AT THE GATES Members Talk About 'The Flames Of The End' DVD; Video Available

Rockalarm and Metal Hammer conducted an interview with Tomas Lindberg (vocals) and Anders Björler (guitar) of Swedish melodic death metal pioneers AT THE GATES during the duo's recent promotional visit to Hamburg, Germany. Watch the chat below.

AT THE GATES will sign copies of its three-DVD set, "The Flames Of The End", at Bengans in Gothenburg, Sweden on February 26 from 17.30 to 18.30 local time.

AT THE GATES previewed its two-hour documentary from "The Flames Of The End" at a screening at the Soho Screening Rooms in London, England on Friday, January 15.

The film's maker, Anders Björler, attended the event, along with AT THE GATES drummer Adrian Erlandsson (also in PARADISE LOST).

Photos and a review of the film and event can be found at RockersDigest.com.

"The Flames Of The End" will be released on February 22 in Europe and April 6 in the U.S. through Earache Records.

AT THE GATES released its definitive album, "Slaughter Of The Soul" — often regarded as one of the all-time greatest metal albums — on Earache in 1995, before touring the world and abruptly disbanding. Members of the band went on to play major roles in other notorious metal acts such as THE HAUNTED and CRADLE OF FILTH, before reforming for a one-off tour in 2008 to rapturous response.

Now, to celebrate AT THE GATES' massively influential career and historical reunion tour, the band will be releasing "The Flames Of The End", an extensive, in-depth and definitive three-disc DVD set.

Housed in a deluxe six-panel DVD digipak with a 40-page colour booklet, "The Flames Of The End" will include three indispensable DVDs:

Disc 1: "Under A Serpent Sun - The Story of At The Gates"

A brand new documentary with a running time of over two hours, detailing the band's entire career with exclusive interviews and footage, filmed and directed by guitarist Anders Björler.

01. Introduction & Opening Titles
02. Reunion: From Vision to Reality
03. The Early Years Part 1: From Nursery Rhymes to Death Metal
04. The Early Years Part 2: The Schillerska / Billdal Connection
05. The Early Years Part 3: The Grotesque / At the Gates Transition
06. The Early Years Part 4: Creativity Unbound
07. Gardens of Grief
08. The Red in the Sky is Ours
09. Reunion: Sweden Rock 2008
10. With Fear I Kiss the Burning Darkness
11. Exit Alf - Enter Martin
12. Reunion: Graspop 2008
13. Terminal Spirit Disease
14. Reunion: Ruis Rock 2008
15. Slaughter of the Soul
16. Reunion: America re-visited
17. Reunion: San Antonio, TX 2008
18. Exit Anders
19. Reunion: Bloodstock 2008
20. Reunion: The Past is Alive
21. Beyond the Gates
22. Credits
23. Interview with Tomas in Chicago 1996 (Deleted Scenes)
24. Adrian, The Prankster (Deleted Scenes)
25. The Tokyo Experience (Deleted Scenes)
26. Elvis Has Left the Building (Deleted Scenes)
27. European Mini-Tour with Therion 1992 (Deleted Scenes)
28. Gods of Metal, Italy 2008 (Deleted Scenes)
29. Tompa cleaning out the trailer (Deleted Scenes)
30. Kingdom Gone (Music Video)
31. The Burning Darkness (Music Video)
32. Terminal Spirit Disease (Music Video)
33. Blinded By Fear (Music Video)

Disc 2: "Purgatory Unleashed - Live at Wacken"

A 75-minute live set from the band's reunion set at the Wacken Open air festival in 2008 in front of 100,000 people — professionally shot with multiple cameras with sound mixed by Tue Madsen)

01. Intro (backstage)
02. Slaughter of the Soul
03. Cold
04. Terminal Spirit Disease
05. Raped By the Light of Christ
06. Under A Serpent Sun
07. Windows
08. World Of Lies
09. The Burning Darkness
10. The Swarm
11. Forever Blind
12. Nausea
13. The Beautiful Wound
14. Unto Others
15. All Life Ends
16. Need
17. Blinded By Fear
18. Suicide Nation
19. Kingdom Gone

Disc 3: "Only the Dead Are Smiling"

26 rare and archive live performances of the band playing in locations around the globe from 1991 to 2008.

