Review: Maridia – The Overlook Sessions (EP, 2026) | Post-hardcore

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Band: Maridia
EP: ‘The Overlook Sessions‘
Released: January 30th, 2026
Genre: glim post-hardcore
Location: Sweden

Review

Välkommen alla en annan dag, or welcome everyone for another day bringing you some thoughts and music that could break you apart into small pieces just to violently put you all together immediately like an earthquake. And yes, this is exactly how the body feels with today’s submission, our prolific friends from Umeå and Stockholm, MARIDIA.

Released back at the end of January, the EP ‘The Overlook Sessions’ does some kind of retrospective, visiting back two of their previously released singles after ‘The Mouth of Ruin’, adding three new songs not heard before, making a span of 5 songs in less than 20 minutes.

The Swedish ensemble have never been an easy-going listening experience; the inclusion of these two singles in here just make all sense and keep giving meaning to their Grim post-hardcore, embodied in a restless and vitriolic flow of chaos, in the ups and in the downs proportionately.

We talked before about the last song here, “Tumulus”, and we recommend the listeners and readers to go back to this track in particular now specifically again as the world keeps burning in wider senses and voices keep drowning in bloodied conflict by the same hands, as “Tumulus” captured the artists thoughts and the dealing with the situation in Palestine as a window to look through, and as a reminder that the world won’t change for the better simply with good intentions. ‘The Overlook Sessions’ starts almost where it was left in previous works, even as they had a virtually hard to match first work entangling post-hardcore with metalcore and a gloomy sludge feel, here other touches of extreme metal would shine as well.

We fare quickly to what is the first point of personal reflection and bleakness in the EP with “I am a Whisper” , an existentialist anthem focused on the realization of human fragility, solitude and isolation, that continues with the dense interlude ambience of “Joohatsu” .

The connection between both songsntoger after a dire start at socio-political tensions and power dynamics with “Cloak of Opulence” is highlighted, as the meaning of the title song for “Joohatsu” immediately suggests.

We are dragged down again in a heartbeat for the next song to the end, keeping the tone and sharpness of the first song, and returning to topic against those behind most of our misery.

Even though it might be a short listening experience, it will surely leave you hungry for more, and MARIDIA sure carry the burning spirit of their music beyond, promising endless readings and deeply needed introspection, making them not just an incredible artistic effort, but also a personal binding embracing the listener.

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