Digipak. Gateway To Selfdestruction is an atmospheric/depressive black metal band, formed in 2013. Their second album, again produced by Patrick W. Engel at Temple Of Disharmony, delves into the power struggle between the child and the motherly, pathologic presence of a woman suffering from mental illness, whose selfdestructive behavior is expressed through child abuse, perversions and prostitution in both obvious and hidden ways. The conceptual layout of the CD shows her pathology and the different roles she is driven to play in her life - the loving mother to the casual observer, the whore in secret, the Madonna as the highest aspiration which she struggles to reclaim. Musically, Gateway To Selfdestruction went from the depressive black metal with atmospheric doom influences of earlier days to a more progressive extreme metal sound with extensive use of clean guitars, guitar solos, different vocal styles, clean vocals, choirs and extreme screams. Influences range from old Katatonia to more contemporary acts such as Shining, Woods Of Desolation, Ghost Brigade and Antimatter.
