Last week we mentioned how At The Gates were probably working on their first album in almost 20 years. Yes, this is indeed true.
The pioneers of the Gothenburg melodic death metal scene have been busy writing a follow-up to 1995’s Slaughter Of The Soul. The new record is called At War With Reality, and will be put out through Century Media later this year .
Frontman Tomas Lindberg told Decibel how it all happened.
I think a lot happened, mentally, when we decided to continue touring. When we started to do the global thing in 2011. That whole idea of being an active band, touring and hanging out, just grew on us, I guess. To be able to be in a band that has no internal problems whatsoever, to be able to tour around the world together with some of your best friends, it´s just incredible, mind-blowing even. Then the idea just grew on us. I play in a band that involves some of my favorite musicians and songwriters and we are all still very hungry, creatively. I think that you can hear that in all our other projects, they are very alive and pushing boundaries still—from Anders [Björler’s] solo album, to Agrimonia, to the new reinvigorated the Haunted line up, to Disfear and Lock up, to Paradise Lost and Vallenfyre. We feel that we have great and relevant new music in us. And we know how important this next album will be.