Bach, contemporary music and dark metal in perfect harmony? That is possible, especially if your name is Florian Magnus Maier. The Dutch-German composer Florian Maier likes to listen to baroque melodies, avant-garde experiment, psychedelic rock and progressive metal music. Influences that all flow together in his own progressive death metal formation Alkaloid. This summer, Maier and his band forged an alliance between grandmaster Bach and metal guitars, specially commissioned by the Bach Festival Dordrecht.