Sweden's At The Gates carve out new sonic territory on their seventh album

Band reunions aren’t supposed to go like this. Enormously influential Swedish metal greats At The Gates, who broke up in 1996 after the release of their masterpiece Slaughter At The Soul, reassembled in 2007. At first the band just toured, playing big festivals and giving a chance for the people who hadn’t gotten to see them ...

Right now, the Swedish death metal titans At The Gates are having a truly great second act. After breaking up in 1996 and reuniting in 2007, At The Gates have followed their all-time classic Slaughter Of The Soul with two more albums, 2014’s At War With Reality and 2018’s To Drink From The Night Itself. Both of them whip ass....

At The Gates offer first taster of new album The Nightmare Of Being, with Spectre of Extinction video

The Swedish band At The Gates broke up in 1996, just after the release of their towering masterpiece Slaughter Of The Soul. With that album, At The Gates essentially invented a new form of grimy-but-triumphant melodic death metal, and other bands spent decades trying to catch up. Since then, At The Gates have had one of the all-time great second...