Wolves In Haze - Chaos Reigns

Monday, a new week and it's time to introduce "Record Of The Week".

The Swedish and Gothenburg-based heavy rock/doom metal band WOLVES IN HAZE will drop their second full-length album "Chaos Reigns", on Sept. 3 through Majestic Mountain and Tvåtakt Records. WOLVES IN HAZE was formed in 2014 and release their self-titled debut in 2016.

WOLVES IN HAZE is a new acquaintance, but after playing the promo I must say that I am very impressed.

"Chaos Reigns" opens up with "Green River Speaks", sea breeze, drums, and a black roar from the underworld start up the album until the thick guitars kick in. The vocals of guitarist Manne Olander is rough, melodic, and very comfortable and gives the steam roller exactly the lubrication it needs for impeccable rolling. The guitars of Manne Olander and Olle Hansson sound really nice and it's very difficult to stay away from playing air guitar. The rhythm section of the drummer and bassist Kalle Lilja gives the tune a great mix. At the first spin before I read all the intel about this I thought it was Feffe Berglund, singer from BOMBUS behind the microphone as they sound very similar at first sight. Nothing bad at all, love Feffe and now I love Manne. "Way In Haze" follows up with more furious guitar work in a very melodic way. The vocals are more strained, slightly pissed off but controlled and work out really good in this smasher. Followed up by "In Fire" where the tempo is screwed up a notch with a much harder and rawer approach, punkish, almost hardcore in a mix of REFUSED and RAISED FIST, to refer to some Swedish bands. In "The Night Stalker" drags WOLVES IN HAZE you down a filthy path of raucously raw, death metal-infused rock and bloody roll. Old school death metal riffs and some abysmal vocal parts by the guest singer Tomas Lindberg (AT THE GATES), the result is unexpected and very good. The heaviness continues in "Tormentor" where they pick the influences from the past. Halfway thru the album and it's time to slows down in "My Destroyer", where acoustic guitars along with a soulful duo vocal between a man and a woman that both are lurking in danger. The guest female vocalist is Martina Svärd from the Swedish psychedelic rock band TORNET. A beautiful piece to recharge the batteries for the next part of the album. With a steady attitude, we move on to "Beyond Perception", a dreamy melodic but still very riff-based. "Into The Grave" serves us a high tempo and power riffing piece which changes to more dirty punkish rock in "Heat Of The Moment" to then pull up collar a notch and invite us to a melodic riff party "Breath In The Night" until we reaches the end and it's time for the title track "Chaos Reigns" to tie this album together and end this in a completely magical way, an instrumental piece where they pick all the best pieces of their own creation and lets the instruments speak, where the chaos must be overcome at all costs and when we reach the crescendo by an electric force and evil has been defeated and a silence arises and chaos ceases to rule.

This is an excellent album, it's dirty, heavy, doomy, and punky! Really well-made album. Give it a spin and I promise you! Once it spins for you, it will drag you down to its chaotic journey!

"Chaos Reigns" is produced, recorded & mixed by Kalle Lilja & Per Stålberg at Welfare Sounds. Assisting engineering by Olle Björk. Mastered by Daniel Johansson at Welfare Sounds Mastering. The band is strengthened up with the bassist Emil Rolof to be a full four-piece band.

Pre-order the album here: https://majesticmountainrecords.bigcartel.com/product/wolves-in-haze-chaos-reigns the Vinyl copies are limited to 300 so be quick, I got one so I hope you will!

Members:

Guitar/vox: Manne Olander (DEADHEADS, THE SACRED SAILORS)

Guitar/backing vox: Olle Hansson (THE SACRED SAILORS)

Bass: Emil Rolof (LUGNORO, BULT, DOOMDOGS, Thomas V Jäger)

Drums: Kalle Lilja (LÅNGFINGER, Thomas V Jäger)

Today's tune "Green River Speaks" is taken from the upcoming album "Chaos Reigns", enjoy!



