GATES OPEN to Release Second Album “Beyond The Black Gates” on December 10th, New Single & Video ‘The Black Gates’ Out Now

Finnish death metal band Gates Open are set to release their second album Beyond The Black Gates on December 10th 2026 via Inverse Records. The last single ‘The Black Gates’ is unleashed today and it’s available on all essential streaming services: https://push.fm/fl/gates-open-the-black-gates

–Composed, lyrics, mixed & mastered by Jere Neejärvi
–ISRC: FI3FC2604901
–Artwork by Gates Open

The band comments:

“The Black Gates” is a dark and atmospheric journey to the edge of despair, loss, and mortality. The song portrays a person wandering through the darkness, carrying the weight of everything that has fallen apart in life. Hope fades with every step, until the black gates rise before him, the final boundary between the known and the unknown.

The black gates do not, however, represent death alone.They also symbolize irreversible change, profound grief, and the moment when a person is forced to confront their own mortality. What lies beyond the gates is left open to interpretation.

As the song progresses, despair gives way to inevitability. A distant call eventually becomes footsteps leading through the gates, into a void from which there is no return.

“The Black Gates” is a story about the moment when the struggle comes to an end, while the answer to what awaits beyond the darkness is left for the listener to decide.

Gates Open is a Finnish blackened death/thrash metal band founded in early 2023 by guitarist and composer Jere Neejärvi and vocalist Tommi Manninen. Although the band itself is relatively new, the two members share a long musical history dating back to 2007, when they first played together in a previous band.

Gates Open combines the aggression and intensity of death and thrash metal with the dark atmosphere and melodic elements of black metal, creating a powerful and distinctive sound.

The band joined the Inverse Records roster in June 2023, releasing their first official single, The Awakening, that same month. This was followed by Let the Night Become Your Guide in October and a third single, Gates Open, in December 2023.

The band’s debut full-length album, Voice After Silence, was released in February 2024. Later that year, Gates Open released two singles, Nightmares Coming True (June) and Preys and Predators (August), leading up to the six-track EP Black Clouds Over the World, released in October 2024.

In October 2025, the band returned with the single The Blood on Their Hands, followed by The Black Scorpion in April 2026.

Gates Open continues to push forward with new material. The single The Black Gates is release on November 2026, followed by the band’s second full-length album, Beyond the Black Gates, on December 2026.