LIVING GATE unleash their debut full length Suffer as One, out October 25. Today, the band shares the official music video for the opening track “To Cut Off The Head Of The Snake”. Watch on Relapse’sYouTube channel HERE. Video created by Jaak De Digitale.
The band, featuring Aaron Rieseberg (YOB,) Lennart Bossu (Oathbreaker, Amenra,) Wim Coppers (Oathbreaker, Wiegedood,) and Levy Seynaeve (Wiegedood,) surfaces from the underground to release one of 2024’s most unrelenting old school death metal records.
Pre-order Suffer as One on LP/CD/Digital via Relapse.com HERE & watch / listen to “Hunting Maggots”HERE.
See LIVING GATE on tour throughout Europe this Fall starting October 26 at Samhain Festival in the Netherlands through November 9 at Amplifest in Portugal! A full list of tour dates is available below.
A follow up to the Deathlust EP and the Internal Decomposition single, LIVING GATE’s thesis statement is now bold and clear: old school, heavier-than-anything-ever death metal is here to stay. Suffer as One exemplifies all of the strengths of the genre through its sheer ferocity. Off rip, the riffs on “To Cut the Head Off a Snake” are equal parts muscular and angular. The blast beats and double-bass stomps suffocate the listener with low end – vocals are utterly guttural and pierce from within. Every moment on Suffer as One feels crucial; riffs, melodies, even vocal phrasings turn on their heads at the drop of a dime, giving way to hellish solos set against technical-meets-bombastic rhythm sections.
With an eye to the future, LIVING GATE seek to solidify their own take on the genre with tracks like “Destroy and Consume”, which leans on a borderline hardcore swagger, crashing it head on with leads and riffs that chug and swirl around into spheres of madness. Elsewhere, Rieseberg carries the torch for the band in “Massive Depletion In Eb Minor”, a bass interlude that makes way for the band’s massive title track.
SUFFER AS ONE tracklist:
1. To Cut Off The Head Of The Snake
2. Internal Decomposition
3. Destroy and Consume
4. A Unified Soul
5. Massive Depletion in Eb Minor
6. Suffer As One
7. Ones and Zeroes
8. Hunting Maggots
9. Atoms and Particles
10. Overcome, Overthrow
11. CQC
LIVING GATE EU tourdates:
26/10 Samhain Festival – Maastricht NL
27/10 Wilde Westen – Kortrijk BE
29/10 Urban Spree – Berlin DE
30/10 Jubez – Karlsruhe DE
01/11 Music House – Graz AT
02/11 Raindogs – Savona IT
03/11 Circolo Magnolia – Milan IT
04/11 Freakout Club – Bologna IT
06/11 Bad Bonn – Düdingen CH
09/11 Amplifest – Porto PT
LIVING GATE is:
Wim Coppers: Drums
Aaron Rieseberg: Bass
Lennart Bossu: Guitars
Levy Seynaeve: Guitars and vocals
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