Melodic death metal pioneers At The Gates have announced their new full-length album, The Nightmare of Being. The album is set for release on July 2nd via Century Media Records.
While main parts for The Nightmare of Being were recorded in several different Swedish studios (drums at Studio Gröndal with Jens Bogren, guitars and bass with Andy La Rocque at Sonic Train Studio and vocals at Welfare Sounds with Per Stålberg), the album was mixed and mastered at Fascination Street Studios by Bogren, who previously worked with At The Gates on their 2014 comeback album, At War With Reality. The album’s visual concept and album cover was developed by artist Eva Nahon.
“The overall theme deals with the topic of pessimism, and I have been diving deep down in pessimistic philosophers. Trying to understand this way of looking at the world. It is not a negative album, more a gateway into new ideas for me personally, trying out different perspectives. You could call the album an introduction to pessimism as a concept, I guess. It is a very dark album, but not negative,” says At The Gates vocalist Tomas Lindberg about the album concept.
Lindberg adds, “It still sounds like At The Gates, 100 percent. It is just more of everything.”
The Nightmare of Being track listing:
01. Spectre of Extinction
02. The Paradox
03. The Nightmare of Being
04. Garden of Cyrus
05. Touched by the White Hands of Death
06. The Fall into Time
07. Cult of Salvation
08. The Abstract Enthroned
09. Cosmic Pessimism
10. Eternal Winter of Reason
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