The Gates of Slumberwas formed byKarl Simonin 1998. Various people were in and out of the group between 1998 and 2001, when theBlood Encrusted Deth Axedemo was recorded with Jamie WaltersakaDr. Phibes/Athenar(Boulder,Midnight) on drums and bass. In 2003Jason McCashtook over the bass duties and was a long-time member of the band until his untimely demise in 2014, after which Simondecided it was time to call it quits. That was until 2019 when the renowned metal festivalHell Over Hammaburgwanted to bring the band back on stage to perform at the festival’s 2020 edition. Simon reformed the band with its original memberChuck Brownon drums andSteve Janiakon bass and got back to work. “We’d been asked several times to play Hell Over Hammaburg. But there was no “we” to play. The germ of the idea started. We started re-learning songs from the first LP. It wasn’t too long into the rehearsals that we started coming up with new songs.”, states Simon.
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