In 2016, St. Louis, Missouri, metal quartet THE GORGE played a relatively innocuous gig opening for their like-minded buddies Intronaut, unaware that a 17 second video of their set casually posted to social media by the headliner's frontman (and Dunable Guitars figurehead) Sacha Dunable would forever alter the band's trajectory. Among the video's viewers was Pelagic Records founder Robin Staps, who invited the band to tour the U.S. with his project The Ocean Collective and signed them to his label for their long-awaited third LP, 2023's Mechanical Fiction - an album that demonstrates The Gorge's masterful amalgam of djent precision, prog fearlessness, and the cathartic energy of early 2000s metallic hardcore.