fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks agoAt the Gates' Tomas Lindberg's introspective lyricism broke new ground in death metal
Tomas Lindberg was not the voice of death metal he was so much better than that. During his 35-year career fronting Swedish band At the Gates, he never toed the line, never grunted about loving violence and hating Christianity because the genre dictated that you do so. Rather, he ripped up the rulebook with both his messaging and his delivery, setting a new standard for distinctiveness in extreme music.
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