At The Gates - The Making of "Slaughter of the Soul" [Official Full Documentary] 

I think all those metalcore bands owe some gratitude for this right here

A message to all the youngens: you want a genuine, great sounding album; you have to really work for it.

A timeless album even today, Who els still listen is to this in 2021?

this album changed my life

And this, boys and girls, is how you make a masterpiece!

This is the Nevermind of Melodic Death Metal, unique and unreachable.

When I'm feeling sad as fuck, I just listen this album and The Jester Race. It makes me feel like a superhero.

At The Gates and Napalm Death tour 1996. It was my first metal concert when i was 16. Exact date was April 27th 1996 and in happened in my home country Slovenia in a little town called Kobjeglava. Best memories were from that time.

I met them when they opened up for Morbid Angel in Tampa on the tour for this album. They did an in store appearance at Aces Records, I still have my autographed cassette of this album. I remember they were very cool guys, very approachable. They were still pretty unknown at that time but even then this album generated a pretty good buzz. It’s cool to look back and remember I got to experience this stuff as it was happening. That was a beautiful time in heavy music…

when blinded by fear smashes into the intro.. i get fucking goosebumps EVERYTIME!

Tomas Lindberg signed my birth certificate because I had nothing else on me for him to sign when I met him. I call it my Death Metal Certificate.

Fredrik Nordstrom is a fucking legend. I had no idea who he was when I first listened to Dream Evil's "Book of Heavy Metal" album, then I realized that he had worked with pretty much all of my favorite bands. Awesome.

The documentary is the same length as the album.

I was into Nu-Metal, grunge, punk-rock etc. when I first heard this album and Made Me Do It from The Haunted. A friend lend them to me and said, "this is real metal, not that sh*t you be listening to" and boy was he right!

New to metal really discovered this album only recently to my shame but an at the gates riff is everything I love about metal...!!!!

I met At the Gates on an afterparty after a reunion live to celebrate the 20th year of the album. Best guys I've met in the metal scene! Especially Tomas, I loved the guy, incredibly friendly, we spent the whole nigh talking, he wouldnt stop buying us shots and beers and telling us stories about touring, the band, other bands etc. Them and Cannibal Corpse.

They're releasing a new album this year

It's interesting to hear the talk about the pressures of becoming more successful etc. Slaughter Of The Soul was not a massive album at the time. It wasn't viewed as a masterpiece either. I barely remember it getting any rave reviews from metal mags. Most of the ratings were around 4/5 and it wasn't topping the best of year lists either. That's not to say that people weren't impressed, but it wasn't an album that was deemed an 'instant classic' the moment it dropped. Having said that, their influence was already being felt around that time. I remember when I first heard In Flames' The Jester Race in 1996 I thought they were taking some influences from ATG, whereas their previous work sounded nothing like them to my ears. There has been a lot of revisionism about this band, especially after the success of the so called 'metalcore' bands from America that were supposedly influenced by them, and I think it's important to keep things in perspective. Slaughter of The Soul is an excellent metal album, and by 99/2000 it was quite revered, particularly in Europe, but it wasn't some massive runaway success that blew everyone's minds in 1995. Let's be clear on that.

Its called a flutter with the trem bar to get that sound that Andy Leroque did in his solo. You whack the whammy bar and the resistance from the trem system/bridge makes it bounce and "flutter".

Really great. Thank you for posting this.

One of my favorite albums still to this day!

So good to see how my favorite metal album was made! Brilliant masterpiece 🤘🏻❤️

these dues are so humble for such impact they had on this kind of music. they seem like good dudes. i wanna hang out with them.

This album is my base, I keep going to it. It is a masterpiece! So many of my fave bands do them! And it’s good but more tribute.

Picked this album up in 2001 in 9th grade, still my favorite metal album of all time, thanks for the tunes kings 👑 p.s. i will cashapp $20 to anyone who can give me the lyrics to the song Legion they covered

Andy Larocque, genuis classic metal guitarist! See also James Murphy for playing similar to what's mentioned @ 14:35..wammy.

My favorite melodic death metal legend at the gates❤❤❤❤😊😊

it's too bad they couldn't handle the pressure at the time.

Legendary album!

25:00 love the cover, but dat papyrus font lmao

I'm glad that i saw them last year on Mexico City... I felt like the luckiest motherfucker in the world!! Such a great feeling to see one of my favorite bands live and everyone in the place screaming "GO!" together was just great... My favorite gig so far!!!

