2024 recap - and what's next in 2025

As we are leaving the year 2024 behind, let's have a brief look at what has been going on during this year musically and artistically for the bands and musicians that we discuss here at Unearthed Mirrors - and why not let us also have a look ahead at the first things that 2025 has already in store for us!

Uno Bruniusson touring with Delving in 2024

Most wanted and busiest drummer Uno Bruniusson will be touring with Berlin based band delving during the second half of 2024!

Delving is the musical project founded by Nick DiSalvo (better known as the frontman of Elder and one half of Gold & Silver) and they are going to release their new album "All Paths Diverge" on August 23rd, 2024 on Stickman Records (EU) and Blues Funeral Recordings (US) .

They blend elements of psychedelic rock, prog rock and electronic music: their new single "Zodiak" can be streamed here below and it's a very dynamic and fascinating piece!



Uno will play live with them on their upcoming live dates, including on their European tour this Autumn with Iron Jinn: all their dates can be found on their official Bandcamp at: delving-music.bandcamp.com.

Official social pages on: Facebook - Instagram

Uppsalas Fria Orkester to perform live again on March 15th, 2024

Uppsalas Fria Orkester playing at Kulturhuset Femman in September 2022

On March 15th, 2024 the ensemble of musicians gathering under the name of Uppsalas Fria Orkester will once again join together to play live and deliver some of their musical magic to the outside world!

As you might remember, back in August 2021, six musicians performed together as Uppsalas Fria Orkester at Kulturhuset Femman:
Uno Bruniusson on Drums,
Gottfrid Åhman on Guitars,
Pelle Åhman on Bass & Percussion,
Simon Sporrong on Keys,
Bengt Blomberg on Synth and
Markus Ahlbom on Guitar and Bass
(who also kindly uploaded the video of the whole session, that you can watch here below).

Maggot Heart Touring Europe in May 2024

Tour Poster by @kar1minal

In addition to the previously confirmed Festivals, more live dates have been announced for Maggot Heart!

The power trio will bring their raw and uncompromising dark rock to the following venues in May 2024:


May 17th, 2024 - Alte Hackerei, Karlsruhe (DE)

May 18th, 2024 - De Zwarte Ruiter, The Hague (NL)

May 19th, 2024 - Rock Hard Festival, Gelsenkirchen (DE)
Event Page - Tickets

May 21st, 2024 - La Mécanique Ondulatoire, Paris (FR)

May 22nd, 2024 - A_Way, Liestal (CH)

Focus On: UnoX

UnoX in 2023, photo courtesy of Uno & Xrysafeniax

We are starting this new series of posts to highlight, one at a time, the musicians and the bands who will play live in the next months: in this first post, we begin with UnoX, as they are indeed the first who will play live this year, with one show coming up already next week.

UnoX is the union of Uno Bruniusson's eclectic percussions with Xrysafeniax ' electronic sounds: both were already active in their respective projects (Uno, beside drumming with Maggot Heart, CV Vision, and others, also has his solo project Perkwuno, and Xrysafeniax plays in her duo with Alexandra Maciá, Phallucipher),  when they decided to join their musical skills and ideas and venture in a more experimental territory, to create with rhythms and sound waves the equivalent of a psychedelic experience.

UnoX (Uno Bruniusson and XrysafeniaX) live in Athens on January 26th

A new show has been announced for UnoX, the experimental project of Uno Bruniusson (In Solitude, Maggot Heart, Perkwuno and many more)and XrysafeniaX (Phallucipher): this time they will bring their electronic sounds and patterns in Athens, on January 26th, at Blackness Filled My Ears, alongside Lycurgus and with a DJ set by ΔreamCcore.

All details can be found in the official event page AT THIS LINK.


Meanwhile, it's possibile to stream on SoundCloud UnoX first ever live performance, one year ago, in Berlin:

Playlist: Soon on stage - first half of 2024

For many bands we follow here at Unearthed Mirrors, the first live shows of 2024 are approaching - with WATAIN, Lukas Häger, Saturnalia Temple and UnoX hitting the stage already next month, followed by PÅGÅ in early March; Unpure and Xalpen will embark on the Europe Ablaze tour in April/May, also in May are a couple of festivals for Maggot Heart and the quite unique Eros At Arms festival for Concrete Winds.

