Negative-Existence - SEVENTH GATE, The "None So Bloody..." CD

SEVENTH GATE, The "None So Bloody..." CD
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SEVENTH GATE, The "None So Bloody..." CD

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Artist: THE SEVENTH GATE

Title: None So Bloody As The Kingdom of Christ

Format: CD

Country: USA

Genre: Death Metal

Record Label: Satan Rock Records

A brutal and chaotic blend of death, grind, crust, sludge and hardcore is what makes The Seventh Gate so dynamic. The Seventh Gate plays straight up, dirty, raunchy, downright disgusting Satan Rock.

Tracklisting:

1. The Eternal
2. The Rubble Of Glory
3. To Forget
4. The Mary Shelley Song
5. Mine Will Rise
6. Her Innocence
7. I Alone
8. Battered Skin

Review:

Written By: Daniel Hinds [ThePlague.Net]
Here is a fairly diverse new death metal act from Virginia (I believe). The Seventh Gate bash out some quality tunes and thankfully don't restrict themselves to just one speed throughout. There are just as many slow, gut-churning riffs on offer as there are fast ones. The bass is kicked up in the mix louder than most death metal bands, giving None So Bloody… that extra oomph to properly pulverize the listener. "The Rubble of Glory" is one of the best examples of The Seventh Gate coming into their own. It combines sneering, mid-tempo thrash riffs with both high and extremely low death metal vocals. "To Forget" twists and creeps along like an evil offshoot of Hellhammer and Obituary, while the forty-second "The Mary Shelley Song" could almost be old Brutal Truth. The mini-epic "Battered Skin" features some brutal lyrics, along with a riff that harks back to Sabbath's "Heaven and Hell." The juxtaposition is odd at first but the band makes it work. There is a strange bonus track, the bong-happy "A New High." The vocals are clean and the music, while still dark, is a bit more esoteric than the album proper.

The mix of crunchy, slow death metal with grindcore and the odd thrash riff makes The Seventh Gate worth checking out. They are quite adept at creating that evil atmosphere that many bands find it difficult to capture, so they're already ahead of the game in that respect. Production is typical for an underground American band - unpolished with a lousy drum sound, but overall not bad and the mix is good. Personally, I'd lose the spoken vocal bits, too, as they kind of kill the mood, but other than that None So Bloody… is a solid debut that promises much more to come.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 05 January, 2009.

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