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Lock Up, Sign of Cain, The Lurking Fear, ex- Grotesque, ex- Infestation, Ben-Hur, Disfear, The Great Deceiver, ex- Nightrage, ex- The Crown, ex- Necronaut (live), ex- Liers in Wait, ex- Sacrilege (live), ex-Conquest, ex-Hide, ex-Skitsystem, ex-Snotrocket, ex-World Without End The Haunted, The Lurking Fear, ex- H.E.A.L., ex- Needleye, ex- Terror, Nemhain, ex- Brujeria, ex- Cradle of Filth, ex- Netherbird, ex- Nifelheim, ex- Paradise Lost, ex- Riket, ex- Samsas Traum, ex- 12 Ton Method, ex- Decameron, ex- Tenet, ex- Vallenfyre, ex-Hyperhug, ex-Penance (Swe), ex-Skitsystem, ex-Deathstars (live) Sixth studio record To Drink From The Night Itself was released in May 2018 via Century Media.Bass (1990-1992, 1992-1996, 2007-2008, 2010-present) In addtion, an animated music video was created for the song ‘The Fall Into Time’.
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Martin Larsson (guitars, Agrimonia / ex-Bombs Of Hades)Īdrian Erlandsson (drums, The Haunted / The Lurking Fear / ex-Cradle Of Filth / ex-Brujeria)ĭirected by Patric Ullaeus (rEvolver Film), music videos were filmed for the title track and ‘Spectre Of Extinction’ and ‘The Paradox’. Jonas Stålhammar (guitars, The Lurking Fear / Crippled Black Phoenix / Bombs Of Hades) Tomas Lindberg Redant (vocals, The Lurking Fear / Lock Up / ex-The Crown) While main parts for The Nightmare Of Being were recorded in several different Swedish studios – drums at Studio Gröndal with Jens Bogren, guitars and bass with Andy La Rocque at Sonic Train Studio, and vocals at Welfare Sounds with Per Stålberg – the album was mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden.Ġ5. It still sounds like At The Gates, 100 percent. It is a very dark album, but not negative. You could call the album an introduction to pessimism as a concept, I guess. “It is not a negative album, more a gateway into new ideas for me personally, trying out different perspectives. Trying to understand this way of looking at the world. Tomas Lindberg Redant commented: “The overall theme deals with the topic of pessimism, and I have been diving deep down in pessimistic philosophers. “The video is once again shot by Costin, our longtime collaborator, and, once again, he managed to add extra depth and texture to the music and lyrics.”Īt The Gates issued seventh full-length studio album The Nightmare Of Being on July 2nd, 2021 through Century Media Records. Minimalistic neo classical influences here clash with the deutsche rock / ‘kraut’ and no wave sounds that we love so much. “At The Gates have always been fans of anything eclectic and extreme, and we are finally at a moment in our career where we feel comfortable lifting in some of these, more avantgarde influences within the At The Gates trademark sound.
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It is a suffocatingly strict and repetitive song, and it displays the mood of the lyrics brilliantly, in my opinion. This is something I am very proud of, the collaboration with one of the central figures when it comes to modern day pessimism and the idea of how it correlates to cosmic horror. Not only drawing the title from the Eugene Thacker book of the same name, the lyrics actually are written by Eugene himself. Speaking about the song and video, frontman Tomas Lindberg Redant said: “‘Cosmic Pessimism’ is one of the central tracks of the new record. Directed by Costin Chioreanu (Twilight 13 Media), the clip can be viewed below. Gothenburg, Sweden-based melodic death metal band At The Gates have filmed a music video for the track ‘Cosmic Pessimism’.