ANUBIS GATE – New Lyric Video Released

The band commented: “Hi everybody! While we are working on our next full scale video our label had this lyric video made, it’s called ‘Black’ and it is from our new album ‘Covered In Black,’ we hope you enjoy it… we love you all in these dark days!

“Special Note: The timing of this video release is in no way related to the shooting tragedy in Las Vegas, NV, our hearts go out to all those lost, injured and the familys of those effected by these tragic events we had planned to release this on Monday Oct 2nd.”

Check out “Black” HERE.

Anubis Gate was founded in 2001 by Jesper M. Jensen and Morten Sørensen under the name Seven Powers. A demo CD of instrumentals was made, but it wasn’t until 2003 when they found vocalist Torben Askholm that things really started to take shape. At first the idea was to record a demo based on some of the Seven Powers tracks, in order to get a record contract. Music was mainly written by Jesper. Lyrics and vocal melodies were then added by Torben and Henrik Fevre, and later in the studio lead guitars/keyboards were added by Kim Olesen. Both side men were old friends that had played with both Morten and Jesper in different bands in the 80’s. As soon as the demo was finished it was sent to Danish management Intromental, who quickly secured the trio a record deal with Spanish label Locomotive Music, now under the name Anubis Gate. So what started as a demo ended up being the debut album “Purification”, produced by Jacob Hansen and released April 26, 2004. Metal music archives said: ”Overall, if you are a fan of progressive metal that is largely based in power metal, you’ll probably enjoy it”.

After a small series of gigs culmination at Prog Power in Holland in the fall 2012, founder Jesper M. Jensen announced that he no longer wanted to be part of the band. Soon a replacement was found in Michael Bodin (Third Eye), who had previously played with Torben Askholm in Northern Empire. Even though the music for the 6th album was already far in the making, Michael managed to get his writing skills implemented. Shokingly only a couple of months later the other remaining founder Morten Sørensen also announced his departure. Luckily the band quickly got hold of drummer Morten Gade Sørensen, (Pyramaze & Wuthering height), with whom Kim had previously worked during the recording of Lance King’s “A moment in Chiros” album.

The first sounds to emerge from the new line-up was the “Sheep” free download EP, released October 31, 2013, containing 2 covers and one original from the forthcoming album. Still available here: http://www.nightmarerecords.com/online-store/anubis-gate-free-ep-mp3

The idea of releasing “Sheep” was a sort of apology to satisfy fans, who via the social medias had been promised a new album in 2013. Due to different circumstances the album didn’t arrive until April 15, 2014 entitled “Horizons”. Another ten song collection that showed even more of what the new line-up was capable of. Metalunderground said: “Anubis Gate expands the horizon of progressive metal” and Eternal-terror.com wrote: “…definitely their benchmark/pinnacle effort in their already impressive career”. At the same time the first four albums were now again available as downloads after years of struggling with Locomotive Music, who besides (still) owing the band money wasn’t very keen on taking down the albums from iTunes etc., even though their licences had long run out. Finally they did and the band could rightfully profit from its earlier efforts. After this it was time for playing live again, and on September 19, 2014 the new line-up was on stage for the first time in Odense, Denmark. A planned Prog Power Atlanta gig was scheduled for September 11, 2015, but later cancelled due to illness within the band.

In 2016 Anubis Gate launched its long-planned fundraiser campaign to get the first 4 albums back out on a physical format. The original CD’s were long out of print and the few copies for sale fetched sky high prices on eBay. It was time to do something about it and the idea of making a box set of said albums + 2 bonus CD’s containing rare studio- and live recordings came about. The fundraiser ran for two months from February to April and aimed for a total of 18,000 dollars to cover the expenses, and it came out successfully. So in August 2016 the numbered limited edition 6-cd legacy box sets entitled “Orbits” finally reached the pledgers, and the remaining copies (of 1,000 made) are still available from Nightmare Records exclusively.

“Covered in black” – September 2017
“Orbits” – August 2016 (compilation box set)
“Horizons” – April 2014
”Anubis Gate” – September 2011
“The Detached” – March 2009
“Andromeda Unchained” – August 2007
“A Perfect Forever” – September 2005
“Purification” – April 2004

Source: BW&BK

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