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\nDen Headz, BLACKGATES has checked in with the following announcement about parting ways with Vocalist Dan Nelson:<\/p>\n
“Regretfully, Dan Nelson has decided to leave Blackgates. He has stated that he wants to concentrate full time on being a father to his new born son along with focusing more on his personal training business. All of us in Blackgates understand his decision and wish him all the best. He’ll always be family.<\/p>\n
“That being said, Blackgates is moving forward and is now actively seeking a new permanent lead vocalist. Were looking for a full on metal head who can sing with some serious melodic power and edge, with a bit of gravel on the top. IF THIS IS YOU… send us your demos, links, videos to: Blackgatesvox@yahoo.com. Subject: ‘VOX SEARCH’ Here is a link to our three song demo. These are good examples\u2026.”<\/p>\n
“We’ve got over a dozen tunes that we feel are killer, we just need the right guy to come in and put his stamp on them and take what we have even further,” stated Jeremy Von Epp.<\/p>\n
When asked, Paul Bostaph replied “New blood in the band will help push our sound further. Our newest material is heavier than our first demo. We’re looking forward to working with a new vocalist, and getting out there and mixing it up in 2013.” Den Headz, BLACKGATES has checked in with the following announcement about parting ways with Vocalist…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themetalden.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nSource: Metalunderground
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