As Flaming Wrekage’s brutal fourth album tickles your earholes, you know this is something special. …
Melbourne deathcore outfit Gravemind have today unveiled their role behind the elusive Deathgate promo campaign.
The band will release their second EP The Deathgate on 11th August, with the band dropping their new single Anaesthesia today and its accompanying video. According to the band’s newly updated website, the concept of the record is as lofty a one as fans have come to expect from Gravemind. “A lone astronaut must face the trials of an alien planet in order to survive. To do so, he must go back to the beginning, in order the change his future, he must change his mind. He must go through… The Deathgate.”
“This EP is about the suffering we endure, simply existing,” explains vocalist Dylan Gillies-Parsons. “It is an unburdening of mainstream ideals, of destructive ideologies, the insane framework that we’ve created in order to feel normal.” The Deathgate follows the band’s debut EP The Hateful One, released in 2015.
The Deathgate’s campaign had listeners searching for clues around a mysterious website, and Gillies-Parsons says of the hunt, “‘We wanted to do something really unexpected of a relatively new band, by creating a lot of hype behind a mysterious website, with a simple countdown and quote (the deathgate draws near). We hid clues to it being us in a multitude of ways, there were a total of 3 clues hidden within an audio track on the website, including an audio log, Morse code and a link to one of our tracks hidden within the audio wave. We want our audience to really pay attention to what we’re trying to say. We want them to know that we stress over every tiny detail of our music, so that they can fully invest into it knowing we put meaning behind everything.’
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