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At The Gates - The Paradox

Gothenburg melodic death metal pioneers (who are also celebrating their 30th anniversary as a band) AT THE GATES will release their seventh studio album "The Nightmare Of Being" this summer. The concept album focuses on the realization of your own mortality, nihilism and pessimistic philosophies.

A genre-defining act of the Swedish melodic death metal scene. The band around Tomas "Tompa" Lindberg was formed in 1990 and disbanded six years later. But they never really did a proper farewell tour. Therefore they rejoined forces in 2007 for the "Flames Of The End" tour. This injected new blood into them, and so they ended up being back ever since!

The pioneers of "Gothenburg style" melodic death metal return with their highly anticipated follow-up album to 2018’s “To Drink From The Night Itself", pre order "The Nightmare Of Being" https://atthegates.lnk.to/TheNightmareOfBeingID

Today's tune "The Paradox" is taken from the upcoming album "The Nightmare Of Being", out July 2nd, 2021



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At The Gates - The Mirror Black

To enhance the next cycle of activity for their acclaimed current album "To Drink From The Night Itself" and to stress beginning of their massive European tour with BEHEMOTH and WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM, Swedish melodic Death Metal pioneers AT THE GATES are now releasing a strictly limited 7" EP entitled "The Mirror Black".

This collector item features the two songs "The Mirror Black" and "Daggers Of Black Haze" off the album "To Drink From The Night Itself" in the versions that come with guest vocals by Rob Miller (Amebix, Tau Cross). This special release with street date of January 11th, 2019 (The first date of the European tour!) and pre-sale start of today, comes limited to 1000x copies worldwide, split up as follows: Black 7Inch: 400x copies (CM Distro Europe Wholesale & Onlineshop) Golden 7Inch: 100x copies (CM Europe Onlineshop) Clear 7Inch: 300x copies (CM Distro Europe Wholesale & Onlineshop) Transparent Red 7Inch: 200x copies (Exclusively from the band on tour), get the chance to grab a copy, see the tour dates below.

Today's tune "The Mirror Black (Featuring Rob Miller)". Video by Costin Chioreanu / Twilight13Media, Filmed by Costin Chioreanu and Gina Sandulescu, Actors: Andrei Tudorache and Ioana Dragan, enjoy!

BEHEMOTH, AT THE GATES & WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM – European Tour 2019:

10.01.2019 Frankfurt (Germany) - Batschkapp
11.01.2019 Munich (Germany) - Tonhalle
12.01.2018 Prague (Czech Republic) - Forum Karlin
13.01.2019 Vienna (Austria) - Arena * Sold out!
15.01.2019 Zurich (Switzerland) - Komplex 457
16.01.2019 Milano (Italy) - Alcatraz
17.01.2019 Lyon (France) - Le Transbordeur
18.01.2019 Barcelona (Spain) - Razzmatazz
19.01.2019 Madrid (Spain) - La Riviera
21.01.2019 Toulouse (France) - Le Bikini
22.01.2019 Paris (France) - Bataclan
23.01.2019 Oberhausen (Germany) - Turbinenhalle
24.01.2019 Berlin (Germany) - Huxleys
25.01.2019 Copenhagen (Denmark) - Vega
26.01.2019 Stockholm (Sweden) - Annexet
27.01.2019 Oslo (Norway) - Rockefeller
29.01.2019 Helsinki (Finland) - The Circus
30.01.2019 Tampere (Finland) - Pakkahuone
01.02.2019 Hamburg (Germany) - Grosse Freiheit 36
02.02.2019 Utrecht (The Netherlands) - TivoliVredenburg
03.02.2019 Brussels (Belgium) - Ancienne Belgique
04.02.2019 Esch-sur-Alzette (Luxembourg) - Rockhal
06.02.2019 Bristol (UK) - The Marble Factory
07.02.2019 Birmingham (UK) - O2 Institute
08.02.2019 London (UK) - O2 Forum Kentish Town
09.02.2019 Manchester (UK) - O2 Ritz * Sold out!
10.02.2019 Dublin (Ireland) - Vicar Street
11.02.2019 Glasgow (UK) - QM Union

