THE CITY GATES Air New Single "Hanged Drawn and Quartered"

Montreal post punk/shoegaze band The City Gates have aired their new single "Hanged Drawn and Quartered".

The song is out now via Velouria Recordz and Icy Cold Records, grab it here. 

The City Gates bass player and vocals’ Jean-Sébastien says about the song: “I got the idea for that title as I was reading an article on the very worst execution methods and it just stuck there somewhere in my memory.” Hanged Drawn and Quartered song lyrics is about “The most horrible way to execute someone definitely was to hang, draw and quarter the poor soul. As the name implies, you choke, stretch, gut and dismember the culprit in front of a live audience.”

 

“The melody came to me in the shower. I don’t know why, but melodies always seem to appear by magic once I’m in there! Anyway, I jumped out of the bathroom, ran into my home studio and laid the basics tracks for the song in an hour or so. The lyrics reflect the twisted ways we torture ourselves with daily drama and unresolved issues and the suffering it brings.”

To promote their 'Age of Resilience' album, released in June 2021 the band will embark on a European tour from October 6 to October 11, includes shows with Golden Apes, She Pleasures HerSelf, Days of Sorrow, and more.

EUROPEAN TOUR 2022

OCT 6: Wroclaw PL - Return To The Batcave Festival

OCT 7: Berlin DE, Slaughterhouse %

OCT 8: Cologne DE. Blue Shell *

OCT 9: Holzminden DE, Horstberg 76 *

OCT 10: Liège BE, Le Garage Creative Music *

OCT11: Paris, FR, Supersonic *

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Watch: The City Gates Drop Music Video For "Claiming Race"

Canadian post punk/shoegaze band The City Gates have dropped the video for their latest single "Claiming Race".

The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their album 'Age of Resilience', which came out in June last year via Velouria Recordz and on Icy Cold Records. Grab your copy here.

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Watch: The City Gates Release Live Video For "Le Silence"

Canadian post punk/shoegaze band The City Gates have released a live video for their track "Le Silence".

The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their album 'Age of Resilience' (included in our 100 Best Albums of 2021 list), released in June last year via Velouria Recordz and on Icy Cold Records. Grab your copy here.

Watch the video below.

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Watch: The City Gates Unleash Music Video For "The Pyre"

Canadian post punk/shoegaze band The City Gates have unleashed the video for their latest single "The Pyre".

The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their recent album 'Age of Resilience', which came out this month (June 9) via Velouria Recordz and on Icy Cold Records. Grab your copy here.

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The City Gates Announce New LP 'Age of Resilience'

Canadian post punk/shoegaze band The City Gates have announced the release of their long-awaited new album 'Age of Resilience'.

The follow-up to 2018's Forever Orbiter, was produced and mixed by François Marsan and the band, and will be out on June 9 via Velouria Recordz and on Icy Cold Records. Pre-order your copy here.

Age of Resilience is inspired by historical and social realities of the last few decades. It references the lyrics of the band’s own single Cape of Good Hope, as well as historian Eric Hobsbawm’s trilogy The Age of Revolution (1962), The Age of Empire (1987), and The Age of Extremes (1994).

Check out the album's tracklist below.

Age of Resilience Tracklist:

01. Nowhere Nagasaki

02. The Pyre

03. Cape of Good Hope

04. Tending a Dead Woman's Garden

05. Le Silence

06. Roman Empire

07. Siegfried 1969

08. Claiming Race

09. Copenhagen

10. Slush

11. Foghorn's Cry

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Watch: The City Gates Unleash Music Video For "Maddening Ride"

Canadian post punk/shoegaze band The City Gates have unleashed the video for "Maddening Ride".

The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their 2018 album 'Forever Orbiter' released via Northern Light Records. Buy it here if you haven't already.

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New Entry: The City Gates Premiere New Single "Siegfried 1969"

Canadian post punk/shoegaze band The City Gates have premiered their new single "Siegfried 1969".

The song will be out on July 22 via their own label Velouria Recordz. Get it here.

Frontman Maxime Wingender says: “I have German ancestors and have much love for the Neue Deutsche Welle, and German 80’s post punk / darkwave / cold wave music scene, such as Xmal Deutschland D.A.F., Grauzone (actually from Switzerland) and Asmodi Bizarr. I took a German language course at university back in the day, but it’s not really good enough for a full song in German. So I asked my German friend Alexander Leonard Donat of Vlimmer to give me a hand with this.” 

“The lyrics are about my grandfather who was one of the most famous pianists in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) during the Cold War era. In the song, I compare the Berlin Wall with his personal life. He recognizes that he tries to shut out people, similar to what the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED – the only party option in the GDR) did,” says Alexander Donat.

The band is currently working on their third full-length forthcoming album due out this year.

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Watch: The City Gates Unveil "Cape of Good Hope" New Video

Canadian post punk/shoegaze band The City Gates have unveiled the video for their latest single "Cape of Good Hope".

The song was released in March 2019 as a first single from The City Gates’ next album (the follow-up to 2018's Forever Orbiter). It also has been released on the Northern Noise Vol. 1 compilation via Velouria Recordz, and on Zeitgeist vol. 10 compilation, released on Cold Transmission.

The band is currently working on their third full-length forthcoming album due out this year.

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Watch: The City Gates Premiere "Checkpoint Charlie" Music Video

Canadian post punk/shoegaze band The City Gates have premiered the video for their latest single "Checkpoint Charlie".

The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their 2018 album 'Forever Orbiter' released via Northern Light Records. Buy it here if you haven't already.

Watch the video below.

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