Pharmakon announces new album, Maggot Mass

Pharmakon has announced a new album. Five years after 2019’s Devour, Margaret Chardiet has revealed the details of new album Maggot Mass, which is due out October 19 via Sacred Bones. Today she’s shared new song “Wither and Warp.” Hear it below.

Chardiet said in a statement, “The lyrics for this song began with a euphoric and vividly hallucinatory dream. In it, “I” did not exist, simply was. Without memory, identity, or ego. Suspended outside of time – only present moment. Oblivion. Without true thought, merely sensations that felt as comforting as they were unfamiliar: I sensed the prickled growing pains of an extending root, and the tingle of minerals soaking through it. I heard a chattering flow of information pass through me, all chemical communication. A vague awareness collected slowly, of being the moss that cushioned a stone. Enraptured in the beauty of existence as a plant, a producer who takes only sun, air, and water to reciprocate multitudes in return.

“In this dream, I my “self” was dead. I had passed away into the earth, becoming part of it, or many parts of it – through the divine transfiguration of decay. And I was more content in this mode of being than I ever was with life as a human. This dream-logic hinged upon the hope that when we die, the body merely breaks down back into the energy that was trapped inside its’ matter. And all the carrion-eaters who might devour “you” will surely take “you” into “them”, rendering your death back into the folds of life. This song represents the ecstasy of that dream… joy in (a lack of) existence, the self scattered throughout many forms of being.

“How sweet the vision of a death without waste. But as always, we must awaken from such sweet dreams…”

Pharmakon Maggot Mass tracklist:

1. WITHER AND WARP
2. METHANAL DOLL
3. BUYER’S REMORSE
4. SPLENDID ISOLATION
5. OILED ANIMALS

Pharmakon tour dates:

9/30 – Innsbruck, AT @ PMK
10/1 – Zurich, CH @ Dynamo
10/2 – Frankfurt, DE @ WW2 Bunker
10/3 – Hamburg, DE @ Hafenklang
10/5 – Uppsala, SE @ Otherworldly Festival
10/6 – Oslo, SE @ Vaterland
10/7 – Jonkoping, SE @ The Hush Hush Club
10/8 – Gothenburg, SE @ Oceanen
10/9 – Copenhagen, DK @ Loppen
10/11 – Nijmegen, NL @ Soulcrusher
10/12 – Brussels, BE @ Magasin 4
10/13 – London, UK @ Underworld
10/15 – Dunkirk, FR @ 4Ecluses
10/17 – Berlin, DE @ Cassiopeia
10/18 – Poznań, PL @ Pawilion
10/19 – Lodz, PL @ DOM
10/20 – Prague, CZ @ Bike Jesus
10/21 – Brno, CZ @ Kabinet Muz
10/22 – Budapest, HU @ Instant
10/23 – Zagreb, HR @Mochvara
10/25 – Ljubljana, SL @ Gromka
10/26 – Bologna, IT @ Improved Sequence II Festival