David Eugene Edwards (Wovenhand, 16 Horsepower) first-ever solo album Hyacinth out now!

“Gloomy, majestic, and poetic.” – Stereogum

“Eerie, dark folk.” – Brooklyn Vegan

"This first solo album is a compass for the soul, a guide for any being who wishes to glimpse in the dark, if only a spark of hope.” – Exit Musik

David Eugene Edwards releases his first ever solo album under his own name today, titled Hyacinth. The album is available to hear/share/purchase HERE. He is currently on tour in the EU & UK. See dates below. US tour dates to be announced soon. 

Watch/share "Weaver's Beam" video (directed by Loic Zimmerman) on YouTube HERE. 

David Eugene Edwards has always been larger than life. His atemporal style and powerfully iconoclast presence make him seem a man somehow beyond us. 

His music with innovative heavy droning folk band Wovenhand, and before that the haunting revivification of high lonesome sound antique Americana of 16 Horsepower breathed a near apocalyptic sense of urgency and poignance into musical archetypes long abandoned in the latter-20th Century. Anyone who has seen him perform live will attest to his captivating intensity as he sings and coaxes sweeping, dark fury and beauty from his instrument. 

Now, on his first-ever solo album under his own name, Edwards delivers a sound uniquely his own, with a vulnerability and introspection unheard from him before. Stripping back the heavy rock of his recent work with Wovenhand, Hyacinth puts the man’s voice, and sparing instrumentation into the main focus. There’s a somber beauty and world-weary tone throughout these songs. The album could been considered a slight return to the more melodic sounds of 16 Horsepower’s Secret South (2000) and the first, self-titled Wovenhand album (2002). But there’s more going on here: a rhythmic, pulsating undercurrent reminiscent of the tape loops and rudimentary rhythms of 80s Industrial post-punk as well as 808 Drill Style beats. The overall effect is often as if we’re hearing the clock ticking away our own mortality.

“Hyacinth was a sort of vision,“ Edwards says. “A dream. I sought out of my old wooden banjo and nylon string guitar a hidden path. Secrets they had kept from me within themselves all these years, and created a new Mythos to myself of philosophical and spiritual ideas or concepts.” From the outset of the pandemic, Edwards spent considerable time in solitary isolation, sick and impacted very hard in every way. Once he’d harnessed the music within, he enlisted multi-instrumentalist and producer Ben Chisholm (The Armed, Chelsea Wolfe, Converge, Genghis Tron) to help him realize the album’s recording and mix. 

“Overall, I guess the album is a weaving of narratives ancient and modern, of humankind’s search for understanding of this world we find ourselves in and of each other. In all its simplicity and complexity,” Edwards says. “Hyacinth is a reference to the Greek myth of Apollo. And, the word meaning a precious stone and blue larkspur flower of purple and pall.” 

In addition to his work with Wovenhand from 2001 to present, and Sixteen Horsepower between 1992 to 2005, Edwards has collaborated with such artists as Crime & the City Solution, Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten), and Carpenter Brut. He has also contributed to the soundtracks of films such as Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, The Brass Teapot, and Titane. 

Hyacinth is available worldwide on LP, CD and download via Sargent House released on September 29th, 2023. Order/save the album HERE. 

DAVID EUGENE EDWARDS EUROPEAN TOUR 2023 

Sept 29 Auditorium du Conservatoire de Lille - Lille FR

Sept 30 De Roma - Antwerp BE

Oct 01 Place La Laiterie - Strasbourg FR

Oct 02 L’Usine - Geneva CH

Oct 04 BIKO - Milano IT 

Oct 05 Casa del Popolo Il Progresso - Florence IT 

Oct 06 Locomotiv - Bologna IT

Oct 09 De Spot - Middelburg NL 

Oct 10 Tolhuistuin - Amsterdam NL 

Oct 12 Train - Århus DK

Oct 13 Amager Bio - Copenhagen DK 

Oct 14 Mejeriet - Lund SE 

Oct 15 Nefertiti - Gothenburg SE 

Oct 17 Kulturkirken Jakob - Oslo NO 

Oct 18 Kulturhuset - Bergen NO 

Oct 19 Folken - Stavanger NO

Oct 20 Gamla - Kristiansand NO 

Oct 23 OSLO - London UK 

Photo by Loic Zimmerman

Artist: David Eugene Edwards

Album: Hyacinth

Label: Sargent House

Release Date: September 29th, 2023

01. Seraph

02. Howling Flower

03. Celeste

04. Through The Lattice

05. Apparition

06. Bright Boy

07. Hyacinth

08. Lionisis

09. Weavers Beam

10. Hall of Mirrors

11. The Cuckoo

On The Web:

sargenthouse.com

linktr.ee/davideugeneedwards

MAGGOT HEART (ex-The Oath guitarist Linnéa Olsson) hosts Bandcamp Listening Party today for forthcoming album Hunger

"Finds their occult rock vibes in fine form.” – Brooklyn Vegan



“Maggot Heart have created something killer here. With HUNGER, you won’t be left wanting.” 4/5 — Kerrang!