AT THE GATES – Live 2019:

02.03.2019 Umeå (Sweden) - House Of Metal Festival
22.03.2019 Kiev (Ukraine) - Pochayna Event Hall + Powerwolf
23.03.2019 Moscow (Russia) - Zil Arena
25.03.2019 St. Petersburg (Russia) - Club Zal
12.04.2019 Tilburg (The Netherlands) - Roadburn Festival
25.04.2019 Brisbane (Australia) - Triffid + The Haunted & Witchery
26.04.2019 Sydney (Australia) - Manning Bar + The Haunted & Witchery
27.04.2019 Melbourne (Australia) - Max Watt’s + The Haunted & Witchery
05.-08.06.2019 Sölvesborg (Sweden) - Sweden Rock Festival
15.-18.08.2019 St-Nolff (France) - Motorcultor Festival

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Tune Of The Day - Top 50 - 2018 (40 - 31)

Here is the next batch of 10 records that we have chosen to qualify to the best albums that 2018 have given us. Here are the albums between 40 - 31. Today's tune will be publish later on this evening. So here we go!

40. Palace Of The King - Get Right With Your Maker

A great bluesy rock album that is worth checking out
Read the review here!

39. At The Gates - To Drink From The Night Itself

The Swedish prodigal pioneers of melodic death metal have released a marvellous record.

38. Dead Quiet - Grand Rites

"Grand Rites" is a very impressive genre-spanning journey.
Read the review here!

37. Lydia Laska - Ego Death

Lovely snooty Black n 'roll rock from Norway.

36. Kingnomad - The Great Nothing

A real brain-melter release by the Swedish doom rockers.

35. Saxon - Thunderbolt

"Thunderbolt" is a solid rocker with classic catchy tunes,
a delight for SAXON fans and traditional heavy metal enthusiasts alike.
Read the review here!

34. Fire Down Below - Hymn Of The Cosmic Man

A grandeur Belgian release that should check up!
Read the review here!

33. JIRM - Surge Ex Monumentis

"Surge Ex Monumentis" is a very powerful and groovy release
by the Swedish heavy psych rockers JIRM.

32. Orphaned Land - Unsung Prophets And Dead Messiahs

Strikingly prophetic with love and anger.

31. Graveyard - Peace

GRAVEYARD is back more hungry than ever,
and with new energy in the album "Peace" is something you wouldn't miss.
Read the review here!

Today's tune comes a little later, it will one of these, don't miss it.

At The Gates - To Drink From The Night Itself

Monday, time to introduce "Record Of The Week"

"To Drink From The Night Itself" is the sixth album from the Swedish melodic death metal innovators, AT THE GATES. The album was released on May 18 via Century Media. Produced with Russ Russell (NAPALM DEATH, THE HAUNTED, DIMMU BORGIR) at Parlour Studios in the U.K.

"To Drink From The Night Itself" is the follow-up 2014's "At War With Reality" features conceptual artwork created by Costin Chioreanu of Twilight 13 Media, who previously worked with AT THE GATES on the band's last album.

The departure of the founding member Anders Björler has not caused the band to fall down into the abyss. Instead, his brother Jonas has taken one step up and grabbed the lead in the making of a powerful new album, already on the first tune you will recognize the band, the musical arrangements are classic AT THE GATES style, hard, heavy and totally crashing, the sound is deeper and darker, the melodies are carefully crafted by musically genius.

Jonas Stålhammar (BOMBS OF HADES, THE LURKING FEAR) replaces Anders Björler on guitar and he does really a great job here with twin partner Martin Larsson. Tomas Lindberg vocals have not changed much, it still sounds harsh and vicious with feelings of despair and frustration. And deliciously playing by the drummer Adrian Erlandsson, that shines with clever beat changes that give a different and seductive rhythm.

