Herostratos : vocals, Grief : rhythm guitar, JP : drums. Session members : Wayne (bass), Franck (studio lead guitar), Bobby (live lead guitar).
Influences
Early masterpieces of UNLEASHED, ASPHYX, GRAVE, MANTAS / DEATH, MASSACRE, BOLT THROWER, BENEDICTION, MORGOTH, DISMEMBER etc...
Sounds Like
"Your sound and songs are killer ! I am amazed ! I havent heard such a great old school death metal sound and song structure from a French band from the glory MASSACRA days !!! To put it in other words, you guys kick ass!!!" (Manos / SEWER zine and records). Better believe him, maniacs !!!
At a time where Death Metal scene in France is ruled by brutal, technical, modern sounding bands, 3 die hard and long time Metal heads Herostratos (vocals & lyrics), Grief (rhythm guitar & music) and JP (drums) decided to give birth to AFFLICTION GATE in Spring 2006 in order to play Death Metal as it used to be in its glorious era, back in the late 80's and early 90's and thus taking inspirations from early masterpieces of UNLEASHED, ASPHYX, GRAVE, MASSACRE, BOLT THROWER, MORGOTH, BENEDICTION, DISMEMBER, MANTAS / DEATH etc...
Then, Cyphera joined the band as bassist. The rehearsal sessions and writing process started quickly but, 3 months later, she had to move to England for professional reasons. Due to other personal priorities, the band didn’t have the opportunity to work together for several months until Damien entered the band as lead guitarist in late June 2007.
Finally, after facing another period of unactivity and lots of fucking delay therefore, the band recorded their first EP titled "severance [dead to this world]" during August 2008. Featuring 3 songs of unpolished, old school Death Metal with intros and outro. AFFLICTION GATE was helped by their friend Wayne (vocalist / bassist of the 80’s Thrash worshippers HUNGRY JOHNNY) to handle the bass duties but he also took care about the whole recording and mix of the EP. This time, Damien was not able to take part to the recording and there was no possibility to postpone this last session so, Franck (a friend of Wayne) replaced him in a hurry and he did an extremely killer job especially if you take in consideration that he joined without learning nor even hearing the songs before !
Then, the band began to spread promo CDR copies of the EP in order to introduce the AG name in the Underground and to find a deal as well. Until now, the answer from people in the Underground scene and even in the more mainstream scene around the world has been incredible as this stuff exclusively got positive or excellent reviews & feedbacks ! Some labels have shown interest to release the EP and finally it's FORGOTTEN WISDOM Prod (France) that did it on MCD format in December 2008.
Since late October 2008, new line up problems occured and they had to part ways with Damien. Viv replaced him but, a couple of months later, he also left due to both personal and musical reasons. From now on, AFFLICTION GATE will officially and exclusively remain an unholy trinity (Herostratos, JP and Grief) with the help of session members for both bass and lead guitar duties.
The first gigs were played in February 2009 in Marseille, France and in Luynes, France, respectively with IBOGAINE (fra), IMAGO MORTIS (ita) as headliners and another one took place once again in Marseille with ARGHOSLENT (usa) in March. The band has signed with NO COLOURS in Spring 2009. The debut album "Aeon of Nox [from darkness comes liberation]" was recorded and mixed between August and October 2009. Then it will be unleashed upon mankind in December.
Site : www.myspace.com/afflictiongate
E-mail : afflictiongate@aol.com
MSN : afflictiongate@hotmail.fr
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Excellent ce nouveau morceau, on se croirait revenu aux albums de BENEDICTION/BOLT THROWER en 91! Ca sonne vachement mieux que la démo en tous les cas.
Et cool le t-shirt FIREBIRD sur les photos live! J'adore ce groupe aussi!
Damnation ! Ce nouveau morceau est une TUERIE, autant l'EP avait un coté ravageur et un son bien appréciable, autant ce morceau est bien au dessus, ça annonce un album déjà culte, chapeau bas !
Oui le nouveau morceau est bien bon ! Le son est nettement meilleur que sur le MCD, ça reste relativement caverneux mais il y a plus de patate et de puissance. Le changement d'accordage s'entend et ça rajoute au coté lourd et sombre. Bien hâte d'écouter tout l'album en tout cas.
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