''To Drink from the Night Itself'' is the sixth studio album by Swedish

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band

At the Gates At the Gates is a Swedish death metal band from Gothenburg, formed in 1990. The band was a major progenitor of Gothenburg-style melodic death metal alongside In Flames and Dark Tranquillity. Prior to their first disbandment in 1996, At the Ga ...

, released on 18 May 2018 via

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. The album is the first to feature guitarist Jonas Stålhammar and the first without co-founding guitarist

Anders Björler Anders Björler (born 26 February 1973) is a Swedish musician, composer and film director. He is best known as the guitar player in the metal bands The Haunted and At the Gates, alongside his bass-playing twin brother Jonas Björler. Björler ...

, who had departed from the band in March 2017.

Critical reception

Upon its release, ''To Drink from the Night Itself'' received generally favorable reviews from critics. At

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, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an

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score of 78 based on 6 reviews.

Accolades

Track listing

Personnel

At the Gates *

Tomas Lindberg Tomas Lindberg (born 16 October 1972), also known as "Tompa" and "Goatspell", is a Swedish vocalist who has fronted many death metal bands, most notably At the Gates. He has been active as a musician and composer since the late 1980s. He also te ...

– lead vocals * Martin Larsson – guitars, acoustic guitar * Jonas Stålhammar – lead guitar,

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, backing vocals *

Jonas Björler Jonas Fredrik Björler (born 26 February 1973) is a Swedish musician and the bass player of the melodic death metal bands At the Gates and The Haunted. He was formerly in the bands Demolition, Infestation and Terror. Discography Demolition ...

– bass, keyboards, acoustic guitar, backing vocals *

Adrian Erlandsson Adrian Erlandsson (born 27 October 1970) is a Swedish heavy metal drummer who is a member of At the Gates (1990–1996, 2007–2008, 2010–), the Haunted (1996–1999, 2013–), and Nemhain (2006–). He has also been a member of H.E.A.L. ...

– drums Additional musicians *

Andy LaRocque Andy LaRocque (born Anders Allhage, 29 November 1962) is a Swedish guitarist, songwriter, and producer, best known as a member of the Heavy metal music, heavy metal band King Diamond (band), King Diamond since 1985. Biography LaRocque started in ...

– guitar solo * Rob Miller – vocals * Per Boder – vocals * Mikael Nox Pettersson – vocals * Rajmund Follmann – cello * Peter Nitsche – double bass * Tony Larsson – violin Production *

Russ Russell Russ Russell is a British record producer, sound engineer, mixer, mastering engineer, musician and writer. He has worked all over the world and now is mostly based at Parlour Studios in the UK. He was also the guitarist in the psychedelic band ...

– producer,

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, mixing, mastering * Tomas Lindberg – producer * Jonas Björler – producer * Per Stålberg – recording * Olle Björk – recording * Martin Jacobson – recording * Costin Chioreanu – artwork, layout * Ester Segarra – photography *

Patric Ullaeus Patric Ullaeus is a Swedish director and photographer. He is the founder of Revolver Film Company, based in Gothenburg. With his music video "The Serpentine Offering" for Dimmu Borgir he won the "Norwegian Grammy" award Spellemannsprisen in the ...

– music video

Charts

References

2018 albums At the Gates albums Century Media Records albums {{2010s-metal-album-stub