Various members of the At the Gates have formed a side project known as The Lurking Fear. Former guitarist and primary songwriter of Gardens of Grief and The Red in the Sky is Ours Alf Svensson is disappointingly not among them. With At the Gates regressing to commercial speed metal after half of With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness, The Lurking Fear promise to play weird, evil, and twisted death metal again. We’ll see about that.
Introducing, The Lurking Fear.
Tomas Lindberg – vocals, Jonas Stålhammar – Guitars, Fredrik Wallenberg – Guitars, Andreas Axelson – Bass and Adrian Erlandsson – drums
The Lurking Fear is bringing sheer, natural weirdness and horror back to the scene, as we want our death metal ugly, twisted and possessed.
Riffs should stir up real feelings of repulsion, and disgust deep down in your soul, and vocals should sounds like hounds of hell howling at the moon.
Stay tuned!
Art by Branca Studios
Tags: At the Gates, death metal, Sweden, Swedish Death Metal, the lurking fear
Not really one of my favorite Lovecraft stories, by the way. Cool title though
I demand a Grotesque reformation. With them doing tour dates and playing in the embrace of evil in it’s entirety. Not so much writing new watered down material.
No Alf = more meh from old At the Gates guys
Alf should make music again. Doesn’t have to be morbid like old At the Gates, just better than Oxiplegatz (which is better than At the Gates without him).
Oxiplegatz and post-Alf ATG represent a balance: ATG has the engaging songs, Alf has the ideas to make them more than poppy loops. Takes both. This is why Slayer needed both Hanneman and King/Lombardo.