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One of the more melodic death metal bands to expand beyond Sweden and spread their sound across the world alongside peers such as Entombed, At the Gates played a significant role in the death metal genre before breaking up in 1996, leading to the formation of the Haunted. The group's first lineup -- Tomas Lindberg (vocals), Anders Bjorler (guitars), Adrian Erlandsson (drums), Jonas Bjorler (bass), and Alf Svensson (guitars) -- formed in late 1990, recording the Gardens of Grief EP for the Dolores label. They toured Sweden with well-known groups such as Bolt Thrower and Dismember before eventually signing to Peaceville Records, who released their The Red in the Sky Is Ours album. In 1993, they replaced Svensson with Martin Larsson on guitar, released their second album, With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness, and toured the U.K. with Anathema and Cradle of Filth. Next came their Terminal Spirit Disease album in May 1994, furthering the band's reputation with critics, who championed their fresh approach to death metal. This acclaim also led to their signing by Earache, who released their Slaughter of the Soul album, which seemed a more realized approach to the melodic style of death metal the group had alluded to on previous releases. Unfortunately, just as At the Gates began to win even more acclaim -- a nomination at the Swedish Grammys, heavy rotation on MTV's Headbanger's Ball, two successful U.S. tours with Morbid Angel and Napalm Death -- the group splintered, with the Bjorler twins and Erlandsson forming the Haunted and Lindberg forming Hide. ~ Jason Birchmeier, Rovi

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Selected Discography

Track List: Slaughter Of The Soul

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1. Blinded By Fear

2. Slaughter Of The Soul

3. Cold

4. Under A Serpent Sun

5. Into The Dead Sky

6. Suicide Nation

7. World Of Lies

8. Unto Others

9. Nausea

10. Need

11. The Flames Of The End

12. Legion (Slaughterlord Cover)

13. The Dying (Unreleased Track From 'Slaughter Of The Soul' Sessions)

14. Captor Of Sin (Slayer Cover)

15. Unto Others ('95 Demo)

16. Suicide Nation ('95 Demo)

17. Bister Verklighet (No Security Cover)

Track List: Terminal Spirit Disease

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1. The Swarm

2. Terminal Spirit Disease

3. And The World Returned

4. Forever Blind

5. The Fevered Circle

6. The Beautiful Wound

7. All Life Ends (Live)

8. The Burning Darkness (Live)

9. Kingdom Gone (Live)

10. Windows (Live)

11. The Red In The Sky Is Ours / The Season To Come (Live)

13. The Burning Darkness [Live][*]

Track List: Suicidal Final Art

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1. The Red In The Sky Is Ours

2. Kingdom Gone

3. Windows

4. Ever Opening Flower (Demo)

5. The Architects (Demo)

6. Raped By The Light Of Christ

7. Primal Breath

8. Blood Of The Sunsets

9. The Burning Darkness

10. The Swarm

11. Terminal Spirit Disease

12. Forever Blind

13. The Beautiful Wound

14. Blinded By Fear

15. Slaughter Of The Soul

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Comments

blindtrippin

Rips thruw your so like beautiful black roses

2 months ago

twdougherty1 9 8 9

At the Gates are Forunners in their own Right. So many bands sound like them and they started it. hailz from Des Moines.

3 months ago

Russ Byrd

I agree At the Gates was great but The Haunted is one of the greatest metal bands ever, powerful and beautiful...

3 months ago

jacobwillifo r d 4

At the gates was an amazingly amazing band that existited and should exist again so that they can tour every city in the world with between the buried and me and Arch enemy to open all ears and eyes to the fact that music is F**KING AWSOME !!

4 months ago

dorrienmille r

i withdraw my prior statement. this band is nasty!!!

7 months ago

dorrienmille r

who here likes the haunted better than at the gates??? me me!!! not saying they arent a great ground breaking band. just not as solid all around as the haunted.

7 months ago

tristanhi88

at the gates older stuff was real dark deathmetal

8 months ago

David Ault

lol no comments?

9 months ago

IHATEURFAVOR I T E B A N D

These guys set some standards and inspired alot of the s**t we hear today!

10 months ago

mbrigham1223

no red in the sky....pando r a fails again

11 months ago

seahawks91

Slaughter Of The Soul truly is an outstanding album and holds up well to this day. Need I say more?

1 year ago

Punk Guy with the Stars in His Eyes

@icspwnz It's all to do with Satan being the ultimate resistance to a Christian society. Satan is also literally translated out of Hebrew to be The Aggressor or The Enemy. So you can see why most metal bands propagate the satanist schtick. It's all for shock. Not many actually believe in anything Anton LaVey or his ilk believes. And Satanist are just as much sheep as Christians, a group of goats flocking together. That's why you should think for yourself and not go along with any religion.

1 year ago

icspwnz

whats up with the satanic dogma thats prevalent with most metal bands? its just as bad as being a christian band because it gives credence to that whole religious belief system.

1 year ago

Cory Gallaher

@Lump Flexor I agree I've seen the haunted a couple of times and was not impressed. Their singer is amazingly annoying.

2 years ago

Lump Flexor

My friend's band opened up for the haunted a while back. It was exciting to see some of the former members of that in which once was the almighty At The Gates.... but the haunted sucks... sorry :(

2 years ago

apjaxx

I'm a metal noob, so this is the greatest thing pandora has shown be since necropahgist

2 years ago

Cory Gallaher

So many current bands sound like they are covering Slaughter of the Soul. Amazing what that album has done so many years after it's release.

2 years ago

Hanshi God of Metal

overall it is just not melodic enough for to buy the "melodic death" genre label.

