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FORMAT: CD     CATALOG N. IVR025
 

"THE KEY MUST OPEN THE GATE - IN ALL TIME, IN ALL PLACES"

 

THE GATE AND THE KEY

 

1.  OUTER VEIL  5:25
2.  AUTOCHTON  4:57
3.  HYPGNOSIS  4:49
4.  COLLECTOR OF MEMORIES  3:33
5.  THE HAND, THE EYE, THE TONGUE, THE HEART  2:57
6.  MASQUERADE IN EMINENCE  4:30
7.  VERTEX I: THE GATE  2:50
8.  VERTEX II: THE KEY  4:37
9.  ABSENTION  6:05

Total Time 39:48

Jewelcase CD, 16-page full colour booklet
Paintings by Pete Hamilton
Art direction and layout by Francesco Gemelli

Released December 13th, 2013

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After the underground success of the "Tenements Of Ephemera" debut and the "Dark Circles" EP, THE WAKEDEAD GATHERING return with their sophomore full-length album, a fantastic piece of dark death metal and definitely a step forward in the band's natural evolution, once again in accordance with the genre's noblest tradition.

"The Gate And The Key" is a horror/sci-fi concept-album telling the story of a group of dimensional travellers passing through a black hole.
The dark portal will precipitate them into an alien realm, where they are abducted, studied, and painfully morphed into a race of Lovecraftian entities inhabiting that dimension.
They will become the first seed of a new breed, the "key" that will open the "gate" for the Ancients Ones to penetrate our reality...

Music-wise, the album is filled with twisted riffs, doom decelerations, rapacious vocals, and menacing atmospheres of Cosmic Horror, in a perfect equilibrium between the crypt-sounds of early Incantation, and the dissonant, slanted death metal of early Morbid Angel, Demilich and Timeghoul.

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THE WAKEDEAD GATHERING

ANDREW LAMPE
- all instruments and vocals -

I, VOIDHANGER RECORDS - 2013   An independent division of ATMF