German experimental metal collective OMNIKOLOSS will release their third album, Quantum Fleshdrive, on December 4, 2026. The band has just shared the record's second single, "Splitmind", which follows the earlier "Omnisyndrom Alpha 17".
OMNIKOLOSS formed in 2020 around Tobias Norbinski (DER ROTE MILAN) and David Feistel (STELLAR MASTER ELITE). Surviolence (CAPTAIN CAVEMEN) joined soon after, and vocalist Khonan completed the lineup. From the start the idea was to drag extreme metal into electronic and atmospheric territory: black and death metal meet analogue synths, noise, ambient, industrial textures and soundtrack influences, with guitars and acoustic drums trading space with programmed beats, field recordings and processed sound. The band's own pitch is that they don't bolt electronics onto metal but use them to reshape it from the inside.
Quantum Fleshdrive has been a long time coming. Recording started in January 2021, and the album was pieced together over almost five years from spontaneous ideas and sessions captured at different times. Thematically it draws on science fiction, cyberpunk and body horror: where the story once sat in a dying megacity, it now moves inside the human body, where organic life, technology and consciousness start to merge.
David Feistel and Cave Sustain mixed the record, and Markus Stock mastered it at Klangschmiede Studio E, whose credits include AGALLOCH, FIRTAN and SCHAMMASCH. The cover art is by Karmazid, known for work with FLAME, DEAR FLAME, MALOKARPATAN and URFAUST. Much of the sound was built on analogue gear: a Sequential Prophet 12, Moog Sub 37, Korg MS-20 and Roland Juno-60.
The album arrives digitally, on vinyl limited to 250 copies, and as a bundle with an exclusive cassette. Fans of DØDHEIMSGARD, HAIL SPIRIT NOIR, THORNS, ABORYM and MYSTICUM are the obvious audience.
The first single, "Omnisyndrom Alpha 17", also opens the album:
Tracklist:
- Omnisyndrom Alpha 17
- Invisible Eruptions
- Splitmind
- Nectere
- Liquid Dreams
- Artificial End