Alkaloid announce new album ‘Numen’
ALKALOID have announced a new album!
Titled Numen, the upcoming album from the German progressive death metal band is the long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s Liquid Anatomy, and is scheduled to be released in September this year, via Season Of Mist.
Numen was written during the pandemic, but it was planned long before the scourge of disease wracked humanity. As a result, the songwriting sessions were predictably not “in the room” but over the internet after the band members had isolated and worked on their constituent parts.
“We’ve all been around the block a few times by now as metal musicians,” says vocalist Morean. “The feeling that we’ve outgrown the narrow niche of pure extreme metal was a main motivator to start this band in the first place, ten years ago. The ‘prog’ tag is handy for us because, per definition, it already encompasses a wider range of possible styles and influences we can get away with than any one specific metal genre. This means we could ensure from the beginning that we’ll always be able to write whatever we want, no matter how crazy our ideas become. The heart of this band is always the songwriting, and we all like complex and virtuosic music in all its diverse manifestations. However, we do share a love for death metal as the smallest common denominator in the band, and we wanted to make sure no one thinks that just because we include melodies, clean guitars, and influences from other genres, we’d automatically sacrifice the brutality and relentless esthetic of extreme metal.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, ALKALOID have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Clusterfuck. Speaking about the new song, the band shares, “it’s one of our shorter and more moderate tracks – maybe uncharacteristically so, once you see the whole album. But Clusterfuck still covers the classic ALKALOID spectrum between groove, hooks, brutality and complexity. The lyrics address the question of why we as a species should aspire to greatness at all, when we know that in all probability, we’re going to fail anyway.”
Watch the official music video for Clusterfuck here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
Disc 1
1. Qliphosis
2. The Cambrian Explosion
3. Clusterfuck
4. Shades of Shub-Niggurath
5. A Fool’s Desire
6. The Fungi From Yuggoth
Disc 2
1. The Black Siren (Instrumental)
2. Numen (Dyson VII)
3. Recursion (Dyson VIII)
4. The Folding (Dyson IX)
5. Alpha Aur
Numen is set for release on September 15th via Season Of Mist. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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