MAGGOT HEART is the brainchild of Swedish guitarist/singer Linnéa Olsson (former member of Beastmilk/Grave Pleasures, Sonic Ritual and The Oath). The debut EP „CITY GIRLS“ has been making waves in the summer of 2017, gathering critical acclaim and boasting two swiftly sold-out pressings.
July 2018 has seen the release of the much-awaited first album „DUSK TO DUSK“, once again on Berlin-based imprint TERATOLOGY SOUND & VISION. As was the case with the EP, the album sees Linnea employing the services of fellow Swedes Uno Bruniusson (Procession, Death Alley, ex-In Solitude and Grave Pleasures) on drums and Gottfrid Åhman (No Future, Reveal, ex-In Solitude, Invidious, Repugnant) on bass. Recorded in Studio Cobra (In Solitude, Nifelheim, Pig Eyes) in Stockholm in December 2017 under the guidance of Martin Ehrencrona, „Dusk To Dusk“ witnesses Maggot Heart as they build on the sound of „City Girls“ to expand its boundaries and achieve a very personal result, which is much more than the sum of its influences. „Dusk to Dusk“ is the sound of a comedown in the blue light of the dawn. Darker, monolithic and slightly melancholic, its nine songs move through pictures of isolation in altered states – we get presented with a highly dynamic spectrum of saturnine moods that builds the fundament for snarling, rusty guitars that would be out of place on neither a Killing Joke nor a Stooges record. They steadily mingle and fight with a powerful rhythm section that is at times reminiscent of the maddening stomp that put noise-rock heroes like The Jesus Lizard or The Birthday Party in the pantheon of rock music. „Dusk To Dusk“ is an album well informed by what has happened in music since the late seventies, yet never relying on past achievements.
This is a highly personal „alchemical blitz“, that through unorthodox approaches and intense lyricism highlights a certain kind of savagery in rock and roll that seems to have gone missing in the retro-craze of the 2010s. After being launched in 2017 MAGGOT HEART has quickly risen to one of the most exciting and talked about underground rock acts of today.
OKKULTOKRATI makes it their business to tear apart the rock 'n' roll guidebook and mash it into vicious combat music for fans of punk, d-beat, black metal and generally anyone with a penchant for unsavory anthems delivered with inimitable attitude. They have earned a ferocious reputation for siphoning elements of disparate genres in to their toxic, distorted brew, a trait that can be observed across the whole of the Black Hole Crew collective encompassing Haust, Dark Times, Blood Suckers, Drugged SS, and others. Once the sheer slamming force of their tunes has sunk in, the iconoclastic quintet has a tendency to pull the rug from under the whole contraption, sending their tracks tumbling in to experimental and industrial forays that further their capacity to ensnare the listener in their bear trap.
På trods af deres fængende musikalske udtryk og store individuelle kompetencer, er tuning et fuldkomment ubeskrevet blad i den danske musikscene. Men lad det være sagt med det samme: underspillede og melodiøse musikunivers, som de kalder for alternativ rock. Synergien skabes af Mikael Vraast- Thomsen på vokal og guitar, Niels Due på trommer samt Frank Rudolph på bas, guitar, keys og kor. De tre herrer er i gang med et spændende ep-projekt. De har lige været i studiet og indspillet deres første single – releasedato i løbet af foråret 2019 De tre herrer elsker fede grooves i et beskidt, alternativt udtryk. Trioen arbejder ihærdigt med at opbløde deres massive sound med den stærke melodi og et tekstunivers, der eksistentielt forholder sig til de fortællinger, der spejler vores nu i forhold til historien og kan give os en glimtvis forståelse for, hvem vi er og hvor vi måske er på vej hen.
Glæd dig til at opleve tuning på scenen. Tre erfarne musiker, der i deres musikalitet udgør en tremandshær, der vil belejre og til sidst besejre dine øregange og musiske sjæl. Musikkens helt særlige karakter giver dig efter koncerten lyst til at smile og nynne på den ørehænger, der lige i nuet har boret sig dybt i din sjæl og ikke vil give slip på dig!