Berlin based booking and promotion company MILK ME has premiered today the third episode on their series which features none other than our favourite power trio Maggot Heart!

The episode includes an interview with Linnéa, Olivia and Uno as well as their full performance streamed at Roadburn Redux earlier this year, with the addition of two new songs taken from Maggot Heart's latest release, the split EP with OKKLUTOKRATI: "No Song" and "Zero Hour Day".

The episode was filmed before Maggot Heart's appearance at this past year's special online edition of Roadburn, so the band talked a bit about their previous show at the festival, their participation in the online edition, the pre-pandemic times, and how they managed to turn the pause from touring due to the restrictions into a productive time focusing on the new material; they also discussed what they have been missing the most and how they have experienced the lockdown times. Linnéa also talked about the main theme which her latest track "No Song" is about and just generally how the city life often inspires her songwriting; on a different note she also speaks about interviewing Motörhead members for her Death beat zine (some issues still available at Rapid Eye Records by the way).
The interview also touches upon their tour with Voivod and how the band is an inspiration to them; how Maggot Heart include elements both from hard rock, post punk and other genres as well which makes the band rather difficult to define on these terms.

Maggot Heart's killer live performance is also part of MILK ME episode and can be streamed below: of course, the LOUDER, the BETTER!, as they certainly spared no energy and delivered a set of highly intense and visceral rock music.
Setlist as follows:

No Song
Second Class
Roses
Zero Hour Day
Gutter Feeling

About this episode:
Presented by Joshua Murphy and Catherine Elsässer
Artist - Maggot Heart
Filming - Nicolas Unger, Julian Schmidt and Catherine Elsässer
Editing - Stéphanie Morin
Lights - Thomas Sevet
Audio Recording and Mixing - Martin Ortiz and Joshua Murphy
Location - Urban Spree Berlin

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MILK ME is also organizing Maggot Heart's show at Urban Spree happening this Friday (today, depending on when you're reading this) with Phallucipher, and YFORY.
The power trio will also be soon on tour in early 2022, check out the upcoming live dates HERE!

Watch Maggot Heart performing their exclusive set at Roadburn Redux

On Friday, April 16th 2021 Roadburn Redux, this year's digital edition of Roadburn Festival, streamed an exclusive set performed by Maggot Heart for the festival, comprised of three song, all from the band's latest album "Mercy Machine" (which has been released during the pandemic and therefore never performed live before).

Our favourite powerful trio truly delivered an intense performance which, even through the screen, felt extremely energetic and compelling!

It is possible to rewatch the recorded set on demand on the Roadburn Redux website at any time (until Tuesday, April 20th, 2021). [Updated: now available on Maggot Heart's YouTube channel. ]

Maggot Heart share new video for their song "Roses"

A new video for Maggot Heart's song "Roses", taken for their latest album "Mercy Machine", has been premiered yesterday on Rapid Eye Records! The video has been directed by Linnéa herself, and it's intense and passionate just like Maggot Heart's music. Blast it loud!

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Maggot Heart share new music video for "Sex Breath"

Maggot Heart have published today a new music video for their song "Sex Breath", fueled with their punk rock attitude and presented in a proper old school vibed feel to the images and color which matches the music completely!
The video has been created by Alexandra Maciá direction of photography, editing and post-production, Daniel B Maciel has handled the second camera and the colour correction, with Chrysafenia Danai Papagrigoriou (aka Cryss Crass) as art director.

"Sex Breath" is taken from Maggot Heart's album "Mercy Machine" released and available on vinyl and CDs at Rapid Eye Records.
Check it out below!

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Maggot Heart's new album "Mercy Machine" out now and full streaming!

Maggot Heart's new album "Mercy Machine" is out today on Rapid Eye Records and it can be streamed in its entirety on the official Bandcamp page!
Our favorite power trio has delivered a remarkable album, recorded as usual at Studio Cobra in Stockholm with Martin "Konie" Ehrencrona, and with the collaboration once again of Gottfrid Åhman, who co-wrote the songs "Justine" and "Senseless" and also guested on second guitar on the songs "Justine", "Sex Breath" an "High Rise".

From Rapid Eye Records' official page, Linnéa comments on the album release:
”It's July 10 and 'Mercy Machine' is set loose! This record took form after we finally landed at home in the end of 2019 after many intense and incredible tours. I knew this album was gonna be red, partially white, and I wanted it to take place in truth and in flesh. A rock n' roll manifestation! With teeth! The body as a machine, and in turn our bodies as parts of a bigger machinery, became the focal point. The eternal topics of sex and death and defiance. In good company of so many great albums before this one. 'Sex Breath' came first, 'Gutter Feeling' last. In another world/time, it seems now...