The heroic instrumental “Der Widerstand” (of the resistance) begins the journey into the concept of the album which uses the epic novel “The Aesthetics of Resistance” by Peter Weiss for inspiration. The novel tells a story of Nazi resistance in Europe during the 30’s and 40’s with a focus on how art can be used to influence and define the struggles of subjugation and opposition. The album closes with the magnificent piece "The Mirror Black" and I realize that this is the end of a stunning album, well-done guys!



Sum: "To Drink From The Night Itself" is nothing more than a technically accomplished work of art and it consolidates AT THE GATESs status as one of Sweden's premier melodic death metal bands.

Enjoy today's tune!




AT THE GATES – Live 2018:

21.06.2018 Halden (Norway) – Tons Of Rock Festival
22.06.2018 Copenhagen (Denmark) – Copenhell Festival
23.06.2018 Dessel (Belgium) – Graspop Metal Meeting
24.06.2018 Clisson (France) – Hellfest
29.06.2018 Verona (Italy) – Rock The Castle Festival
30.06.2018 Helsinki (Finland) – Tuska
12.07.2018 Viveiro (Spain) – Resurrection Fest
14.07.2018 Gävle (Sweden) – Gefle Metal Fest
28.07.2018 Essen (Germany) – Nord Open Air
04.08.2018 Saint-Maurice-De-Gourdans (France) – Sylak Open Air
10.08.2018 Jaromer (Czech Republic) – Brutal Assault Festival
12.08.2018 Walton On Trent / Derbyshire (UK) – Bloodstock Open Air
16.08.2018 Dinkelsbühl (Germany) – Summer Breeze Open Air
15.09.2018 Guadalajara (Mexico) – C3 Stage
16.09.2018 Mexico City (Mexico) – Circo Volador
18.09.2018 San José (Costa Rica) – Pepers Club
19.09.2018 San Salvador (El Salvador) – Cifco
20.09.2018 Guatemala City (Guatemala) – Rock Ol Vuh
22.09.2018 Bogotá (Colombia) – TBC
25.09.2018 Buenos Aires (Argentina) – Uniclub
27.09.2018 Temuco (Chile) – Puerto Madero / Casas Viejas
28.09.2018 Santiago (Chile) – Blondie
30.09.2018 Sao Paulo (Brazil) – Carioca Club

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Tune Of The Days - 20 Best Albums of 2014 pos: 11-20

Now we almost reached the end of this year, December 20th and during this time of the year it's time to sum it all up with this year's best albums!

This have been a really, I mean really good year album wise, when I started to collect together all the good albums before this, I realized after a while that this does not really hold when you start approaching 3 digit :) Well after a few hours it starts to resemble to something like a top 20. It was really difficult task this year. In other words, it has simply been too much good records this year.

Many great records have unfortunately fallen off the list, but the music heart have decided and now when I look at it, it was not quite what I had expected from the beginning, which means that this list got to be very interesting. I am absolutely convinced that you not fully agree with me, but this is what I like. And luckily that the taste is divided, how else would it be.

First up we present this year's best albums between 20 - 11. Where you get the first 10 at once. Today's tune will be publish later on this evening. So here we go!

20. Accept - Blind Rage

The old-school metal band ACCEPT, with their third album within the five years since their re-launch. ACCEPT shows once again that they still can deliver a excellent record. 

19. Electric Wizard - Time To Die

Electric Wizard Releases a cocky and modern doom canon! 

18. Truckfighters - Universe

 Fuzzy rockers no One releases a nice piece of work with heavy riffing along with catchy lyrics.

17. Ancient Ascendant – Echoes And Cinder

Ancient Ascendant has dropped a powerful piece on the death metal scene. With it's
extremely effective technique will hook any Death Metal fans on this globe.

16. Monolord - Empress Rising

Empress Rising hooks you with it's, almost hypnotic way, around a huge layer of psychedelic space doom blended with a mix of stoner vibes and trippy heaviness that will take you off your dirty shoes and put you out somewhere else out there in the darkened space and leave you breathless.

