Embryonics 90-98
Released: Feb 21, 2006
Label: Relapse Records
Released: Feb 21, 2006
Label: Relapse Records
Once their stunning fourth and fifth albums (2001's Organasm and 2003's Austral Alien) were finally given the international distribution they so rightly deserved, Alchemist have had wild-eyed...
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Austral Alien
Released: Jun 17, 2003
Label: Relapse Records
Released: Jun 17, 2003
Label: Relapse Records
A decade into their career, Australia's Alchemist have only just begun to make inroads outside their isolated demi-continent. Lucky for listeners, since they signed with the Relapse label in 2000...
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Organasm
Released: Oct 16, 2001
Label: Relapse Records
Released: Oct 16, 2001
Label: Relapse Records
Australia's Alchemist are a true rarity among metal bands. In a genre where six-strings rule supreme, keyboards and synths have always been viewed with extreme caution, and rightly so, since...
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Jar of Kingdom
Released: 1993
Label: Relapse Records
Released: 1993
Label: Relapse Records
Although it was ultimately dwarfed by the superior music that followed, Alchemist's 1993 debut, Jar of Kingdom, was quite a bold and adventurous extreme metal statement in its day, and a...
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Eve of the War
Released: 1998
Label: Relapse Records
Released: 1998
Label: Relapse Records
Recorded to coincide with the 20th anniversary of madcap composer Jeff Wayne's ambitious War of the Worlds soundtrack, the 60th anniversary of Orson Welles' infamously panic-inducing radio...
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Lunasphere
Released: 1995
Label: Relapse Records
Released: 1995
Label: Relapse Records
"We do not die -- we only change!" Those are the opening words (or perhaps a better description would be screams) heard on Alchemist's sophomore album, 1995's Lunasphere, which, like most of the...
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Spiritech
Released: 1997
Label: Relapse Records
Released: 1997
Label: Relapse Records
After two very adventurous and promising efforts, Australia's Alchemist finally did their name unequivocal justice with 1997's astounding magnum opus Spiritech. Quite possibly the greatest space...
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