Numen
by Alkaloid
Dmitry Nevozhay
Dmitry Nevozhay
Extreme progressive the way it should be: diverse, intricate, emotional and heavy. Superalbum by supergroup of virtuosos, their best release up to date, exceeding expectations in every aspect. Prog AOTY
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lemniscatusofficial
Alkaloid is unique in its style. The continuity of certain themes and ideas across the albums keeps the old fans coming back for more and pushes the new fans to listen all their work. Their songs have a fine balance of finesse and brutality along with absolutely outlandish ideas that I don't think any other band could ever accomplish.
Favorite track: The Cambrian Explosion.
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Salami Dick Death
Fuck yes!!! ULTRA TOP-TIER PROG DETH METAL MASTERS ARE BACK. How in christ’s bloody name was I not alerted to this?! Been on board since day 1 with this band (as all the members are legends in their own right in numerous bands outside of this) and it’s a no questions asked immediate purchase. This time they continue to push their boundaries (as I imagine they will always do, sorta the point of this band) to many more genres outside of Metal to my sheer delight.
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1. |
Qliphosis
07:48
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Outside the endless stupor
Of life and death of any one creature
There is no objective time
No unified place for all
Too far to reach
Too long to hold on
To an existence doomed to shatter
No way to merge
Before this blink of a life is gone
And chronology no longer matters
Abscond…
Look beyond…
Beyond the trap of flesh
Forsaken through eternities, by life abhorred
For embodied immanence won’t serve
To manifest a single overlord
Withdraw
Foreswear the law of finitude
To gain continuous subsistence
Outside time
If anything can bridge the gaps
Mortality cleaves through the cosmos
It’s bionts that thrive
Where all else will fall, perish and scatter
Clandestine hives absorb, revive
Feared and shunned by all that crawls
And yet only survives the void
Of vector collapse
Due to their strife
Behold
A new kingdom sprawls
Through the carnage of life’s fallen shells
Neither dead nor alive
Forever in the shadows to dwell
Cthonic
Hidden agents abide
Coalesce and drive
Perpetual rebirth
From the other side
The Qliphoth stir
Catalysts of resurrection
By spirit spurred
Foraging fatality
Digest the world
Antagonists of disconnection
Like gods unfurl
The origin of reality
Solo - Linus
Solo - Christian
And when your flesh at last succumbs
They come to take you back as one of their own
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2. |
The Cambrian Explosion
03:59
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Toxic horizons
Pestilent holes
Mountains rain from the sky
Earth starts to freeze
Equator to poles
Nothing to do here but die
Bacteria
Choking themselves to extinction
Decaying to sulfurous slime
Purple, the seas
Stagnant, they lie
Reduced to hell without time
Until from the poisonous ooze
Two chemical archangels climb
The Gemini
Of collagen and oxygen
Microbes cluster together
Echo themselves toward the sun
Quietly emerge from the nether
Zombified eons expire
Ancient mycelium stirs
Awakens a stygian choir
Solo - Morean
Pulsating stenches
Soar from the trenches
Congregate, never to sever
Membranes unite
Excrete and divide
Transforming the planet forever
Third time’s the charm
Breathe
And a paradigm plunges
Brought to its knees
By molds, fungi and sponges
And then something else
Propels the cells
Away from death’s erosion
Conjugates
Accelerates
The Cambrian Explosion
Shocked from slumber
Sways and lumbers
A reborn evolution
The wheel of hunger
Looms humongous
An unborn revolution
And one more time
In the slime
Cell walls groove
Things start to move
Red algae first
Then some worms
In the muck
Things start to fuck
One more tooth
Mouths that thirst
Drawn by light
Things start to bite
One more limb
One more eye
Claws that pry
Things start to die
One more spine
Things start to run
The ocean bursts
The hunt is on
Solo - Hannes
An eon awakes
Fueled by a trillion demises
Ruin awaits
Looms in a million disguises
Predators start to crave more
Multiply as if possessed
To mutate to more lustrous shores
Magnified monsters aspire
Newborn spectacles stun
Exultant on wings of immortal desire
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3. |
Clusterfuck
05:29
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Why should we reach for the sky
Why bother at all
The odds are never good
So why
Set yourself up for greatness
Block out every flaw
Lie away every incoherence
Declare yourself the law
But then again -
Are we but amoebas
That tread the mill of time?
