BIOGRAPHY
Alkaloid is a band created by five good friends, who happen to be well-known musicians in the Metal genre, who played in bands together before. Our intention is to go beyond any limit that metal music sub-genres might have these days and create the world's most extreme Prog Metal band.
Consisting of a pedigree of extreme musicians, including current and former members of Necrophagist, Obscura, Spawn of Possession, Aborted, Dark Fortress, God Dethroned, Blotted Science and Noneuclid, Alkaloid set out to push the boundaries of progressive, extreme music on their impressive full-length debut The Malkuth Grimoire.
Alkaloid is a band that is defined through the field of tension created between musical opposites. Alkaloid merge extreme metal and other more diverse genres of music into a unique style that people will somehow find familiar, but haven’t heard yet.
All musicians in the band are known and active death metal players who all have a much broader view of music than just blastbeats and growls. Alkaloid want to establish from the beginning that they have many faces, and oscillating between (seemingly) contrary or mutually exclusive styles is a factor. To use playing technique only to write good songs, is another factor.
Alkaloids are a chemical compound produced by many plants and other organisms. They are found in many psychoactive substances (psylocin / LSD, cocaine, nicotine, caffeine, morphine, bufotenin, and many medical plants among others). The band sees the term Alkaloid as a symbol for the chemical agent that changes matter, or the perception of the physical universe and produces intense experiences of a multidimensional or exaggerated nature.
The fact that they affect both mind and body gives them the allure of a magical formula, after which nothing is the same. The nature of „change happening“ is something very much presented in Alkaloid's music, lyrics and visual identity. Let it be one big permanent morphing!
To fund their album they started a crowdfunding campaign in late 2014 that turned out to be a huge success.
Entirely self-recorded, self-funded and self-released by the band, Alkaloid burst onto the metal scene like a supernova. With twelve tracks of 73 minutes of mind-bending music, Alkaloid seamlessly ebb and flow through an arrange of styles and genres, creating an intelligent and fascinating blend of prog, death metal, and fusion. After just one listen of this masterful debut, it is safe to declare Alkaloid as the world's premiere progressive metal supergroup.
Formed in: 2014
Status: Active
Years active: 2014-Present
LINE UP
Morean (Dark Fortress, Noneuclid) – Vocals, Guitars
Christian Muenzner (Spawn of Possession, Ex-Obscura, Ex-Necrophagist) – Guitars
Danny Tunker (Ex-Aborted, Ex-God Dethroned) – Guitars
Linus Klausenitzer (Obscura, Noneuclid) – Bass
Hannes Grossmann (Blotted Science, Ex-Obscura, Ex-Necrophagist) – Drums
Country of origin: Germany
Location: Erlangen, Bavaria
Alkaloid GbR
Leimbergerstr. 57
91052 Erlangen
Genre: Progressive Death Metal
Current Label: Unsigned/Independent
Booking/Press Contact: http://www.alkaloid-band.com/press-booking/ // contact@alkaloid-band.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alkaloid.metal
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlkaloidBand
Google Plus: https://google.com/+Alkaloidbandmetal
Youtube: https://youtube.com/c/Alkaloidbandmetal
Merch: http://www.alkaloid-band.com/shop
The Malkuth Grimoire (Full-Lenth Album - 2015)
Released March 17, 2015
