Official press release:
Sentient Ruin Laboratories is extremely proud and honored to announce the release of Scriptures Of Grief, the colossal new album from Belgian one-man death-doom destruction machine Gateway.
Coming as limited edition cassette tape + digital product, Scriptures Of Grief is a death-doom odyssey already slated to become a cornerstone release in 2017 extreme metal and one of the most crushing and inhumanly heavy underground releases of the year. Constructed upon colossal and skull-crushing progressions of ancient and mummified death metal, Gateway‘s music then takes shape through a harrowing time-warp of completely doomed sonic rot. Tempos collapse to an agonizing slither, rhythms seem to stretch ad infinitum transfiguring into a lucid coma, all while the sheer tonnage of every riff is fully revealed through this slow motion decay in all its putrid glory, revealing a beast whose mass and ugliness is of unparalleled magnificence.
Masterfully re-evoking the completely doomed and rotting atmospheres of legendary death-doom masters like Disembowelment, Undergang, Coffins, Winter and Thorr’s Hammer, Gateway have created an authentic omnipotent sonic underworld in which death rules everything, endlessly reaching beyond the unknown like a massive and rotting black hole, and dragging every living thing to its inevitable and tormented conclusion.
Slated for a February 3 2017 release – CVLT Nation is now streaming the opening track from the record, calling Scriptures Of Grief as an “inhumanly toxic and devastating death-doom masterpiece”.
You can now pre-order Scriptures Of Grief cassettes on our store and cassettes and digital products on our Bandcamp.
Scriptures of Grief
1. “I”
2. “II”
3. “III”