15. Bloodbath – Grand Morbid Funeral

  Sweden’s masters of horrors Bloodbath with Nick Holmes (Paradise Lost) who now handles vocals shows that they still can make a record that will frighten most of the souls on this planet.

14. At The Gates – At War With Reality

 What a comeback record, that At The Gates is able to deliver a record like this after 19 years is pretty cool.

13. Foo Fighters - Sonic Highways

The Foo Fighters are back with a freakin' fun album. A decent fist-pumping rock'n'roll record.

 

12. Mastodon – Once More Round The Sun

Once More Round The Sun is a non-stop journey into the progressive jungle of crazy math-y "Mastodon". It is a brilliant continuation of "The Hunter" but still its completely different and on such higher level. 

11. Ne Obliviscaris - Citadel

 This dark beauty release is one of the better compositions of the year. 

Todays tune comes in a hour or so.

At The Gates - Heroes And Tombs

New week, time to unleash this week's "Record Of The Week". "At War With Reality"

"At War With Reality" is probably the most anticipated metal album this year! At The Gates will turn into one of 2014's genre biggest release. After 19 long years since their eminent release "Slaughter of the Soul" they are back and they learned that "Never say Never again" and I can only say that the wait was well worth it.

"At War with Reality" is the fifth studio album, released on 28 October 2014. It is the band's first album since Slaughter of the Soul (1995), marking the longest gap between two studio albums in their career, and their first release on Century Media Records. It is a concept album based on the literary genre of magic realism.

The album is the excellent comeback record! At least as far as I'm concerned. The production is clear and bombastic and the guys are in top form on this record, Tomas sings marvellous, he has grown into mature beast during the years. Jonas bass sound is chugging hard like a B52. Anders and Martin guitars steering the huge ship of At The Gates with harmonize melodic leads and creative riffs that you will pale with envy and all this rests on Adrian Erlandssons drum sound, something that you almost drop your chin to.

That the band have grown during the years with other projects is something that you can hear, that they managed to retain their great classic song writing for this record, which is brilliant and one can only bow for it.

To summarise this: It hooks you from the first listen and you only want more of it. "At War with Reality" is as addictive as drugs.

The album was recorded at Studio Fredman in Gothenburg and was mixed at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden with Jens Bogren (Opeth, Katatonia, Soilwork, Paradise Lost, Kreator). The cover artwork for the effort was designed by Costin Chioreanu, who has previously also worked with bands such as Arch Enemy, Morgoth and Darkthrone. Chioreanu gave the strong lyrical theme of "At War With Reality" an outstanding conceptual togetherness with the visuals he crafted for this project. "At War With Reality" is a concept album based on the literary genre of Magic realism.

At the Gates is a Swedish death metal band from Gothenburg, and a major progenitor of the melodic death metal (or Gothenburg death metal) sound.

Initially active from 1990 to 1996, the band reformed in 2007 for a reunion tour before breaking up once again in 2008. However, they reformed for a second time in December 2010, and have since continued to perform live. The band will release At War with Reality, their first album in 19 years, in late 2014.

Today At The Gates consist of:

Tomas Lindberg − vocals
Anders Björler − guitar
Martin Larsson − guitar
Jonas Björler − bass
Adrian Erlandsson − drums

Formats

Jewel Case CD (20 pages Booklet)
Ltd. Mediabook CD (40 pages booklet, 2 bonus tracks & patch, CM Europe)
Digipak CD (20 pages booklet, 2 bonustracks & patch, CM USA)
Ltd. 3-Disc Artbook (48 pages booklet, 4 bonus tracks, 5.1 surround mix DVD & patch) / Limited to 3,000 copies
Cassette (Limited to 500 copies)
Digital Download
2×10” Boxset (20 pages booklet & poster) / Limited to 1,000x copies worldwide from CM Distro
12″ Gatefold 180gr LP (20 pages booklet & poster)

