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Alkaloid - The Malkuth Grimoire



8.2 | 270 votes |
Release date: 17 March 2015
Style: Extreme progressive metal

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01. Carbon Phrases
02. From A Hadron Machinist
03. Cthulhu
04. Alter Magnitudes
05. Orgonism
06. Dyson Sphere - I. Mining The Oorth Cloud
07. Dyson Sphere - II. Assembly
08. Dyson Sphere - III. Kardashev II.1 The God Oven
09. Dyson Sphere - IV. Sol Omega
10. The Malkuth Grimoire
11. C-Value Enigma
12. Funeral For A Continent

The Best Debut Album Of 2015

Staff review by
Windrider
Rating:
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When it comes to progressive metal, one finds many die-hard fans and others who can't handle it at all. It might be that this genre has a larger ratio of musicians among the fans, those who comprehend the music are more likely to enjoy it with all its facets. Out of nothing now a new band emerged; Alkaloid from Germany greet us with their first ever release after their formation just a year ago. The musicians, however, are known to some people from their work with other big bands like Necrophagist, Obscura or Dark Fortress. Therefore, calling this new project a big surprise would be a bit of an exaggeration, nevertheless the music is worth the praise it currently receives.

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published 27.05.2015 | Comments (4)

Guest review by
qlacs
Rating:
N/A
I felt cringing inside the last time I tried this one and I couldn't remember why. Let's see now. On first impulse it feels like leftover Obscura material that they tried to make more interesting with nice clean passages. Or, for that matter, it feels like not much of anything at all. Is it the production? To me it seems a bit lifeless, stale. It doesn't quite kick me in the guts. The music is... often good. It seems to be dragging a lot; even if I got hooked, it was usually because of the guitar solo (maybe I'm listening to too much tech death?). It gets me expecting some epic counterpoint or breakdown, but none of these are really happening. Sometimes it succeeds in being chaotic, hoping to be interesting. Just like my review of it.

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published 21.02.2018 | Comments (0)

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07.03.2015 - 03:07
João Pirucas
Mr. Piruson
This album is nothing short of a masterpiece!
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07.03.2015 - 05:11
Rating: 10
bloodwrage
Pagan Angel
It's a really dense album, I have to give it a few more listens.

The last song is pure Hannes Grossmann 80s worship a la Centric Flow and it's great.
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07.03.2015 - 12:37
Bad English
Tage Westerlund
Written by João Pirucas on 07.03.2015 at 03:07

This album is nothing short of a masterpiece!


not out yet how do you know
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07.03.2015 - 13:16
João Pirucas
Mr. Piruson
Written by Bad English on 07.03.2015 at 12:37

Written by João Pirucas on 07.03.2015 at 03:07

This album is nothing short of a masterpiece!


not out yet how do you know

Because I'm one of the pledgers of the album, so like the others I've got it ahead of the release date.
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11.03.2015 - 10:04
Rating: 9
arj

Yes, I dig it a lot as well!
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11.03.2015 - 14:51
Rating: 9
hellbent

Strong release
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11.03.2015 - 14:52
Rating: 9
hellbent

Written by Bad English on 07.03.2015 at 12:37

Written by João Pirucas on 07.03.2015 at 03:07

This album is nothing short of a masterpiece!


not out yet how do you know


because the album has leaked..go figure....
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11.03.2015 - 16:34
Rating: 10
bloodwrage
Pagan Angel
Written by hellbent on 11.03.2015 at 14:52

Written by Bad English on 07.03.2015 at 12:37

Written by João Pirucas on 07.03.2015 at 03:07

This album is nothing short of a masterpiece!


not out yet how do you know


because the album has leaked..go figure....

The guy already replied saying he was one of the backers of the album, meaning he could get it earlier than the official release date...
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11.03.2015 - 23:04
Rating: 9
hellbent

Written by bloodwrage on 11.03.2015 at 16:34

Written by hellbent on 11.03.2015 at 14:52

Written by Bad English on 07.03.2015 at 12:37

Written by João Pirucas on 07.03.2015 at 03:07

This album is nothing short of a masterpiece!


not out yet how do you know


because the album has leaked..go figure....

The guy already replied saying he was one of the backers of the album, meaning he could get it earlier than the official release date...


i wasnt a pledger in fact i didnt know still i have it...but the truth is the album is solid.
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14.03.2015 - 16:40
João Pirucas
Mr. Piruson
Got the digipack on the 27th of Feb so yeah... go figure.

On topic... I doubt any album will top this one this year.
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15.03.2015 - 18:47
Panterica

From the stuff that I heard, they sound extremely good. I'm so eager to get my hands on this album!
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19.03.2015 - 18:04
Rating: 7
LasseMomme

The music is great, the best prog. death record I have heard in quite some time. I do however have somewhat of a problem with the album length. 73 minutes is bitch to get through regardless of genre and while the band frequently changes up the soundscape I can't help but get a bit of listeners fatigue when listening to it. I understand that this is very much a subjective thing and I get a that some people don't take issue with these things but I generally have a bit of a problem with records that go on for more than 45 minutes, In contrast to more "economically" made records that don't linger to long.

Still, very good record and definitely worth a listen.
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20.03.2015 - 21:21
progpiggy

A Masterpiece without equals. The depth of the material is staggering and the performances are exceptional.
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20.03.2015 - 22:39
Joe Zombie

Decent stuff, though the guitar work is definitely the highlight here. Like most prog I found the album to be far too long. Chances are I wont be returning to this one much.
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21.03.2015 - 08:43
Rating: 10
Malaclypse

Holy hell this is just breathtaking. It is quite rare for me to listen to an album once, be so completely blown away that I give it an immediate second listen and were time permitting this night, a third and more. Best album I've heard in years and that's saying quite a bit.
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21.03.2015 - 18:21
Therapy?

