GATECREEPER
Founded in Arizona in 2013, Gatecreeper has spent the past decade on a steady rise. Their self-titled 2014 EP immediately put Gatecreeper on the map as torchbearers of the old school. The band signed a record deal with the classic Relapse label, and their debut album “Sonoran Depravation” was released in 2016.
The sophomore album “Deserted” came out in 2019, and by then the band’s ascent toward the top tier of death metal was already inevitable.
Gatecreeper’s third album “Dark Superstition” proved to be a bull’s-eye. It was the band’s first release on Nuclear Blast and recorded and mixed at the legendary God City Studios in Salem, Massachusetts by Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou.
“Dark Superstition” is to Gatecreeper what “Wolverine Blues” was to Entombed or “Massive Killing Capacity” was to Dismember: a record where the HM-2 hits hard, the songs are tighter, and the rock influences even more apparent. Dismember played an especially central role in “Dark Superstition”: Dismember drummer and primary songwriter Fred Estby flew to Arizona to work with Gatecreeper during pre-production and helped finalize the tracks.
Gatecreeper recently played a sold-out run in Finland, and most recently appearing at the Helsinki Ice Hall in early November as a part of the star-studded Arch Enemy tour.
Their Tuska performance is the natural next step. Gatecreeper’s star is rising fast