Here is then a selection of music which will be haunting venues in these upcoming months: you might want to blast again the ones you know already, and we surely recommend getting acquainted with those you might not be very familiar with yet, because although covering very different styles, they all have some really excellent music to offer!

The playlist features:

Footage of PÅGÅ, Perkwuno and Phallucipher live in Berlin

On December 8th, 2023 PÅGÅ, Perkwuno and Phallucipher have all brought their experimental sounds and rhythms live at Artistania in Berlin, and today we are thrilled to share some footage from their live sets!

All clips are courtesy of Ruhail Qaisar (whom we thank a lot!).

2023 recap - and what's next in 2024

2023 is coming to its end and a lot has been going on musically and artistically in this past year, so here is a brief recap of what's happened, as seen through our archive posts; as well as some of the upcoming releases and shows to look forward to in 2024!

New dedicated feature: For Whom The Drums Roll

Something for the drum appreciators on here!
We now feature a dedicated page of the website with drum cam videos and / or videos which are focused on the drums.
So far it includes some drumming action by:

• Uno Bruniusson with In Solitude , Death Alley, CV Vision and of course as Perkwuno;


• E. Forcas with WATAIN;


• Mikko Josefsson with Concrete Winds

Access the new page clicking on THIS LINK.

Also, feel free to send us links to other relevant videos that we should add there!

Photos courtesy of: Andrea Chirulescu - Steph Pictures - extreMMetal.se

Maggot Heart announced for Over The Edge Fest 2024

Over The Edge Fest has just announced that Maggot Heart will perform at the next edition of the festival, which will take place from May  24th to May 26th, 2024 at Chemiefabrik in Dresden!

The other bands announced so far are: Division Speed, Killing Frost, Foreseen, Ch'ahom, Phiz, Shaam Larein, Bottomless and Otras. More are to be announced.

Tickets are not on sale yet, but the official event page can be followed for more updates - which will be posted as usual also in our partake section of the website!

You can follow Maggot Heart on Instagram and on Bandcamp.

PÅGÅ, Perkwuno and Phallucipher live in Berlin on December 8th, 2023

Poster by Vortex Era

We are really excited to see another new show announced featuring a combination of musicians that are very well known and appreciated by many of us here at Unearthed Mirrors!

On December 8th, 2023 in fact, Berlin's cultural association Artistania will host a truly interesting event that will see none other than Pelle and Gottfrid's PÅGÅ performing on the same evening as Perkwuno (as you might recall, this is the solo project of Uno Bruniusson) and electronic duo Phallucipher (XrysafeniaX - also of UnoX, and Alexandra Maciá).

This gathering will surely make for a fascinating evening of musical experimentations and strange sounds explorations, as all of these musicians are indeed known to place no boundaries on their creativity and are constantly widening their own and their listeners perspective.

Saturnalia Temple: album release show with Dread Sovereign, Lukas Häger and UnoX

Saturnalia Temple's new album "Paradigm Call" is due out on Listenable Records in early 2024 and, after the recent announcement of their appearance at Celestial Darkness Festival in the UK with their new line-up - which now features none other then former In Solitude Pelle & Gottfrid Åhman - A Thousand Lost Civilizations has revealed earlier today that a release show for the album will be held at Le Lac in Brussels on February 24th, 2024!

But there's more: special guests for this event will be a really excellent combination of musicians, joining Saturnalia Temple that evening in fact, alongside Dread Sovereign, our favourite riffs weaver Lukas Häger and electro-rhythmic experimentalists UnoX (Uno Bruniusson and Xrysafeniax Dadanæ)!

Maggot Heart announced for Rock Hard Festival 2024

Rock Hard magazine has just announced the first bands that will perform at the 2024 edition of their Festival, and power trio Maggot Heart is among the first names confirmed!

The Rock Hard Festival will be held at the Gelsenkirchen Amphitheater, on May 17th - May 19th, 2024.
The other bands announced so far are: DAD, Forbidden and John Diva & the Rockets of Love; with 14 more highlighted acts to be announced.

3-day tickets can already be bought on Rock Hard's online shop.

Maggot Heart are currently busy touring the U.S. with MESSA and next month they will also play a show in London: all the upcoming dates in the Partake section of the website.

You can follow Maggot Heart on Instagram and on Bandcamp.

Maggot Heart 's third album "Hunger" out now and available to stream!