No way to Shangri-La
Unless you start to climb
Raise cathedrals for man
Tear them down in disgust
Not because we can
But because we must
Raising Eden from dust
Since our downfall began
Not because we must
But because we can
Utopia
All well and good
Project what’s missing
Unto your inadequate world
Make no mistake
You’re all alone
When the drama unfurls
Go ahead
Be a god
Then face the inevitable
Solo - Morean
Solo - Christian
Decay
Wretchedness
Clusterfuck
Failure
All is dead
Clusterfuck
Disaster
Clusterfuck
All for nothing
Clusterfuck
From the ashes of man
Crawls a god in disgust
Not because he can
But because he must
Raises temples of lust
Starts again without a plan
Not because he must
But because he can
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4. |
Shades Of Shub-Niggurath
06:12
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The cornucopia of incarnation —
Blindly, on and on it blunders
Nurtured through disease and stagnation
Then by decease is torn asunder
No more than an eldritch godhead’s toy
Since first it squirmed from barren rock
Under the eyes of the night
The watching Mi-Go
Spawned through gaseous ooze
In a young protostar’s sickly glow
Spores took flight
As ethereal clouds diffused
Along filaments
Connecting planet embryos
The firmament
Primed now for life’s slow thunder
Oblivious, the eons pass
The void has severed the baryon oases
Where the spores amass
To sentient primordial slime
Deep inside, the fungi hide
Nudging young procaryotes from their stasis
A black molasse
Patiently biding its time
Shades of Shub-Niggurath
Eating death
Forever spurring life
Shades of Shub-Niggurath
Anatomy flowing free
From rotting sludge
A symphony of flesh shall rise
From the debris of perished life forms
Mycelium weaves a hive that storms unseen
Devouring worlds
Mother of all
Arcane abyss that bears the gods
And all that crawls, grows and dies
Under the sun
Till it comes undone
For I am Thanatheros
Slaves of Shub-Niggurath
Feeding death forever
And dreaming life
Slaves of Shub-Niggurath
Infinitely in reverie
Of the womb that bore them
They cannot see…
Solo - Linus
Cruelty — or mercy?
Engraved on Charon’s tortured crust
The sigils around the universe resound:
Ia! Shub-Niggurath!
Ia! Shub-Niggurath!
Praise the Source
Ia! Shub-Niggurath!
From Pluto’s tholin wastes
Atra! Shub-Niggurath!
To Venus’ blistering hells
Ia! Shub-Niggurath!
No life without you
Atra! Shub-Niggurath!
