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At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul
Copyright © 1996 Earache
1. Blinded By Fear
2. Slaughter Of The Soul
3. Cold
4. Under A Serpent Sun
5. Into The Dead Sky
6. Suicide Nation
7. World Of Lies
8. Unto Others
9. Nausea
10. Need
11. The Flames Of The End
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Despite the sleek package and amazing production, this is the At the Gates sellout album. It has not fallen to the depths of later Carcass or new Metallica, but it has dropped the progressive stylings in favor of very typical speed metal done with a slight technical flair but mostly, through its rough permutations and basic sense of pentatonic harmonics, it remains dressed-up heavy metal as a sad coda to the career of the Gothenburg band. The same self-unravelling harmonizing riffs, liquid solos and strong sense of color of sound are here, but each has gone through a sanitizing process to be brought closer to mainstream music, demonstrating that what is technique is far from what constitutes the artistic content of each song.
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