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Album: Rewake
Released: Jan 23, 2009
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Emergency Gate is a Modern Melodic-Death/Metalcore Band from Munich.

The band was founded in 1996, but the only member remaining from the original line-up is bass-player and manager Mario Lochert.
As a name the band had picked "Emergency Gate" because of the free advertisment by emergency gate signs everywhere.

Their debut album "Nightly Ray" (2006, TNC/Universal) differs a lot from the the following records, which was mostly caused by songwriter, singer and guitar player Fabian Kießling, who left the band in 2008.

On January 23rd 2009 the band released the album "Rewake" (Silverwolf Productions) featuring their new singer Matthias Kupka. Also starting on that day the "Chaos over Europe 2009" tour took place, at which Emergency Gate played together with Kreator, Caliban and Eluveite for two months.

After the summer festivals the band went right back to the studio to record the album "The Nemesis Construct", which was released on April 30th 2010 through Twilight Records).

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General Info

  • Genre: Electro / Metal / Rock

    Location Munich, De

    Profile Views: 190881

    Last Login: 4/2/2013

    Member Since 7/5/2006

    Website http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmVtZXJnZW5jeS1nYXRlLmRl

    Record Label ZYX Music / Golden Core

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    In 2005 the bandname "Emergency Gate" was heard for the first time. Not long after that, the young band their high musical potential, produced their first professional album "Nightly Ray" together with Spike Streefkerk (Mellissa Etheridge, Def Leppard, Phil Collins etc.). Metal Heart Magazine titled the roughmix itself as "Album of the month". That way no less label than TEC/Universal got interested in Emergency Gate, got in touch with them and took them under contract. At first Nightly Ray was released in the middle of 2006 in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux and the USA. And it was possible for the five musicians to climb the top of the heavy-radio-charts in Benelux for one time! Soon after that,Emergency Gate went on tour with the Danish-Combo Mercenary and closed endorsement contracts with names like: Ernie Ball, SAD, Schecter Guitar Research, Ibanez etc. At the end of 2007, the band received a call from their label, in which they let them know that it wasn't longer possibly for TEC to release with Universal and therefore the band was freed from their contract. Founding member, singer and guitarist Fabian "Cem" Kießling quit because of private matters too. At that time it was unclear, how the band should go on. The remaining musicians almost broke their heads by thinking about a solution for these two problems. It became clear that every member was more than crazy about reaching new horizons and creating something new and different. Guitarist Vlad worked madly, day and night, on new material and was joined by Mario. Even without a singer and without knowing how everything would go on, the band booked time in Munich's Dreamsound- Studios, to record and work on new material. With the instrumental part of the album almost complete, Mario Lochert went as a FOHEngineer of the support-acts for the Symphony X, Paradise Lost-Tour on the road. This way it happened that Mario met Matthias Kupka (ex Suidakra) on the second tour-day in Cologne Right in the first moment it was absolutely clear, the last missing piece needed to create something very magnificent, so important for the rising of this band, was found! The final recordings with Matthias started in the beginning of March 2008. Not long after searching for a new label, the band chose a young upcoming one, Silverwolf Productions, to make their "Rewake" album public and released it on the 23rd January 2009. Their official video for "Gold and Glass" was very well received by their fans and was also played on TV music channels worldwide. After a fantastic year, about 70 concerts in round 30 countries and a European Tour with Kreator,Caliban and Eluveitie they signed a new record deal with Twilight Zone Records (Endstille, Eluveitie etc.). On the 22nd December 2009 they entered the Dreamscape Studios in Munich to record their next powerful album "The Nemesis Construct". This album was the next logical step after the former works: Catchy melodies, progressive song structures, a bit similar to "Rewake", mixed with brutal power and a complexly arranged, electronic soundscape. For the first time with the new line-up, Emergency Gate could exhaust their full musical potential! The Coverartwork for "The Nemesis Construct" was done by Raf W. (Metallica, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Soulfly etc.) Also they found a magnificent voice with Tom Englund (Evergrey) as a guest vocalist on the song "Darkside of the Sun". The Album "The Nemesis Construct" was released on the 30th April 2010 and several Magazines entiteled it "Suprise of the Year 2010". In the end of 2011 the band started to write songs for their upcoming album. During a break of the songwriting process in the Dreamsound Studios in Munich, Vlad suddently played an old, which never was released on a record. Mario jumped up and said something like: "You still remember this song? It was really great live and the people liked it a lot. We are here in the studio, why don't we record an additional EP as a Christmas present for all our fans. Let's rearrange the 6 best songs, that were never recorded. Are you ready for something crazy?" After a short discussion about the idea, all agreed – short talk during the night with the label and the studio, and the band started recording their EP with 6 powerful tracks from the past a few hours later. This EP "Remembrance – The Early Days" was released on the 9th December 2011 through Twilight Zone Records. After the songwriting of the 5th studio album was finished in early summer of 2012. After the Metalfest Tour and some additional Festivals, the band started with the recordings. In July they signed a new worldwide deal with the record company ZYX Music. The new record is expected to be released in the begging of 2013. Be excited… and stay tuned!

  • Members

    Matthias Kupka - Vocals Mario Lochert - Bass Vlad Doose - Guitar Udo Simon - Guitar Daniel Schmidle - Keys & Synth Chris "the machine" Widmann - Drums

  • Influences

    Melodic Death Core

  • Sounds Like

    In Flames, Children of Bodom, Asking Alexandrina, Killswitch Engage, Caliban, Blood Stain Child, Sentenced, Soilwork, Machine Head,

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