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Gothenburg, Sweden (1990 – 1996, 2007 – 2008, 2011 – present)
At the Gates is a melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, and a major progenitor of the Gothenburg death metal sound. Initially active from 1990 to 1996, the band reformed in 2007 for a reunion tour.
At the Gates was formed in 1990 by former members of the pioneering death metal band Grotesque. They recorded a debut EP, Gardens of Grief, for the Dolores record label, and sold cassettes, vinyls, and XL t-shirts to promote the recording. The EP led seminal metal label Peaceville Records to sign the band, and they released their debut full-length album, The Red in the Sky Is Ours, in 1992, an album with an eclectic sound, featuring for instance neoclassical arrangements and even a string solo.
After the recording of their second studio album, With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness, founding member and guitarist Alf Svensson left the band in 1993 to pursue tattoo artistry, comic illustration, and his solo electronic-opera-black metal project Oxiplegatz. He was soon replaced by former House of Usher guitarist Martin Larsson, whom the band got to know during their early tours. The band continued touring Europe, and were filmed for a Headbangers Ball special featuring a tour date in the United Kingdom in July 1994.
In 1994, At the Gates released their third album, Terminal Spirit Disease, which was hailed as a breakthrough album. It contained only six new songs, but showed that the band’s sound had progressed immensely in only one year, in terms of playing and production.
At the Gates was formed in 1990 by former members of the pioneering death metal band Grotesque. They recorded a debut EP, Gardens of Grief, for the Dolores record label, and sold cassettes, vinyls, and XL t-shirts to promote the recording. The EP led seminal metal label Peaceville Records to sign the band, and they released their debut full-length album, The Red in the Sky Is Ours, in 1992, an album with an eclectic sound, featuring for instance neoclassical arrangements and even a string solo.
After the recording of their second studio album, With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness, founding member and guitarist Alf Svensson left the band in 1993 to pursue tattoo artistry, comic illustration, and his solo electronic-opera-black metal project Oxiplegatz. He was soon replaced by former House of Usher guitarist Martin Larsson, whom the band got to know during their early tours. The band continued touring Europe, and were filmed for a Headbangers Ball special featuring a tour date in the United Kingdom in July 1994.
In 1994, At the Gates released their third album, Terminal Spirit Disease, which was hailed as a breakthrough album. It contained only six new songs, but showed that the band’s sound had progressed immensely in only one year, in terms of playing and production.
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Mercenarion wrote:
TRitSiO > WFIKtBD > TSD > GoG >>>>>> SotS
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illninoese wrote:
Thanks for my 60,000 track ATG!!!! GO!!!!
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frussif wrote:
MY FAVORITE METALCORE BANNED :D
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Cabezamachine wrote:
Kreator's last albums has been leading into melodic death metal, so, i guess is no surprise they sound a bit like the thrashier band on the old melodeath scene. That's good, by the way.
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hammerstrikebg wrote:
Anyone noticing similarities between At the Gates and Kreator's last albums? :)
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MaidenPriest420 wrote:
Slaughter of the soul is the best album if you think otherwise you hate catchy riffs and love boring, gay music.
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Mercenarion wrote:
Production sounded really bad on WFIKTBD. Maybe a few more listens and I'll love it; just need to get used to it.
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kansuke wrote:
Gardens Of Grief is very, very close to the Grotesque sound! Stupid me, thinking that ATG is only Gothenburg metal :P
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niqpwnz wrote:
awesome!
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Pinball_Map18 wrote:
At the gates for VOA 2012!xD
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koesti wrote:
At the Gates for W:O:A: 2012!!!!
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BFD31095 wrote:
'Slumber of Sullen Eyes' is obviously very melodic. Just because it isn't catchy-pop-"metal" bullshit like all "melodeath" doesn't mean it isn't melodic.
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UndeadMessiah wrote:
"Slumber of Sullen Eyes." I don't hear any melodic death in old school Finndeath at all, except for maybe Sentenced, and certainly no gothenburg. The finns were a lot more focused on odd-time signatures and dissonance than the swedes, who were more focused on melody, groove, and catchy songwriting.
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Judau wrote:
cool discussion, I guess you can indeed say Necrotism was en route to melodic death but I'd still say it's more firmly rooted in death metal... if ya wanna pull for another try Slumber of Sullen Eyes from 1992 along with TRITSIO [although I'd say With Fear is a lot more the standard type melodic death metal... it's still deathy but nonetheless melodic and also the well known pedal tone's widely prominent in much of the album] and well.. as for Slumber all that lead guitar work it's Death Metal with melody but certainly more applicable than Necrotism IMO
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metalprincess6 wrote:
Great band just watch a concert of theirs from Wacken it was amazing...
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FilthyBorgir wrote:
Well that makes more sense.
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UndeadMessiah wrote:
"Personally I think that the first album with the real Gothenburg sound was TSD." Yes, TSD was the first full-on Gothenburg album, but Necroticism and the older ATG albums had already contained the seeds for the sound.
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FilthyBorgir wrote:
*feel
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FilthyBorgir wrote:
Just because it's a pseudo-ballad for that album and it happens to be a folk acoustic instrumental doesn't mean they have a folk metal influence. Maybe folk, but surely not folk metal. This is folk metal. You can hear a very distinctive form of style to classify something as folk metal. Sometimes I personally fell like IF (mainly), and certain parts of DT and AtG incorporate neo-folk parts within some of their songs.
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