Founding member of At the Gates vocalist Tomas Lindberg passed on to the grey lands yesterday from complications of cancer treatment. History will remember him for their epic first album, The Red in the Sky is Ours, which created the atmospheric metal genre in a new form.
His final act was to record the new At the Gates album despite having part of his mouth removed:
“The last version of the vocals, the ones that will end up on the album, were recorded in ONE day, mostly one takes, the DAY before the surgery, just to make sure we HAD the album, so to speak,” the statement said. “So the vocals were actually recorded BEFORE the rest of the album…. a bit different, but it felt good to have it done.”
He went out in a metal way, and will be remembered well.
Tags: At the Gates, death metal
It’s better to leave this life than to enter it.
RIP to a legend.
Lindberg, Nodtveidt, Helmkamp, Varg. Most evocative extreme vokillists ever \m/
Lindberg and varg I can see but the other two? Mid
Death metal….
RAPES THE SHIT OUT RAP…
RIP TOM
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At least you named yourself honestly.
Fedora vibes
I’m housebroken too.. well sort of.
Little did he know we are in fact all rappers here; No gold, no fame, only iron law,
nature commands, perfection without flaw.
The dead sing louder than the charts ever could,
this is war in rhythm, not your neighborhood.
Good luck in the afterlife
Brett, regarding the Red in the Sky is ours the production is awful. How do you feel about it? The overall sound is weak, with a frail guitar tone. The instruments, though badly mixed, are each too prominent to even give the album an atmospheric feel. The Gardens of Grief mini album nailed the production that the band should have had. Do you believe we should use AI to improve the production? Similar albums such as Breeding the Spawn and Battles in the North can also benefit from an improved mastering. I do not believe bands will waste the effort on older releases, so it is up to fans to breathe new life into older albums to showcase forgotten quality. Or should we keep using AI to simply generate cartoon porn instead?
Also, for fucks sake, kindly remove Emperor from the death metal section of the Best Of page. It triggers my autism.
All the legends are leaving us. Damn.
I always loved At the Drive In. Thom had a nice, thick, heavy, uncircumcised longship. Good girth with nice weight in the balls too. Tom Tom’s Wigwam, we used to call it. He hated the nickname; because, as he often used to say, Wigwam was one of his least favourite prog rock bands. He also liked Greenslade, or at least heard them once and then said that to impress people. He’d get a build up of “Lindberg” (along with barnacles) in his foreskin (foredeck?) if he neglected to wash, a frequent enough occurrence thanks to his band’s constant world tours. This reservoir of smegma somehow endeared Thom to groupies, while serving as a handy ersatz breakfast spread when the tour bus’s supply of loganberry jam ran out, like it always did, after the second day. We wondered what would take poor Thom first, whether smegma or cancer. The answer in the end was smegma, spreading throughout his body, and yet we loved Thom all the more for it. RIP, Thom.
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Hi Brett, what do you mean by “atmospheric metal genre”? I’m fairly familiar with that album… do you mean the violins ‘n shit?
Still the greatest death metal album ever created. RIP king.
I feel a hot wind on my shoulder
And the touch of a world that is older
I turn the switch and check the number
I leave it on, when in bed, I slumber