It would not be my 100 countdown without some down right nasty old-school death metal. Hailing from Arizona, Gatecreeper are part of a cabal of young American death metal acts that are outright rejecting the technicality that has swept into the genre and returning it to its feral roots. This is a frenzied and frantic celebration of brutal heaviness. It is unrepentant in its gnarled malice and the vocals are spat out like toxic waste hidden in a (vegan) hot dog. Crushingly corrosive.

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