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"He had a cast of a human skull, because he was interested in the occult." The Life and legacy of At The Gates frontman Tomas Lindberg: the godfather of melodic death metal

From dabbling in occultism to pioneering a whole new school of death metal, Tomas Lindberg was a figure unlike any other

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“Without them, the face of metal would be very different and, probably, much worse”: Everything you need to know about every At The Gates album

Revisit each entry in the death metal maestros’ game-changing discography

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“He had a cast of a human skull, because he was interested in the occult in his early days”: At The Gates members recall the first time they met late singer Tomas Lindberg

Jonas Björler, Anders Björler and Adrian Erlandsson remember their first encounters with their beloved frontman

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“It was our first clandestine operation, gathered in a larder listening to church bells tolling”: Get the new issue of Metal Hammer with an exclusive HIM cover, t-shirt and signed art card

Celebrate 30 years of goth metal’s finest in style

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Robb Flynn teams up with Black Veil Brides, Tarja Turunen recruits Dani Filth and Korn bounce back in this week's best new metal song round-up

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“Something we never could have imagined when this all began”: Songs by melodic death metal pioneers In Flames, At The Gates and Dark Tranquillity to be performed by Gothenburg orchestra

Two symphonic celebrations of the Gothenburg Sound will be held in Sweden on December 4 and 5, in tribute to late At The Gates frontman Tomas Lindberg

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"On his final performance, he wields words like a weapon." Following the death of their beloved frontman Tomas Lindberg, death metal legends At The Gates' produce one final triumph with The Ghost Of A Future Dead

Tomas Lindberg recorded his vocals for The Ghost Of A Future Dead the day before surgery, but still captures the magic that made melodeath a global movement

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“With all the stuff surrounding his illness and eventually passing, I had a hard time listening to it”: At The Gates drummer couldn’t listen to new album until “recently”, due to late singer Tomas Lindberg’s cancer battle

Adrian Erlandsson admits he hasn’t yet read the lyrics of the Gothenburg innovators’ upcoming record, The Ghost Of A Future Dead

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Evanescence release their first new song of 2026, underground doom heroes Warning make a comeback and beleagured nuns Dogma offer a defiant new sound in this week's best new metal songs

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"We miss your smile, your warmth, your creativity, your compassion and your humour." Following his death last year, metal legends At The Gates have posted a moving new tribute to their singer Tomas Lindberg

The melodic death metal innovators have also explained how they were able to record their new album following Lindberg's cancer diagnosis

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“The Six Feet Under gig was a fast ticket into touring. One of the first shows was in front of 45,000 people. I was used to playing for 20-30 people”: YouTube star, entrepreneur, go-to death metal guitarist… Inside the unstoppable rise of Ola Englund

The affable Swede on how he got his big break in Six Feet Under, the amps that make him feel “terrible” about his playing, and how he found YouTube success by being himself. As for Solar Guitars? Why not make the guitars himself?

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"This album is his legacy." Following the devastating death of their frontman, friend and beloved figurehead of extreme metal, Tomas Lindberg, At The Gates have released an emotional new video and details of new album The Ghost of a Future Dead

Watch the moving video for new At The Gates single The Fever Mask now

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“I’m nervousof that guitar because it’s so expensive. I can barely look at it”: Biffy Clyro’s Simon Neil on how you can shake the Earth with one finger, and why he fell in love with Kirk Hammett’s Greeny – even if he’s still Team Strat

With their 10th album, Futique, Biffy Clyro remind us exactly why they are one of the most important rock bands of the modern age

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“We miss you incredibly”: At The Gates urge fans to donate to Swedish cancer charity following death of frontman Tomas Lindberg

Lindberg died in September after being diagnosed with adenoid cystic carcinoma, a rare oral cancer

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“Chances are your favourite musicians owe this band a debt of gratitude”: Your essential guide to every At The Gates album

We revisit and review every entry in the death metal maestros’ game-changing discography

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At the Gates’ Tomas Lindberg’s introspective lyricism broke new ground in death metal

The late frontman refused to adhere to the lyrical conventions of the genre, surveying suffering in a peerless wailing screech that will echo across the history of heavy music

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At The Gates frontman Tomas Lindberg dead at 52

Tomas Lindberg passed away this week following a lengthy battle with cancer.

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The world of metal pays tribute to At The Gates frontman Tomas Lindberg

Tributes to Tomas Lindberg have come from Opeth, Napalm Death, Cradle Of Filth, Avatar, Exodus and many more

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"There were loads of bands happy to make mediocre records. We never saw this as an option." The story of At The Gates' Slaughter Of The Soul - the album that revolutionised death metal

30 years ago, At The Gates would release an album that'd change metal forever and make melodeath one of the most influential metal movements of the 90s

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At The Gates vocalist Tomas Lindberg dies aged 52 following cancer battle

The frontman, known for his existential lyrics and characteristic scream, revealed last month that he was diagnosed with adenoid cystic carcinoma in December 2023

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At The Gates frontman Tomas Lindberg "being closely monitored around the clock" in hospital after setback with cancer

"t has been a very tough year." Tomas Lindberg

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“As great as it undoubtedly was, the bug-eyed insanity of thrash was nowhere to be heard in any of its songs”: How Metallica’s Black Album killed thrash metal

The band that helped create thrash pretty much killed it

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“We thought ‘the Gothenburg sound’ was an insult. Everything we set out to do was new and original.” We asked Dark Tranquillity’s Mikael Stanne to name the greatest Gothenburg metal album. This is what he said.

When we asked the singer of Dark Tranquillity and The Halo Effect to name the Gothenburg sound’s greatest achievement, he challenged the idea of ‘the Gothenburg sound’ itself

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“What was the secret? Simple. We wanted to make an album as good as Reign In Blood”: How At The Gates saved death metal with Slaughter Of The Soul

By 1995, death metal was in terminal decline - but Sweden’s At The Gates made a record that changed everything

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“It was a dig at those people who did crazy, horrific things, and then tried to blame metal bands”: how The Haunted rose above the chaos to make a cult 21st century metal classic with Made Me Do It

The chaotic story of Swedish ragers The Haunted’s classic second album, Made Me Do It

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