The Gates Of Slumber - new album
Data dodania 2009-07-22Dodał WouterŹródło bravewords.comTHE GATES OF SLUMBER have completed work on its new studio album Hymns Of Blood & Thunder. The album is slated to drop in North America on September 13th via Rise Above Records.
According to a press release, The Gates Of Slumber encapsulates the metal experience for true believers. The Indianapolis doom metal trio formed in the late 1990’s with the goal of creating a band whose sound delivered an updated take on the member’s long list of favorite heavy metal greats. Weaned on BLACK SABBATH, ST. VITUS, the melodic might of IRON MAIDEN and a host of classic bands from THIN LIZZY to RAINBOW to MERCYFUL FATE, The Gates Of Slumber draw deep from heavy metal's most powerful blood and deliver doom in its purest form.
The band’s hotly anticipated new album, Hymns Of Blood & Thunder, drops on the heels of the brightest and busiest year in the respected power trio’s history; one that saw The Gates Of Slumber pack clubs during its first US headlining tour and land atop many year-end media polls with Conqueror, an album that was hailed as “a breath of fresh air within the doom / true metal underground.”
Recorded in Chicago’s Semaphore Studios with producer Sanford Parker (NACHTMYSTIUM, Pelican), The Gates Of Slumber unleashes its holy grail in the formidable Hymns of Blood & Thunder. A mighty document of both powerful songwriting and instrumental skull-crushing, the album is heavy and chillingly bleak; in an almost unrelenting way that hasn't been heard since Judas Priest's heyday (Sad Wings of Destiny, Sin After Sin, etc.). Displaying a powerful focus and direction and demonstrating a very compelling emotional range, The Gates Of Slumber have upped its levels of both technique and melody, resulting in an album that is at once frighteningly dark in its effect, tight in its grooves and unrivaled in its sheer power.
