At The Gates

In addition to being one of the greatest voices to emerge from the Swedish metal scene, At the Gates/Grotesque vocalist Tomas Lindberg has contributed a foreword to 'Metalion: The Slayer Mag Diaries,' a 744-page hardcore book compiled by Jon "Metalion" Kristiansen to be released by Bazillion Points...

Metalheads are some of the most devoted music fans on the planet. Not only do we voraciously devour new music like no one else, we also can't enough information about the artists we love. Now more than ever, it seems like there's a press release on floating around every other week about a heavy metal-related book hitting stores...

Lava-spewing volcanoes look pretty damn cool on album covers, but the past week has taught us that volcanoes and metal don't always mix so well. As anyone who doesn't live in a torch-lit cave knows by now, an Icelandic volcano erupted April 15, spreading clouds of ash across much of Europe and grounding hundreds of planes...

Since Barn Burner are a Canadian stoner/doom metal group that sound like a '90s disc unearthed in a musty wooden crate at a Man's Ruin estate sale, we figured their guitarist Nick Ball's iPod would be filled with songs by Kyuss, Corrosion of Conformity, Cathedral, Sleep and pretty much any other band you'd listen to while smoking weed through a Coca-Cola can...

Judging from Mnemic's fourth album, 'Sons of the System,' it's pretty clear that the band members have eclectic musical tastes. The way vocalist Guillaume Bideau combines hellfire screams with steely melodic vocals and keyboard samples is definitely reminiscent of Fear Factory, the intermingling of machine-gun beats, blowtorch riffs and angular rhythms is redolent of Meshuggah and the abrupt stac

Over the next few weeks, extreme Israeli metal band Salem will be putting up songs on an individual basis to build the anticipation towards their next album. Titled 'Playing God and Other Short Stories,' the 12-song LP will include a cover of Bob Marley's 'Exodus' as well as two vocal appearances by At the Gates' frontman Tomas Lindberg...

On Feb. 6, Noisecreep gate-crashed New York City's famed Brill Building like the hoodlums we are to attend Earache's invite-only screening for the new At the Gates DVD. The mammoth, three-disc set is entitled 'Flames to the End' after the haunting instrumental closer on their genre-defining classic album, 'Slaughter of the Soul,' and will be out on Feb...

Swedish melodic death metallers At the Gates will commemorate their six-year recording career and recent reunion tour with a special value-packed 'Ultimate Collectors Box Set,' which will drop in March. It's a must-have for longtime fans of the influential band, which officially split in 1996 before reuniting for shows in 2007 and 2008...

Before the Haunted and Cradle of Filth reached their peaks, various members were a part of At the Gates, a Swedish death metal band that disbanded around 1995. Just last year, they reunited for a one-off tour that was well-received around the world...

Sweden's Hypocrisy continue their nearly two-decade career with the next brutal installment, 'A Taste of Extreme Divinity,' out on Nuclear Blast. Slinging the paint for this release is fellow countryman Kristian Wåhling, who also goes under the name of Necrolord. The ...