Season of Mist is proud to announce the signing of the German/Dutch progressive extreme metal band Alkaloid. You may recall Alkaloid earned the runner-up spot for "best metal newcomer of 2015" in our year-end awards, just barely being edged out by Gruesome.

Alkaloid features Hannes Grossman (ex-Obscura, Blotted Science) on drums, Christian Munzner (ex-Obscura, ex-Necrophagist) on guitar, Linus Klausenitzer (Obscura, Noneuclid) on bass, Danny Tunker (ex-Aborted) ong guitar, and Morean (Dark Fortress) on vocals and guitar).

The band is now writing a second album to follow "The Malkuth Grimoire" (reviewed here), which is slated for a 2017 release via Season Of Mist. Regarding this signing, the band comments:

"After crowdfunding and self-releasing our debut album 'The Malkuth Grimoire', we have come to a point where we simply need a reliable partner, who fully understands our musical vision and believes in it 100%. Therefore Season of Mist is the perfect label for us. We are extremely excited about our collaboration and cannot wait to start producing our next album."

In Alkaloid's own words, the band is defined "through the field of tension created between musical opposites. Alkaloid merges extreme metal and other more diverse genres of music into a unique style that people will somehow find familiar, but haven‘t heard yet."