Outside the inane flash
Of myriad birth chasing death
My kingdom reigns supreme
Dead, putrid eyes
Fetid rotting limbs
Discarded shells,
Bones and cells
All absorbed
Into my flesh hovering in the skies
All returns
To my ageless, timeless dream
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A Fool's Desire
08:10
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The slow cerulean tide
Sways calmly like a dream
An icy veil, agleam
Months of darkness now subside
In the blue dawn, halos beam
Crystal motes
Rise and dance
Like fireflies teem
The rising sun reveals
Mirages from afar
Beneath winter’s fading stars
Coastal mountains rise like keels
Pierce horizons like jagged scars
A luring trance
Their expanse
Stirring yearning’s wheels
Debark on this godforsaken shore
Cast fate to the wind and get going
Fangs like granite reapers soar
Where monstrous storms of pain are blowing
Brave the glacier tooth and claw
Grind a path to Fenrir’s Jaw
Like a tombstone clad in hoar
Looming vast and ever growing
Soft, the flesh of the feeble beasts
That crawl, and nameless glory crave
Deaf to their own angels’ screams
Like insects they squirm over their own grave
Rise in splendor
Or die with grandeur
When the avalanche falls
Alive or dismembered
No-one remembers
But the stone that with siren’s tongue calls
Every step a spit in the eye
Of perdition waiting with sharpened blades
With every breath refuse to die
In rock and ice’s vengeful cascades
Beckoning
A haunting choir
Deafening
The lifeless silence
A reckoning
For a fool’s desire
Threatening
With disembodying violence
Crippling tempests
Blow rocks
Bigger than the heads they crush
One last push
To the summit
A godlike rush
Pull up the conquered lands below
Triumphant
Invincible
Like Atlas
Lifting the entire world
Solo - Christian
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6. |
The Fungi From Yuggoth
06:07
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Here in the vast sunless void
On the outer rim of the sphere of Sol
With but dust and the odd asteroid for company
We alighted eons ago
“The Old Ones were
The Old Ones are
And the Old Ones shall be
Not in the spaces we know, but between them
They walk serene and primal
Undimensional and to us unseen”
(- HPL)
When on Earth single cells but bungled
Our spores escaped on a young star’s scattering clouds
Consigned to mere remote fungal puppetry
From our frigid refuge, in perpetuity endowed
Nodes of fungous entanglement
Traversing the chasm
That bodes mortality among us
And our life-giving plasm
We, the agents of permanence
We, the guardians of sentience
Solo - Christian
Solo - Hannes
But what is this now…?
Flung
Like spidery crumbs
Machines have come
From the Oort Cloud
We watched the monkeys come and go
Saw the Star Spawn passing
But these… these will change everything
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7. |
The Black Siren
01:39
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8. |
Numen
07:03
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Of all the worlds
Like space dice hurled
Four of us made it to the core
Hailed our kin to come pouring in
And come they did, by the crore
Across eons, craving more
Never lose momentum
Dragging clusters with us,
Star by exploding star
We set the stage to assuage
And fix the half-a-trillion-body problem
Caustic gas moving fast
Bending world lines to our delight
We have amassed, blast by blast,
Let’s meet the monster at last
Forging Elysium
On a frail equilibrium
Of radiation and gravity
We hatch the Dyson galaxy
Turn on the light
Sending spirals to the giant
Turn on the light
With a swarm of singularities
Turn on the light
And never lose momentum
Feed the monster
Turn on the light
Plasma soars from the poles
Incandescent spires climb the dark
Spacetime roars around black holes
Strung along prongs of light
In arcs of topology reborn
Twining space into a lace of toroid horns
Gargantuan tree of life
Colossal lucifer rising high
From the starry plane
A seething hive, alive again
Behold the mark we carve
From raw continuum
Outshine the cosmos
Invert the sky
Curled into fugal vortices
The swarm now mines the ergosphere
Halo-driven sentinels swirl
Scatter to outrun expansion
Catch a ride to the Great Attractor
To colonize and breed
More monsters throughout the sky
Pulsars and magnetars
Dance with billowing zombie stars
Weaving fractal phenomena
While we wait for Andromeda
Turn on the light
Turning A* into a quasar
Turn on the light
In a shell of singularities
Turn on the light
How they ooze momentum
From turbulent to laminar flow
Concentric cortices accrete
Stratum after monumental stratum closes in
The lattice grows
The galaxy contracts
A world
Balanced on a pin
Lined up to bleed the monster
With its own glow
Horizons mill
Eerily still
A ballet in gravity collapse
As a star is to dirt
This will be to a star
It’s getting dark in the Milky Way
As our first sphere
Engulfed the sun
Now the galaxy veers
