At The Gates will begin laying down their first studio album since 1995 in around a months time. Various members of the band recently had a discussion with Noisey, during which guitarist Anders Björler told the site:
“We started really early, and the process started last summer, actually. We had a full concept last fall, even. A lot of the song titles and lyrics were already written like half a year ago. Now we have everything done.”
His brother, Jonas Björler added: “The album is complete. It just needs the final arranagements.” Frontman Tomas Lindberg also had his say on the bands mindset behind the album:
“…With this album there was really two ways we could go into it. We could be really calculating and go, “Oh shit, this is really important. People are gonna really expect a lot. This is the most important album we’ve done.” We could go into that way and overthink everything, and we’re still very meticulous about all the details, of course, but the other way would be just to go wherever the thing takes us.
It sounds very cosmic or philosophical, but the music is out there. You just need the fucking medium to get it out to the people… But it’s like when we first started writing the initial songs, it just grew. First lyrics and then, “Ah, we’re onto something here,” and then something else evolved.”
That album is titled “At War With Reality” and is due out in the fall through Century Media.