The 12” LP format coloured vinyl editions

Black (Unlimited)
Transparent Red (Limited to 300x copies from CM Webshop Europe)
Dark Green (Limited to 500x copies from CM Distro Europe)
Clear (Limited to 500x copies for Sweden originally, but was distributed all over EU)
Solid Red (Limited to 500x copies for Sweden)
Lilac Marble (Limited to 100x copies from CM Distro USA) (*SOLD OUT)
Blue Marble (Limited to 200x copies from CM Distro USA) (*SOLD OUT)
Magenta Marble (Limited to 200x copies from CM Distro USA) (*SOLD OUT)
Ash Grey Marble (Limited to 500x copies from CM Distro USA)
Silver (Limited to 400x copies from CM USA)
Gold (Limited to 1,500x copies from CM USA)
White (Limited to 100x copies, exclusive MDF edition in the USA)

Todays tune "Heroes And Tombs" is taken from the new album "At War With Reality".



Upcoming Tourdates:

Nov 27 Trädgårn w/ Grave, Morbus Chron, Goteborg, Sweden
Nov 28 Arenan w/ Grave, Morbus Chron, Stockholm, Sweden
Nov 29 KB w/ Grave, Morbus Chron, Malmö, Sweden
Dec 04 Forum w/ Code Orange, Morbus..., London, United Kingdom
Dec 05 Academy 2 w/ Code Orange, Morbus..., Manchester, United Kingdom
Dec 06 Garage w/ Morbus Chron, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Dec 07 The Oobleck w/ Code Orange,..., Birmingham, United Kingdom
Dec 08 The Globe w/ Triptykon, Morbus... Cardiff, United Kingdom
Dec 10 Turock w/ Morbus Chron,... Essen, Germany
Dec 11 Markthalle w/ Triptykon, Morbus... Hamburg, Germany
Dec 12 Eindhoven Metal Meeting w/ Triptykon Eindhoven, Netherlands
Dec 13 Conne Island w/ Triptykon, Morbus... Leipzig, Germany
Dec 14 Arena w/ Triptykon, Morbus... Wien, Austria
Dec 16 Kiff w/ Triptykon, Morbus... Aarau, Switzerland
Dec 17 Backstage Werk w/ Triptykon, Morbus... Munchen, Germany
Dec 18 Trix w/ Triptykon, Morbus... Antwerpen, Belgium
Dec 19 Essigfabrik w/ Triptykon, Morbus... Koln, Germany
Dec 20 Postbahnhof w/ Triptykon, Morbus... Berlin, Germany
Jan 08 Garajistanbul Istanbul, Turkey
Jan 09 Fuzz Music Club w/ Cerebrum, Endsight Athens, Greece
Jan 10 Principal Club w/ Cerebrum, Revenge of... Thessaloniki, Greece
Jan 16 Estragon w/ Hour of Penance Bologna, Italy
Jan 17 Orion w/ Hour of Penance Rome, Italy
Jan 18 Live Club w/ Hour of Penance Rozzano Mi, Italy
Jan 31 Academy w/ Bloodshot Dawn Dublin, Ireland
Feb 09 LIquid Room Tokyo, Japan
Feb 10 Club Quattro Nagoya, Japan
Feb 12 umeda AKASO Osaka, Japan
Feb 21 Blastfest Bergen, Norway
Feb 26 Vulkan w/ God Macabre Oslo, Norway
Feb 27 Nöjesfabriken w/ God Macabre Karlstad, Sweden
Feb 28 House of Metal w/ Rotten Sound, The... Umea, Sweden
Mar 06 Penelope w/ Wormed, Sound of...Madrid, Spain
Mar 07 Sala Santana w/ Wormed, Sound of... Bilbao, Spain
Mar 08 Sala Razzmatazz w/ Wormed, Sound of... Barcelona, Spain
Mar 27 The Wiltern w/ Converge, Vallenfyre Los Angeles, CA
Mar 28 The Regency Ballroom w/ Converge, Vallenfyre San Francisco, CA
Mar 29 Roseland Theater w/ Converge, Vallenfyre Portland, OR
Mar 30 Commodore Ballroom w/ Converge, Vallenfyre Vancouver, Canada
Mar 31 Showbox @The Market w/ Converge, Vallenfyre Seattle, WA
Apr 02 The Complex w/ Converge, Vallenfyre Salt Lake City, UT
Apr 03 Summit Music Hall w/ Converge, Vallenfyre Denver, CO
Apr 04 Bourbon Street w/ Converge, Vallenfyre Lincoln, NE
Apr 05 Mill City Nights w/ Converge, Vallenfyre Minneapolis, MN
Apr 06 House of Blues w/ Converge, Vallenfyre Chicago, IL
Apr 08 The Phoenix w/ Converge, Vallenfyre, Toronto, Canada
Apr 09 Metropolis w/ Converge, Vallenfyre Montreal, Canada
Apr 10 Royale w/ Converge, Vallenfyre, Boston, MA
Apr 11 Union Transfer w/ Converge, Vallenfyre, Philadelphia, PA
Apr 12 Webster Hall w/ Converge, Vallenfyre, New York, NY
May 01 Ritz Örebro, Sweden
May 02 Pipeline Sundsvall, Sweden
May 22 Progresja Warsaw, Poland
May 23 Studio Krakow, Poland
May 29 Carfax Johannesburg, South Africa
May 30 Carfax Johannesburg, South Africa
Jun 20 Graspop Dessel, Belgium
Jun 21 Hellfest Clisson, France
Aug 08 Brutal Assault Festival Josefov, Czech Republic
Aug 15 Rockstadt Extreme Fest Rasnov, Romania

