Legendary Swedish progressive death metal band At the Gates, fresh on the heels of passing on to the dark realm of vocalist Tomas Lindberg, has commissioned faithful re-issues of its first three albums.
The label says:
Three landmark releases from Swedish melodic death metal pioneers At The Gates are set to return on May 22nd with newly remastered CD editions, bringing together a crucial era in the band’s groundbreaking early catalogue. Spanning their formative trilogy, these reissues capture the evolution of a band that helped define the Gothenburg sound and reshape extreme metal in the early 1990s.
This trio of reissues begins with their 1992 debut, ‘The Red in the Sky Is Ours’, a raw and innovative statement of intent originally released via Peaceville’s Deaf imprint. Emerging from the ashes of the band Grotesque, At The Gates introduced a uniquely intricate and brutal sound, elevated by unexpected elements such as violin arrangements. Widely regarded as a genre classic, the album’s intensity and originality – highlighted by standout tracks like ‘Kingdom Gone’ – set the blueprint for what would follow.
Their 1993 follow-up, ‘With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness’, marked a significant progression in both ambition and execution. Recorded at the legendary Sunlight Studios and produced by Tomas Skogsberg, the album expanded the band’s sonic palette with complex melodic structures, philosophical lyricism, and subtle black metal influences. A defining release for many longtime fans, it also features a guest appearance by Matti Kärki of Dismember.
Completing the set is 1994’s ‘Terminal Spirit Disease’, the band’s third album and a pivotal moment in their artistic development. Showcasing a more streamlined and immediate songwriting approach, the album balances aggression with accessibility, paving the way for the refined direction later heard on ‘Slaughter of the Soul’. Its dynamic and memorable compositions further cemented At The Gates’ status as leaders of the European death metal movement.
EACH OF THESE EDITIONS IS PRESENTED ON JEWEL CASE CD WITH BOOKLETS FAITHFUL TO THE ORIGINAL RELEASES, AND ALL FEATURE NEWLY REMASTERED, BAND-APPROVED AUDIO BY RENOWNED PRODUCER DAN SWANÖ AT UNISOUND STUDIOS. PRE-ORDER HERE.
Formed in Gothenburg in 1990, At The Gates quickly rose through the ranks of the burgeoning Scandinavian death metal scene, forging a style that fused technical precision, melodic complexity, and uncompromising aggression. Across four influential studio albums before their initial split in 1996, the band established a legacy that would continue long after their reformation in 2007, both on stage and in the studio, until the recent passing of iconic vocalist Tomas Lindberg.
In the cynical view of the longtime listener, the first album is worth having in any collection, even if the football death metal guys hate it and the Reddit/Metal-Archives Opeth poseurs lurve it.
Tags: At the Gates, death metal
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NO I SAY
CAN A MUD BE A CONSERVATIVELY GOOD ROCKER?
CAN A MULATTO LESBIAN RAP ROCKZILLA BAND EVER WORK?
SO A MUD CANT MAKE GREAT Bad Cool ASS METAL?
Why can’t black chicks stop think and make creativity good not bad shit metal
CAN SOME RACE MIXING WORK OR ARE BLACK TRANSGENDER LATINAS DOING RAP METAL DOOMED TO FAIL
Black people are great, but diversity sucks. We have to send the Italians back.
Nu-metal sounds a lot more like a cross between the B-52s and Grand Funk Railroad than anything else.
Indeed, I love old Suffocation. My favorite character ever is Princess Morbucks (the non weeb version), but a close second is Samir Duran Duran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRLYXE_nx70
Top 3 negro music:
1. Suffocation (Not only negro, but Terrence Hobbs was a main contributor). Great music all around, on the list of certified metal classics.
2. Michael Jackson. It is pop, but there are maybe two or three decent songs that aren’t torture to listen to.
3. There’s no third. I don’t like jazz.
No Parliament? Bob Marley? Marvin Gaye? Muddy Waters?
I appreciate jazz, but no longer listen to it. I enjoyed Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, and even some Miles Davis.