Timeless album.

now this is a perfect album!!

going to see them tomorrow, fucking excited! And, they seem like great folks =D

please 1 more album!!!!!!

Over ten minutes into the documentary and you finally hear Martin speak :) He doesn't seem like a very talkative guy

Metalzone! Best distortion pedal ever, in the right hands.

i heard this on my late night metal KROCK station, wasn't into it, but I was listening to a future classic.

What about Dark Tranquillity? They still make excellent albums to this day.

The guitar he uses in this documentary is in standard tuning. I'm guessing that he didn't bring a B tuned guitar and had to stick with what was available at the time.

Carcass is making a new album and Thomas recently he wouldn't say "never" to a new ATG CD, so I think it's coming sometimes in 2013, at LEAST the announcement of it!

the best album of all time

1 of the best metal albums ever. up there with reign in blood by slayer and destroy, erase improve by meshugga

I thought there were both HM-2 & Metal Zone pedal on guitars, am i wrong?

I guess I'm the only one who liked Terminal Spirit Disease more than SOTS. Guitars were way more melodic. I had TSD and Burning Darkness on constant rotation back in the day.

It still sounds fresh now! Looking forward to the new album next month.

17:54 I came to hear the riffage on Serpent Sun and the triplet pick

we want a fucking new Album from this Band !!!

Very interesting to say the least.

Such a fantastic album

Classic ❤️

1..2..3.. go go reform gooo. we want a tour goooo

They speak English so well, also their lyrics work

I didn't understand how they got the Entombed feedback (the "piuung" sound as they said)

i know that. however, when they first started the reunion tour in 2008, they said this was a one time thing... and they have been ding "reunion tours" ever since! i know the risk of disappointing people is there, especially considering the insane expectations a new album would have. but, personally, i don't care. if they record something and it's bad... well, whatever, doesn't make slaughter of the soul bad all of the sudden (so that talk about legacy doesn't make much sense, imho).

why is the guitar player in a different tuning ? wtf ? i want to hear him playing those sweet riffs in drop B ! :D

What guitar are they using in the vid?

amazing

yeah!!!

he looks like a less athletic Peter Forsberg

Is everything your idea tom!

They said they won't do one. That they've changed too much. I think they should re-record the first two.

Now that The Haunted is in limbo, maybe they will.

this was fucking awesome! but.. am i the only one thinking of a Making Of: Streetcleaner? hahaha

I need At The gates! Regroup and conquer! Now! Time is too short to waste on other "lame" bands that get you nowhere. The crowd always want the real.. Why waste it? I want ATG what it.. may bring.. Surprise me!

No, it's Fredrik Nordstrom. Kinda looks like Thordendal, though.

They play in B standard.

He was right, you haven't toped 'terminal spirit desease'

Dat solo @ 14:44.

Spinal Tap 2 (At the Gates)

true story!

Cephalic Carnage shirt FTW

just saying.. isn't it strange that this documentary is exactly as long as the album? /watch?v=614OdhFLUUU

Anders listened a lot of black metal 18:14

Recorded on tape??analog equipment? It always Sounded very plastic to me. Like a metal album from now. It almost sounds like a drum machine.

very interesting documentary. now, stop talking about slaughter of the soul and get to recording a new album.

Tomas is a swell guy.

They can't do any better than "Slaughter of the soul." Iäd rather have them playing live, every other year

metallica had angel of death. yes.

Soooooo, elephant in the room. Is that the guitarist of Meshuggah?

WHERE ARE THE TWINS!?

martin has talked too much in my opinion

I'd rather they didn't do a new album, it just wouldn't live up to my expectations.

Ya he just wouldn't shut the fuck up. "Ya,play it.", --40 minute silence.

do you call this documentary! Eeeh

I hope it, and please make a Album with good old streng and not a Mainstream Bullshit al ´a IN FLAMES !!!

LIKE THIS GUY HIS COMMENT NOW !

Am I hearing this right? he said.. Dildo?

teh fuck is up with these subtitles?

Producer claims "punch ins were not possible with analog" such BS lol

Fantastic album, boring documentary.

It’s so interesting hearing them reminisce so fondly about making one of the worst metal albums of the 90’s, not to mention gloss over how profoundly negative an impact it had on the genre in general.