Regina’s Nine Gates finds the balance between intriguing your gentler side with melodic interludes and arousing your inner aggression with relentless riffs and beats so intense that even your heart wants to move in time to the music. The songs on their self-titled EP, released in April 2014, deal with the anguish associated with cutting off unwanted relationships – making it easy to relate to them on a basic human level – while the heavy grooves, thrashy rhythms, and ripping leads of their Pantera, Metallica, and Lamb of God influenced sound are heavy enough to leave your grandma convinced that they’re actually singing about the devil.