GATEKEEPER’S CHOICE

gkGatekeeper’s pretty much the hottest horror techno band in the universe right now. ALL my friends want to fuck them…bad. Especially the gay ones. Tonight is the band’s long-anticipated Halloween record release party for their new EP Optimus Maximus. Advance notice: it’s uh-mazing.
In honor of Halloween, we’ve asked Gatekeeper to come up with a ghoulish YouTube playlist and say a few words about the clips. Here it is, along with a track off their new album.

Unsolved Mysteries
Aside from the X-Files, this is probably our favorite TV show intro ever.

Lightning Storm
Our friend Daniel Lopatin of Oneohtrix Point Never was an amateur storm chaser while he was in college. This is some of his sweet footage.

Tanzen - “Tragic Error”
This dark EBM techno classic is a total rager. Tanzen looks like the coolest guy ever.

Jem Glaciator X-Stream
We need a Glaciator X-Stream really bad. It’s sad to think that you could never realistically get sponsored by a smoke machine.

Hellraiser II: Hellbound trailer
We love early CG visualizations of alternate dimensions full of brutalist architecture and torture.

Skinny Puppy - “Assimilate”
Our friend Elon from White Car found a two-hour long VHS tape of this whole concert in a thrift store. So good.

Mark Shreeve - “Assasin”
Literally Gatekeeper ground zero. We decided to start a band after watching this video together.

Gatekeeper - “Forgotten”




Friday, October 30, 2009 at 2:26 pm by MATT KESSLER VICE US us



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  1. r says:

    amazing. optimus is SOOOO GOOOD!!!!

  2. neener says:

    you know the unsolved mysteries music accounted for 90% of the scary effect when they did studies about this.

  3. orangeopium says:

    <3 lightening storm!

  4. TK says:

    I never saw Hellraiser but it definitely made me avoid acupuncture for a long time.

  5. government cheese says:

    that skinny puppy video is sick!

  6. niner says:

    AWESOME

  7. mbw says:

    TRAGIC ERROR

  8. Wes says:

    Tanzen… or Taran…

  9. Sace says:

    it is not the key, but the lock

  10. chip says:

    the “guy” is tragic error, the “song” is tanzen

  11. hextopher says:

    yep. there was like 500 ppl in our loft that devils nite. }:D

  12. LANDEATER says:

    show was insane

  13. skyler says:

    YOU STOLE MY VIDEO AND SAID IT WAS DANIEL SOMETHING VIDEO NEXT TIME GIVE THE RIGHT CREDIT!