''With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness'' is the second studio album by the Swedish death metal 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 Gat ...

. It was re-released in 1993 with '' The Red in the Sky Is Ours'' and again in 2003 with bonus tracks. This would be the last album with guitarist Alf Svensson who left the band after its release.

Background information

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. Björle ...

, the guitarist, described ''With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness'' as At the Gates' "darkest album", and deemed the album's production as "heavier" than the group's previous work.

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 t ...

, the vocalist, said of the album cover: "The cover ..is probably my favorite. It is a piece of art made by Swedish author/artist/composer

Åke Hodell Åke Hodell (April 30, 1919 – July 29, 2000, Stockholm, Sweden) was a Swedish fighter pilot, poet, author, text-sound composer, and artist. Daughter Laila Hodell (author) He was the son of author Björn Hodell and brother of actor Ulla Hodell. ...

. The piece is called 220 Volt Buddha. Åke approved for us to use it for free, after inquiring about the music of the band and our approach, as soon as he understood that we were a non-commercial act. He has composed several pieces of abstract music, written radio plays and novels. You could consider him a modernist along the lines of

Vladimir Mayakovsky Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky (, ; rus, Влади́мир Влади́мирович Маяко́вский, , vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr vlɐˈdʲimʲɪrəvʲɪtɕ məjɪˈkofskʲɪj, Ru-Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky.ogg, links=y; – 14 Apr ...

. It was an honour for me to work with him and I think the blue tone matches the abstract music on the album perfectly. Åke died in 2000. He is greatly missed."

Track listing

Personnel

At the Gates

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guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

* Jonas Björler −

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

* Adrian Erlandsson − drums * Alf Svensson − guitar *

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vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or withou ...

Additional personnel

* Matti Kärki − vocals on "Ever-Opening Flower" *

− artwork *Noel Summerville − mastering *Eric Gunewall − photography *Tomas Skogsberg − production *Fred Estby, Lars Linden, Tomas Skogsberg − recording

References

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