The Gate
The Gate is Dan Peck (tuba/compositions), Tom Blancarte (upright bass), and… Read Full Bio ↴The Gate is Dan Peck (tuba/compositions), Tom Blancarte (upright bass), and Brian Osborne (percussion).
Based in New York, they have released 6 albums and completed 3 international tours since 2008. The
music of The Gate is an amalgam of free jazz, ambient noise, and metal, reflecting the musical interests
of each band member. Peck's compositions serve equally as stand-alone pieces and improvisational structures,
blurring the distinction between form and content resulting in a real-time reactive sound-sculpture.
The concept to have a bass-heavy band was born both as an expression of love for low, muddy textures and
a reaction against the stereotypical horn-fronted ensemble. The tuba and bass deliberately get in each
other's way, giving the illusion of dizzying polyrhythms, often elevating the percussion into a high
melodic sensibility. The busier moments of a Gate concert are usually complemented by slow, grinding
noise-scapes, utilizing silence asa constructive element.
Of their 2014 LP Stench, Dan Sorrells of Free Jazz Blog says: "In a way, Stench embodies a strain
of aural nihilism that most metal bands should be jealous of." The Wire magazine (Issue 344) on
Vomit Dreams (2012 CD): "The range of textures each player produces is impressive enough, but
the invention and skill they bring to the task of combining their individual instrumental voices is
breathtaking. They are great at allowing their scrapings and scuttlings to coalesce magically into
growling riffs and malevolent low-register thunder, bridging the hitherto unspanned void between
Don Cherry’s Mu and early Swans." A review by Rainer Schmidt of their 2014 concert at
Bunker Ulmenwall in Bielefeld, Germany describes: "Drummer Brian Osborne plays fluently around
an imaginary pulse on his drum heads and cymbals; a collection of metal singing bowls at his side
await their use. Bassist Tom Blancarte floats bowed notes, then strums the strings with both hands.
The tuba adds distorted sounds, rich in overtones. The players exploit the physicality of the low
instruments, producing high intensity without ear-numbing volume."
The absolution of pure evil manifests itself in the resurrection of the undead.
Womb breeds life and earth breeds death.
The Gate has been opened.
Based in New York, they have released 6 albums and completed 3 international tours since 2008. The
music of The Gate is an amalgam of free jazz, ambient noise, and metal, reflecting the musical interests
of each band member. Peck's compositions serve equally as stand-alone pieces and improvisational structures,
blurring the distinction between form and content resulting in a real-time reactive sound-sculpture.
The concept to have a bass-heavy band was born both as an expression of love for low, muddy textures and
a reaction against the stereotypical horn-fronted ensemble. The tuba and bass deliberately get in each
other's way, giving the illusion of dizzying polyrhythms, often elevating the percussion into a high
melodic sensibility. The busier moments of a Gate concert are usually complemented by slow, grinding
noise-scapes, utilizing silence asa constructive element.
Of their 2014 LP Stench, Dan Sorrells of Free Jazz Blog says: "In a way, Stench embodies a strain
of aural nihilism that most metal bands should be jealous of." The Wire magazine (Issue 344) on
Vomit Dreams (2012 CD): "The range of textures each player produces is impressive enough, but
the invention and skill they bring to the task of combining their individual instrumental voices is
breathtaking. They are great at allowing their scrapings and scuttlings to coalesce magically into
growling riffs and malevolent low-register thunder, bridging the hitherto unspanned void between
Don Cherry’s Mu and early Swans." A review by Rainer Schmidt of their 2014 concert at
Bunker Ulmenwall in Bielefeld, Germany describes: "Drummer Brian Osborne plays fluently around
an imaginary pulse on his drum heads and cymbals; a collection of metal singing bowls at his side
await their use. Bassist Tom Blancarte floats bowed notes, then strums the strings with both hands.
The tuba adds distorted sounds, rich in overtones. The players exploit the physicality of the low
instruments, producing high intensity without ear-numbing volume."
The absolution of pure evil manifests itself in the resurrection of the undead.
Womb breeds life and earth breeds death.
The Gate has been opened.
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The Gate Lyrics
Face your Fear Tell me Tell me the words you can't bare to hear Sing…
Mountains Born in the heat of the desert My mother died givin'…
My Way or the Highway All these pussies really trying to throw that dirt on…
Open Your Eyes I have lingered, for only the instant Just like searching, w…
The End Are you the one inside my mind? Are you the one…