AT THE GATES - stub review added 22nd October 2008
Album Review: Slaughter Of The Soul (1995)
For fans of: death metal... and finally getting it right
A screaming juggernaut of an album that doesn't pause until the painfully melodic gasps of the final track. Slaughter Of The Soul is a massively rhythmic album overlaid with the deathly wails of Tomas Lindberg. Although vocally not a band this site would normally cover, the guitar and rhythm section have a real classical/funk nature brooding beneath the surface.
Hugely influential on many modern bands, and considered by many to be demigods, At The Gates lit the fuse with their 1995 album. It towers far above their other releases and cannot be recommended enough to anyone with a passion for pile driving yet melodic metal.
*Presently available as a re-mastered cd featuring several new songs or new versions of songs.
Check out... Pretty much all of it, actually.
Track List:
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. Flames of the End
12. Legion (not on original, only on re-mastered version)
13. Dying (not on original, only on re-mastered version)
14. Captor of Sin (not on original, only on re-mastered version)
15. Unto Others ['95 Demo] (not on original, only on re-mastered version)
16. Suicide Nation ['95 Demo] (not on original, only on re-mastered version)
17. Bister Verklighet (not on original, only on re-mastered version)
Label: Earache Records
Band websites: At The Gates
