• Pre-Order : At The Gates "The Ghost of Future Dead" LP/CD

“The Ghost of a Future Dead” contains 12 tracks / 42 minutes. 180g black Vinyl, standard sleeve, 4p LP-Booklet, black poly-lined inner sleeve.

Recorded and mixed by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios (Kreator, Amon Amarth, Opeth, etc.). Album artwork by Robert Samsonowitz.

In 2026, Swedish death metal legends At The Gates will release a brand new album, The Ghost of a Future Dead. The intended follow-up to 2021’s wildly adventurous The Nightmare of Being, the Gothenburg crew’s seventh studio album has now become a magnificent, emotionally turbocharged epitaph to frontman Tomas Lindberg, who tragically passed away in September 2025. An absolute titan of underground music, Lindberg completed work on vocals for the new record before entering hospital for vital surgery at the beginning of 2024. Meanwhile, after six years away, guitarist Anders Björler rejoined the band in 2022, returning to the same line-up that recorded certified classic Slaughter of the Soul nearly three decades earlier: Tomas Lindberg, Anders Björler, bassist Jonas Björler, drummer Adrian Erlandsson and guitarist Martin Larsson.

“There’s a legacy surrounding Tomas, especially in Sweden,” says Anders. “He’s a forefather. He was one of the first people in Gothenburg involved in this scene, and he was an important figure in the tape-trading scene. He was really warm and welcoming to new people. You felt welcome in his presence, somehow. He was super social. He had a lot of friends in a lot of bands around the world. The new album feels like a good, emotional release. To get our last creative moment together out on CD and vinyl, it’s more of an existential thing. The music will speak for itself!”

Side A (20:48):
1. The Fever Mask (03:12)
2. The Dissonant Void (02:47)
3. Det Oerhörda (03:35)
4. A Ritual of Waste (03:35)
5. In Dark Distortion (03:50)
6. Of Interstellar Death (03:46)

Side B (21:39):
1. Tomb of Heaven (03:54)
2. Parasitical Hive (04:34)
3. The Unfathomable (04:07)
4. The Phantom Gospel (02:44)
5. Förgängligheten (02:41)
6. Black Hole Emission (03:37)