Fractal Gates
French melodic death metal act from Paris, inspired by extra terrestrial activities and the scandinavian metal scene.
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
In 2005 Stéphane Peudupin and Sebastien Pierre both of French doom act Inborn Suffering decided to create a band that emphasised more on rock , Scandinavian metal, catchy tunes. Mislead was born. The band has been active 2 years and then disbanded because of various reasons in 2007.
in August 2007 Stéphane Peudupin and Sébastien Pierre decided to create a new band built on the ashes of Mislead. They decided to change the focus and style of the band and rename it according to their beliefs. After some line-up changes, Fractal Gates found a solid formation with Antoine Verdier on bass guitar, Arnaud Hoarau on the rhythmic guitar,Vivien Dumont on drums, Sebastien Pierre on the vocals and Stéphane Peudupin on lead guitars.
This marks the birth of Fractal Gates, Metal and Dark Rock with grooved catchy tunes and screams. The band emphasises mainly on extra terrestrial life forms, ancient civilisations, planets, esoterism, science fiction etc .. Energy could be what describes best Fractal Gatess music.
The band released a 4 title demo CD end 2007 which received surprisingly good response over the world and that greatly motivated them to compose more songs. Fractal Gates has then been very much inspired during the composition process and in 4 months they had all the material ready for a full length CD.
In August 2008, the band entered the Hybreed studio and recorded and mixed the songs with Andrew Guillotin (7th Nemesis, Glorior Belli, Carnal Lust, Temple of Baal ). The result was very satisfying for the band, they then decided to master the works at Jacob Hansens studio (Volbeat, Pestilence, Deadlock ). The result is 49 mn of explosive energetic metal of the debut CD entitled Altered State of Consciousness (due to be released in 2009).
Fractal Gates now prepares material for a 2nd CD and for future concerts in France and Europe
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
We will start playing live in Paris, then Holland Belgium etc ..
Your musical influences
the swedish / finnish scene in general. But we play what we like and feel.
What equipment do you use?
EMG pickups, Washburn and Gibson guitars, Tama drumsets, Spector basses, line 6 pod X3, peavey tube amps
