Winter Gate is an Old School Progressive Death Metal band from Jaipur. Formed back in 2008, none of the members had an idea about what exact sound they wanted. The band started with the name “Alath” playing Death-Thrash covers. A few changes in the Line-up led them to another opening, pure death metal covering bands like Celtic Frost, Obituary, Six Feet Under etc. The phase and band was named “War Autopsy”. Later, by the mid of 2010 summers, the band were a bit more complex and experimented progressive music covering bands like Opeth, Death etc. The idea about their sound was a bit out of oblivion as each member was more intosame sound. This was the Genesis of Winter Gate. ‘Winter Gate’ experiments with their influences. rogressive by nature, they try to put variety of influences in a song and hence avoid being contained in a genre. Driven by Death Metal, pushed by 70’s sound and held by Progressive Rock is what it makes Winter Gate, what they sound. They try to bring up the true and pure Death Metal all in a Progressive environment. But the true breed still remains Old School.

Current line up of the band is:
Devashish Dutt – Vocals/ Guitars
Lovenish Sharma – Guitars
Ankit Yadav – Bass
Sudeep Saxena – Drums

The band was working on its debut EP  since few months. The wait is finally over! They have finally released their debut EP ‘DisIllumination‘ as a FREE DOWNLOAD. You can download the EP here and listen to it on their SoundCloud Page and ReverbNation Page

Tracklist:

1. Beyond The Light (Instrumental)
2. A Wreath of Mist
3. Death’s Embrace

The EP is having three tracks, which clocks up to almost 26 minutes. The EP has been recorded, mastered and mixed by Keshav Dhar.

Band members would like to thank Anudeep Mathur, Luke Peters, Somesh Dutt, Siddharth Padhye, friends and family for making it possible.