Swedish melodic Death Metal pioneers At The Gate continue pre-promoting their much anticipated new studio album To Drink From The Night Itself (Out May 18th, 2018 via Century Media Records) by launching its second single and video.
Check out A Stare Bound In Stone in a video-clip created by Costin Chioreanu / Twilight 13 Media.
At The Gates frontman Tomas Lindberg comments on the track as follows: ‘For the second single release of the album we wanted this menacing stormer, fast aggressive verses, heavy chorus and an evil mantra of an ending. This, for me, depicts the desperate, urgent mood of the record. I think it could be one of the most aggressive songs we have ever written. This album is so diverse, and includes so much different elements that it is hard to boil down those essences to just one song. This song has a lot of them though, more to come soon. For the video-shoot we wanted to work with Costin on this one, as he is an essential part of this record. We felt that he knew exactly what kind of emotions we wanted to get across, and how to capture them artistically. I see this video as a brilliant complement to the song. Enjoy!’
Earlier this month At The Gates performed a first weekend of shows in order to introduce their current line-up and the group also debuted the upcoming album’s title-track as part of their comprehensive setlist.
Next to the standard Jewelcase CD, the Digital Download and the LP version (Various options detailed below!), “To Drink From The Night Itself”, which was produced with Russ Russell (Napalm Death, The Haunted, Dimmu Borgir, etc.) at Parlour Studios in the UK, will also be available in Europe as limited edition Mediabook 2CD (with a bonus-disc of 5 additional tracks, expanded booklet and 3 stickers) and as strictly limited and numbered LP-Boxset.
The LP format comes as 180gr.vinyl in Gatefold packaging with 8-pages LP-booklet and an art-print in the following different versions, colours and limitations (Please notice correction of amount for the sea glass green edition!):
Black LP – Unlimited
Clear LP via Bengans Sweden – 400x copies
Silver LP via CM EU Onlineshop – 200x copies
Picture LP via CM Distro EU – 500x copies
White LP via NBR – 300x copies
Blue LP via EMP – 300x copies
Red LP via CM USA – 600x copies
Golden LP via Indie Stores USA – 300x copies
Smokey gray LP via CM US Onlineshop – 300x copies
Sea glass green LP via CM US Onlineshop – 300x copies
The album’s LP-Boxset is strictly limited to 2000 numbered copies and will include a special triple Gatefold version with alternate cover artwork, LP-booklet, 4 art-prints, a bonus LP with the 5 additional tracks and etching on B-side, a large poster, a large patch, a metal-pin, a hand-signed card, a set of 3 stickers as well as the album’s CD and bonus-disc ion plastic sleeves.
The previously mentioned additional tracks on the 2CD and LP-Boxset editions of the album include alternate versions of album-songs featuring appearances by the following guest vocalists: Rob Miller (Amebix, Tau Cross), Per Boder (God Macabre) and Mikael Nox Pettersson (Craft). The track-listing reads as follows.
1. Daggers Of Black Haze (feat. Rob Miller)
2. The Chasm (feat. Per Boder)
3. A Labyrinth Of Tombs (feat. Mikael Nox Pettersson)
4. The Chasm (demo version)
5. The Mirror Black (feat. Rob Miller)