AT THE GATES Release New Animated Music Video For ‘Garden Of Cyrus’ Track (August 4th, 2022)

AT THE GATES Release New Animated Music Video For ‘Garden Of Cyrus’ Track
August 4th, 2022

Gothenburg, Sweden-based melodic death metal band At The Gates have released an animated music video for the track ‘Garden Of Cyrus’. Created by Costin Chioreanu (Twilight 13 Media), the clip can be viewed below.

Speaking about the song and video, frontman Tomas Lindberg Redant said: “For our latest video, ‘Garden Of Cyrus’, we have once again chosen to work with our long-time partner Costin Chioreanu. And I think it is safe to say that this time he has truly outdone himself! It is a different song, at least in death metal terms, and of course it needed a different idea for the video. Once again, we let Costin do his own interpretation of the music and the lyrics, and he has taken us on a real psychedelican journey with this one.

“I think this is the song on our latest album, The Nightmare Of Being, that raised the most eyebrows in the metal community. And I am proud that we as a band can still surprise people, adding another dimension to our sound, without losing the essence of what At The Gates is. Enjoy!”

At The Gates issued seventh full-length studio album The Nightmare Of Being on July 2nd, 2021 through Century Media Records.

The album can be streamed in its entirety via YouTube below.

Tomas Lindberg Redant commented: “The overall theme deals with the topic of pessimism, and I have been diving deep down in pessimistic philosophers. 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. It still sounds like At The Gates, 100 percent. It is just more of everything…”

While main parts for The Nightmare Of Being were recorded in several different Swedish studios – drums at Studio Gröndal with Jens Bogren, guitars and bass with Andy La Rocque at Sonic Train Studio, and vocals at Welfare Sounds with Per Stålberg – the album was mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden.

Cover artwork was created by Eva Nahon.

The track listing is as follows:

01. ‘Spectre Of Extinction’
02. ‘The Paradox’
03. ‘The Nightmare Of Being’
04. ‘Garden Of Cyrus’
05. ‘Touched By The White Hands Of Death’
06. ‘The Fall Into Time’
07. ‘Cult Of Salvation’
08. ‘The Abstract Enthroned’
09. ‘Cosmic Pessimism’
10. ‘Eternal Winter Of Reason’

At The Gates’ line-up was as follows:

Tomas Lindberg Redant (vocals, The Lurking Fear / Lock Up / ex-The Crown)
Jonas Stålhammar (guitars, The Lurking Fear / Crippled Black Phoenix / Bombs Of Hades)
Martin Larsson (guitars, Agrimonia / ex-Bombs Of Hades)
Jonas Björler (bass, The Haunted)
Adrian Erlandsson (drums, The Haunted / The Lurking Fear / ex-Cradle Of Filth / ex-Brujeria)

Music videos were filmed for the title track and the tracks ‘Spectre Of Extinction’, ‘The Paradox’ and ‘Cosmic Pessimism’. In addtion, an animated music video was created for the song ‘The Fall Into Time’. All five clips can also be viewed below.

Sixth studio record To Drink From The Night Itself was released in May 2018 via Century Media.

Promotional photograph by Ester Segarra.