In luminous display
Numen
Clusters boil
Thrusters toil
Oh how the constellations coil
Numen
Spirals pour
To the core
And thus we soar to Kardashev IV
Numen
Thralling space
At insane pace
The void succumbs to our embrace
Numen
Orbits climb
Shrinking time
Chime the gravity bells for all to hear
Numen
God
Are you there
For we come knocking at your door
Numen
Our cage of yore
Rends and roars
As we come crashing through your door
Numen
Coagulate coordinates
Accelerate our escape
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9. |
Recursion
03:29
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Wielders of super radiance
A covenant, sublime
Descends into fractal dementia
Augmented then squashed
Where strained gyrating maths scatter
Recursion abhors
Changing the constants
Dragging fraying timelines
Into the abyss
’Til the void stares into us
Down the ergosphere we lunge
A cataleptic plunge
Into void-shattering terror
Aloof and profound
An empire in its prime
Eviscerating time
The chasm spins
The Melt begins with mirrors
The black hole bomb
Makes short work of the horror
Of trawling endless sinkholes of space
Devoid of hope
Just craving death
Behold, our gift to the world
Luminal envoys
Slingshot from the core
Islands of speed
To conquer all
As eternity’s bearers
Fractal dementia
Awash with strange matter
Recursion abhors
Changing constants
Dragging frames
Into the abyss
The continuum cracks around us
Constantly verging on time-like infinity
Mirrors accrete meticulously
Estranged caves of time gape, tethered, sublime
Falling eternities disemboweled
Withering dimensions imprisoned
Gravity wells attack seething space
Pockets of temporal spindrift
Collapse into fractals, demented
Stranger recursions changing the constants
Drains the abyss
Tears into us
Solo - Morean
Fragmented
Reason or chance
Drains this state
Continuous converging
Miraculous escape
Time falters, dizzy
With ripened, wreathing space
Pores rift
Where space and time end
All is well
With the Dyson galaxy
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10. |
The Folding
06:54
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Spin into control
Tilt the worlds just so
Dance between death
And the frazzled edge of the firmament
A most precarious operation
Kill time
Break space
I am all - Omega
Topology cracks
To laminar flow
Stare at the universe itself
Going in Omega
Topology cracks
To laminar flow
As both stars die
We go
Each bringing in the dust
Made it
To where fractals go insane
Raise the ocean
Bursting from supernovas
In hydrostatic equilibrium
It’s getting dark in the Milky Way
I am all…
I am all…
Someone was snatched
…Omega
…Omega
Here, we’re claiming the guardian exit
Am I relocated? That’s a reality
Someone new was moving at zero
They’re sure he’s here
Yes, the work’s a lot. Careful!
Steady him
Sudden in energy
Who are you?
Iä Azagthoth!
All fundamentals scatter
Here’s the law but
I am all
Then you work
For us to serve you
With the red
All fundamentals scatter
Here’s the law but
I am all - Omega
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11. |
Alpha Aur
13:23
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Adrift between the stars
Expelled from Earth
And its planet-scorching dearth
Our ships of ice
A crude device
Seeds
In despair thrown like dice
To find the one world
That is ours
Forlorn and frozen
Sent to breed
Lost to the lore
But then grace takes us past Pluto’s shores
Whence
A turgid drove descends
Envelops us in spores
Guides our flight
Through the abyss of night
As they claim they have done before
A precision slingshot
From the orbital plane
Towards a boreal beacon
And we shall live again
Escape to the Goat Stars
Nourish with hope those who remained
Alpha Aur
Primal light
Save our souls
Take away our pain
Eons pass
When at last
From the void
Emerge two giant double stars
Time starts anew
For polyps long forsaken
In the heart of our icy tomb
Ancient bodies reawaken
The depths of the Northern sky
Yield a blaze
Like a slow explosion
An embrace of rays
Twin bloated suns spiral
Devour the firmament
In their glow, our comet world
Becomes germinant again
Then suddenly, two more suns
Join the dance from afar
And in between, a planet swerves
Awkward and bizarre
Tugged from orbit
Of fiery death
It seeks the smaller twins
And in its wake a satellite
A moon for our kin
Wobbly seasons now ensue
Tempered freeze and thaw
As we swirl about the moon
And ever closer to it draw
Conjoin
Withdraw
Our vessel set to smash
Brace to bore
Into the crater of our crash
Towards this pockmarked ball of ice we fall
Below its crust a liquid ocean calls
No return now
We came so far
In ice encased
To crash and burn now
Our ship must crack the frozen waste
Collision
Catharsis of an arcane vision
Havoc bursts
Into a million shards we shatter
Get submersed
Into gaping faults we spatter
Down we squirm
Escape the flash-freeze of the void
Like undead worms
That refuse to be destroyed
And we’re through!
