Living Gate – featuring Aaron Rieseberg (YOB,) Lennart Bossu (Oathbreaker, Amenra), Wim Coppers (Oathbreaker, Wiegedood), and Levy Seynaeve (Wiegedood) – surfaces from the underground to release their debut full length, Suffer As One, on October 25th through Relapse Records. The record stands among 2024’s most unrelenting, old-school death metal records.
In advance of the record’s release, today the band shares the official lyric video for “Hunting Maggots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-5OtQ7IVGs
You can now preorder Suffer As One on LP, CD, and digital formats via Relapse.com.
Suffer As One Track Listing: 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
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. The riffs on “To Cut The Head Off The Snake” are equal parts muscular and angular. The blastbeats and double-bass stomps suffocate the listener with low-end vocals that 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 seeks 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.
See Living Gate on tour throughout Europe this Fall starting October 26th at Samhain Festival through November 9th at Amplifest!
Living Gate: Wim Coppers – drums / Aaron Rieseberg – bass / Lennart Bossu – guitars / Levy Seynaeve – guitars, vocals
