The Malkuth Grimoire

About Alkaloid

Alkaloid is a new band created by five good friends, who happen to be well-known musicians of the Metal genre. 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.

We define Alkaloid through the field of tension created between musical opposites. All of us are active death metal musicians who nevertheless all have a much broader view of music than blast beats and growls. We try to establish from the beginning that we have many faces, and that oscillating between (seemingly) contrary or mutually exclusive styles is an important factor.

• Morean (Dark Fortress, Noneuclid) - Vocals, Guitars
• Christian Muenzner (Spawn of Possession, Ex-Obscura, Ex-Necrophagist) - Guitars
• Danny Tunker (Aborted, Ex-God Dethroned) - Guitars
• Linus Klausenitzer (Obscura, Noneuclid) - Bass
• Hannes Grossmann (Blotted Science, Ex-Obscura, Ex-Necrophagist) – Drums

Why Crowdfunding

Even though all of us are active in the music business and have worked with record labels for years, we're not going to work with a record label this time. Labels just expect music that you can label! However, the music of Alkaloid is very diverse and radically new. We are music lovers ourselves and write music for other people who love music. And to keep it as simple as that, we'd like to connect with these people as directly as possible. Crowdfunding is the perfect instrument to do that.

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What we need and what you get

Producing a professional album is a lot of work. We need to invest a lot of time and money into recording our instruments. But this is just a small part of what needs to be done. We also need to get the album mixed and mastered. For this job we work with V Santura, who also has mixed most of the albums of the other bands we play(ed) in, like Obscura and Dark Fortress. But then we need to get the physical copies pressed, we need artwork, fotos, a booklet and a general album design. Even counting the unpaid hours of work we've to put into the album ourselves, we still need people to do all these jobs. And since we want to produce the best quality possible, we need to hire nothing but professionals.

So none of the funded money will lead to personal enrichment! Everything will be used to deliver the best quality. We worked hard and are offering EXCLUSIVE perks which are LIMITED; and which YOU hopefully find interesting enough to eventually support our campaign.

We appreciate everything you do in order to help us. May it be selecting a perk and thus advancing our album or just telling a friend about this campaign, consider our gratitude to be endless!

Shirt Designs

Special instrument packages

The guitar package includes:

• Guitar Strap: The black guitar strap with white Alkaloid logo is made of herbal tanned neat's leather. It is cut, punched and colored by hand. The tanned leather is very sturdy and durable. Width: 6 cm; length: adjustable from 110 cm to 140 cm
• Guitar Tablature: Printed guitar sheets with main ideas of many songs of the album
• Digital Download: "The Malkuth Grimoire" in MP3/FLAC format (hi-quality - 320 kBit/s) - including access to an exclusive video of Morean explaining the structure of the song "Dyson Sphere"

+++ LIMITED to the first 10 perks:+++

• Guitar strings: 1 set of D'Addario NYXL Nickel Wound Electric Guitar Strings (11-49) - Improved tuning stability compared to traditional nickel wound strings, enhanced mid-range frequency response (details)
• Planet Waves String Lubricant and Cleaner (details)
• 6 Ibanez Steve Vai Signature Picks (details)
• Ibanez Shirt - "Distortion" Layout (details): Please specify your size: M, L, XL, XXL

The Bass Package inludes:

• Bass Strap: The black bass strap with white Alkaloid logo is made of herbal tanned neat's leather. It is cut, punched and colored by hand. The tanned leather is very sturdy and durable. Width: 6 cm; length: adjustable from 110 cm to 140 cm
• Single Bass track of one song - Digital Download MP3 (raw DI track - 320 kBit/s)
• Digital Download: "The Malkuth Grimoire" in MP3/FLAC format (hi-quality - 320 kBit/s) - including access to an exclusive video of Morean explaining the structure of the song "Dyson Sphere"

+++ LIMITED to the first 5 perks:+++

• Bass strings: 1 set of D'Addario FlexSteels Bass Strings (5-string version: 45-130) - Deep, round sound, punch and bite, flexible feel optimized for finger style (details)
• Planet Waves String Lubricant and Cleaner (details)
• Ibanez Sweatband - black with white Ibanez logo (details)
• Ibanez Shirt - "Distortion" Layout (details): Please specify your size: M, L, XL, XXL

The Drum Package includes:

• Autographed Drumhead
• Drum track of one song of the album including a play along track
• Drum instructional DVD: "Progressive Concepts for the modern metal drummer" (details)
• Digital Download: "The Malkuth Grimoire" in MP3/FLAC format (hi-quality - 320 kBit/s) - including access to an exclusive video of Morean explaining the structure of the song "Dyson Sphere"