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    Viking's Choice: Desert Death Metal, Heavy Pink Psych And Japanese Grindcore

    Gatecreeper's no-frills death metal offers a masterclass in buzzsaw songcraft, Twink returns to apocalyptic psych and Gridlink's Takafumi Matsubara gets a worldwide assist on his solo debut.
    by Lars Gotrich Oct 01, 2019 3 minutes
    Gatecreeper's <em>Deserted</em> keeps old-school death metal bangin' on.

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    Arizona's Gatecreeper has helpfully titled its new album, Deserted, for every music critic on deadline.

    [Extremely monster truck rally voice] Prepare to be destroyed by a sandstorm of sick riffs ... That's no mirage, it's metal by death ... No blast beats here, folks, just sandblasted brutality ...

    Since 2013, Gatecreeper has wielded a no-frills, old-school death metal indebted to both masters Swedish (Entombed, Dismember) is command.

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