We're three weeks out from the release of At The Gates' To Drink From The Night Itself. It's the Gothenburg death metal band's sixth LP all counted, their second following a 19-year hiatus, and for my money -- right now -- their best to date.

Check out the video for brutal new At The Gates song To Drink From The Night Itself - the title track from their upcoming studio album

At The Gates reveal cover art and tracklist for their sixth album To Drink From The Night Itself - out in May.

The Swedish melodic death-metal group At The Gates are maybe my favorite active band in the world today. Their 1993 and '94 LPs -- Terminal Spirit Disease and Slaughter Of The Soul, respectively -- are just about peerless. I can't recommend them highly enough. Slaughter, in fact, was such a masterpiece that the band split…

At The Gates have been named as headliners for this year's Damnation Festival in Leeds.