Margaret Chardiet wrote her latest LP, Bestial Burden after almost dying from a sudden cyst that threatened to compromise her internal organs.

In turn, the industrial noise assault she’s created out of New York under the name Pharmakon has probably compromised the internal organs of countless showgoers across the world by now. She’s crafted songs out of the sounds of her own hyperventilation, samples of people hacking away in the throes of phlegmy illness, buoying it all atop rhythmic dirges that clang like warheads banging against each other in an abandoned missile silo. It’s some pretty terrifying stuff. That’s what happens when you make music after actually confronting the void.

Tomorrow, Pharmakon is coming to Kremwerk to scare the hell out of you and all your brave friends, headlining Debacle Records’ stacked local noise bill featuring mystic drone-master Garek Jon Druss, Pink Void, Knifecream (founder of Hanged Man Records Mitchell Bell’s blown-out death trance project) and KEXP’s Sharlese Metcalf spinning records as DJ False Prophet. If you are a necromancer, gravedigger, or have ever moonlighted as a mortician, this is the show for you.