Pharmakon Reveals New Album ‘Maggot Mass’ and Shares New Song: Listen

Pharmakon is set to release her first new album in five years, titled *Maggot Mass*, on October 4 via Sacred Bones. To mark the return of Margaret Chardiet’s experimental industrial project, she has unveiled the album’s debut single, “Wither and Warp,” which spans nine minutes. The single is available for listening below.

Chardiet shared insights into the inspiration behind the song, revealing that it originated from an intense, hallucinatory dream. In this dream, her sense of self had dissolved into the earth, and she experienced a divine form of decay that felt more content than human life. She explained that the song hinges on the idea that death transforms the body back into trapped energy.

*Maggot Mass* consists of five tracks and delves into Chardiet’s discontent with humanity’s environmental exploitation. This album follows Pharmakon’s 2019 release, *Devour*.

This fall, Pharmakon will embark on a European tour to promote the new record. She will perform in cities like Innsbruck, Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Uppsala, wrapping up at Italy’s Improved Sequence II Festival on October 26. A full schedule of her tour dates is provided below.

Tour Dates:
– 09-30 Innsbruck, Austria – p.m.k
– 10-01 Zurich, Switzerland – Jugendkulturhaus Dynamo
– 10-02 Frankfurt, Germany – WW2 Bunker
– 10-03 Hamburg, Germany – Hafenklang
– 10-05 Uppsala, Sweden – Otherworldly Festival
– 10-06 Oslo, Norway – Vaterland Bar
– 10-07 Jönköping, Sweden – The Hush Hush Club
– 10-08 Gothenburg, Sweden – Kulturhuset Oceanen
– 10-09 Copenhagen, Denmark – Loppen
– 10-11 Nijmegen, Netherlands – Soulcrusher
– 10-12 Anderlecht, Belgium – Magasin 4
– 10-13 London, England – The Underworld
– 10-15 Dunkirk, France – Les 4Ecluses
– 10-17 Berlin, Germany – Cassiopeia
– 10-18 Poznań, Poland – Pawilion
– 10-19 Lodz, Poland – DOM
– 10-20 Prague, Czech Republic – Bike Jesus
– 10-21 Brno, Czech Republic – Kabinet Múz
– 10-22 Budapest, Hungary – Instant-Fogas Complex
– 10-23 Zagreb, Croatia – Močvara
– 10-25 Ljubljana, Slovenia – Klub Gromka
– 10-26 Bologna, Italy – Improved Sequence II Festival

The tracklist for *Maggot Mass* includes:
1. Wither and Warp
2. Methanal Doll
3. Buyer’s Remorse
4. Splendid Isolation
5. Oiled Animals

Source: Pitchfork