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VII Gates

Heavy metal/hard rock at it's very best!

About Me

WANTED! Lodgingin Cleveland! With a help from a local promotor, we are planning a few gigs in Cleveland later this year. To keep the costs down, it would be really appreciated if someone would like to take care of a few ugly hardrockers!

Ok, for those who don't know... What is VII Gates? Well, since we're from Sweden, it's not in our nature to brag about the music ourself. So we leave that to others. The following are the main opinions from different media:

"VII Gates' heavy metal is close to perfect" (Tartaeran Desire)

"Sound Riot have a winner in this band - perhaps they have discovered the next Rainbow or UFO!!" (Battle Helm)

"If this band holds it together and is fortunate enough to make it bigover time, Fire, Walk With Me will eventually be hailed as a classic Metal album that will be held up by many as one of the better efforts the genre has ever produced. My advice to you is to get on the bandwagon now and be one of the first to make this realization before someone tells you you should have 10 years from now!" (Metalexpressradio.com)

"Now its up to the metalheads to discover what a truly good band VII Gates really are." (Metal-rules.com)

"I'm not sure if the band knows which songs they wrote kick the most ass either" (Metalcrypt.com)

Except from the songs you can stream or download from MySpace.com, you will also find the promotional video for another song called "The saviour" on this URL: VII Gates promo page
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/4/2005
Band Website: sevengates.se
Band Members:

JJ Rockford - Guitars

Mick van Slowfoot - Drums

Criss Blackburn - Vocals

Robert Basti Makek - Guitars

Nicola Butcher Posa - Bass


Influences: I made a list from the first 30 reviews we got. Will be updating this as soon as I have time. Anyway, these are the bands, in alphabetical order, which those reviews compared us with (more or less of course...). So if you like any of these bands, it's a pretty big chance that you might enjoy VII Gates a lot (though I have to admit that I haven't heard all of this bands myself):Accept, Agent Steel, Blind Guardian, Crimson Glory, Dark Moor, Deep Purple, Europe, Gamma Ray, Giant, Glenn Huhges, Halford, Hammerfall, Heaven's Gate Helloween, Iced Earth, Insania, Iron Maiden, Jag Panzer, Judas Priest, King Diamond, Leningrad Cowboys, Manowar, Nocturnal Rites, Oz, Paragon, Primal Fear Rainbow, Riot, Rough Silk, Royal Hunt, Sonata Artica, Spinal Tap, Stormwitch, Tad Morose, THunderstone, Twilightning, Whitesnake
Sounds Like: Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Savatage, Rainbow, at least according to the reviews we've got.
Record Label: Lion Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Help VII Gates to play on Sweden Rock Festival, please...

Do you want to see VII Gates play live on Sweden Rock Festival? If so, or even if you don't give a damn about it, please just support us and go to BOTH these sites and vote for "VII Gates":Nordic Cha...
Posted by VII Gates on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 08:31:00 PST

VII Gates on YouTube

It's maybe not the most original thing to put a video on YouTube.com nowadays... But I'll asure everyone who haven't seen the promo video for "The saviour" that it's pretty far fr...
Posted by VII Gates on Sat, 12 May 2007 12:29:00 PST

VII Gates on Metalcentral's Metal Collection compalition CD

VII Gates will participate on Metalcentral.net's  compalition CD, called Metalcentral Metal Collection. There will be 15 bands in total on the album, prestenting on so...
Posted by VII Gates on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:41:00 PST

VII Gates on DJ Darkside metal show on Breakthruradio.com

VII Gates will be featured on the DJ Darkside Metal Show at Breakthru Radio between april 16:th and april 23:rd. The show will be aired all week 24 hours a-day. The radio is total...
Posted by VII Gates on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:44:00 PST

To everyone who sent/received messages to/from me!!

I had a major hard disk crash (my main computer was in for repair, and this was my backup disc!!) a few days ago, where I kept the log files which contains "memory notes" about to whom I've been corre...
Posted by VII Gates on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 01:06:00 PST

Internet down

Have had some troubles with my internet connection lately. Will change soon, but wont be able to answer anything for a few days, I suppose. Btw, finally got some cold weather in the south of Sweden! ...
Posted by VII Gates on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:01:00 PST

First info about our upcoming album "Chinese democracy"!

Post the first basic info about our upcoming album "Chinese democracy" on our homepage. VII Gates - Chinese democracyMore info will come during the autumn....
Posted by VII Gates on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 12:22:00 PST

Congratulations Finland and Lordi!

As most of you probably might know, Lordi from Finland won the Eurovision Song Contest yesterday. It's not only Finland's best ESC since 1973 (6:th place), Lordi is also the first heavy metal band to ...
Posted by VII Gates on Sun, 21 May 2006 07:54:00 PST

my first blog

Just watching an episode of "American idol", the one with a Queen-theme, you know, everyone were supposed to do a Queen song. Not much to say about this, Queen is probably one of the hardest band ever...
Posted by VII Gates on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 03:18:00 PST