French doom/sludge/shoegaze trio Margarita premiere first single »Not A Mother« from upcoming debut album »Abysses Of Melancholia«

Paris, France based doom/sludge/shoegaze trio Margarita premiere the first single »Not A Mother« taken from their upcoming debut album, »Abysses Of Melancholia«, set to release on October 9th, 2026 via Electric Valley Records.

Says the band: “»Not A Mother« is about something that keeps being brought up in the lives of women our age – the expectation to be a mother. This song is about letting go of the roles and expectations put on us, and the feeling of not being enough. It’s about leaving this world without that legacy, leaving those bitter memories behind, just walking away.”

Courtesy of Electric Valley Records:

Margarita is a Paris-based trio, formed in 2022 by Julie, Julie, and Karen – the first band project for some of its members. They play heavy doom steeped in distortion and deep melancholy. Their songs talk about inconsolable loss, disenchantment, unreachable redemption, and a visceral rejection of toxic masculinity.

Blending doom, sludge, heavy psych, and shoegaze, Margarita builds dense, slow-burning tracks where brute force and fragility coexist. Heavy riffs meet layers of reverb and texture, creating a sound that is both crushing and introspective.

After releasing their debut EP in 2023, they played across France, Belgium, and Switzerland.

At its core, Margarita shares the impulse to expose inner chaos, to embrace going off track, and to turn vulnerability into something loud, raw, and unapologetic. Driven by a relentless need to follow darkness, the trio follows one rule: to black sabbath themselves into oblivion.

Margarita’s debut album follows a slow descent shaped by memory, anger, and loss. Throughout the record, the trio explores aching bodies, fractured identities, and a past that never really goes away. For this album, the band added synth layers and electronic percussion to their usual guitar, bass, and drums setup, bringing more depth and a strong sense of melancholy to the songs.

From »Blood Incantation«, where pain becomes a means of expression, to the hazy and melancholic »Melting Days«, the album explores loss on both personal and universal levels. Figures appear and fade: a lonely man, a disappearing self, memories of those who are no longer there. Themes of abandonment and refusal run through the record. »Not A Mother« rejects imposed roles and inherited expectations, questioning identities shaped by absence and anger. »Abyssal Pain« turns violence and resentment into a kind of epiphany, where destruction becomes a form of control. The album closes with »Better Off Alone?«, settling into a quieter form of solitude and the weight of unspoken wounds.

Available in:
• 220x Vinyl
• 30x Ultra LTD “Die Hard Edition”
• Digital

Pre-order here:
electricvalleyrecords.com
evrecords.bandcamp.com

Pre-order date: July 15 (18:00 CET)
Release date: October 9

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well