“One of the most distinctive voices in heavy music… Wherever Maggot Heart goes next, rest assured it won’t sound like anyone’s work but Olsson’s. On Hunger, the onetime sidewoman is blazingly, unapologetically herself.” — Bandcamp Daily - Best Metal: September 2023

Iconoclast Berlin trio Maggot Heart host an exclusive Bandcamp Listening Party today at 10am Pacific/Noon Central/1pm Eastern to preview their forthcoming album Hunger. Fans can sign up to join the early full album stream Listening Party HERE. 

Bandcamp Daily also featured Maggot Heart in their Best Metal on Bandcamp September 2023 column HERE. 

The band recently shared the official video for "This Shadow", the second single from the album via YouTube HERE. Three singles are also available on all streaming platforms HERE. 

Maggot Heart, crossover rock band based in Berlin, channels emotional alchemy through music. Consisting of guitarist and singer Linnéa Olsson, bassist Olivia Airey and drummer Uno Bruniusson, Maggot Heart refuse to be categorized. Originally from Sweden, Olsson formed Maggot Heart as a solo project in 2016, after carving a name for herself in bands like The Oath, Beastmilk/Grave Pleasures.

From detonating their initial underground break-out City Girls EP, Maggot Heart had the underground by the throat, palpitating the grapevine. With two critically acclaimed albums under their belt, the 2017 debut Dusk To Dusk to 2020’s Mercy Machine, Maggot Heart are not here to coast, they’re here to make waves. Musically compared to such diverse acts as L7, Patti Smith, Sonic Youth, The Stooges, Killing Joke and Voivod, playing live with Earthless in the US, High on Fire and Amyl & The Sniffers in the EU along with several invitations to tread the hallowed stages of Roadburn Festival, Maggot Heart have been foaming-at-the-mouth road dogs. 

Now on their third album Hunger, recorded in Berlin and mixed by the acclaimed American producer and engineer Ben Greenberg (METZ, Portrayal Of Guilt), Maggot Heart’s game is about to change. 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, lurch you back for more.

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. Songs like "This Shadow" and "Archer" with abrasive pop hooks and Bowie-esque Jazz brass, showcase Maggot Heart's ability to blend simplicity with deft musical awareness. Bassist Olivia Airey and drummer Uno Bruniusson (whose former work includes the enigmatic In Solitude) are musicians at the very peak of their powers, and the backbone of Maggot Heart. As Olsson says it best when she states, “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."

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, Olsson knows well what hunger means for the survivor. Olsson isn’t hungry, she embodies Hunger. The album cover, a vulnerable portrait of strength. No other band out there sounds like Maggot Heart.

On Hunger their bones are exposed, a hole where the rib used to be, the void staring back. Sink your teeth into Hunger. Starvation has never sounded this vital.

Hunger will be available on LP, CD and digital on September 29th, 2023 via Svart Records and Rapid Eye Records. Pre-orders are available via Svart Records (LP, CD) HERE and digital/blue vinyl via Bandcamp HERE.

MAGGOT HEART LIVE 2023:

10/05 DE Hamburg - Hafenklang

10/06 DE Bochum - Die Trompete

10/17 New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge *

10/18 Hamden, CT - Space Ballroom *

10/19 Philadelphia, PA - Kung Fu Necktie *

10/20 Washington. DC - Comet Ping Pong *

10/21 Cleveland, OH - Beachland *

10/22 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle *

10/23 Ypsilanti, MI - Ziggy's *

10/24 Cincinnati, OH - Woodward Theatre *

10/25 Nashville, TN - The Cobra *

10/26 Atlanta, GA - The Earl *

10/27 Orlando, FL - Will's Pub *

10/28 Miami, FL - Gramps *

10/30 New Orleans - Gasa Gasa *

11/01 Denton, TX - Rubber Gloves *

11/02 Austin, TX - The Lost Well *

11/05 San Diego, CA - Brick by Brick *

11/07 San Francisco, CA - Bottom of the Hill *

11/08 Los Angeles, CA - Zebulon *

11/11 UK London - The Black Heart 

* w/ Messa

Artist: Maggot Heart

Album: Hunger

Label: Svart Records / Rapid Eye Records

Release Date: September 29th, 2023

01 Scandinavian Hunger

02 Nil by Mouth

03 LBD 

04 Archer

05 This Shadow

06 Looking Back at You

07 Concrete Soup

08 Parasite

On The Web:

maggotheart.com