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At the Gates - With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness
Copyright © 1993 Peaceville
1. Beyond Good And Evil
2. Raped By The Light Of Christ
3. The Break Of Autumn
4. Non-Divine
5. Primal Breath
6. The Architects
7. Stardrowned
8. Blood Of The Sunsets
9. The Burning Darkness
10. Ever-Opening Flower
11. Through The Red
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The fully evolved form of the intricate music of At the Gates emerges here, using a style of harmonizing riffs that creates a refulgent melodic sensation within the forward surge of music. Delicately skipping between rhythms inserted in the subdivisions of arrangements constituting the boundaries of structure, riffing on this album concentrates on the use of power chords where later albums would let melodic leads dominate. Of all the At the Gates releases, this one has the most rushed feeling without losing the intensity and drive toward invention that marked this band from their debut EP; it seems as if there is a desire here to fall into more conventional song structure, but this want is balanced by an artistic mindset which ploughs ahead full speed with variation and attempted flexibility to emotional symbolism in combinations of a poetic mechanism. All instruments are strong but relative to later work are boxier and lack some of the organic texture in design that made earlier works alien to death metal at the time, making this album the closest thing to mainstream metal this band created during their healthy years. While as a whole the work here is excellent, this is not the strongest album from At the Gates, but provides an engrossing listen nonetheless.
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