Maggot Heart Unveil New Album “Hunger”

Berlin’s Maggot Heart have released their new album, Hunger, via Berlin’s Rapid Eye Records and Finland’s Svart Records. Maggot Heart channel emotional alchemy through music, they refuse to be categorized. From detonating their initial underground break-out City Girls EP, Maggot Heart had the underground by the throat. With two critically acclaimed albums under their belt, the 2017 debut Dusk To Dusk and 2020’s Mercy Machine, Maggot Heart are not here to coast, they’re here to make waves.

If Dusk to Dusk was the mind, and Mercy Machine the body, then Hunger is the spirit. Whip-tight choruses, guided by a grunge-aged sensibility, where punk and noise rock grime are layered beneath Swedish 70’s proto-metallic ooze. Hunger goes for the gut but with panache, boldly exploring the dichotomy of desire and desperation through powerful refrains and a brave sense of rhythm. Hunger is the album where Maggot Heart’s finesse of their own fervor finds them standing on their own feral hind legs. Existing on a diet of her own determination, they know well what hunger means for the survivor. guitarist and singer Linnéa Olsson isn’t hungry, she embodies Hunger, with an album cover that portrays a vulnerable portrait of strength.

 “A band is a family, a pact in blood, a strange and unique and incredible relationship. I think playing music together with someone is probably the most intimate you can get outside of romance. All that sweat, the trust you have to have in one another, the exchange of energy. Looking Back At You is one of the more aggressive songs on the album and definitely some of the angriest lyrics I’ve ever written; Looking Back at You is about reclaiming power. The video plays on the concept of being observed, something like ’Schrödinger’s Woman’! One of my faves on the album.” (Linnéa Olsson)