Sometimes, music doesn’t have to be bright or fun or even comfortable to stick. At times, it should sound like straight from an old, decaying basement—molds creeping across the ceiling and the walls. And yes, that’s the exact space The7thGatekeeper drags you into with his latest single, Not to Be Taken.
The track welcomes you with a whisper. Not the kind that comforts you to sleep, but the one that haunts you at midnight until your chest feels suffocated. It immediately shifts into bleak, explosive guitar riffs like a doom-foreboding phenomenon breaking loose in the middle of silence.
The intense and brutal structure feels like claws digging into your skin. But this emotional catharsis doesn’t end with its arrangement because lyrically, it’s just as tormenting and unsettling. The part, “It’s always there. It’s always been there,” feels like a chant against an inescapable shadow.
What makes this song more deep and layered is the UK-based artist engineered this song from start to finish. And it sounds like he was with the early Slipknot and Lamb of God in his small chaos room at home when he recorded this song. The7thGatekeeper knows all too well how to blend visceral energy and melodic intricacy into his works. With Not to Be Taken, he doesn’t just tease his second original album to be released this year, he’ll leave you anticipating for more.
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