I long for the day when the classics of death and black metal become like Beatles albums in that it’s not news when they’re reissued because the culturally held assumption is that there’s always 20 of them available at your local record store (or your online distro of choice, since no one has gone to a dedicated store to buy a CD in over 20 years now.)
We need to go visit Vinal Edge or Sound Exchange. Kind of cool how they are keeping local scenes alive without bowing to the hipster herd…
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If you’d put 1/4th as much effort into your diet you might’ve kept your hair.
Thanks for your interest, Doug. Your OpenSea.io purchase code should arrive shortly.
Okay I’ll take the bait: This “code” thing is fucking stupid as fuck. You’re even more humorless than the average Baldie. Seriously, are you employed at Metal Archives?
I’m sorry Doug, for you I mean. Not only have you apparently forgotten how to spell (“humorless”?), but with this comment have been rather more humourless yourself. I’d call that a very clear example of projection; almost textbook, in fact. Besides, “humourless” tends to mean lacking the capacity for humour rather than failing at it, with such failure being far more a matter of taste and perspective in any case. You, on the other hand, have objectively and quite simply been “humorless”.
May I also say I’m perfectly comfortable with my baldness; partly because I’ve been shaving my head for longer in my life than not, partly because I’ve developed a modicum of self-esteem instead of using resentment as a substitute, and because I’m actually complimented for my appearance, frequently, and experience zero problems in having my needs met by for free by attractive and willing women. Perhaps the wine-gut and double-chins aren’t doing you favours; and yet, as with most such, that’s your issue and not mine.
Finally, if I may ask: what happened? I once regarded you as the soul of wit, and it now appears you’re simply a witless asshole, still nursing all those old resentments and now choking on their bile, having allowed these to fester unchecked for over twoscore years. And please don’t think I’m labouring under the least illusion as to who you are, for all speculation has now been laid to rest by those revealing alternations between too-friendly fawning and the kind of blind peevishness which remain all too readily evident from your general conduct and in your comments here.
I’d happily bury the hatchet, either in the ground between us or, still speaking metaphorically of course, in your own blocky and no doubt vanishingly hirsute head——if only you could convince me or anyone else that the former option would ever have any lasting effect.
Toodle-oo for now, old friend.
If you are from a place where they spell it “humourless,” you owe it to yourself to have the beer not the wine.
Hair on men seems to come down to genetics, but they probably have an mRNA vaccine for baldness already. Side effects: compulsive masturbation, violent diarrhea, disorientation, sodomy, and halitosis.
If this true, the RNA in question must surely have been cultivated from Doug himself, despite his rapidly thinning temples. It’s snake oil in every sense, I tells ya.
Holy fuck please step back and internalize how much of a faggot you and everyone else are. And get a hat. This album rules and you sound like a pissy wastoid. Fuck yourself and die. What’s your fav track on though? And how it can be better than Kingdom Gone?
If ud quit sucking dick like a rap song Douglas Pamela man tit Anderson
Fuck heavy metal dreamzzzz
Z spelling is gay wigger fags
Then maybe I wouldn’t kick your sorry white ass
Ain’t u part Jew? Figures….
How can I kill most men and get away with it?
Like Dahmer or ted Bundy or shit?
Any of u wanna fight bitch….
Stupid fucks die…
So says
The Grim reaper cardiocorax
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Ghostriderceratops hip-hop metal
Gods of sorcery
All men suck but me…ill kill u all…
Can I be on the wasp ENTERPRISE OR SOME shit to another planet ok?
MAKE AN EXCEPTION OK?
Hey man, not doxing, yet it’s interesting to me that your surname ends with -ez. Anyways, thanks for your support, and let me know if any issues with the purchase code.
It appears Slayer is also a Doug disliker!
https://www.slayer.net/collections/hell-awaits/products/the-road
You’d save a lot of time by starting with those who *do* like you, Doug.
yeah OMG that guy is the worst! You do gotta give him credit though, he’s managed to expose some of these anonymous little girls that make painfully obvious jokes and can’t seem to get him out of their hairless heads. Don’t get me wrong I do dislike him and all but I’m not consumed by it! Jeez!