Progressive extreme metal outfit Alkaloid are set to release their new album, Numen, out September 15th via Season of Mist. The group, featuring members of Triptykon, Obscura, Dark Fortress, and Obsidious, have unveiled an AI image generator video using Midjourney for their latest single “The Cambrian Explosion.”

The band comments:

“Danny left us this song before he quit the band. It started as a tribute to our tech death past, but after some additional mangling by the band, the song became something we’re not sure any longer where it belongs, but which excites us all the more for it. The lyric describes four billion years of evolution of multicellular life in under four minutes. We no longer consider ourselves part of the tech death genre; in fact we never did. But we always embrace musical extravaganzas, and felt that this insane little missile of a track as a nod to both where we came from musically and to Danny’s importance in this band in the past fits perfectly in between our other new songs on the album. As luck would have it, we were able to include a passage with a gospel choir directed by Sara Robalo, and managed to include a few other spontaneous and unexpected twists in the spur of the moment. Enjoy!”

Watch the clip below and pre-order the album here: