At the Gates Unveil New Album The Nightmare of Being
The Nightmare of Being and will arrive on July 2 via Century Media.
The album marks the follow-up to 2018 s
To Drink from the Night Itself, and it was recorded in various studios in Sweden. Jens Bogren who worked with the group on 2014 s
At War with Reality mixed and mastered the album. The album s visual concept, meanwhile, was developed by artist Eva Nahon. The overall theme deals with the topic of pessimism, and I have been diving deep down in pessimistic philosophers, said vocalist Tomas Lindberg in a statement. Trying to understand this way of looking at the world. It is not a negative album, more a gateway into new ideas for me personally, trying out different perspectives. You could call the album an introduction to pessimism as a concept, I guess. It is a very dark album, but not negative…