Deserted

Everything old is new again, especially when the sound was pretty musty to begin with. Gatecreeper go pretty old-school, sure, but geography plays an important factor here: instead of the muggy swamps of Florida or Sweden’s icy forests, they’re informed by the dry heat of their Arizonan home. Sometimes literally, in the case of the slow death by exposure of “Sweltering Madness”’s subject. The sweltering desert wastes contain riffs as brutal and hooks as catchy as the death metal from other extreme climes.