Tag: Gates Open

NEWS: Gates Open see blood on our hands?

2024 might have seen them give us the gift of debut album “Voice After Silence” in February and then EP “Black Clouds Over The World” in October but that has stopped vocalist Tommi Manninen and multi instrumentalist Jere Neejärvi from pulling a rabbit out of the hat. They like to call it “The Blood On Their Hands”

Listmania: Metal Noise Top #5 Albums of 2024!

The natural order of things has been followed as we have counted down our top #5 singles and EPs so now it’s time for the albums that made 2024 a great year on Planet Metal. As ever there are a few rules to this game, one of which is that the artists you see on

Review: “Black Clouds Over The World” by Gates Open

The song writing partnership of multi instrumentalist Jere Neejärvi and vocalist Tommi Manninen may go all the way back to 2007 and a band called Down into Silence but their 2023 conceived project Gates Open is an entirely different beast. After releasing a critically acclaimed debut album in “Voice After Silence” in February this year, to

NEWS: Gates Open question who is the predator!

Having given us an album in “Voice After Silence” in February this year, Finnish Blackened Death Thrash duo Gates Open have confirmed that Inverse Records will distribute a new EP on 4th October. Titled “Black Clouds Over The World” it features no less than six fresh cuts from guitarist and composer Jere Neejärvi and vocalist

NEWS: Gates Open are nothing if not prolific!

Much to our surprise, having given us album “Voice After Silence” in February via Inverse Records, Finnish duo Gates Open have announced a new six track EP “Black Clouds Over The World” for 4th October. The Blackened Melodic Death Thrash pair have roots that go back to 2007 with a band called Down into Silence

NEWS: Gates Open seek intelligent life forms…

Celebrating the imminent arrival of their debut album “Voice After Silence” via Inverse Records, multi instrumentalist Jere Neejärvi and vocalist  Tommi Manninen, a pair otherwise known as Gates Open, have allowed the label to share a music video for one of the stant out tracks in “I The Intellectual“. A record that offers an infusion

NEWS: Gates Open march through Winter!

Comprising multi instrumentalist Jere Neejärvi and vocalist Tommi Manninen, Finnish Blackened Death Thrash Metal duo Gates Open have shared a third single from their upcoming debut album “Voice After Silence” in “Gates Open“. The roots of band’s history go back to 2007 when they were both part of Down into Silence but Gates Open is very