Gates - Moths Have Eaten the Core

Through The Howling Infinite

#22) Gates - Moths Have Eaten the Core (2010)

 1. Outer Labyrinth
 2. Inner Labyrinth
 3. Dust of Absence  

i stumbled across Gates one night while perusing bandcamp, streamed a song, got hooked and bought some records. this is a one man project that combines field recordings with a kind of blackened drone. as near as i can tell there are 4 gates records out. this version of Moths is a 2nd pressing of 100 copies (i have #42), the first pressing was also limited to 100. Moths is the debut and it's dark and bleak as all hell. Bryan W Bray is the mastermind behind this project and he's done a great job combining the samples with his dronescapes.
here's how he describes the album/project:

"Gates began as a sonic experiment turned into a ritualistic cathartic process. As a way to further cleanse the mental palette in a continuing ritual that took place after practices and shows with ORCA and always initially beginning with simple multi-tracked ideas. The music spans the worlds of doom, psychedelic drone, ambient, experimental field recordings & intense audio processing all filtered through the bleak aesthetics and sonic darkness of black metal. Recording began in the fall of 2008 and finished January 2009 in the depths of winter. The music ventures into themes of claustrophobia, nothingness, the unconscious passageways of the mind and the transcendence of the self."


you can definitely sense those themes throughout the album's 38 minutes. especially claustrophobia. i'm looking forward to checking out Bray's other albums/projects.