American doom metal outfit The Gates Of Slumber have revealed on their Facebook page that their former drummer, Brian ''Bob'' Fouts, has died. He was part of the group between 2005-2010 and 2012-2013.

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Recently reunited Indianapolis doom metal trio The Gates Of Slumber have announced additional European tour dates around their upcoming appearance at Hell Over Hammaburg festival (March 7th). The band's set will focus on material from the debut album The Awakening (2004) and subsequent EP, Like A Plague Upon The Land (2005).The album and EP are also slated to be reissued via Church Within Records in 2020.

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After disbanding back in 2013 and a death of bassist Jason McCash just few months later, American doomsters The Gates Of Slumber have recently checked in with some exciting news to share. The band officially confirmed that they will play a special reunion gig for Hell Over Hammaburg in 2020 with a new line-up, comprised of Karl Simon, bassist Steve Janiak (also Apostle Of Solitude) and drummer Chuck Brown (also guitarist/vocalist in Apostle Of Solitude and drummer in an earlier incarnation of The Gates Of Slumber as well). The Gates Of Slumber also posted a short clip of their rehearsal footage on the band's Facebook page.

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Sad news come from the The Gates Of Slumber camp today. Their former bassist Jason McCash has died last night. The doom metallers called it quits last year after Jason McCash decided to leave the band. Karl Simon said that the band couldn't go on without him and disbanded the group.

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After the departure of their bassist Jason McCash, doomsters The Gates Of Slumber's founding member Karl Simon has decided to end the band. The Gates Of Slumber was slated as support for Japanese doom metal band Church Of Misery's North American tour from 1-19 November. It is unclear if this is a permanent disbandment of the band or an indefinite hiatus. More news will likely follow.

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The Gates Of Slumber bassist Jason McCash has decided to leave the doom metal band. Karl Simon and J. Clyde Paradis are now the only members in the band. Jason was in the band for ten years and plans to release the material he wrote for the next The Gates Of Slumber album under a different banner.

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Scion A/V has done it again. The label teamed up with doom metallers The Gates Of Slumber this time for the release of their new five-track EP Stormcrow. You can stream and download the EP now for free at this location.

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Come January 29th, doom metal trio The Gates Of Slumber will offer you their latest piece of work in the form of a new EP entitled, Stormcrow. The 5 song EP was recorded by Sanford Parker and will be released on Scion AV. Dave Quiggle was responsible for the EP cover art.

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Doom metallers The Gates Of Slumber have made the track "The Cloaked Figure" available for streaming online. You can listen to it below (courtesy of Axis Of Metal). The song will be featured on the reissue of The Awakening which will be available on November 13th via Abyss Records.

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US metallers Hammers Of Misfortune will be touring throughout the Midwest and east coast this July together with doom metallers The Gates Of Slumber. Fans in the band's hometown of San Francisco can also catch Hammers Of Misfortune with Grayceon and Wild Hunt on June 23rd at the Elbo Room.

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Deepsend Records press release:

We're proud to announce the reissue of The Gates Of Slumber Suffer No Guilt album. This reissue will feature the original album and artwork in a glorious 6-panel, matte finished digipak.

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The Wretch, the new album from US doom metal band The Gates Of Slumber, will be released on May 10th through Rise Above Records/Metal Blade.

One of the new songs on the album, called "Coven of Cain", has been made available for streaming exclusively at Decibel Magazine.

Recorded during the cold British winter of 2010 at London's Orgone Studios and produced by Jaime Gomez Arellano (Ghost, Angel Witch), The Wretch sees The Gates Of Slumber pushing its trademark blend of skull-crushing riffs and pounding rhythms to new heights and marks a return to the slower all-out doom tempos of the group's early albums combined with "true doom metal" lyrical themes.

Commented frontman and founding member Karl Simon: "This record is frustration and disappointment put to music. No heroics this time, no swords; no sorcery. No fantasy. That stuff is OK; it's fun... whatever, but we don't feel it these days. This one is all about others let you down almost as much as you let yourself down. It might not make sense to you, but then you probably only have the last two records as a digital download. That, or your world is summed up by someone else's soundbite."

