"After the devastating loss of At The Gates vocalist Tomas Lindberg to cancer at age 52 this past September, his bandmates confirmed that Tomas finished all of the vocals for At The Gates' next album before his passing, and today that album has been announced."
"Tomas completed the last songs in January 2024, the day before he went into hospital. We started to record the album, his surgery went well and we were in contact the whole time when we were in the studio. He was very excited to hear everything. We hadn't really talked about a blueprint for the album, but it was Tomas' idea, to do something more reminiscent of At War with Reality or Slaughter of the Soul."
"The title reflects [Tomas'] situation, that he might not survive the illness. [...] I don't know if it was like a premonition of what was about to come or anything. But now it's an eerie title, because he has passed. It makes the title even more real somehow."
Tomas Lindberg, vocalist of At The Gates, died of cancer at age 52 in September, after completing all vocals for the band's next album. The Ghost Of A Future Dead is set for release April 24 via Century Media, with a limited "transparent black ice" vinyl variant of 500 copies available for pre-order in the BV shop. Lead guitarist Anders Björler returns for the album, reuniting the lineup from 1995's Slaughter of the Soul. Jens Bogren produced the record. Anders reported that Tomas finished the last songs in January 2024 and remained in contact during recording. The music aims for a hard-hitting sound reminiscent in places of At War with Reality and Slaughter of the Soul, and the title reflects Tomas' precarious situation during his illness.
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