Gatecreeper: “I’ve gone deep into the ideas of superstition, death, luck and fate”

Three years on from their surprise-dropped An Unexpected Reality EP, and five since their excellent second album Deserted marked them out as leaders of a new generation of death metal bands, Gatecreeper have finally announced details of their third album, Dark Superstition. Following on from recent single Caught In The Treads, to go with the announcement, they’ve dropped the video for killer cut The Black Curtain. Recorded at GodCity Studio with Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou, who had previously mixed the band’s records, it is, says singer Chase Mason, an album of stepping up and change for the Arizona titans. It’s partly why it’s been so long in the making. “We worked on this album for a solid year,” he explains. ​“Even longer, from the very beginnings of writing. I’ve...

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