Artist: Gatecreeper
Title: Deserted
Label: Relapse Records
Cat #: RR7435
Release Year: 2022
Duration: Album
Format: CD
Packaging Type: Jewel Case

Deserted is the second release from the Arizonan death metal band Gatecreeper. 

The album is a furious mix of snarling guitars and driving, rhythmic pummeling that takes death metal from its 80's Floridian roots and 90's Swedish expansion straight into the here and now. In fact, the vanguard of death metal in 2019 can be found under Arizona’s searing sun. That’s where Gatecreeper members—Chase Mason, guitarist Eric Wagner, bassist Sean Mears, drummer Matt Arrebollo and guitarist Nate Garrett—make their homes.

Of course, the band nodded to their scorching home state with the title of their 2016 full-length debut, Sonoran Depravation. The theme continues on Deserted, which boasts songs like “Sweltering Madness,” “Boiled Over” and the double-meaning title track.

You can hear the results on “From The Ashes,” a crushing cut primed for the European festival circuit. Over on side two, “Boiled Over” fuses classic BOLT THROWER with the pulverizing power grooves of sludge titans CROWBAR. Album closer “Absence Of Light” upholds GATECREEPER's tradition of finishing their records with a deathly doom dirge.

Recommended if you like: Bolt Thrower, Dismember, Tomb Mold, Powertrip, Blood Incantation, Skeletal Remains, Nails

Track Listing:
1. Deserted
2. Puncture Wounds
3. From The Ashes
4. Ruthless
5. Everlasting
6. Barbaric Pleasures
7 Sweltering Madness
8. Boiled Over
9. In Chains
10. Absence Of Light