Tomas Lindberg of Swedish melodic death metal pioneers AT THE GATES has died
>>127761910It sucks when people be dying
>>127761910damn what happened?
>>127761928Tomas:“Hello everyone. I guess some of you may have been wondering why it has been so silent on the At the Gates front lately.Well, in December 2023, I was diagnosed with Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma (a cancer in the mouth and pallet) and have since then gone through a lot, it has been a very tough year.First there was a major surgery, where they took away a big part of the roof of the mouth. This was followed by radiation therapy for two months, and eversince it has been a long hard path towards recovery.Now, in the beginning of 2025, they have found some remains of the cancer, and it is inaccessible by surgery or radiation.So, we will see what the next step is, but probably some form of chemo therapy, to keep the cancer in check.1/2
>>127761949Luckily, we recorded vocals for the demos for the new album before all of this happened. The last version of the vocals, the ones that will end up on the album, were recorded in ONE day, mostly one takes, the DAY before the surgery, just to make sure we HAD the album, so to speak. So the vocals were actually recorded BEFORE the rest of the album.... a bit different, but it felt good to have it done.We have now decided to not wait any longer to release this new album. We had first planned to wait with the release until we knew if/when I would be able to sing again, and we were able to support the release with shows.Now when everything about the future is a bit more unsure it feels good to deliver this album.It is an album that we all are very proud of, and it's the first time in 10 years that Jonas and I have worked together with Anders writing an albums’ worth of music.It is a bit more of a return to the "roots", probably best described as a mix between the two last albums we did with Anders (Slaughter of the Soul and At War with Reality).Hope you all will enjoy it!Please respect that we don't want to make a big thing about all this, and that I won't be answering interviews concerning the cancer, the treatment or the recovery. We just wanted this to be out in the open, as we wanted to explain to our fans why we have been quiet for such a long time.I hope you all are well. Take care of yourself, your loved ones and the time you have on this earth.Tomas Lindberg / Gothenburg / March 2025”
>>127761956>>127761949damn man that's rough. Condolensces to the family and band.
>>12776191052 is too early to die Cancer is so fucking stupid and all the proof you need that there's no God
>>127761993Gay reddit tier comment.
>>127762017but enough about your posts
>>127762017Answer the problem of evil christcuck
>>127762026You just don't get it chud, people have to get cancer and die because "it's part of god's plan" and "everything happens for a reason"
Don’t fight in this thread
>>127762026>>127761993>>127762041
Damn, he was my hero when I was learning to do metal vocals. And he never gave up, despite the hand fate had dealt him.
>>127761910damn thats rough, loved early ATG big F
>>127762092i look like this
>>127761910Damn this sucks. Wasn’t a huge fan of the later work, but The Red in the Sky is Ours is one of the most ambitious and inspired death metal albums ever made. R.I.P.
>>127762092>~le epik fedora memeMan I love 2010!
>>127762190bro...I am so enlightened by your post...
when you ask a Christian to justify cancer's existence, particularly in children, they sure do start getting defensive and shutting down
>melodeathGet your T-levels checked, I'm deadly serious.
>>127761923This.Condolences to his family, band and fans.
>>127761910the red in the sky is ours is what got me into death metal, RIP leyend!
>>127762331Fuck off back to your shitty general sperg
Has anyone else noticed that 52 like 27 is one of those weird years that people frequently seem to drop dead at ?
>>127762669I haven't, but you are at the highest risk of cancer in your 50s so maybe it makes sense
>no sticky because the mods only like pop and rap dogshitIt's all so tiresome>>127762331>t.poseur faggotGo buy a 600 dollar bolt thrower shirt you coreshitter falsie
>>127761993>>127762190>there is no God because le bad things happenThis is the kind of shit every 14 year old goes through. But it's painfully naive because it assumes the universe should be arranged around our comfort and well-being, and when it's not, it's somehow "proof" of divine absence. Your existence isn't the standard by which the cosmos is judged.
>>127762092I look like this and say this.
>>127761910Fuck, RIP to this absolute legend.I'll be bumping Slaughter Of The Soul in his memory.
>>127762934>You don't understand, this absurdly grotesque atrocious suffering is crucial in order to... uhh... as a test, yes that's it, as a test... for... Uhm no actually as a consequence of the Fall and evil entering the world even through by definition a deviation from my totally necessary Simon says game could not happen precisely because it hadn't entered yet but uhh... Hmm no scratch that it was actually Satan, on whom I have no power even though I'm omnipotent haha... Hm? No, not in one of my bets, that one with Job was a one-off thing lmao... Where was I? Oh yes, so you see uhh it's actually for the greater good and in the long term that you can't possibly comprehend... #trusttheplan I work in mysterious ways or something, now SHUT UP leave me alone while I fill the world with some more nematodes, vile invisible worms constituting most of the planet's animal biomass and my true passion, beetles. Did you know they constitute the vast majority of Earth's animal speci- Huh? Leukemia in babies? OH MY ME who the fuck cares, by the way do you wanna know my latest beetle project? I'm working on a real special one with a pattern that — wait for it — resembles another one but in fact, it is actually NOT that one! My crowning achievement. What do you mean I'm an evil retard who doesn't even exist??? How fucking dare you, I'll condemn you to... uhh... physical eternal suffering... in a physical space uhh... somewhere, I swear it's true DON'T LAUGH!!!
