More than half a decade since the release of ‘Devour’ and seven years since she rocked the stage at Aquário, Margaret Chardiet returns to this venue to present ‘Maggot Mass’. The American artist’s fifth album, as always on the influential Sacred Bones label, ‘Maggot Mass’ reclaims Pharmakon’s central place and sphere of influence within the music born of violent catharsis and violated under the umbrella of what is, and still can be, noise and power electronics in their most vital and urgent form, based on a very punk ethic. An intense ode to the decline of the Anthropocene, ‘Maggot Mass’ carries in its title a harbinger of extinction that, at today’s pace, is increasingly palpable and has its due sonic replica here. An authentic storm of heavy beats, industrial textures, and lashes of noise, it continues to drain open wounds with such striking albums as ‘Devour’ and ‘Bestial Burden’ through a repetitive and martial flow that is almost, or even, hypnotic in its obstinacy and delivery. A barrage of sound for caustic and sharp lyrics that scorn humanity’s self-destructive accumulation in search of primordial states: “once I slough off this human skin I will find my home and ancestral kin… in the coffin-birth of my cadaver’s ecosystem” through torn and angry screams, transmuted by electronic processing and distortion, as if leaving human remnants behind. Ultimately, it is the ever-pressing continuation of a craft spanning more than a decade that resonates, like few others, with the degradation of time(s).
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Ändlös Otukt is a Portuguese solo project that began by combining an electronic approach to black metal with an undeniable industrial and noise influence. Two albums and a single later, in 2025, Ändlös Otukt returned to releasing music publicly, releasing an EP with Rotten \ Fresh, which compiles short soundtracks from old projects. This EP loses practically all of its black metal influence and expands into a universe of industrial power noise, with both mechanical, strong, and calculated beats and dissonant percussion, and even a track inspired by the witch house and ambient trap movement. In general, his artistic intention always ends up being to create disturbing and frightening works, with a liminal aesthetic, worthy of being featured in horror films.