Hellooooo Travelers, oh wait hang on, I mean Metalheads! This is John back with yet another album review. I was trying to do my best Cl4P-TP impression from the Borderlands franchise. I bring to you the freshest album from the band Orbital Gate, they released their album Engineering His Planetary Dominion on November 6th, 2026 and it rips.

Orbital Gate have a bit of a special place in my heart as they were my first Slamming Brutal Death Metal band that I really found. I have branched out bit more within that niche sub-genre and love what I am finding. Orbital Gate had a really awesome concept album, Demonstration of Post Apocalyptic Warfare, last year based on the video game Fallout: New Vegas. This new album is based on my all time favorite video game Borderlands 2. Eva the sole writer, recorder and owner of the band has another solo project called Resuscitate which I’ve written about before. That project has a few albums based on the Borderlands franchise so I was stoked to see this announced too!

Now onto the music of Engineering His Planetary Dominion! I was surprised by just how progressive some of this album is. Resuscitate, which mentioned before, is super progressive, but I wasn’t expecting THIS much of that to come through here. How often do you hear a passage in a 7/8 time signature in Slam let alone a feature(Enterprise Earth). This all happens in Liquifying Organic Matter at 2:03 until roughly the end of the track. The other proggy track I really enjoyed is Neurotic Biochemical Abomination. This has an almost djent inspired passage at the :25 mark and has this bouncy quality that makes me think as such. The riff from this passage come back towards the end of the track(2:37) and Eva completely switches her vocal style completely. The kicker to this time around is the sample used at the end of it featuring Scooter from the Borderlands franchise with my favorite voice line being “CATCH A RIIIIIIDE!”

My favorite track in the album is A Resistance in Peril featuring ALESSA. The track features my favorite heavy obnoxious riff at 1:50, it makes me just want to headbang so hard my neck breaks. The directly after that, the feature starts, shortly after there is a riff that is super technical and features some crazy descending guitar lines.

Overall on my personal scale I would give Engineering His Planetary Domination a 10/10! Not only is this great because it’s based on Borderlands 2, it displays the great musicianship I expect from Eva and the tracks just rip. As always give this album a listen, follow the band on social media and even buy the album!

https://www.instagram.com/orbital.gate?vrfl=MmRydWhzNjRqNTM0

https://www.facebook.com/share/1AVpdnU3LH/?mibextid=wwXIfr

https://open.spotify.com/album/4kaKYJ6EhpYa8MtCGQy6Zh?si=aIQu7IViQ6K8sKYZK_mssg

https://orbitalgate.bandcamp.com/album/engineering-his-planetary-dominion

https://music.apple.com/us/album/engineering-his-planetary-dominion/6800407457