This album still has those elements that make At the Gates stand out from the pack, but the vocals prove weak compared to future releases. Nonetheless, its a damn good album and one that i will definitely keep.

I tried to give it another go, just doesn't do much for me.

For sure this is the best ATG album ... a true original melodic death - without boring arrangements and trade-oriented producing (like 'Slaughter Of The Soul').
I think this is considerably better than their overpraised fourth album.

Feh, did not care for this at all. People on here overrate At The Gate's early stuff way too much, even if not as much as others overrate Slaughter. At least Slaughter had hooks.

This may be my favorite old school death metal album. It's a pretty close between this and Left Hand Path.
Edit: I take that back, LHP is better

Written by Alex F on 28.04.2014 at 02:38

This may be my favorite old school death metal album. It's a pretty close between this and Left Hand Path.
Edit: I take that back, LHP is better

Yeah this album has a really nice and raw sound. I didn't like it at first but it grew on me over the years and I love the technical, unpredictable songwriting. At The Gates are kinda great in the sense that every release was a little different, but all quite good at what each did.

Written by [user id=4365] on 28.04.2014 at 03:17

Yeah this album has a really nice and raw sound. I didn't like it at first but it grew on me over the years and I love the technical, unpredictable songwriting. At The Gates are kinda great in the sense that every release was a little different, but all quite good at what each did.

That is quite true. Each release seems to retain at least a bit of high quality material.

Funny. Their best album has the worse rating and their worst the best.

One of the most underrated death metal albums ever.

Written by [user id=159927] on 09.01.2018 at 00:01

One of the most underrated death metal albums ever.

It's only underrated here
This is their best album by miles and it is highly appreciated in the metal circles.

Written by nikarg on 09.01.2018 at 00:09

It's only underrated here
This is their best album by miles and it is highly appreciated in the metal circles.

Yeah, I know its not really underrated everywhere, I should have said that.

I love the icy With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness as well... But holy fuck the debut is something else. Definitely their best.

I think this is the best album of this band. The true form of At The Gates. Beautiful violins, and complex but logical song structure.

I have never cared for this album, as I have never cared for any At the Gates album.
Except, of course, for Slaughter of the Soul. That is mainly because back in the nineties there was practically no way to hide from this album. I have though never particularly enjoyed SotS, find it somehow one dimensional.

Now, more or less accidentially, I came to listen to The Red in the Sky is ours only recently.
And I must say I am really surprised that there is such a multi dimensional album by this band.
Well, it is not that I have been blown out of the window by it, but this is a more than decent old-school death metal album, with some melodical influences here and there, and a lot of surprising twists in songwriting.
I cannot name any highlights though. I just didnt identify any outstanding track (yet).

This is by far their least diluted album with a level of lo-fi aggression abandoned almost immediately after, but it also comes and goes without many standout moments for me. It's consistent and visceral and stands up to any old school death metal album of its era, but I personally always thought of it as a second tier release, perhaps because of the grainy production muffling the drums and bass or unrefined vocals in need of some pitch work.

There's a beauty hidden behind all the aggressiveness from the riffs and insanity from the vocals, that's something I can rarely hear in music of this kind and especially of its era.

Good killer album, you cans ee they tried hard even some sound erors probably because of money, but it killrs, fast melodic death metal white extreme brutal vocals, screamo .. I like it, days when metal was one.

Damn this is really their best. Can’t understand those who say the vocals are weak. I wish more death metal had these very mental, raspy and desperate high pitched howls and screams..

Also the Nyckelharpa is nicely used on this album. Love it.