2 years ago

j.ieronimo22 6

They broke up? Oh well, no big loss.

2 years ago

Quinzel

Lent my friend my copy of Slaughter Of The Soul last week. He found his new favourite band

2 years ago

Patrick D

Similar to Slayer? No

2 years ago

Steve

I dont understand why people come on to say this s**t sucks. You were searching for this type of music for a reason. Slaughter of the Soul blew my mind away. Vocals grow on you when you hear all of the other complexity going on. Sure, at times its just noise and blast beats...but then there is that moment you are rewarded with some stellar breakdown. I love The Metal.

2 years ago

cilantrillo1 6

hell yeah!!!!

2 years ago

daisy.tc1

I wanna have their babies!!!

2 years ago

Major Groove

This got me out of my chair to check who it was. I recognized it, and then I was like, "At the Gates?!" Damn, I forgot how much they rock!

3 years ago

patrickolive r i 2

Dissing Slaughter of the Soul is kind of trendy, but if you didn't rage to that album at some point you are missing out \666/

3 years ago

Jared Rogge

It was funny, when I was younger and playing classical music. People would ask me how I could listen to this stuff. I would reply that if they actually listened to Death metal it is more related to classical music than the stuff they played on the radio. Narrow mindedness breeds strange views that have no basis in reality or empirical truth. Bands like this paved the way for groups like Opeth.

3 years ago

Alexander Simmons

great band, and I think you can probably credit them as one of the bands who invented melodic death metal.

3 years ago

Vinsanity

i dunno how much i like at the gates. i do at least like em better than last time i heard em years ago.

3 years ago

Marcus Phanthongpha y

This is an awesome album!!!! 5/*****

3 years ago

Caleb T. M.

Well f**king put Gabe. =D

4 years ago

Vinsanity

well put gabe

4 years ago

Gabriel Blackshire

@blackmagi2- Just because you suck does not mean Death Metal does. Death Metal is the most underrated and underappreci a t e d genres of music in the world founded and created by this legend from sw florida by the name of Chuck Schuldiner (DEATH) the death metal scene still thrives today because it has the best fans around that continue to be loyal to the bands they love by buying their merchandise and going to shows. With no hype or airplay these bands are still relevant and timeless. RIP CHUCK

4 years ago

blackmagi2

Death metal sucks, but At The Gates are pretty legit.

4 years ago

philnme20043

what the hell are yall talking about jimmi hendrex created all this !!!!!!!!!!!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! 1 1

4 years ago

CADAVER FARM VOX

slaughter of the soul is a great album .its not AT THE GATES fault that a bunch of lame bands ripped them off and started calling it screamo or metalcore.

4 years ago

the_cadaver

Ok Mr. Lofty Metal Afficionado, you should at least have the dignity to punctuate your sentences. Anyhow, calling Death a "melodic death metal" band is just plain insulting. They were a THRASH band and the fathers of all death metal. Furthermore, At The Gates and Black Dhalia Murder have always been lame.

What's really funny, is the fact that you have the nerve to insult someone's opinion when you have such s**tty taste in music.

4 years ago

Potz n Panz

"too many nu-metal esque riffs. good riffs, i just can't feel it. i'll try to listen to some of their older stuff" says the retard who jacks it to Limp Bizkit like its 1999. Slaughter of the soul the 7-year old "new" album was their true progression. Death invented melodic death metal and ATG perfected it By the way all "melodic" death metal has catchy riffs. Listen to heartwork-er a Carcass if you want to listen to some good fukin metal. BDM was good up to Miasma but now theyre boring/unori g i n a l

4 years ago

Will

i love black dahlia murder but these guys were the originals, it takes a few listens, but slaughter of the soul is just one of the best metal albums ever made and they started it all. unlike TBDM this is real gothenburg death metal, all im saying is its different but once u get used to that you'll see how sick this band is

4 years ago

tristanhi88

their older stuff is awersome thats all I have to say they were the s**t and I am glad they broke up when they did to save face good move at the gates rest in peace

4 years ago

jthomas290

Since they came out a decade before Black Dahlia Murder, wouldn't you say that BTM sounds like them and not the other way around?

4 years ago

the_cadaver

Meh, not really diggin' this band. Good riffs, I just can't feel it. Too many new metal-esque riffs for my taste. I'll try to listen to some of their older stuff in the future, maybe.

4 years ago

Ben

I'm glad I got to see these guys live. Best concert I've ever been too.

4 years ago

Florence McMenamin

great band love there some what classical old time metal theme

4 years ago

Ezra Agnew

the last re-issue of slaughter was in 2002 guys.

4 years ago

darkness0542

I bet louie but it is their not there

4 years ago

Louie Cohen

AT THE GATES : SAW THEM ON THERE LAST SHOW ON THERE TOUR SIICK SHOW NEVER WILL FORGET

4 years ago

Neal Herring

But yeah, At the Gates is the bomb. I wish they kept their ride going.

5 years ago

Bud

These guys f**kin rock. While some will disagree with me, I don't prefer early At the Gates, but I think Slaughter of the Soul is one of the most finely crafted albums I've ever heard. It's maximum riffage! The guitar riffs are orgasmic, and Lindberg's vocals are bone-chillin g . I love it. Off of Terminal Spirit Disease, I like The Swarm, Terminal Spirit Disease, and Forever Blind (best off that album). The rest of their stuff I don't care for that much. If anyone can point me in the direc

5 years ago

Neal Herring

I agree with Dave. The bios are some of the worst ever. Some of the reviewers think that anything with screaming is screamo or anything with screaming is death metal. I'm reading this crap thinking, "Wow you are an idiot."

5 years ago