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AL-IKSIR

Seven fragments. One vessel.

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Tiryaq

The Unwritten Keeper has spoken. Now the Seven begin to emerge.

Fragment IV · Medicine

Tiryaq

25 September 2026

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Fragment IV · Medicine

Mozárabe · The Unwritten Keeper · three languages →

25 SEP 2026

Tiryaq · Fragment IV · Medicine

27 NOV 2026

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AL-IKSIR · Full album

The digital archive

What survives changes form.

In 1013, seven fragments of forbidden knowledge were carried out of a collapsing world.

Astronomy. Medicine. Cartography. Mathematics. Poetry. Music. Silence. Passed through bloodlines, successors and centuries, they survived in whatever form history allowed.

Al-Kimiya is the current vessel.

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Seven Tinctures

The fragments

Each release is one fragment distilled into sound.

FRAGMENT I

Cartography

Silence of the Cartographer

The Keeper of Maps. Every line is a border; every omission is an act of power. The fragment survives through the guilt of the one forced to erase what must still be remembered.

FRAGMENT II

Poetry

Kharja

The Keeper of Poetry. Courtly praise above, forbidden truth beneath. The final line carries what the throne was never meant to read twice.

FRAGMENT III

Mathematics

Al-Jabr

The Keeper of Mathematics. A search for the equation beneath fate itself — precise, obsessive, and increasingly unable to distinguish order from despair.

FRAGMENT IV

Medicine

Tiryaq

The Keeper of Medicine. Poison and antidote in the same vessel. An inherited oath collides with the ordinary lover who never agreed to share a life with it.

FRAGMENT V

Astronomy

The Navigator's Oath

The Keeper of Astronomy. A compass passed from hand to hand, generation to generation: wayfinding as duty, inheritance and refusal to let the light disappear.

FRAGMENT VI

Music

The Fifth String

The Keeper of Music. The fragment that needs no page. When books, names and records burn, melody survives by passing from one throat to the next.

FRAGMENT VII

Silence

1492: The Last Distillation

The seventh, unnamed fragment. Granada falls, but the final Keeper refuses to let the archive die in one place. Survival becomes dispersal.

Outside the seven

The Unwritten Keeper

Mozárabe

Mozárabe carries no fragment. The narrator is a descendant who refused the oath and tried to live outside the Order, only to discover that refusing the myth does not remove the fracture underneath it.

Not an eighth fragment. A human counterweight to the Order.

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Debut album

AL-IKSIR

The seven fragments gathered in one vessel.

The name draws from the Arabic root of “elixir”: what the alchemists sought to turn base matter into gold. Here, it is what turns forgotten knowledge into something that survives.

Pre-order 27 NOV 2026

Full album 04 DEC 2026

1 Silence of the Cartographer Cartography

✦ Interlude: Mozárabe the one who refused the oath

2 Kharja Poetry

3 Al-Jabr Mathematics

4 Tiryaq Medicine

5 The Navigator's Oath Astronomy

6 The Fifth String Music

7 1492: The Last Distillation Silence

Bonus Mozárabe (Spanish Version)

Bonus Mozárabe (Arabic Version)

Tinctures

Release archive

Seven fragments · one unwritten Keeper · three languages

The Unwritten Keeper

Mozárabe

English

Premiere · 04 Sep 2026 · 18:00 CEST

A descendant outside the seven refuses the oath. The fracture remains: two worlds, one seam, no clean side to choose.

Watch on YouTube → Enter archive →

The Unwritten Keeper

Mozárabe

Spanish Version

Release · 15 Sep 2026 · 16:00 CEST

The same fracture carried in Castilian: neither world claims the narrator whole.

The Unwritten Keeper

Mozárabe

Arabic Version

Release · 15 Sep 2026 · 16:15 CEST

The etymological return to المستعرب — musta’rib, “Arabized” — sung in Arabic.

Poetry

Kharja

Coming soon

A court poet hides the truth in the closing line of a poem designed to flatter power.

Mathematics

Al-Jabr

Coming soon

The search for perfect order becomes an obsession with the equation beneath fate.

Cartography

Silence of the Cartographer

Coming soon

A mapmaker survives by erasing what others want forgotten — and by hiding one fragment where no archive can be searched.

Medicine

Tiryaq

Release · 25 Sep 2026

A physician and her lover collide over an oath neither can escape. The cure carries the poison inside it.

Astronomy

The Navigator's Oath

Coming soon

An inherited compass points not only through darkness, but through generations.

Music

The Fifth String

Coming soon

Books can burn. A melody can still survive in a kitchen, a whisper or a final breath.

Silence

1492: The Last Distillation

Coming soon

As Granada falls, the seventh Keeper chooses dispersal over preservation in one place.

The oath

The archive was never meant to belong to one century.

“They swore that the fragments would not die with them.”

The knowledge passed through descendants and successors for a thousand years, changing form whenever history demanded it: verse, manuscript, pamphlet, broadcast, memory — and now distorted low end and screamed vocals.

Al-Kimiya is not the origin of the fragments. It is their current vessel.

The Unwritten Keeper

One fracture. Three tongues.

Mozárabe

The lead transmission.

Mozárabe

The fracture carried in Castilian.

المستعرب

The etymological return: musta’rib, “Arabized.”

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About

Al-Kimiya

Al-Kimiya is an Andalusí / Moorish-Iberian progressive metal project built on transmutation: forbidden knowledge turned into sound.

Modern progressive metalcore, oud and qanun textures, Andalusí geometry, manuscript lore and the seven fragments of AL-IKSIR.

Music production with AI assistance.