I suppose this is kind of thrash. But anyway. Bloody hell, I just bought Slaughter of the Soul and it's fucking amazing.

Fuck.

never heard them, but surely not thrash

I've never heard them, but I've heard they were originally death metal but then changed and invented metalcore.

there melodic death metal which influenced alot of metalcore.

Creeping_Dave wrote: but I've heard they were originally death metal but then changed and invented metalcore.

It's not fair to pin that on that one final album Slaughter, really.

Guys - GET TO KNOW!!! AtG should be part of your lives.

I love At The Gates!

Terminal Spirit Disease is amazing!

And Metalcore?

Pah!

Creeping_Dave wrote:I've never heard them, but I've heard they were originally death metal but then changed and invented metalcore.

Wash your mouth out!!!!!! Metalcore indeed!!!!
At the gates played very technical and brutal swedish death metal, but what set them apart was the vocal style of Thomas Lindberg (ex-grotesque, also in lock-up), which was pretty unique for death metal sounding more black metal in style, in fact, i interviewed him for our zine in 1995 and he said this about his vocal style "i'd say it was our own style of death metal, and the new wave of black metal came after The Red In The Sky Is Ours LP(debut full length), so i think it was the other way round really. I mean there were no black metal bands around when we did it".

They actually were far more of an influencial band to the swedish sound (in flames, arch enemy, sacrilege, etc) than any "metalcore" bands, and obviously they had a big bearing on the sound of "The Haunted" as 3 ex- at the gates members formed that band!!.

Anyway, besides all that, they were a brilliant band, both on disc and live, and all 5 of their albums MUST be heard!!!

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

What he said. An excellent and very influential band. All their stuff is worth getting.

They are amazing

I've listened to it a couple of times now. It really is amazing. And the production is brilliant too, poweful madness all in my face. Amazing!

jonny_boy34 wrote:I've listened to it a couple of times now. It really is amazing. And the production is brilliant too, poweful madness all in my face. Amazing!

lol, dont expect such good production on "with fear ..."

Fucking wicked band. I try to rip their singer off but just end up sounding like a gay little boy.

UNDDERRR THE SERPENT SUUUUUUUUN!!!

MartinC wrote:Fucking wicked band. I try to rip their singer off but just end up sounding like a gay little boy.

UNDDERRR THE SERPENT SUUUUUUUUN!!!

Man, I said in a post I could hear the influence, you don't gay it up at all...

Jon, has this owt to do with the Brew View review I wrote????

STD_Caps wrote:Jon, has this owt to do with the Brew View review I wrote????

Partly, but not solely. More to do with the fact that Faraz put At The Gates as number one (with an added 'immensely so' bonus comment) at the top of his list when I asked him what his influences are and what sort of stuff he'd suggest I listen to so that I'm fully thrashed/deathed up and ready for Damnas. Then Jamie suggested (or, rather, TOLD me) that because I'm now in a thrash/death-sort-of-thing band, I should (or rather, that I NEEDED TO OR ELSE ) listen to everything by At The Gates, and he said Slaughter of the Soul was one of their best ones. And I did read your Brew View review again anyway, and it was so positive about it, I had to get it.

I have to say though, it was a tough choice between that and The Black Flame by Wolf. But in the end ATG won out due to the fact that I needed to listen to more music like that due to future Damnas fun.

Favourite album personally is 'With Fear...'
Killer fucking band, they where the shit back in the day; no death metal like this anymore.