Seeing all the praises I expected something awesome. But I'm afraid this isn't for me.
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21.03.2015 - 20:53
Rating: 10
PanzerPriest

Damn, Damn and once again Damn. . Accidently I have put the wrong vote.. awesome album! IF I hadn't put the wrong vote I would have said the album is 9!!!!
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22.03.2015 - 00:09
Rating: 7
MetalDoomMaster

Written by PanzerPriest on 21.03.2015 at 20:53

Damn, Damn and once again Damn. . Accidently I have put the wrong vote.. awesome album! IF I hadn't put the wrong vote I would have said the album is 9!!!!

You know you can change the vote, right?
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22.03.2015 - 00:40
Rating: 10
PanzerPriest

Written by MetalDoomMaster on 22.03.2015 at 00:09

Written by PanzerPriest on 21.03.2015 at 20:53

Damn, Damn and once again Damn. . Accidently I have put the wrong vote.. awesome album! IF I hadn't put the wrong vote I would have said the album is 9!!!!

You know you can change the vote, right?



Oh.. Thanks a lot! I am really was not in the know...
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22.03.2015 - 17:19
RedOctober
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Best album of 2015 at the moment
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22.03.2015 - 22:48
3rdWorld
China was a neat
Omg! That bassist. Track 11 is insane.
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23.03.2015 - 01:41
Rating: 9
LeKiwi
High Fist Prog
Wow, such praise. Going to listen to this one tonight.

Edit: Worthy of praise, but certainly not a masterpiece. Track 11 is one of the best solos I've ever heard - absolutely incredible, mostly from an innovative technical perspective.
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24.03.2015 - 16:50
Rating: 9
LeKiwi
High Fist Prog
Written by 3rdWorld on 22.03.2015 at 22:48

Track 11 is insane.

Turns out it's programmed, but still a sick track:

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24.03.2015 - 20:24
Rating: 8
flightoficarus
Stamp Tramp
Written by Guest on 22.03.2015 at 17:19

Best album of 2015 at the moment


I kind of like the BTBAM-sounding clean portions, but the extreme parts just aren't doing it for me. Altered Magnitudes is a good song though. They seem to do a better fast extreme than slow one. You're 100% entitled to your opinion, but please at least give a listen to the new A Forest of Stars, Leviathan, Enslaved, Death Karma, and Downfall of Nur before you make that statement. It's been a strong month or two in any case. I give this a 6.9.

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25.03.2015 - 06:28
Diverge

OK this is really really good. I wouldn't be surprised if this manages to top a lot of year-end lists, to be perfectly honest. Awesome supergroup.
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25.03.2015 - 07:04
Diverge

Written by flightoficarus on 24.03.2015 at 20:24

Written by Guest on 22.03.2015 at 17:19

Best album of 2015 at the moment

I kind of like the BTBAM-sounding clean portions, but the extreme parts just aren't doing it for me.


Do you honestly believe this has any resemblance to BTBAM? I would highly encourage you to check out Obscura, Blotted Science, Aborted, Spawn of Possession and Noneuclid (some of the bands that make up this supergroup) and the solo work of Hannes Grossmann if you haven't already. It's not obvious to me that you've given them a shot. Your descriptions are very far from accurate yet AGAIN, and that should prevent anyone from taking your comments of this album seriously. I quote your mini-review: "Where things fall apart for me are the "extreme" portions which sound like a poorly produced hybrid of Mastodon and death/goth metal." To set the record straight, there's not a hint of Mastodon or goth metal on this record. Not at all. I appreciate the attempts to put down your thoughts about this kind of music, but you need to stick to talking about what you can characterize well (probably a style you've listened to for awhile). Either that or you need to put in the hard work to really understand the context in which the music is coming.
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25.03.2015 - 11:46
Rating: 8
flightoficarus
Stamp Tramp
Written by Diverge on 25.03.2015 at 07:04


Angry wall of text



Easy there, Tiger. Sorry I'm not into it. It's just one opinion. I hear something, I type it. There is a ton of BTBAM similarities in the clean parts.
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25.03.2015 - 11:55
Zap
Guest
This album proves (once again) how irrelevant Hannes Grossmann and Christian Münzner are when they're not teaming up with Steffen Kummerer and Jeroen Paul Thesseling.

(Yes, I love Omnivium so much I fuck it.)
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25.03.2015 - 16:59
Diverge

Written by flightoficarus on 25.03.2015 at 11:46

Written by Diverge on 25.03.2015 at 07:04


Angry wall of text



It's just one opinion. I hear something, I type it.

Yep, and I'm saying discontinue. It's a useless exercise if you aren't willing to learn what goes into a great review for people. You might not like the album, and that's perfectly acceptable, but it's painfully obvious you don't understand it based on what you wrote about it.
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25.03.2015 - 17:18
Rating: 8
flightoficarus
Stamp Tramp
Written by Diverge on 25.03.2015 at 16:59

Yep, and I'm saying discontinue. It's a useless exercise if you aren't willing to learn what goes into a great review for people. You might not like the album, and that's perfectly acceptable, but it's painfully obvious you don't understand it based on what you wrote about it.


I won't be doing that. Some people like what I do, you're not the first to say you don't. Regardless, these minireviews are just my basic opinions of what I do and don't like this year. It's not meant to be profound. When I feel enough about an album to say more, I do a full review. I don't plan on doing that for this album due to what both of us have said so far. Have a super day.

One more thing, it's easy to criticize a review when you never write them...at least not anywhere where they have to be approved.
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