Melodic death metal pioneers At The Gates have just wrapped up recording, mixing and mastering work for their much anticipated comeback studio album, ‘At War With Reality’, which is now due to be released on October 27th, 2014 in Europe and October 28th, 2014 in North America via Century Media Records.
The Swedish legends hinted at the new album with a series of short, cryptic videos posted on their Facebook page earlier this year, before confirming they were indeed hard at work on on a new record with the same line up that was responsible for their 1995 masterpiece Slaughter Of The Soul. The recording sessions for ‘At War With Reality’ were held at Studio Fredman (In Flames, Arch Enemy, Dimmu Borgir) with Fredrik Nordstrm, and the material was then mixed with Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios (Opeth, Amon Amarth, Kreator).
Vocalist Tomas Lindberg checked in with a report as follows:
“We are very excited to finally have finished this new album. An album that we’ve been working on for over a year now. It’s by far the most challenging record that we have made, but it’s an honest album and I think that you will feel that it is faithful to the legacy of At The Gates.
“We have, through the process of creating it, been true to ourselves and our art. From hearing the first demos that Anders presented to the band last summer, through the extensive stages of songwriting, pre-production, rehearsals, recording and mixing, we now finally got the finished album in our hands.
“We are very happy to have managed to produce an album that we feel is truly “us”. Something we can all stand behind one hundred percent. I can’t wait ’til you all get to hear it!
Jens Bogren has also given the following video update:
At The Gates have also just announced their next international touring runs for 2015, which include visiting South Africa for the very first time in May as well as shows in Greece and Turkey in January and also Norway in February.
The full list of tour dates is as follows:
AT THE GATES + Support:
TH 20.11.2014 Tampere (Finland) Klubi
FR 21.11.2014 Jyvskyl (Finland) Lutako
SA 22.11.2014 Helsinki (Finland) Nosturi
AT THE GATES, GRAVE, MORBUS CHRON:
TH 27.11.2014 Gteborg (Sweden) Trgrn
FR 28.11.2014 Stockholm (Sweden) Arenan
SA 29.11.2014 Malm (Sweden) KB
AT THE GATES, TRIPTYKON, MORBUS CHRON:
TH 04.12.2014 London (UK) Forum
FR 05.12.2014 Manchester (UK) Academy 2
SA 06.12.2014 Glasgow (UK) Garage
SU 07.12.2014 Birmingham (UK) Academy
MO 08.12.2014 Cardiff (UK) Solus
WE 10.12.2014 Essen (Germany) Turock
TH 11.12.2014 Hamburg (Germany) Markthalle
FR 12.12.2014 Eindhoven (The Netherlands) Eindhoven Metal Meeting
SA 13.12.2014 Leipzig (Germany) Conne Island
SU 14.12.2014 Wien (Austria) Arena
TU 16.12.2014 Aarau (Switzerland) Kiff
WE 17.12.2014 Munich (Germany Backstage Werk
TH 18.12.2014 Antwerpen (Belgium) Trix
FR 19.12.2014 Cologne (Germany) Essigfabrik
SA 20.12.2014 Berlin (Germany) Postbahnhof
AT THE GATES – Live 2015:
TH 08.01.2015 Istanbul (Turkey) Jolly Joker
FR 09.01.2015 Athens (Greece) Stage Volume 1
SA 10.01.2015 Thessaloniki (Greece) Principal Club
SA 31.01.2015 Dublin (Ireland) Academy
TH 26.02.2015 Oslo (Norway) Vulkan Arena
FR 29.05.2015 Johannesburg (South Africa) TBA
SA 30.05.2015 Cape Town (South Africa) TBA
You can find At The Gates on Facebook.
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