The Wretch tracklist:

01. Bastards Born
02. The Scovrge Ov Drvnkenness
03. To The Rack With Them
04. Day of Farewell
05. Castle of the Devil
06. Coven of Cain
07. The Wretch
08. Iron and Fire

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Orange Goblin will be returning to the US to celebrate the band's 15th Anniversary with a full nationwide tour in May and June.

Support on all dates (with the exception of Maryland Deathfest and Chicago) comes from Indianapolis doom metal heroes The Gates Of Slumber and Brooklyn's heavy psych-freaks Naam.

These tour dates will coincide with the US re-release of the first five Orange Goblin albums, recorded on Rise Above Records and made available in the US through Metal Blade. They will also be available as a limited edition box-set.

Orange Goblin: North American tour dates:

05/28 - New York, NY @ Santos Party House
05/29 - Baltimore, MD @ Sonar (Maryland Deathfest)
05/31 - Charlotte, NC @ Tremont Music Hall
06/01 - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
06/02 - New Orleans, LA @ One Eyed Jack's
06/03 - Austin, TX @ The Scott Inn
06/04 - Albuquerque, NM @ The Launchpad
06/05 - Tempe, AZ @ The Clubhouse
06/06 - Hollywood, CA @ The Troubadour
06/07 - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
06/09 - Portland, OR @ Dante's
06/10 - Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven
06/11 - Chicago, IL @ Double Door

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Official press release

Celebrated "True Heavy Metal band" The Gates Of Slumber will enter England's Orgone Studios with producer Jaime Gomez Arellano (Ghost, Angel Witch) later this month to lay down tracks for its forthcoming new album. The follow up to the Indianapolis trio's critically acclaimed LP Hymns of Blood and Thunder will see a spring, 2011 release via Rise Above Records.

The Gates Of Slumber recently announced the addition of new drummer, "Cool" Clyde Paradis into its ranks. A New Orleans native and Hurricane Katrina survivor, Paradis joins The Gates Of Slumber hot off stints in Sourvein, Substance Abuse and the New Orleans blues act T-bone and The Rhythm Makers.

"The new music is taking on a more troglodyte doom metal feel," exclaimed The Gates Of Slumber frontman/guitarist Karl Simon. "With Clyde now in the band, the feel of things was bound to change; he's not only a different drummer, but from a totally different school of thought with regards to the drums. It's no secret that Saint Vitus' shuddering doom crawl was the root that inspired this band and we'd both felt that over three albums we'd taken the raw epic feel as far as we could. Now, it's time to get back to basics, shed some of the bulk and get ugly again. No warriors this time, no acoustic guitars, no keyboards, no lofty Nietzschean ideals. Just black bile and a bit of the old 'white magic; black magic'."

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Two of doom metal's most acclaimed acts will team up for a two week U.S. tour this winter as the legendary Pentagram joins forces with celebrated "True Heavy Metal" band The Gates Of Slumber. The 11 city tour will launch on January 15, 2010 in Springfield, VA.

The pairing of Pentagram and The Gates Of Slumber aligns 2 generations of doom metal majesty and will undoubtedly be a tremendous treat for both long time loyalists and wide-eyed newcomers alike. Formed in 1971, Pentagram has a long and storied history that continues to play out almost 40 years later. Let by wildly charismatic vocalist Bobby Liebling, the band has forged an indelible mark in the "Heavy Metal Rock and Roll" pantheon and continues to influence scores of modern day acts. The Gates Of Slumber has emerged as one of modern day metal's most critically acclaimed bands whose decidedly throwback sound both pays homage to and builds upon "Heavy Metal" in its truest form. The band has been hailed as "a breath of fresh air within the doom/true metal underground" and its latest studio album Hymns of Blood & Thunder (Rise Above) is in stores now.

01/15 Springfield, VA Jaxx
01/16 Philadelphia, PA Polaris
01/17 New York, NY BB King Blues Club
01/18 Richmond, VA The Hat Factory
01/21 New Orleans, LA The Howlin's Wolf
01/23 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade
01/26 Des Moines, IA Vaudeville Mews
01/27 Madison, WI High Noon
01/28 Cleveland, OH Peabody's
01/29 Detroit, MI Blondie's
01/30 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle

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Event:	The Gates Of Slumber + Pentagram