01. Slaughter of the Soul (Wetlands, New York, USA March 7, 1996)
02. Cold (Wetlands, New York, USA March 7, 1996)
03. The Swarm (Wetlands, New York, USA March 7, 1996)
04. Blinded by Fear (Thirsty Whale, Rivergrove, IL, USA, March 10, 1996)
05. Suicide Nation (Thirsty Whale, Rivergrove, IL, USA, March 10, 1996)
06. Under a Serpent Sun (Thirsty Whale, Rivergrove, IL, USA, March 10, 1996)
07. Suicide Nation (Ruisrock, Turku, Finland, July 4, 2008)
08. Raped by the Light of Christ (Ruisrock, Turku, Finland, July 4, 2008)
09. Windows (Ruisrock, Turku, Finland, July 4, 2008)
10. World of Lies (Ruisrock, Turku, Finland, July 4, 2008)
11. Nausea (Ruisrock, Turku, Finland, July 4, 2008)
12. Slaughter of the Soul (Graspop Metal Meeting, Dessel, Belgium, June 29, 2008)
13. Cold (Graspop Metal Meeting, Dessel, Belgium, June 29, 2008)
14. Terminal Spirit Disease (Graspop Metal Meeting, Dessel, Belgium, June 29, 2008)
15. The Beautiful Wound (Graspop Metal Meeting, Dessel, Belgium, June 29, 2008)
16. The Burning Darkness (Witchwood, Manchester UK, February 5, 1996)
17. Through Gardens of Grief (Factory, Eskilstuna, Sweden, April 20, 1991)
18. All Life Ends (Factory, Eskilstuna, Sweden, April 20, 1991)
19. City of Screaming Statues (Factory, Eskilstuna, Sweden, April 20, 1991)
20. Slaughter of the Soul (Studio Coast, Tokyo, Japan, May 11, 2008)
21. Cold (Studio Coast, Tokyo, Japan, May 11, 2008)
22. Under a Serpent Sun (Studio Coast, Tokyo, Japan, May 11, 2008)
23. Slaughter of the Soul (Irving Plaza, New York, USA, July 9, 2008)
24. Need (The Abyss, Houston, TX, USA, March 17, 1996)
25. Neverwhere (Gagarin 205, Athens, Greece, September 21, 2008)
26. Kingdom Gone (Gagarin 205, Athens, Greece, September 21, 2008)

Watch "Slaughter Of The Soul" performance from the Wacken Open Air festival performance in 2008 below.

AT THE GATES guitarist Anders Björler comments: "It's now almost two-and-a-half years after the first telephone call to the guys regarding the reunion plans for 2008. Looking back at it today, I am very pleased and happy we pulled it off in the short amount of time and clearing all the planning hurdles with our other bands; THE HAUNTED, DISFEAR, BRUJERIA, NEMHAIN, SLAKATTACK etc.

"I started preparing for the documentary 'Under A Serpent Sun' already in 2007. I got myself a new camera, 'cause the old one gave up on me.

"The downside to my filming plans was actually reliving all the feelings associated with AT THE GATES. I didn't want to miss anything. I talked to fans, journalists, and everybody was just overwhelmed by the whole thing. All of us basically took the time to experience this tour to the fullest extent. We appreciated every second of it, because we knew that in a few months it would all be over. All the troubles of the past were washed away. We were basically enjoying touring again.

"After the reunion tour, I sat down and had a look at all the material we had collected. We had a bunch of stuff filmed from pretty much everywhere we played. The quality was very diverse, but at the same time intriguing, and it gave me the inspiration to continue on the documentary.

"I had made some interviews beforehand with Tomas [Lindberg, vocals], and continued tracking down people with knowledge of the past — Alf, Jesper Jarold from AT THE GATES, and a bunch of people from other bands at the time. We hunted down a few hundred old pictures, old crappy VHS and HI-8 recordings from the rehearsal room, live shows, on the road footage etc... ending up with a 130-minute documentary.

"I want to express gratitude to the people helping us out with old material: photos, videos, stories etc... It wouldn't have been possible without your help!

"The Wacken show was planned ahead as being the #1 show on the upcoming DVD. It captured us at our finest moment, just after the U.S. tour, and it's definitely one of our finest moments. We were blown away of the fact that we actually played for 60,000 people.

"So, enjoy 'The Flames of the End' DVD box set. We have really put our hearts into this release, and it's a fine last document of the band."

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