NEWS: Gates Open hear a distant call!

Finnish Blackened Death Thrash duo Gates Open have shared a third single from a second album “Beyond The Black Gates” with the opening track “The Black Gates“. A 10th December via Inverse Records release it continues the work of a writing partnership between multi instrumentalist Jere Neejärvi and vocalist Tommi Manninen that dates back to 2007 and spans several projects.

The band comments: ““The Black Gates” is a dark and atmospheric journey to the edge of despair, loss, and mortality. The song portrays a person wandering through the darkness, carrying the weight of everything that has fallen apart in life. Hope fades with every step, until the black gates rise before him, the final boundary between the known and the unknown.

The black gates do not, however, represent death alone.They also symbolize irreversible change, profound grief, and the moment when a person is forced to confront their own mortality. What lies beyond the gates is left open to interpretation.

As the song progresses, despair gives way to inevitability. A distant call eventually becomes footsteps leading through the gates, into a void from which there is no return.

“The Black Gates” is a story about the moment when the struggle comes to an end, while the answer to what awaits beyond the darkness is left for the listener to decide”