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At The Gates - Death And The Labyrinth

The seminal Swedish metallers "At the Gates" released a music video for the new track "Death and the Labyrinth". The song appears on the much-anticipated comeback studio album "At War With Reality" which will be released on October 28th (one day earlier internationally - Sweden) via Century Media Records.

Tomas Lindberg (vocals) comments: "We had a very special idea about the kind of approach we wanted for the first video from "At War With Reality". What we needed was someone gifted enough to throw himself artistically into the project full on. The lyrics to the song are very multi-layered and surreal, so we wanted someone to create a fevered dreamworld that went with the melancholic frustration and dramatic desperation that we feel comes across in the song. This is exactly what Patric has created for us. It's his vision of the music and lyrics, which compliments the track perfectly in my opinion. I couldn't be happier!" 

Director Patric Ullaeus adds: "It's always nice to work with creative artists who are like-minded. Ideas seem to flow easily. We had a lot of fun making our vision come true. Being on these amazing locations in Antelope Canyon, Arizona was truly an unforgettable experience."

The album was recorded at Studio Fredman in Gothenburg and was mixed at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden with Jens Bogren (Opeth, Katatonia, Soilwork, Paradise Lost, Kreator). The cover artwork for the effort was designed by Costin Chioreanu, who has previously also worked with bands such as Arch Enemy, Morgoth and Darkthrone. Chioreanu gave the strong lyrical theme of "At War With Reality" an outstanding conceptual togetherness with the visuals he crafted for this project. "At War With Reality" is a concept album based on the literary genre of Magic realism.

At the Gates is a Swedish death metal band from Gothenburg, and a major progenitor of the melodic death metal (or Gothenburg death metal) sound.

Initially active from 1990 to 1996, the band reformed in 2007 for a reunion tour before breaking up once again in 2008. However, they reformed for a second time in December 2010, and have since continued to perform live. The band will release At War with Reality, their first album in 19 years, in late 2014.

Today At The Gates consist of:

Tomas Lindberg − vocals
Anders Björler − guitar
Martin Larsson − guitar
Jonas Björler − bass
Adrian Erlandsson − drums

Todays tune "Death And The Labyrinth" is taken from the upcoming album "At War With Reality". The clip was directed by Swedish director Patric Ullaeus of the Revolver Film Company AB, who has previously worked with Hammerfall, Dimmu Borgir, Europe, Lacuna Coil and In Flames, among many others.



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