“What was the secret? Simple. We wanted to make an album as good as Reign In Blood”: How At The Gates saved death metal with Slaughter Of The Soul

At The Gates posing for a photograph in the 1990s.

At The Gates’ fourth album, 1995’s Slaughter Of The Soul, was one of the most influential death metal albums of that entire decade, shaping the ‘Gothenburg Sound’ and influencing a generation of melodeath bands that followed. In 2006, singer Tomas Linberg looked back on a 90s landmark.