Interview: Linnéa Olsson takes us for a fascinating ride into Maggot Heart

Maggot Heart clearly needs little introduction here on Unearthed Mirrors: it is a musical entity born from the mind of Linnéa Olsson, and as In Solitude appreciators, most of us already knew her from Sonic Ritual (the band she formed back in the days with Henrik Palm), as well as for her other previous collaborations (The Oath, Beastmilk, Grave Pleasures...), so basically we have been following it since it first came out to the public back in 2017, when Teratology Sound & Vision announced that Linnéa, joined by ex-In Solitude members Uno Bruniusson and Gottfrid Åhman, who took part in the recordings, was about to release Maggot Heart's first EP. This, understandably, made a lot of us quite excited and interested in hearing what this new musical creature was going to sound like .
And certainly, what we heard didn't disappoint: the first EP, "City Girls", followed in 2018 by the debut full-length "Dusk to Dusk", delivered an irresistible, captivating and corrosive stream of pure dark rock energy.
Now, Maggot Heart's second full-length, "Mercy Machine", is due out next week on Rapid Eye Records, the label that Linnéa recently co-founded with Ricky of Swamp Booking, and we are very pleased to be able to offer on Unearthed Mirrors this fascinating insight into Maggot Heart's inner and outer aspects: you can read below what Linnéa told us about the upcoming album, her creativity and sources of inspiration, touring as a trio, the albums' cover artworks, what playing live means to her, and more. Enjoy!

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Linnéa Olsson/Maggot Heart Photographed by Joe Dilworth

UM: Maggot Heart is about to release the new album "Mercy Machine" on July 10th: regardless of how your listeners will experience it when it comes out, how distant does it feel to you, mentally and just generally, from your previous "Dusk to Dusk"?

MH: In some ways it's been a lifetime since "Dusk to Dusk". Since then, I feel Maggot Heart has really come into its own, and done so through a lot of dues paid. We've scaled down the live line-up to a trio, which had a big impact on the band on and off stage. We also toured a lot, which again really made us tighter as a group, and as friends. Speaking for me personally, I feel more confident with my vocals after two years of intense touring. We worked very hard as a band, and also in a sort of unconventional way for such a small band, with all the touring in the US and very little internet presence for instance. My hopes were that this would pay off, and seeing now how much more attention we are getting with this album, I feel it's been worth it. "Dusk to Dusk" was a very dark album in several ways. It dealt with a lot of subconscious matters of the mind, past trauma, violence and existential anxiety. Thinking back of the writing process of this album, a lot of heavy matters come to mind. So in some ways I feel like I've worked through some of these parts of myself, and landed in a new territory. Where "Dusk to Dusk" dealt with the mind, "Mercy Machine" is rooted in the body. I believe it's a bit less melancholic and a bit more punkier, maybe. It has a bit more bite. I'm very proud of our work and of what we've become as a band on this album, and proud of the performances of the other guys as well.

Maggot Heart premieres "Justine" from upcoming album

Maggot Heart's second full-length "Mercy Machine" is due out in just a bit more than a month, and as additional teaser, after hearing the title track a few weeks ago, we get to hear another track premiere: it's the captivating "Justine" who, armed with razor-sharp guitar riffs and a manic spirit, is coming to deliver some proper rock'n'roll to all the sleepless eyes and restless minds.

The song has been written by Linnéa Olsson and Gottfrid Åhman, who also guests on guitar.


Let "Justine" allure your ears with its frenzy attitude and reckless charm:

Maggot Heart's "Mercy Machine" is going to be released on July 10th, 2020 on Linnéa and Ricky's own label, Rapid Eye Records and it can be pre-ordered on the label's webstore and on Maggot Heart's Bandcamp.

Maggot Heart premieres first song from "Mercy Machine" & pre-orders now open!

Today, Maggot Heart is unveiling a taste of the upcoming second album, "Mercy Machine", through its relentless, electrifying title-track!
 The song has been premiered on Brooklyn Vegan, and it's possible to stream it below:

The album has been once again recorded at Studio Cobra, by the power trio Linnéa Olsson on guitars and vocals, Olivia Airey on bass and Uno Bruniusson on drums, produced by Maggot Heart and Martin "Konie" Ehrencrona and sees again the contribution of Gottfrid Åhman with additional guitars on "Justine", "Sex Breath" and "High Rise", as well as co-writer of the music to "Justine" and "Senseless"  ; he also took part to the pre-production and arrangements.