Solo - Christian
A new world
Soon under our control
The Mi-Go’s gifts
Our gospel to extol
A drifting island grows
Feeding on light and freedom
Keeping each other close
Towards our suns we’re seeding
At last, the surface calls
Where billowing stars adorn our reign
Alpha Aur
Primal light
And so we rise again
Here under stars of wonder
Their beauty pulled us under
A freeing force is leading
Towards the heart of meaning
We wander in stars of wonder
Their beauty pulled us under
Joy is seething, life is feeding
Our engine at the heart of Eden
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about
Numen is ALKALOID’s third album and it’s got some of the band’s most intricate, thought-provoking and batshit insane ideas yet. The album is narrated from the god-like perspective of an ancient alien, who can reshape the entire galaxy with its demonic grunts.
ALKALOID are still bonded together by their love of death metal. After all, this is a supergroup assembled by founding members of OBSCURA, DARK FORTRESS and SPAWN OF POSESSION, but ‘Numen’ finds the Bavarian band playing around with all kinds of genre experiments with, for example, “The Cambrian Explosion” flips tech-death on its horned head with seductive flurries of jazz and flamenco.
ALKALOID are metal’s mad scientists. With ‘Numen’, they’ve concocted another wildly explosive batch of progressive death metal.
ALKALOID are still bonded together by their love of death metal. After all, this is a supergroup assembled by founding members of OBSCURA, DARK FORTRESS and SPAWN OF POSESSION, but ‘Numen’ finds the Bavarian band playing around with all kinds of genre experiments with, for example, “The Cambrian Explosion” flips tech-death on its horned head with seductive flurries of jazz and flamenco.
ALKALOID are metal’s mad scientists. With ‘Numen’, they’ve concocted another wildly explosive batch of progressive death metal.
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released September 15, 2023
Recorded and mixed by Hannes Grossmann at Mordor Sounds, Nürnberg, Germany
Mastered by Alan Douches / West West Side Music
Recording line-up:
Morean (Florian Magnus Maier; also Dark Fortress, Noneuclid) - guitars, vocals
Christian Münzner (Obscura, Eternity’s End, ex-Paradox, ex-Necrophagist) - guitars
Linus Klausenitzer (Obsidious, Noneuclid, ex-Obscura) - bass
Hannes Grossmann (Triptykon, Blotted Science, ex-Obscura, ex-Necrophagist, ex-Hate Eternal) - drums
Guest Musicians:
Additional choir tracks on 2 (The Cambrian Explosion) & 4 (Shades of Shub-Niggurath):
Produced by: Sara Robalo
Performed by: Adam Wallis, Cydney McQuillan-Grace, John Schaffer, Lauren Gill, Sara Robalo, Shannon Bedford
Cover and booklet artwork & band photos by Christian Martin Weiss
Recorded and mixed by Hannes Grossmann at Mordor Sounds, Nürnberg, Germany
Mastered by Alan Douches / West West Side Music
Recording line-up:
Morean (Florian Magnus Maier; also Dark Fortress, Noneuclid) - guitars, vocals
Christian Münzner (Obscura, Eternity’s End, ex-Paradox, ex-Necrophagist) - guitars
Linus Klausenitzer (Obsidious, Noneuclid, ex-Obscura) - bass
Hannes Grossmann (Triptykon, Blotted Science, ex-Obscura, ex-Necrophagist, ex-Hate Eternal) - drums
Guest Musicians:
Additional choir tracks on 2 (The Cambrian Explosion) & 4 (Shades of Shub-Niggurath):
Produced by: Sara Robalo
Performed by: Adam Wallis, Cydney McQuillan-Grace, John Schaffer, Lauren Gill, Sara Robalo, Shannon Bedford
Cover and booklet artwork & band photos by Christian Martin Weiss
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