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Track List
01) Der Widerstand
02) To Drink From the Night Itself
03) A Stare Bound in Stone
04) Palace of Lepers
05) Daggers of Black Haze
06) The Chasm
07) In Nameless Sleep
08) The Colours of the Beast
09) A Labyrinth of Tombs
10) Seas of Starvation
11) In Death They Shall Burn
12) The Mirror Black
01) Der Widerstand
02) To Drink From the Night Itself
03) A Stare Bound in Stone
04) Palace of Lepers
05) Daggers of Black Haze
06) The Chasm
07) In Nameless Sleep
08) The Colours of the Beast
09) A Labyrinth of Tombs
10) Seas of Starvation
11) In Death They Shall Burn
12) The Mirror Black
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2018
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"To Drink from the Night Itself" is the sixth studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band At the Gates, released on 18 May 2018 via Century Media. The album is the first to feature guitarist Jonas Stålhammar and the first without co-founding guitarist Anders Björler, who had departed from the band in March 2017.
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Sorry to throw this review under the bus in the very first sentence, but I’ve been listening to At the Gates’ To Drink from the Night Itself for the past few weeks, hoping repeat listens would clarify my feelings about the record… and they haven’t. I don’t like it very much. I love it. It’s okay. At least it’s not awful.
My schizophrenic feelings about Night are appropriate, given that it’s the schizophrenic nature of the album that has me all tied up in knots. Ostensibly, what the band has done on this, their second album since reuniting in 2008 and sixth album overall, is attempt to meld the addictively tasty riffage of albums like Slaughter of the Soul and Terminal Spirit Disease with the more jagged, less “traditional” (pop) songwriting structures of earlier works like The Red in the Sky is Ours and With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness. The result is a ton of really cool melodeath songs without any of the anthemic, instantly memorable choruses that made AtG’s last three albums — including 2014’s At War with Reality — such a blast (not for nothing did Soul appeal to a generation that grew up with both Slayer and Slaughter). Songs that would have seemed more at home on Reality, like the title track and “Seas of Starvation,” are the exception, not the rule.
That’s not automatically a bad thing; like I said, the music on Night generally rules, and its strongest tracks, like the back-to-back whoppers “The Colours of the Beast” and “A Labyrinth of Tombs,” are all-timers. On the other hand, it’s gonna take a minute before you’re able to whistle any of the melodies from memory; initially, Night may seem a bit too much like a plateau, the songs not easily distinguishable from one another. Which leaves Night in a weird position: it rewards multiple listens, but doesn’t necessarily compel them.
Reviewed by Axl Rosenberg for metalsucks.net.
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"To Drink from the Night Itself" is the sixth studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band At the Gates, released on 18 May 2018 via Century Media. The album is the first to feature guitarist Jonas Stålhammar and the first without co-founding guitarist Anders Björler, who had departed from the band in March 2017.
User Album Review
Sorry to throw this review under the bus in the very first sentence, but I’ve been listening to At the Gates’ To Drink from the Night Itself for the past few weeks, hoping repeat listens would clarify my feelings about the record… and they haven’t. I don’t like it very much. I love it. It’s okay. At least it’s not awful.
My schizophrenic feelings about Night are appropriate, given that it’s the schizophrenic nature of the album that has me all tied up in knots. Ostensibly, what the band has done on this, their second album since reuniting in 2008 and sixth album overall, is attempt to meld the addictively tasty riffage of albums like Slaughter of the Soul and Terminal Spirit Disease with the more jagged, less “traditional” (pop) songwriting structures of earlier works like The Red in the Sky is Ours and With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness. The result is a ton of really cool melodeath songs without any of the anthemic, instantly memorable choruses that made AtG’s last three albums — including 2014’s At War with Reality — such a blast (not for nothing did Soul appeal to a generation that grew up with both Slayer and Slaughter). Songs that would have seemed more at home on Reality, like the title track and “Seas of Starvation,” are the exception, not the rule.
That’s not automatically a bad thing; like I said, the music on Night generally rules, and its strongest tracks, like the back-to-back whoppers “The Colours of the Beast” and “A Labyrinth of Tombs,” are all-timers. On the other hand, it’s gonna take a minute before you’re able to whistle any of the melodies from memory; initially, Night may seem a bit too much like a plateau, the songs not easily distinguishable from one another. Which leaves Night in a weird position: it rewards multiple listens, but doesn’t necessarily compel them.
Reviewed by Axl Rosenberg for metalsucks.net.
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