Once upon a time (few months ago), I talked about Alkaloid, and their first album. It was one of the best prog/tech death metal albums of that year, and for me, one of the best in general. Now, when I listen to "Liquid Anatomy", I can feel atmosphere that Alkaloid is famous for, its gloomy, "Lovecraftian", its pretty much different than anything you heard and its their signature in some way. With this second release, Alkaloid made a big step forward, at least for me. There are more progressive parts than technical, more clean vocals, more melodies than before. But don't get me wrong, its still weird as fuck.
About them:
This band 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!
The band funded their debut album “The Malkuth Grimoire” with a crowdfunding campaign that turned out to be a huge success. Alkaloid’s second album is available at their new label partner Season Of Mist.
Source: https://www.facebook.com/pg/alkaloid.metal/about/?ref=page_internal
Do I think this album is better than their debut? Well, that is a very complicated question, cause this band makes pretty unique music. And this album is not really comparable to “The Malkuth Grimoire”, even though they are similar in so many ways. So, in the end, I love them both and they combined are, magnum opus of progressive death metal genre.
Line up:
Morean - vocals & guitar
Christian Münzner - guitar
Danny Tunker - guitar
Linus Klausenitzer - bass
Hannes Grossmann - drums
Links:
https://www.facebook.com/alkaloid.metal
http://www.alkaloid-band.com/
https://shop.season-of-mist.com/list/alkaloid-liquid-anatomy
My links about Alkaloid:
https://steemit.com/music/@atheistperson/album-recommendation-alkaloid-the-malkuth-grimoire
https://steemit.com/music/@atheistperson/new-alkaloid-single-azagthoth
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Alkaloid - Liquid Anatomy / Season Of Mist / 2018