Power trio Maggot Heart has just released their third album "Hunger" and it is now possible to listen to it entirely on their official Bandcamp page!

"[...]This time I tried to get to the core of Maggot Heart, also when it comes to songwriting", said Linnéa recently about the album on an interview on Rock Hard. "This is of course a never-ending project and will possibly accompany me on the next album, however I had the feeling that this album in particular connected with something more vulnerable that defines me as an artist, but also defines the band."

...And "Hunger" definitely makes a solid statement about where the band is now!, sounding strong, rich in dynamics, intimate, at times confronting, able to bring about moments of both reflection and assertion, always with a no-bullshit attitude - which fits perfectly their musical nuances of dark rock, post-punk and noise rock.

PÅGÅ: "Magnetic Agent" cassette out now!

PÅGÅ - "Magnetic Agent" cassette - Image courtesy of Ektro Records

Additionally to performing recently in Finland and announcing their upcoming appearance at WATAIN 25th anniversay shows, PÅGÅ, the experimental duo formed by Pelle & Gottfrid Åhman, have also released on cassette their 4-Track Session recorded and formerly broadcast in 2021 on HKCR.


The performance features the following tracks: "Magnetic Agent" - "An Unfinished World" - "In the Eyes of the Sepiolanaes" - "Beat to Descend"* (*this last track features a guest appearance by Uno Bruniusson).



Copies of this new release have been on sale at their recent shows in Finland, and now can also be ordered online on Finnish label Ektro Records' webshop.

The entire session has also been previously made avaialble digitally back in 2021 on SoundCloud and MixCloud.
 All artwork and packaging has been curated by PÅGÅ and this peculiar release certainly is a must have for all of us appreciators of their mesmerizing, haunting and unique music!

[Updates]: The tape appears to be already sold out...which is not entirely surprising, considering how much we all love PÅGÅ' s music and the rarity of the release! Well done anyone who managed to get it and hopefully there will be more in the future somewhere on sale.

Interview about In Solitude on Noise Magazine

From time to time, there is the chance to read about In Solitude again, after all these years: and this month, on the latest issue (4/2023) of Noise Magazine (Polish music magazine), long-time In Solitude's supporter Cyprian Łakomy has published his recent interview with Uno Bruniusson, Gottfrid Åhman and Pelle Åhman, where they discuss the band's early times, its end, their music and what it meant to them, 'Sister', its legacy and more!

The interview covers various aspects of the In Solitude times, and how the music has impacted the lives of Uno, Pelle and Gottfrid.

Maggot Heart premiere new song "Archer" from their album "Hunger"

Illustration by Sebastian Wünsche

Power trio Maggot Heart are premiering today another track off their upcoming album "Hunger"!

This time they are offering us a glimpse into a different side of their music: the new song "Archer" in fact, is a bittersweet, almost melancholic song which features piano, trumpet and saxophone, building up to an intense ending momentum, in a smooth, rounded sound.

Maggot Heart release new video for the song "This Shadow"

The latest single by power trio Maggot Heart just got the video treatment and today the band has released this new visual piece to accompany their song "This Shadow"!

The video has been directed by Finnish artist and director Tekla Valy who made use of a very fitting combination of light and darkness, exposure and color balance to surround the band - and the eerie dancer who haunts the video here and there - with moving shadows and little creepy figures, adding a touch of dark and ghastly atmosphere.

 Images of Linnéa, Oliva and Uno playing close to a fire in a cave alternate to the uncanny silhouette of the dancer who projects her shadow across, matching the title of the song and the reflections narrated in the lyrics.

Maggot Heart share new song "This Shadow" from their album "Hunger"!

Maggot Heart's upcoming album "Hunger" will be out in less than two months and today, another new track has been unveiled: coming in strong with Linnéa's catchy riffing, "This Shadow" escalates in a heavy momentum which unleashes the power trio's intense energy, and combined with Maggot Heart's characteristic self-reflective, slower paced parts, create a really dynamic sound.

   The band has also disclosed that a music video for the song is coming soon, so stay tuned for that!

"Hunger" will be out on September 29th and pre-orders are open at both Rapid Eye Records and Svart Records!
The band will be touring right after releasing the record, check out the upcoming live dates in the Partake section.

Follow Maggot Heart on Instagram and Bandcamp.