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Mason, guitarists Eric Wagner and Israel Garza, drummer Metal Matt Arrebollo, and bassist Alex Brown—carving out their path.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe band's first album for Nuclear Blast is more concise, melodic, and memorable than anything they've done in the past. \"We refined the song structures,\" Mason says. \"We're getting better at what we do.\" Think of \u003cem\u003eDark Superstition\u003c\/em\u003e as \u003cstrong\u003eGatecreeper\u003c\/strong\u003e's answer to Entombed's \u003cem\u003eWolverine Blues\u003c\/em\u003e or Dismember's \u003cem\u003eMassive Killing Capacity\u003c\/em\u003e, pivotal albums on which the songs got tighter and more rock influenced. 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Because it’s not.” Written, recorded and now released during the Covid-19 pandemic, An Unexpected Reality is Gatecreeper like you’ve never heard them before. Exploring both ends of the tempo spectrum, the release offers two opposing sides of the band’s musical personality. Side one consists of seven short, sharp shocks that have a total running time of less than seven minutes. Inspired by grind, punk and hardcore, tracks like “Starved,” “Rusted Gold” and “Amputation” are some of the fastest offerings the Arizona death metal squad has ever recorded. Side two is the exact opposite. Consisting of a single 11-minute track entitled “Emptiness,” this is Gatecreeper at their slowest and most funereal. Think of it as an extended version of the death-doom tracks that the band closed out Sonoran Depravation and Deserted with. “I’ve had the idea to do a record like this for a while,” Mason offers. “In 2020 we were supposed to be touring all year. 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The format of An Unexpected Reality was partly inspired by Black Flag’s My War, an album that famously polarized fans in 1984 with fast, thrashy songs on side A and three long, slow and sludgy tracks on the flipside. “When I was getting really into sludge and stoner metal like the Melvins and Eyehategod, they always referenced the B-side of My War,” Mason says. “Hearing bands talk about not just a record but a specific side of a record, I thought that was really cool and it always stuck with me.” Tempo and length aren’t the only anomalies on An Unexpected Reality. “We usually have a hard rule in Gatecreeper that we don’t have blast beats,” Mason points out. “But for the first side of this record we lifted that rule and ran with it.” Given that An Unexpected Reality was created entirely during the pandemic, it’s no surprise that some of the songs bear its unmistakable mark. “Superspreader” is a prime example. “That song was written when Arizona was the number one Covid hotspot in the world,” Mason explains. “The whole record was actually recorded during that time as well.” “Sick Of Being Sober” hits even closer to home for Mason, whose recovery from addiction is well documented.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Closed Casket Activities","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50417113792843,"sku":"2196830","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/An_Unexpected_Reality_86b3ce1c_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726717138"},{"product_id":"deserted-1","title":"Deserted","description":"\u003cp\u003eGatecreeper return with their highly anticipated new album \u003ci\u003eDeserted\u003c\/i\u003e. 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