The Monster Gate Experiments
The Monster Gate Experiments is a Netherlands-based DIY outlet operating out of a single Bandcamp account, hosting a large and continually growing catalog of lo-fi, improvised black metal, doom, drone, and punk material, most of it credited to one-person projects. Metal Archives lists it as an active label with a roster of roughly three dozen mostly Dutch acts (including Angst, Brutalist, Cadavre, and Stinkrat), and its own bio describes the output as "musical stream-of-consciousness" that is explicitly DIY and antifascist. Releases date back to at least 2013 and continue into 2026, all distributed digitally on a pay-what-you-want basis.
Quick Facts
- Country
- Netherlands
- Founded
- 2013
- Label size
- micro/DIY
- Activity
- high - frequent, ongoing self-releases via Bandcamp with a very large back catalog stretching from 2013 to a July 2026 release
- Genres
- black metal, doom/death metal, experimental/drone, punk/lo-fi DIY
What Does The Monster Gate Experiments Release?
Representative artists: Stinkrat, Omsk, False Teeth, Behekst, Okdoei, Ondood, Angst, Bloedmirakel, Body Hammer, Brutalist, Cadavre
predominantly Dutch one-person or small lo-fi/experimental projects spanning black metal, doom, drone, and punk, released almost exclusively as digital Bandcamp editions
Who Is This Label Likely to Fit?
A prolific Dutch DIY netlabel/collective built around lo-fi, improvised, one-person metal and experimental projects; it operates entirely through Bandcamp with no stated demo process, so contact would have to go through the Bandcamp profile itself and any interested artist should expect an informal, low-production-value fit rather than a curated roster with formal A&R.
This is Metal-Labels' analysis based on available roster and activity data, not a claim made by the label itself.
Demo & Submission Information
No demo policy, submission address, or geographic restriction is published anywhere on the label's Bandcamp page or its Metal Archives entry, so artists interested in this outlet would need to reach out directly through Bandcamp's contact/message feature and should not assume any particular process or turnaround.
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