>>127761910safe and effective
I got an urge to listen to at the gates last night. Weird that I see this news when I wake up.
>>127762669https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
>>127762934>it assumes the universe should be arranged around our comfort and well-beingno it assumes that an all good god would not create evil on purpose like the christian god says he does in isaiah 45:7they are absolutely right, either you have to accept that god is not all-good and collapse into gnosticism aka heresy or keep claiming he is and prove that by conclusion he does not in fact exist. that is the basis of the epicurean paradox that christcucks could not solve even after 2300 years.
>>127762025>>127762026Take off your fedora and go to church
https://youtu.be/PBGid1zj2AM?si=8ViGIrk1IqOlddWwF
kingdom fucking gone rip
>>127762934No you fucking retard, it assumed a loving God doesn't give his children cancer and kill them when they're young because, you know, a loving God wouldn't do that
Its been a rough year for metalheads
Now he's truly at the gates
>>127765322oh yea? you understand what a metaphysical being that exists outside of time should or shouldn't do? how did your brains get so big?
>>127765322He didn't give them cancer that's a mutation a glitch in the system.>why doesn't he fix it?it's spagetti coded
>>127765354Why does any of that matter? Cancer is death. Why does a loving God give children cancer? What
>>127761910Man, sucks I never got to see ATG live, I saw Lock Up with him once though, RIP
>>127761910Bummer. Rest easy.
>The Season to Comeman...
>>127762092no answer as usual. it's hilarious how little confidence supposed christians have in their religion that they can never defend it.>>127765354pretty arrogant of you to assume that we're misinterpreting your creator's actions
>I don't belong here>Dark thoughts, darkest mind>No light is present>I now put aside my crown of thorns>Time has come to join eternity>And rest my eyes>On a darker shade of color
F. I love Slaughter of the Soul but never got into their earlier albums. I'm going to give some of those a try again.
>>127761910VAXX STATUSSSS?>Inb4 vaxxie cope and seeethe
>>127765432>>127765387
>ACK The Gates
>>127761910Rest in peace Thomas.
This is how I find out they reunited and were making a new album?
>>127765331>Ozzy goes out like a goddamn bossI'd say it's been the BEST year for metalheads
>>127763573Not an argument. Assuming the universe ought to be painless is naive.>>127764556You're reading Christianity into my post when it isn't specified. Even within Christianity, the problem of evil has been debated to death. Everybody and their grandma knows about it, you're not special. In any case, philosophical problems aren't "solved" like equations; they're argued through logic within different frameworks. Christians have had plenty of responses: Augustine, Aquinas, Irenaeus, Plantinga, the list is endless. You might not buy those answers, but pretending they don't exist is just retarded.>>127765322Same issue: you assume Christianity, which isn't necessary. You're also being anthropocentric: projecting a human idea of "love" onto the divine and treating life without cancer as the "default" state. That assumption is exactly my point.
>>127769207>>127769244>>127769261holy fucking shit dude
>>127769273What? Can't a man fix his posts?
>>127766620damn shouldn't have laughed to that
>>127761910F. 52, he was a fuckin kid
>>127768341They made 3 albums since 2014 dude. Not that they're anything special.
>>127766620lmaooooo delete this
>>127761910Rest in Valhalla, king. You changed the world, your smile lit up rooms, your singing healed pain, and your lyrics gave hope to the lost. Rest easy, we'll see you on the other side
>thread up for one whole day>63 replies/mu/ is more dead than this dude.
>>127772430lolBut foolishly I choose to believe /mu/ is just dormant, and can bounce back given some time, change, and pressure. The "how would you revive /mu/" thread >>127698752 shows there's still a lot of interest and good sentiment held for the board, despite the nadir of post frequency and quality.It's also okay for a board to be slow. We just need to cut some dead weight.
>atheist vs religon debates are backnever thought I'd see the day
>>127761910Didn't know him but apparently I liked two songs off of Slaughter of the Soul, giving a relisten.
>>127761910>play death metal>die
>>127773768ATG haven't been death metal since WFIKTBD. You could argue even that album is pushing it.quite a tired joke too
>>127773910>Tomas Lindberg of Swedish melodic death metal pioneers AT THE GATES has diedYou calling OP a liar?
>>127773329i also did that wordle
>>127773934No. Most "melodic death metal" isn't death metal, most melodeath fans who also listen to death metal would agree with this.
>>127777777
>>127774008>most melodeath fans who also listen to death metal would agree with this.>"I speak for an entire fandom"Nah, I don't think you do. I'll give you this though, you are impressively arrogant. I think I'll fart on your head now.>*BBBRRRRRAAAPPP*Ew, your head smells like a fart.
>>127774057You are wasting your own time, as much as mine. Now everyone is worse off.
>>127761910RIP
