Welcome to the new MAUDLIN website. As you see we’ve chosen for a simple website. Just because we feel that it’s more important and way more fun to put time in our music than in this virtual part of life. 

Talking about our music… official release of our “IONESCO” full cd is scheduled on May 1st. We start with a very limited amount of cd’s that come in a nice digipack on the OFFERANDUM RECORDS label we run ourselves. So, if you’d like to catch this version of “IONESCO” do not doubt and order right here right now. 

Time for some namedropping, persons that had a helping hand in the whole “IONESCO” process are: Magnus (Cult of Luna) Lindberg, Ace (Death Before Disco - rip), Tom (Cloon, Trenchfoot, Congress - rip, Family of Dog - rip). 
People & bands our “IONESCO” is influenced by: Eugène Ionesco, Syd Barret & Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Neurosis, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Tool, Botch, Cult of Luna, Isis. 

The official presentation of our “IONESCO” takes place in a castle of the city Heist-aan-Zee. Doors opening at 18h00. Guest performances by our friends in TRENCHFOOT & WE’RE WOLVES. Also an art exhibition is taking place. 9 artist will show the visitors an impression of “IONESCO”. Guess you don’t want to miss out on that! 

As soon as you unwrap your “IONESCO” you’ll notice it ain’t an ordinary album, but that there is a whole idea/concept behind it. There are lots of links between the artwork & the lyrics and between the next artwork in the next versions of the cd’s & lp’s that come out later. Here is a little introduction on our “IONESCO” story: 

On “IONESCO” we take you back to the era before psychiatric drugs, to the mid forties. Where Doctor Walter Freeman was convinced that he had found the cure for depressions. 
On January 17 he performed the first-ever transorbital or ‘ice pick’ lobotomy in his Washington, D.C. office. His patient was a severely depressed housewife named Sallie Ellen Ionesco. 
After rendering her unconscious through electroshock, Freeman inserted an ice pick above her eyeball, banged it through her eye socket into her brain, and then made cuts in her frontal lobes. When he was done, he sent her home in a taxi cab. 
Freeman was convinced he’d found the answer to Sallie Ellen Ionesco’s depression. He believed that mental illness was related to overactive emotions, and that by cutting the brain he could cut away those feelings. 

Want to find out more about it… buy it. 

Also check our merch-section, new shirts arrived! Good quality, fair price! 

Maudlin is always willing to play out live. At this moment we’re still doing our own bookings all over the world, because we would rather fully concentrate on our music we might work with a booker that suits our needs in the future. But untill now: book us here!