Magic Pie frontman Eiríkur Hauksson told Prog about being a metalhead in a prog world, writing songs at bus stops, feeling the heat on Cruise To The Edge and the band's 2025 concept album, Maestro
Writer’s block – is there any condition more dreadful to a creative soul? The very anathema of the muses that bestow inspiration, that fearsome struggle to bring art into the world plays a key role in Maestro, the new album from Norway’s Magic Pie. The record is bookended by the two-part Opus Imperfectus, the story of a composer struggling to find the perfect ending to complete their masterpiece. The subject seems apposite when Magic Pie’s fans endured a six-year dry spell between 2019’s Fragments Of The 5th Element and the arrival of Maestro.
